DULUTH, Ga. — Hannah Hidalgo had 28 points, eight rebounds, five assists and five steals, Cassandre Prosper added 12 points and No. 5 seed Notre Dame beat 12th-seeded Miami 69-54 on Thursday in the second round of the ACC Tournament.

Notre Dame (21-9), which received 26 votes in the latest AP poll, moves on to play No. 4 seed N.C. State in the quarterfinals Friday. The Irish have won six consecutive games and eight of nine, including downing then-No. 10 Louisville on the road Sunday.

Notre Dame led by 18 entering the fourth quarter before Miami scored the next 10 points to get within 58-50. Gisela Sanchez made Notre Dame’s first field goal of the fourth with 4:21 left for an 11-point lead, and the Hurricanes missed their next four field-goal attempts.

Notre Dame’s lead did not drop below 10 over the final four minutes.

Hidalgo, who was named ACC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday, went 12 of 22 from the field to help Notre Dame shoot 46%. Iyana Moore added 11 points and Malaya Cowles grabbed 12 rebounds.

Gal Raviv scored 15 points and Ahnay Adams added 13 for Miami (17-14). Ra Shaya Kyle, averaging a team-high 16.8 points, had 11 points, 15 rebounds and nine turnovers.

Notre Dame will be seeking its second victory against N.C. State this season after winning 79-67 on Feb. 15 in South Bend, Ind.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/notre-dame-miami-acc-tournament/ 

Black Lives Matter Lake County founder and Executive Director Clyde McLemore says he plans to leave his position with the organization he started 11 years ago as soon as he can find a replacement in the wake of a video that went viral of an altercation he had with a female contractor.

The altercation took place about a month after the ribbon-cutting for the Black Lives Matter Lake County Resource Center on Waukegan’s South Side.

“I know that I am expected to handle difficult moments with patience and restraint,” McLemore said in a statement issued Thursday. “I take responsibility for my part in what happened.”

Looking ahead, he said, “I am actively seeking a community leader who can take over my role as executive director in order to carry on the mission of Black Lives Matter Lake County without any distractions.”

Nyesha Hill, an independent contractor hired to pursue grants, was already working for Black Lives Matter when the office opened on Sept. 24. On Oct. 24, the two of them got into a fight and exchanged blows. The altercation was recorded on internal surveillance cameras, according to a Jan. 26 Waukegan police report.

Barely a month after the offices of Black Lives Matter Lake County opened, an altercation between founder Clyde McLemore and a worker led to his decision to step down. (Steve Sadin/For the Lake County News-Sun)

Both Hill and McLemore were seen on the video pushing and hitting each other in an office stairwell, according to the report. The video was part of the police report.

Though McLemore said Hill had not worked at the office since Dec. 10, he said she came there on Jan. 12 asking him for money and he asked her to leave, according to the report.

Hill told police she demanded payment while they were in his office, and they once again started “pushing and shoving.” There are no surveillance cameras in the office.

McLemore called the police that day, the report said, but they did not find sufficient cause to make any arrests.

Attempts to contact Hill on Thursday were unsuccessful.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/black-lives-matter-waukegan-video/ 

Indiana Governor Signs Bill Allowing Crypto In Retirement Plans

Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/05/2026 – 15:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/indiana-governor-signs-bill-allowing-crypto-retirement-plans 

Will County Judge Derek Ewanic will issue a verdict on Monday whether Will County Board member Jacqueline Traynere is guilty of misdemeanor computer tampering for accessing another board member’s email without permission.

Traynere, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, testified for about 90 minutes Thursday.

Traynere, a Bolingbrook Democrat, told the judge she overheard a conversation March 5, 2024 at the county building in Joliet that all board members were given the same password when they received laptops that January.

She tested the rumor at about 9 a.m. March 6, 2024, shortly after she arrived to the DuPage Township offices where she worked as an administrator.

Traynere testified she never expected to open County Board Chair Judy Ogalla’s email account with the password she was given for her account. She said she was in Ogalla’s email about “10 seconds” and quickly closed the browser.

“It scared me,” Traynere testified Thursday. “I was flabbergasted, scared that this actually worked.”

At 9:02 a.m.,Traynere contacted the county’s information technology department, saying it was a violation of security protocols that everyone had the same password. Passwords are supposed to be unique and complicated, she said. Traynere also left a voicemail with County Executive Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant, who oversees county departments, letting her know of the password problem.

“If I could see (Ogalla’s) email, she could see mine,” Traynere testified. “I think it’s absurd everyone has the same (password.)”

Traynere’s attorneys, Colin “CJ’ Haney and Jeff Tomczak, said she was “sounding the alarm” that everyone had a generic password, and it was not a criminal act. Since the incident occurred, everyone has a unique password, the attorneys said.

“Commissioner Traynere sounded the alarm, and she was punished for it,” Haney said. “She was the whistleblower.”

Special prosecutor William Elward leaves the Will County Courthouse Thursday. Elward argued Will County Board member Jacqueline Traynere accessed board member Judy Ogalla’s email without her knowledge and permission. Traynere is charged with computer tampering, a misdemeanor. (Michelle Mullins/for the Daily Southtown)

Special prosecutor William Elward, however, argued Traynere is intelligent and sophisticated and was trying to gain a political advantage, noting Ogalla is a Republican while Traynere is a Democrat.

“She tripped the alarm,” Elward said.

Tomczak said politics is not relevant to the case.

Elward argued that in the afternoon March 6, 2024, Traynere returned to Ogalla’s email, saw a message from Homer Glen Republican Steve Balich and forwarded it to both the county executive and herself. The message from Balich to Ogalla contained strategy on how the County Board should act on the 143rd Street widening project through Homer Glen, which was a contentious issue.

Elward said the two board members had differing positions on the road widening project and Traynere was trying to get a political advantage to see what the opposition was thinking.

“They are political opponents,” Elward said.

Traynere testified that after she initially opened Ogalla’s email at 9 a.m., she closed the computer and resumed work. Shortly before a 1 p.m. lunch appointment, she reopened her computer to check her email, and saw Balich sent a message.

Traynere testified that she believed she was in her own account and she forwarded Balich’s message to Bertino-Tarrant. She also forwarded it to herself in case Balich would recall it later and to ensure it would stay on top of her inbox.

At the time, Traynere was the County Board’s Democratic leader, Balich was the Republican leader, and Ogalla was the County Board chair.

Traynere then began deleting some emails.

Shortly thereafter, Traynere testified that she saw Ogalla’s initials, JO, at the top of her screen and realized Ogalla’s email account was still open. Traynere said she tried to clean up her mistake by retrieving messages from the trash folder.

“If I make a mistake … I try to clean it up,” Traynere said. “I tried to put everything back the way I found it.”

Traynere estimated she was in Ogalla’s email for just over a minute. She said she then logged out of the email and went to lunch.

After lunch, Traynere said she called Ogalla to let her know about the situation.

When asked if she ever intended to view Ogalla’s emails, Traynere responded no.

Haney said it was a “reasonable mistake” for Traynere to log into the email account later and assume it was her own.

If Traynere were trying to use opponents’ emails as a political advantage, she wouldn’t have alerted county staff and Ogalla, Haney said.

He said there was no intent to harm, and the county is better protected because of Traynere’s actions.

“No secrets. No cover up. Just transparency,” Haney said.

Elward argued Traynere’s story changed from “testing” a theory about the same passwords to being “curious.”

Ogalla never authorized Traynere to enter her email, and Traynere tried to cover up her actions, Elward said.

“She left muddy footprints,” he said.

Traynere was the only person who testified Thursday. Ogalla and Bertino-Tarrant testified Tuesday, as did County Board member Mark Revis, a Plainfield Republican, and Jason Donisch, the director of the county’s Information, Communication and Technology Department.

Ogalla said she was upset Traynere accessed her email account.

Donisch said board members had the same passwords since at least 2012.

Michelle Mullins is a freelance reporter.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/jacqueline-traynere-testifies-computer-tampering/ 

Por JOHN WAWROW

Los Bills de Buffalo acordaron adquirir al receptor abierto D.J. Moore de los Bears de Chicago el jueves, según dijeron a The Associated Press dos personas con conocimiento del canje.

Buffalo enviará a cambio a Chicago una selección de segunda ronda del draft de este año y una selección de quinta ronda, indicaron las fuentes que hablaron con la AP bajo condición de anonimato porque el acuerdo puede oficializarse hasta el inicio del nuevo año de la liga el miércoles.

Moore viene de atrapar 50 pases para 682 yardas y seis touchdowns la temporada pasada, mientras los Bears llegaron a los playoffs en el primer año de Ben Johnson como entrenador. Había estado con ellos desde un canje en 2023 procedente de Carolina que le dio a los Panthers la selección número 1 y la oportunidad de elegir a Bryce Young, y preparó el terreno para que Chicago obtuviera a su quarterback franquicia, Caleb Williams.

Moore, que cumple 29 años en abril, suma 608 recepciones para 8.213 yardas y 41 touchdowns en ocho temporadas de la NFL desde que fue la 24ma selección del draft de 2018.

Se incorpora a los Bills bajo el nuevo entrenador Joe Brady, después de que el quarterback Josh Allen lanzó a un grupo rotativo de receptores. Solo la temporada pasada, Allen completó un pase a 16 compañeros distintos.

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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/bills-adquieren-al-receptor-dj-moore-en-un-canje-con-los-bears-confirmna-fuentes-ap/ 

A visibly frustrated federal judge on Thursday took the city to task over the Chicago Police Department’s move to pull a North Side police officer out of a deposition late last month in order to strip him of his police powers.

Judge Mary M. Rowland stopped short, however, of ordering CPD to turn over the written communications that led to what plaintiff attorneys described in court records as an unprecedented move. Instead, she asked the attorneys to submit descriptions of what they were looking for and said she’d make a final call after she evaluated those requests.

Officer Richard Rodriquez Jr. has been a member of a now-scattered tactical team that’s racked up dozens of misconduct complaints and a stack of lawsuits related to a series of allegedly abusive traffic stops and searches in some of the city’s poshest neighborhoods. Rodriquez had already had his deposition for the case before Rowland rescheduled several times before Feb. 20.

That’s when a CPD sergeant appeared about 90 minutes into the deposition and took Rodriquez back to police headquarters, where he became the fifth member of tactical team 1863 to be stripped of police powers. His attorney, Brian Gainer, told Rowland that Rodriquez completed that deposition earlier this week.

But Rowland told Gainer that his client had “taken a lot of special attention” to get the deposition done and said that the reschedulings and the events of Feb. 20 were “peculiar” and generated suspicion around Rodriquez.

“It makes plaintiffs feel like: What do you have to hide, what does CPD have to hide?” Rowland said. “I’m not saying it’s a fair inference, but it’s where they’re going.”

Rowland made clear that her own irritation was more about the further delay in the deposition and confusion over how the call had been made, not that she thought CPD was ignoring or trying to cover up misconduct by Rodriquez.

“They went after him — so much so that they dragged him out of a deposition,” she said. “Good God! Who does that?”

She repeatedly questioned attorneys for the city and the two officers who are defendants in the case about the timing of the move and why it had to take place in the middle of sworn testimony, noting that Rodriquez’s conduct has been a known issue for “months, if not years.”

“The guy has problems,” she said. “And the white shirts, or whatever we’re calling them, must know he’s a problem. What’s happening at CPD HQ that this has to happen in the middle of the deposition?”

Attorney Michael Sheehan, representing the city, chalked the interruption up to “coincident, separate processes” where the sergeant who took Rodriquez back to headquarters had simply seen him from the front desk and walked him out of the building.

“There was no intention by us to act in bad faith,” Sheehan said. “It was expressly said we’re gonna bring him back. We did bring him back. There was no intention to not follow through.”

Jordan Marsh, representing the plaintiffs, said he had “absolutely no intention” of accusing the city or CPD of acting in bad faith but argued that they should still turn over the communications that led to the interruption.

“When the operation of the court is interrupted and it is disregarded, that should be investigated,” he said. “I think it behooves all of us to know what happened.”

Gainer argued that the push to get records related to the now-completed deposition “seems like a wild goose chase designed to focus on collateral issues as opposed to the important issues in the case.”

The specific complaint cited on Rodriquez’s relief of power memo is connected to a 2025 civil rights lawsuit filed against him and another member of the same tactical team, which alleges that they falsified a police report about a 2024 traffic stop.

The specific lawsuit for which Rodriquez was being deposed late last month alleges that he beat plaintiff Jovan Streeter’s head against the side of his car during a traffic stop and threatened Streeter and the second plaintiff, Marquita Beecham, with Beecham’s own gun, for which she held a license.

Rodriquez personally accumulated 67 misconduct complaints over eight years as a cop, per a memo from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, making him the officer with the second-highest number of complaints lodged against him in the entire department. The top officer was also a member of team 1863, which racked up more than 50 misconduct complaints by December 2024.

Many of those complaints, which largely focused on traffic stops and searches of civilians, have joined a parade of lawsuits alleging civil rights violations around the Near North (18th) District in the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park and River North neighborhoods.

Including Rodriquez, five of the officers on that team have been stripped of their police powers. The team’s sergeant has been reassigned to the department’s Gang Investigation Division, police said, while two members of the tactical team were still assigned to the Near North District.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/interrupting-deposition-chicago-police/ 

UBS Discusses Next Maritime Chokepoint Investors Should Watch

Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/05/2026 – 15:31

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ubs-discusses-next-maritime-chokepoint-investors-should-watch 

EPR Properties announced Thursday that it has entered into agreements to acquire a portfolio of seven regional parks from Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.

According to a press release on EPR Properties’ website, the gross transactional value was $342 million, of which EPR Properties provided approximately $315 million, and operating tenants provided the balance, including funds for working capital and capital improvements.

The seven parks comprise over 1,600 acres, featuring 418 attractions across five states and Canada, and drawing approximately 4.5 million annual attendees. The six regional parks that are located throughout the U.S. will be leased to and operated by Enchanted Parks (formerly Innovative Attraction Management) pursuant to a long-term master lease, and the one park located in Canada will be leased to and operated by La Ronde Operations, Inc. following the completion of the transaction.

“This strategic acquisition represents a compelling opportunity to expand our attractions portfolio with high-quality experiential real estate assets in established regional markets,” Gregory K. Silvers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EPR Properties, said in the news release. “These properties embody the essential characteristics we seek: delivering stable, long-term cash flows, strong drive-to accessibility, multi-generational appeal, and significant underlying land value.

“This transaction aligns with our disciplined investment criteria and accelerates our strategic expansion into experiential properties that create enduring value for our shareholders.”

“This step allows us to concentrate on the Six Flags parks with the greatest potential for innovation, expansion, and elevated guest experiences. That means by focusing today, we’re building the foundation for a stronger, more exciting future,” Six Flags Entertainment Corporation said in a post on its website.

Gurnee’s Six Flags likely safe despite company issues, experts say; ‘Untouchable’

According to the release, the company has acquired the non-Six Flags branded property names as part of the transaction and acquired rights to the Six Flags brand through 2026. The transaction is expected to close toward the end of the first quarter or beginning of the second quarter, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions and third-party approvals.

The parks will continue their regular operating schedules, and all season passes sold will be recognized through the 2026 operating season, the press release stated.

“We understand how meaningful these parks are to the communities they serve and to the guests who have grown up visiting them. Our teams at these locations have created countless memories, and they are an important part of the Six Flags family,” Six Flags Entertainment Corporation said in its website statement. “We are confident in the future of these parks under the care of EPR and its operating partners, who have strong experience managing parks of this scale.

“At the same time, this decision allows Six Flags to invest more deeply in the parks with the greatest opportunity for growth and innovation.”

Properties included in the transaction

Worlds of Fun – Amusement & Waterpark – Kansas City, MO
Valleyfair – Amusement & Waterpark – Minneapolis, MN
Six Flags St. Louis – Amusement & Waterpark – St. Louis, MO
Schlitterbahn Waterpark Galveston – Waterpark – Galveston TX
Michigan’s Adventure – Amusement & Waterpark – Grand Rapids, MI
Six Flags Great Escape – Amusement & Waterpark – Queensbury, NY
Six Flags La Ronde – Amusement Park – Montreal, QC

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/six-flags-amusement-parks-sale/ 

Live Spanish translation of Elgin City Council meetings is now being offered under a pilot program designed to make government more accessible to those not fluent in English.

The city has been providing AI captions on its YouTube videos of council meetings to accommodate its Latino residents, which make up more than half of the city’s population.

Now the company providing those captions has software that can do live interpretation at public meetings, according to Assistant City Manager Karina Nava.

“Where YouTube captions were AI-generated and one-directional, this service is far more expansive: live, two-way and accessible from a mobile device,” Nava said. “Residents can attend a city council meeting, scan a QR code, and follow along through a live transcript or by listening through headphones in Spanish.”

For those viewing at home, the translated transcript is visible on screen as well, Nava said.

Spanish speakers who want to follow along remotely can go to elginil.gov/interpret once the meeting goes live, she said.

The biggest change is during the public comment portion of council meetings, Nava said.

“Residents can now approach the podium and speak in Spanish while the city council and viewing public follow along in English in real time,” she said. “When residents sign up to speak, they are asked for their preferred language so staff can coordinate the display at the right moment.”

Elgin launched the program at the city council’s Feb. 25 meeting.

The first person to try out the new system was Amairani Jarvis, a community organizer for Centro de Información. Jarvis spoke in Spanish about her support for an inclusion and diversity ordinance the city council is discussing.

“I am here to talk about the families,” Jarvis said, as her words were translated in English on a screen.

The pilot program went well on its first day, Nava said. “Staff is still fine-tuning and will continue testing over the next several months, gathering feedback and documenting any limitations along the way.”

Currently, the software offers only Spanish interpretation, but additional languages will be explored as the pilot program progresses, she said.

“The city is constantly exploring ways to remove barriers to civic participation that encourage all its residents to engage with their local government,” she said. “Offering real-time interpretation during city council meetings is one way the city is working toward that goal.”

Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/elgin-meetings-translation-interpretation-council-youtube/