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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown could miss the 2025 season recovering from the right knee injury sustained in a loss to Cincinnati, coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday. McCarthy said Overshown has a “long road of rehab in front of him.” The second-year player tore multiple ligaments when a Bengals lineman crashed into his leg in the Cowboys' 27-20 loss Monday night. Overshown missed all of his rookie year in 2023 after tearing the ACL in his left knee in a preseason game. The latest injury came in his first game since a spectacular 23-yard interception return for a touchdown in a 27-20 victory over the New York Giants on Thanksgiving. “DeMarvion is getting ready to have a big surgery in front of him,” McCarthy said of the procedure planned this week. “His physical and football talent speaks for itself. He’s such a bright light. He’s got a great, infectious personality — a tough young man. He is definitely going to be missed.” The former Texas standout, drafted in the third round last year, was second on the team to star pass rusher Micah Parsons with five sacks when he went down. The December timing of Overshown's injury means rehab is likely to extend past training camp and into the regular season next year, after he turns 25. Parsons was emotional when asked about Overshown after the Cincinnati game. “I cried,” he said. “It’s like my little bro, bro. He doesn’t deserve that either. Just to understand what he’s going to go through and to be there for him physically, mentally. It’s just so challenging because of the year he was having. I really just don’t think that’s fair either.” The loss of Overshown comes with defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence close to return from a foot injury that has sidelined him since Week 4. But the Cowboys (5-8) are all but out of the playoffs as they prepare to visit Carolina (3-10) on Sunday. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl The Associated PressFRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown could miss the 2025 season recovering from the right knee injury sustained in a loss to Cincinnati, coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday. McCarthy said Overshown has a “long road of rehab in front of him.” The second-year player tore multiple ligaments when a Bengals lineman crashed into his leg in the Cowboys' 27-20 loss Monday night. Overshown missed all of his rookie year in 2023 after tearing the ACL in his left knee in a preseason game. The latest injury came in his first game since a spectacular 23-yard interception return for a touchdown in a 27-20 victory over the New York Giants on Thanksgiving. “DeMarvion is getting ready to have a big surgery in front of him,” McCarthy said of the procedure planned this week. “His physical and football talent speaks for itself. He’s such a bright light. He’s got a great, infectious personality — a tough young man. He is definitely going to be missed.” The former Texas standout, drafted in the third round last year, was second on the team to star pass rusher Micah Parsons with five sacks when he went down. The December timing of Overshown's injury means rehab is likely to extend past training camp and into the regular season next year, after he turns 25. Parsons was emotional when asked about Overshown after the Cincinnati game. “I cried,” he said. “It’s like my little bro, bro. He doesn’t deserve that either. Just to understand what he’s going to go through and to be there for him physically, mentally. It’s just so challenging because of the year he was having. I really just don’t think that’s fair either.” The loss of Overshown comes with defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence close to return from a foot injury that has sidelined him since Week 4. But the Cowboys (5-8) are all but out of the playoffs as they prepare to visit Carolina (3-10) on Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflThe match begins at 3 p.m. Mountain Time Wednesday at the University of Arizona’s McKale Center and will be shown on the streaming platform ESPN+. Arkansas State (28-5) is a member of the Sun Belt Conference, and the Red Wolves will be the third opponent from the Sun Belt in three matches for UNC.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Basheer Jones championed progressive ideals, fighting as an activist to get high schoolers registered to vote and urging people to become more involved in their communities. As a one-term Cleveland councilman, he pushed against what he believed were establishment politicians who long ignored the needs of residents on the city’s East Side. He often sought to pair businesses, nonprofits and the city to funnel money into Ward 7, which includes some of the poorest neighborhoods in Cleveland. Federal prosecutors on Monday, however, said Jones used his sway and connections to funnel some $135,000 straight into his and his girlfriend’s pockets. He failed at another scheme that would have added $65,000 to the total, according to prosecutors. Jones — who once ran a doomed mayoral campaign — was charged in U.S. District Court in Cleveland with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit honest service wire fraud. He was charged via information, rather than indictment, which typically indicates a defendant intends to plead guilty. Prosecutors said he swindled nonprofits out of cash by acting altruistically in setting up real-estate deals to help the agencies and the surrounding community, yet he never mentioned that this girlfriend, Sinera McCoy, owned the businesses that would ultimately cash out on the projects. McCoy is not charged, and she has not been identified in the case. The allegations in the filing, however, link her to Jones’ case through court records, real-estate documents and public records obtained by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer through records requests. McCoy, a state-licensed real estate agent, was in a romantic relationship with Jones between 2018 through at least 2021, according to prosecutors. She operated two business that prosecutors said she used in the schemes — King Management Group and Associates and Steinberg Enterprises LLC. Jones, according to campaign finance records, paid King Management and Associates $3,200 for marketing during his campaign for mayor. Jones’ attorney, Fernando Mack, has declined comment. Attempts to reach Jones and McCoy were unsuccessful. Early days Jones, 40, grew up in Cleveland and rose to prominence as an activist, radio show host and author. His work in traveling the city to get high school students engaged in politics and encourage them to register to vote attracted national attention from CNN and Time magazine. In 2017, he announced his run for council after sleeping in a tent for three days on East 79th and Superior Avenue, near where someone had been fatally shot, to put a spotlight on the city’s violence. He beat incumbent T.J. Dow by 13 votes, becoming the first Muslim council person in the city’s history, just shy of his 34th birthday. Jones became one of the most outspoken council members and led protests against inhumane treatment of inmates at the Cuyahoga County Jail, as well as for those wrongfully incarcerated. He also twice survived recall efforts based on accusations that he threatened area businesses and didn’t live in his ward, a requirement of council members. In 2021, he ran for mayor and finished fifth out of seven candidates. A job for his girlfriend Federal prosecutors said Jones waited about 11 months into his term as a council member before embarking on his first scheme. In November 2018, he met with John Anoliefo, the executive director of the Famicos Foundation, a nonprofit community development corporation. Council members have significant sway over their wards’ community development corporations and their funding. The meeting happened as city officials ramped up an expensive and expansive project to revitalize the Midtown and Hough neighborhoods with new investments, buildings and partnerships with nonprofits and businesses. Jones told Anoliefo that Famicos should hire a community outreach consultant to increase its engagement with residents, according to prosecutors. Jones separately told McCoy to apply for the position and request $5,000 per month, court records say. She put together a proposal, highlighting that she could work directly with Jones to get development and planning projects approved, according to the charges. Neither Jones nor McCoy told Famicos about their relationship, prosecutors said. Famicos paid McCoy’s company $25,000 over the next five months, then $7,500 in September 2019 and $8,000 in April 2020. McCoy never did any of the work she proposed to do, prosecutors said. Anoliefo on Tuesday declined comment. Community event In May 2020, Jones went back to Famicos looking for money for a community event he had set up to give away free gift cards, backpacks and other items. But he hadn’t been able to purchase them because he had yet to receive money from his council ward fund, according to prosecutors. Jones asked for $50,000 and promised to repay it. Famicos cut him a check, prosecutors said. Jones transferred all $50,000 into McCoy’s King Management and Associates bank account. Jones took $10,000 in cash, McCoy put $11,427 in her personal bank account, and $10,500 was sent to two of Jones’ associates, according to court records. The city later denied Famico’s request for reimbursement. A building crumbles in Hough Jones and McCoy pocketed $45,000 after convincing another nonprofit to buy a crumbling building on East 66th Street and Hough Avenue that once housed a convenience store but had long been vacant, prosecutors allege. Shortly after, Jones called the owner and asked about buying the building, and separately he asked the city’s building and housing department about how much it would cost to demolish the building. He was told about $40,500, according to prosecutors. McCoy told the building owner that she and Jones would take on the cost of the demolition and any back taxes owed on the building if the owner sold it for $1, according to prosecutors. Nearly a year later, on June 1, 2021, Jones approached Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, a nonprofit that works as an intermediary between community development corporations and civic and business leaders. He said he would act as liaison between the nonprofit and the building’s owner to facilitate a deal that would benefit the community, according to prosecutors. He never mentioned that he and McCoy intended on buying the building, the charges say. Two weeks later, McCoy’s Steinberg Enterprises finalized the deal with the building owner for $1. McCoy turned around and sold the building to Cleveland Neighborhood Progress for $45,000, never mentioning her connection to Steinberg or Jones, or that she owned the building, according to prosecutors. McCoy never paid the demolition costs, and McCoy and Jones gained the money from the sale, according to prosecutors. Jones took $15,000, while McCoy put $15,000 in her personal bank account. She kept the remaining $9,600 and distributed small amounts at Jones’ behest, according to the charges. Final scheme falls through Prosecutors also said Jones concocted another scheme in 2019 in which he would help someone buy a dilapidated liquor store, get city funds allocated to help a nonprofit buy the building and split the profits. The plan fell through because the nonprofit, community development corporation Lexington Bell, had conflict-of-interest concerns about McCoy’s involvement in the deal and because it was too expensive, according to court records. Prosecutors said Jones and another man took ownership of Superior Beverage, a long vacant building on Superior Avenue and East 61st Street, after the owner agreed to sell it to them for nothing. Jones went to Lexington Bell and promised to facilitate the deal and that he would ensure the nonprofit would be reimbursed by the city, according to prosecutors. In June 2019, Jones sponsored legislation that was approved by council for $225,000 to Lexington Bell to buy the building and renovate it using Ward 7’s Casino Revenue Funds and Neighborhood Capital Funds. Those funds are given to each council person, who decides how to spend that money. Three months later, the property was transferred to McCoy’s King Management and Associates at Jones’ request. After Lexington Bell declined, Jones asked another nonprofit if it wanted to buy the building, saying that he already legislated funding for it. The nonprofit declined. Adam Ferrise covers federal courts at cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. You can find his work here . Stories by Adam Ferrise Feds charge former Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones on corruption offenses Arsonist sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for threatening to torture, kill judges, prosecutors in Cleveland, Cincinnati Canadian citizen sentenced in Cleveland to 4 years in prison for $8.2 million cryptocurrency scheme Cleveland gun trafficker sentenced to 4.5 years in prison Family of inmate who died of drug overdose in Cuyahoga County Jail sues county officialsWASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the Jan. 6, 2021 , U.S. Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was committed to holding accountable all perpetrators “at any level” for “the assault on our democracy.” That bold declaration won't apply to at least one person: Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith's move on Monday to abandon the federal election interference case against Trump means jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 campaign. The decision to walk away from the election charges and the separate classified documents case against Trump marks an abrupt end of the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal effort that once threatened his liberty but appears only to have galvanized his supporters. The abandonment of the cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats he was facing as he returns to the White House. It was the culmination of a monthslong defense effort to delay the proceedings at every step and use the criminal allegations to Trump's political advantage, putting the final word in the hands of voters instead of jurors. “We always knew that the rich and powerful had an advantage, but I don’t think we would have ever believed that somebody could walk away from everything,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official. “If there ever was a Teflon defendant, that’s Donald Trump.” While prosecutors left the door open to the possibility that federal charges could be re-filed against Trump after he leaves office, that seems unlikely. Meanwhile, Trump's presidential victory has thrown into question the future of the two state criminal cases against him in New York and Georgia. Trump was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money case , but it's possible the sentencing could be delayed until after Trump leaves office, and the defense is pushing to dismiss the case altogether. Smith's team stressed that their decision to abandon the federal cases was not a reflection of the merit of the charges, but an acknowledgement that they could not move forward under longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Trump's presidential victory set “at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: On the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The move just weeks after Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris underscores the immense personal stake Trump had in the campaign in which he turned his legal woes into a political rallying cry. Trump accused prosecutors of bringing the charges in a bid to keep him out of the White House, and he promised revenge on his perceived enemies if he won a second term. “If Donald J. Trump had lost an election, he may very well have spent the rest of his life in prison,” Vice President-elect JD Vance, wrote in a social media post on Monday. “These prosecutions were always political. Now it’s time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again.” After the Jan. 6 attack by Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and several other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump during his Senate impeachment trial said it was up to the justice system to hold Trump accountable. The Jan. 6 case brought last year in Washington alleged an increasingly desperate criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters after Trump's 2020 loss, accusing Trump of using the angry mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol as “a tool” in his campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and obstruct the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory. Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters — many of whom have said they felt called to Washington by Trump — have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries of federal charges at the same courthouse where Trump was supposed to stand trial last year. As the trial date neared, officials at the courthouse that sits within view of the Capitol were busy making plans for the crush of reporters expected to cover the historic case. But Trump's argument that he enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution , and sent the case back to the trial court to decide which allegations could move forward. But the case was dismissed before the trial court could get a chance to do so. The other indictment brought in Florida accused Trump of improperly storing at his Mar-a-Lago estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, enlisting aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showing off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in July on grounds that Smith was illegally appointed . Smith appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but abandoned that appeal on Monday. Smith's team said it would continue its fight in the appeals court to revive charges against Trump's two co-defendants because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” In New York, jurors spent weeks last spring hearing evidence in a state case alleging a Trump scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. New York prosecutors recently expressed openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump's second term, while Trump's lawyers are fighting to have the conviction dismissed altogether. In Georgia, a trial while Trump is in office seems unlikely in a state case charging him and more than a dozen others with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The case has been on hold since an appeals court agreed to review whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case. Associated Press reporter Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed.
NEW YORK — U.S. consumers who were "tricked" into purchases they didn't want from Fortnite maker Epic Games are now starting to receive refund checks, the Federal Trade Commission said this week. Back in 2022, Epic agreed to pay a total of $520 million to settle complaints revolving around children's privacy and payment methods on its popular Fortnite game. The FTC alleged the video game giant used deceptive online design tactics to trick Fortnite players, including children, into making unintended purchases "based on the press of a single button." Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Get the latest need-to-know information delivered to your inbox as it happens. Our flagship newsletter. Get our front page stories each morning as well as the latest updates each afternoon during the week + more in-depth weekend editions on Saturdays & Sundays.