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Commercial content. 21+.  Mississippi has long had legal retail sports betting, opening its first sportsbooks in August 2018. However, online sports betting is still to be opened up for players.  Daily fantasy sports are explicitly legal in Mississippi, with an initial law passed in 2016 before DFS again being confirmed as legal in 2017. This means that players are able to use top daily fantasy sports options such as DraftKings and FanDuel while they wait for sports betting to be legalized.   The best Mississippi Fantasy Sites – February 2023 Mississippi Sports Betting: As it stands  Online Sports Betting Yes (Very limited,…

ALBURGH, Vt. — A brawl broke out among spectators at a middle school basketball game in northern Vermont, and a 60-year-old man who participated in the fight died, police said.State troopers were called to the Alburgh Community Education Center just before 7 p.m. Tuesday after a report of a large fight involving spectators during a seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball game between Alburgh and St. Albans.The fight ended before troopers arrived, and many of the participants had left. Russell Giroux, of Alburgh, sought medical attention, police said. He was taken by ambulance to the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans,…

NEW DELHI: India’s Adani Enterprises called off its US$2.5 billion share sale on Wednesday (Feb 1), citing market conditions, amid an ongoing rout in the wider Adani Group’s stocks which was sparked by a US short-seller’s critical report. “Given the unprecedented situation and the current market volatility the Company aims to protect the interest of its investing community by returning the FPO proceeds and withdraws the completed transaction,” the company said in a statement. Shares in Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate plunged, driving the value of his companies US$86 billion lower, with the tycoon also losing his crown as Asia’s…

Sibling rivalry! Peyton Manning and Eli Manning and Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are among some of football’s most acclaimed pairs of brothers to play in the National Football League (NFL). Peyton was initially drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, nearly six years before little brother Eli was picked up by the San Diego Chargers ahead of his New York Giants trade. Peyton, for his part, was eventually traded to the Denver Broncos in 2012, shortly before helping them clinch a Super Bowl victory. He retired in 2016. After watching his big brother step back from the NFL, Eli…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States staged joint air drills featuring an American strategic bomber and stealth fighter planes in response to threats from North Korea, the Yonhap news agency said on Thursday (Feb 2). The planes flew on Wednesday over the Yellow Sea – located between China and the Korean peninsula -in the first such exercises this year, the agency said, quoting South Korea’s military. The display of military power came a day after US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his counterpart from the South warned of an increase in such drills and more security cooperation between the…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 1, 2023 12:48 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has met with the province’s attorney general and solicitor general on ways to “support” the bail system. Ford and the other premiers have been calling on the federal government to initiate bail reform, including creating a reverse onus on bail for people accused of certain firearm offences under the Criminal Code.A letter sent last month by the premiers followed the late December killing of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Greg Pierzchala, whose alleged killer was on…

Republicans are declaring victory in a special election for a vacant state Senate seat in a heavily Republican district in northern Pennsylvania.The Republican candidate, state Rep. Lynda Schlegel Culver, led Democrat Patricia Lawton by a more than two-to-one margin in preliminary returns from Tuesday’s special election.Once results are certified, Culver will be sworn in to the Senate in late February and will bring the 50-seat chamber to a full complement with a 28-22 Republican majority, Senate Republicans leaders said.ELECTED IN UPSET, PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE SPEAKER LOOKS TO RETAIN POSITIONCulver will fill the seat of former Sen. John Gordner, who resigned Nov.…

A US chipmaker has announced plans to build a €3bn factory in west Germany in a move hailed by senior German officials as a sign that Europe can compete against powerful US green subsidies. The factory, on the site of a decommissioned coal plant in the west German region of Saarland, will be built by the US semiconductor producer Wolfspeed and will produce silicon carbide chips for electric vehicles and industrial use.Speaking at the site of the planned production facility, which is still subject to EU approval, German chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the move proved that companies looking to make…

Stewie is coming to New York. Breanna Stewart, the superstar former MVP and arguably the greatest free-agent prize in WNBA history, has agreed to sign with the Liberty, she announced Wednesday. Stewart posted an image of the Empire State Building with her nickname “Stewie” in lights to signal the move that alters the WNBA landscape. She also shared a TikTok video in which she reveals a Liberty practice jersey. She joins star point guard Sabrina Ionescu and fellow former MVP Jonquel Jones, who was acquired in a trade two weeks ago, to give the Liberty a de facto superteam and…