Kevin Van Ausdal, the Democratic candidate in Georgia's 14th Congressional District, abruptly and mysteriously announced Friday afternoon that he was dropping out of the race for "family and personal reasons."
The "next steps in my life," he said in a statement posted to Twitter, "are taking me away from Georgia, so I will be disqualified from serving in Congress and will give the Party a chance to put forward a candidate that can carry this fight to the end."
He added in a separate statement that "Although all the details will remain my family's alone, please understand this was not an easy decision. We are real people managing hard choices."
It's the League Champions against the winners of the Championship as Liverpool start the defence of their Premier League crown against newly-promoted Leeds United on Saturday evening.Veteran Argentinian boss Marcelo Bielsa has guided Leeds back into the top flight for the first time in 16 years and the game is an eagerly-awaited clash.
Over the years when these two sides have met, historically representing the red rose of Lancashire and white rose of Yorkshire, sparks have flewn.After 73 years of trying, Liverpool finally won their first FA Cup by beating Leeds United in 1965 while nine years later there was a thunderous tussle between them back at Wembley as Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were sent off for fighting each other in the Charity Shield.
Youths with serious mental illnesses who commit minor crimes may soon find a robust treatment program awaiting them in the court system. Kent County Circuit Court officials are hoping this December to launch a juvenile mental health court aimed at reducing recidivism early by treating the root causes, such as serious mental illness and substance abuse."
That really is the measure of success -- is whether or not we're able to keep them out of the system on a long-term basis," said Circuit Court Judge Deborah L. McNabb, who presides over the court's Family Division."
A lot of these kids without treatment, they might even successfully complete juvenile probation but very quickly they're back in the system because they aren't able to maintain, they don't have the tools."
Iran has executed a champion wrestler convicted of murdering a security guard during anti-regime protests in 2018, state media said on Saturday, despite an international campaign to spare his life.Navid Afkari, 27, was executed "this morning after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim", the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the head of the justice department in the southern Fars province as saying.
His case had created a global outcry, including from the US president, Donald Trump, and from the World Players Association (WPA), a major athletes' union representing 85,000 people, which had called for Iran's expulsion from world sport if the execution went ahead.
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