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Colonial Forge football stopped in the state semifinals

Colonial Forge junior quarterback Brock Brimhall thought that he had tied Saturday’s Virginia High School League Class 6 state semifinal game against Oscar Smith just before halftime.

Down a touchdown after the Tigers took a 14-7 lead with 31 seconds left, the Eagles put together a quick drive that saw them knocking on the door of the end zone at the 5-yard line.

Two incomplete passes forced the field goal unit to come out, but an offside penalty on Oscar Smith shifted the game plan as the offense re-entered the field.

Brimhall took the direct snap and barreled toward the end zone, diving for the goal line but somehow, someway, he was stopped by the Tigers’ defense, keeping the score at 14-7 going into the half.

“I just knew there was going to be more of a hole on the outside,” Brimhall said. “I believe that the ball crossed the line. I thought I scored, but there’s nothing you can do.”

Colonial Forge got the ball out of the second half, hoping to rectify that empty trip into the red zone, but quickly turned the ball over, giving the Tigers a short field, a persistent theme of what ended up being a 42-7 blowout loss.

“When you’re that close, you have to go for it,” head coach John Brown said. “That was the right call. They just played great defense right there. … I needed to do a better job calling plays at the beginning of the second half. We needed to take the ball down the field and get some yardage more than anything else.”

In a game featuring two of the best teams in the state and in Class 6, it was Colonial Forge (10-4) that was able to move the ball in the first half, mostly through the passing game.

Brimhall found teammate TaySean Jones often early on as he recorded more than 125 receiving yards at half, but just as the Eagles weren’t able to get over the line as the clock ran out in the first half, so did their offense.

Oscar Smith (14-0) out-scored Colonial Forge, 28-0, in the second half, scoring 35 unanswered points after the Eagles’ lone touchdown of the game, a 15-yard scamper into the end zone from Brimhall.

“We were trying to get first downs and make plays, but things just didn’t go our way,” Brimhall said.

With their backs against the wall quickly, it didn’t help that the Tigers had prime field position for most of the game, regularly starting inside the Eagles’ 50-yard line or just over the other side of the 50. Several of their drives in the second half stalled out around midfield, giving Oscar Smith a short field to execute and execute it did.

Coming up short is a feeling no team or player wants to experience, but on its way back to Stafford, Colonial Forge is bringing with it a regional title and a renewed fire to reach the pinnacle of Virginia high school football.

“I’m super proud of our kids,” Brown said. “We played tremendously in the first half and it just fizzled out for us in the second half. … I told our seniors they righted the ship, starting last year. Those kids were juniors then and seniors now. They played outstanding for two years and here we are.

Colonial Forge (10-4)	0	7	0	0	—	7
Oscar Smith (14-0)	0	14	14	14	—	42

First quarter

(No score)

Second quarter

OS – Travis Johnson 9 pass from Lonnie Andrews (Marco Hernandez kick)

CF – Brock Brimhall 15 run (Landon Walker kick)

OS – Johnson 17 pass from Andrews (Hernandez kick)

Third quarter

OS – Brandon Nesbit 2 run (Hernandez kick)

OS – Nesbit 11 run (Hernandez kick

Fourth quarter

OS – Alvin Jones 41 pass from Andrews (Hernandez kick)

OS – Charles McGlown 6 pass from Andrews (Hernandez kick

	CF	OS
First downs	15	21
Rushes-yards	28-95	34-198
Passing yards	230	206
Comp-Att-Int	20-34-0	14-25-1
Punts-Avg.	6-30.1	2-25.0
Fumbles-lost	1-1	2-1
Penalties-yards	8-48	5-30

Rushing: Colonial Forge—Brock Brimhall 15-41, 1 TD; Josiah Bryson 9-62; Jake Ashinhurst 3-(-1); Team 1-(-7). Oscar Smith—Brandon Nesbit 16-104, 2 TDs, Ty’jae Curtis 10-48; Lonnie Andrews 4-14; Reginald Wallace 3-18; Breon Gibson 1-14.

Passing: Colonial Forge—Brock Brimhall 19-32-0, 226 yards; Jake Ashinhurst 1-2-0, 4 yards. Oscar Smith—Lonnie Andrews 14-25-1, 206 yards, 4 TDs

Receiving: Colonial Forge—TaySean Jones 9-151; Jake Ashinhurst 4-24; Josiah Bryson 3-16; Darion Majeed 3-35; Cole Ashinhurst 1-4. Oscar Smith—Travis Johnson 4-68, 2 TDs; Alvin Jones 4-79, 1 TD; Kaden Walker 3-51; Charles McGlown 2-5, 1 TD; Brandon Nesbit 1-4.

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December 8, 2024

DC lawsuit says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black zip codes

The District of Columbia is suing Amazon, saying the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black Washington neighborhoods but is still charging residents millions of dollars for a service that provides speedy deliveries.

The complaint, filed Wednesday in District of Columbia Superior Court, revolves around Amazon’s Prime membership service, which charges consumers $139 per year or $14.99 per month for fast deliveries — including one-day, two-day and same-day shipments — as well as other benefits.

In mid-2022, the lawsuit says, the Seattle-based online retailer imposed what it called a delivery “exclusion” on two zip codes in the district — 20019 and 20020 — and began relying exclusively on third-party delivery services such as UPS and the U.S. Postal Service, rather than its own delivery systems.

Amazon claims to have made the change based on concerns about driver safety, the lawsuit notes.

However, the District of Columbia’s attorney general’s office said the company never told Prime members in the two zip codes about the change even though they experienced slower deliveries as a result. Amazon also did not tell new customers about the exclusions when they signed up for Prime memberships, the lawsuit says.

“Amazon is charging tens of thousands of hard-working Ward 7 and 8 residents for an expedited delivery service it promises but does not provide,” District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a statement, referencing the two areas in the city where Amazon is accused of excluding its speediest deliveries.

“While Amazon has every right to make operational changes, it cannot covertly decide that a dollar in one zip code is worth less than a dollar in another,” Schwalb said.

The lawsuit says Amazon has nearly 50,000 Prime members who live in the two zip codes, a number that represents nearly half of the population. Prime members in those neighborhoods have ordered more than 4.5 million packages in the past four years, and are more likely to rely on Amazon since they have fewer services and retail stores nearby, the city said. The area is also a notorious food desert.

The district says that in 2021, before Amazon implemented its delivery “exclusion,” more than 72% of Prime packages in the impacted zip codes were delivered within two days. But last year, it was only 24%, according to the complaint.

Meanwhile, the district’s lawsuit says Prime members who live in other parts of the city received two-day deliveries 75% of the time.

When some customers complained about the slower deliveries, Amazon concealed the true reason for the delays and “deceptively implied” that the delays “were simply due to natural fluctuations in shipping circumstances, rather than an affirmative decision by Amazon,” the lawsuit says.

District officials are asking the court to issue an order prohibiting Amazon from “engaging in unfair or deceptive practices.” They also want the company to pay restitution or damages to affected Prime members, as well as civil penalties.

The complaint filed Wednesday represents the second major legal battle between Amazon and the District, which has also filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company.

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December 4, 2024
Martha Stewart claims Ina Garten stopped talking to her when she was jailed

Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has claimed former friend and cookbook author Ina Garten stopped talking to her after she was jailed in 2004 for insider trading.

Stewart, whose Martha Stewart Living conglomerate was once valued at $US1 billlion (approx $1.5 billion), made the claim during an appearance this week on Watch What Happens Live (WWHL) with Andy Cohen.

Stewart, 83, was responding to Garten’s claim the former friends simply lost touch after Stewart moved house.

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Martha Stewart says her friendship with fellow cookbook author Ina Garten ended after she was jailed. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

Garten, 76, found fame relatively later in life on the release of The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.

Stewart has been widely credited with helping her then-friend get a publishing deal for the book, which shared the name of a specialty food store in The Hamptons.

Stewart lived in the upmarket area and would often visit the store.

Later, she reportedly offered Garten a job writing a column for Martha Stewart Living and even took a book publisher to visit Garten’s store prior to the book’s release in 1999.

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Cookbook author Ina Garten and Stewart were once firm friends. (Getty)

After appearing on the Martha Stewart Living TV show, she went on to have her own show, Barefoot Contessa, which led to more books and businesses.

Meanwhile, Stewart, whose TV show Martha Stewart Living first aired in 1993, was jailed in 2004 for insider trading.

She has since alleged her five-month stint in federal prison marked the end of her friendship with Garten, something she reiterated this week.

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During WWHL, Cohen asked Stewart if she had read Garten’s memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

“I’ve read parts of it,” she said, adding “Oh yes,” when asked by Cohen if she had read the parts about her.

When fellow guest Snoop Dog asked what Garten had written about her, Cohen replied, “Ina said that they fell out because she moved to Connecticut,” causing Stewart to chime in, “That’s not true.”

Martha Stewart on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. (YouTube)

Snoop then agreed, saying “Martha don’t fall out with people.”

Stewart then said they stopped talking “after I went to jail.”

Garten previously said the two struck up a friendship “in front of the cheese case” at her store before she began catering events at Stewart’s home.

“We became friends after that,” Garten said.

Martha Stewart was jailed in 2004 for insider trading. (Getty)

Garten told The New Yorker in September that the two lost touch when Stewart moved from The Hamptons to Connecticut.

However, Stewart refuted this, telling the publication, “When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me. I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly.”

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A publicist for Stewart has since told The New Yorker that Stewart was “not bitter at all” and there was “no feud” between the pair.

Stewart is the subject of a new documentary, Martha, which is airing on Netflix.

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October 22, 2024