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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Memphis 127, Washington 112
Dallas 115, San Antonio 104
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Minnesota 4, Vegas 3
Edmonton 7, Ottawa 1
Colorado 2, Arizona 1 (OT)
Los Angeles 5, Anaheim 1
Montreal 5, Vancouver 1
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After writing five number ones for Zac Brown Band, Niko Moon marks an even more personal milestone this week, as “Good Time” becomes his first number one as an artist. And the Georgia native’s ready to take a hard-fought victory lap to mark the occasion.
“I wanna go on a trip somewhere, you know, I mean, because to be honest, I really haven’t gone too much of anywhere this past year,” he says. “So I told my wife she could pick where we go.”
“She’s kind of like trying to decide between going down to Florida to the beach, or maybe somewhere like Gatlinburg or something more, kind of like in the mountains.” he continues. “So… we’ll go and get away somewhere for a few days and celebrate.”
Anna Moon‘s rightfully part of the celebration, since she’s one of the co-writers of “Good Time” as well.
Given Niko’s fondness for tattoos, if you’re expecting him to commemorate his chart topper with some new ink — well, he’s way ahead of you.
“I got ‘Good Time’ tattooed on my legs, and that was when the song first released, because that was a big moment for me,” he reveals. “I mean, [it’s] my very first song I ever released as an artist, my very first song on the radio — I mean, major, major moment in my life — had to commemorate it.”
Niko is planning on adding another tattoo for his number one; he just hasn’t settled on it yet.
“I’ve been thinking maybe like a fishing pole with a little bobber on it or maybe a little bottle of apple pie moonshine,” he says. “I haven’t decided but I’m definitely gonna get something.”
You can check out Niko’s Tuesday night performance of “Good Time” from Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube now.
By Stephen Hubbard
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Warrick Page / HBO Max(LOS ANGELES) — The “dark, yet playful” coming-of-age series, Genera+tion, premiers today on HBO Max.
The series, created by 19-year-old Zelda Barnz and her fathers Daniel and Ben, and produced by Lena Dunham, has been compared to HBO’s other buzzy teen drama Euphoria.
Zelda tells ABC Audio the show “is about a group of queer youth in Anaheim who are kind of searching for connectedness, both on social media and in person, in their kind of conservative community, and they sort of just… find each other.”
While not her life story, Zelda says there’s “definitely a lot” of her in the show.
“I did want to see myself and my friends represented authentically on screen, but I definitely would say that the show isn’t necessarily based on my life or my experiences,” she explains.
Adds Zelda, “It’s definitely fiction, but I would say the essence of the high school experience is definitely something that inspired it.
Gener+ation is a family affair, and Daniel tells ABC Audio the stories, many of which involve sex and drugs, made for interesting family dinners
“I could never have imagined having this kind of conversation with my parents,” he says.
“It’s been amazing, obviously, to work in creating the show together,” he continues. “But there has been a whole other level, too, which is just us as a family being able to be more honest and open and communicative with each other as a result of talking about the things that are connected to the show.
Gener+ation stars Chase Sui Wonders, Chloe East, Haley Sanchez, Lukita Maxwell, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Nathanya Alexander, Nava Mau and Uly Schlesinger with Justice Smith and Martha Plimpton.
Oklahoma City District Attorney’s OfficeBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News
(OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok.) — Five Oklahoma police officers were charged with manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old armed robbery suspect last year.
In November, Stavian Rodriguez was killed after officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at an Oklahoma City gas station, authorities said.
The owner of the gas station managed to leave and lock Rodriguez inside as officers surrounded the business, police said. Rodriguez was shot after he climbed out the drive-thru window, police said.
Security camera footage released by the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office Wednesday shows Rodriguez emerge from the convenience store building as officers yell for him to show his hands, lay on the ground and drop his firearm. Rodriguez can be seen dropping a gun on the ground and reaching toward his back pocket before the officers open fire.
In the charging documents, District Attorney David Prater claimed that the five officers “acted jointly, willfully, unlawfully and unnecessarily killed Stavian Rodriguez.”
Rodriguez had no other weapons besides the firearm that he dropped, according to the probable cause affidavit.
“A cellphone was recovered from the left rear pocket he had his hand in at the time he was shot,” it stated.
Rodriguez suffered from 13 gunshot wounds, according to the affidavit.
The officers who discharged their firearms during the incident were charged with first-degree manslaughter on Wednesday. They are Corey Adams, 28; Jared Barton, 33; Brad Pemberton, 31; Bethany Sears, 30; and John Skuta, 34.
All officers are currently on paid administrative leave.
A sixth officer, Sgt. Sarah Carli, who fired a “less lethal weapon” during the incident, was not charged, the Oklahoma City Police Department said in a statement Wednesday.
The department also released the body-worn camera footage from the Nov. 23 incident from five of the officers on Wednesday. Rodriguez’s mother, Cameo Holland, had previously filed a lawsuit against the city demanding the release of the footage.
In the footage, an officer can be heard over a loudspeaker repeatedly telling Rodriguez to come out with his hands up as officers position themselves around the gas station.
After the shooting, Rodriguez is handcuffed while on the ground. A few minutes later, responding emergency medical technicians administer aid. Rodriguez was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The Oklahoma Police Department referred all questions to the Oklahoma County district attorney. ABC News was unable to reach the district attorney’s office for comment.
The Oklahoma City police union defended the actions of the five officers facing manslaughter charges.
“Officers must make life and death decisions in a split second, relying on their training. When an armed robbery suspect did not obey police commands, five officers perceived the same threat and simultaneously fired their weapons,” OKC Fraternal Order of Police President John George said in a statement Wednesday. “A loss of life is always a tragedy and we know these officers did not take firing their weapons lightly. The OKC FOP stands by these officers and maintains they acted within the law.”
The officers aren’t the only ones charged in Rodriguez’s death. Wyatt Cheatham, 17, an alleged accomplice in the robbery who was not at the gas station at the time of the shooting, was charged with first-degree murder in December.
In Oklahoma, a person can be charged with felony murder if someone dies while certain types of felonies are being committed, according to Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO.
The felony charge against Cheatham has drawn recent demonstrations, with protesters saying the teen deserves lesser charges.
This case marks the second time in two weeks the district attorney has charged an Oklahoma City officer with manslaughter.
Sgt. Clifford Holman was charged with first-degree manslaughter last month for the fatal shooting of Bennie Edwards in December.
ABC News’ Jennifer Watts contributed to this report.
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Photos: Nick Barose/Frederic Auerbach — Courtesy AppleTV+(LOS ANGELES) — Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o will produce and star in a series adaptation of Laura Lippman’s New York Times best-selling mystery novel Lady in the Lake.
Set in 1960s Baltimore, the movie will have Portman playing a housewife and mother who becomes an investigative journalist to solve a cold case murder.
According to AppleTV, this puts Maddie Schwartz on a “collision course” with Nyong’o’s character Cleo Sherwood, “a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs, and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.”
The series for the streaming network will be directed and co-produced by Alma Har’el, the award-winning filmmaker behind the Shia LaBeouf’s drama Honey Boy.
The series marks Black Swan Oscar winner Portman’s first foray into television.
By Stephen Iervolino
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