(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Utah 96, Detroit 86 LA Clippers 130, Chicago 127 Denver 114, New York 89 Oklahoma City 129, Brooklyn 116 LA Lakers 120, Houston 102 Minnesota 96, San Antonio 88 Golden State 106, Toronto 105 Miami at Boston (Postponed) NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Baltimore 20, Tennessee 13 New Orleans 21, Chicago 9 Cleveland 48, Pittsburgh 37
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Iowa 86, Minnesota 71 Maryland 66, Illinois 63 Virginia Tech 77, Notre Dame 63
ABC Kelsea Ballerini‘s latest top-ten hit, “hole in the bottle,” is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, since it came to life as a happy accident during a night of drinking.
At the time, Kelsea believed she’d finished crafting songs for her third album, kelsea.
“We were in Florida writing,” Kelsea recalls, “and we went out to dinner to celebrate having a wonderful, productive trip, writing so many songs. [We] had a bunch of wine at dinner, and got back to the house. And [songwriter] Jesse Frasure was playing us some more tracks that he was excited about. And it was Ashley Gorley, Steph Jones, myself, Hillary Lindsey and Jesse.”
“We have a glass of wine,” Kelsea continues, “and we have the doors open, and the beach air is coming in, and we’re just high on life. And he’s playing this track. And Hillary just goes, ‘There’s a hole in the bottle,’ like joking.”
Pretty quickly, they realized they might be onto something.
“We all just start adding lines, just completely joking, having wine, enjoying life, joking about writing the song,” Kelsea continues. “And then at the end of it, we kind of looked at each other and we’re like, ‘Wait, is this really hooky?'”
“And the next morning, we all woke up and again had our coffee, and we’re listening to it,” she remembers. “We’re just like, ‘Wait, even though this is like kind of funny, it’s kind of really, really hooky. Maybe we should rewrite a couple of bits and tighten it up.’ And we did.”
“And it’s one of my favorites on the album. I can’t wait to do this on tour,” says Kelsea.
James Devaney/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Fans of Sex and the City are rejoicing because, after years of rumors and petitions, the beloved HBO series is being revived for the small screen.
Sarah Jessica Parker, who starred as the series’ lead Carrie Bradshaw, confirmed the good news on Sunday in a mysterious Instagram video.
The clip features shots of New York City as “And just like that… the story continues,” is typed out on a computer screen.
“I couldn’t help but wonder… where are they now?,” the 55-year-old actress cheekily teased in the caption, confirming that the revival, which she referred to the series as “#SATCNextChapter,” will be heading to the streaming service HBO Max.
Cynthia Nixon, who played Parker’s on-screen best friend Miranda Hobbes, shared the same trailer to her Instagram and wrote, “You, me, New York…anything is possible.”
Kristin Davis, who played the optimistic dreamer Charlotte York, teased when sharing the promo to her social media, “Anything is possible…. Meet you there!”
Parker excitedly commented on their respective posts about how excited she is to be acting alongside them once more.
Sex and the City ran on HBO from 1998 to 2004 for six seasons, winning four Daytime Emmy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards during its run.
A spinoff series, The Carrie Diaries, ran from 2013 to 2014 on The CW.
The series was also green lit for two movies, 2008’s Sex and the City and 2010’s Sex and the City 2. A third film was rumored, but the film was cancelled because the show’s fourth star — Kim Cattrall who played the promiscuous Samantha Jones — did not want to reprise her role.
Cattrall also did not share the teaser video on Sunday, seemingly confirming reports that her time with the franchise has come to an end.
(NEW YORK) — A California woman faces multiple charges for allegedly falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone and physically attacking him inside a New York City hotel last month.
Miya Ponsetto was charged in Manhattan Saturday with two counts of attempted assault, attempted robbery, grand larceny and endangering the welfare of a child.
The charges are not eligible for bail, but she will need to follow supervised release and was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victims.
Her next court appearance in New York will come March 29.
Ponsetto, 22, was arrested in her hometown of Piru, California, on Thursday, after fleeing the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department as it tried to make a traffic stop on a fugitive warrant for her arrest, officials said. Once she stopped in front of a home, she put up a fight and resisted arrest, authorities told ABC News. During a virtual court appearance on Friday, she agreed to be extradited to New York.
The charges stem from a Dec. 26 incident at the Arlo SoHo Hotel that’s gained national attention. Keyon Harrold, a Grammy-winning trumpet player, was staying there with his 14-year-old son when he said Ponsetto approached his son in the lobby to accuse him of stealing her phone. Harrold recorded part of the encounter on his phone and shared the video on social media.
In the video that Harrold recorded, a woman later identified by authorities as Ponsetto could be seen yelling at the teen and lunging at him. Harrold’s son could also be heard denying that he stole the phone.
Ponsetto’s cellphone was ultimately found by an Uber driver, according to national civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Harrold family.
“As this year of racial awareness is drawing to a close, it’s deeply troubling that incidents like this one, in which a Black child is viewed as and treated like a criminal, continue to happen,” Crump said in a statement following the incident.
ABC News was unable to reach Ponsetto following her hearing.
“I don’t feel that that is who I am as a person. I don’t feel like this one mistake does define me,” she said during the interview, which was filmed Thursday before her arrest. “But I do sincerely from the bottom of my heart apologize that if I made the son feel as if I assaulted him or if I hurt his feelings or the father’s feelings.”
Ponsetto’s former attorney, Sharen Ghatan, said in a statement to ABC News Thursday that she was “extremely concerned” about Ponsetto’s mental state. “It is clear that she is emotionally unwell,” she said.
In an interview Friday with “Good Morning America,” Harrold Jr.’s parents said they were grateful for Ponsetto’s arrest this week.
“She should have been arrested a long time ago, but I am grateful that she is arrested,” his mom said.
Harrold Jr. said he was “happy that justice will be served.”
Crump and Harrold Jr.’s parents have also accused the hotel staff of improperly handling the situation.
“This is a good development, but management of @ArloHotels — owned by Quadrum Global — gave power to Miya’s racist actions and must also be held accountable!!” Crump tweeted Saturday after Ponsetto was charged.
After the incident, the hotel chain apologized to Harrold in an Instagram post and said it was investigating further.
“We’re deeply disheartened about the recent incident of baseless accusation, prejudice and assault against an innocent guess of Arlo Hotel,” said the statement. “We want to apologize to Mr. Harrold and his son for this inexcusable experience.”
Ponsetto was also arrested in California three times in 2020, though she’d never been arrested prior to last year. On Feb. 28, she was arrested for public intoxication after getting into a fight outside a hotel, according to charging documents. She was charged with driving under the influence on May 29 after someone called police when they saw her get into a car leaving a grocery store while apparently intoxicated. She was pulled over and found with open containers of alcohol and marijuana in her car and was charged with driving with a suspended license, according to the charging documents.
Her third arrest last year came on Oct. 10 when she was charged with DUI, driving with a suspended license and resisting arrest. She had allegedly got into a physical altercation with her mother after leaving her car abandoned at a nearby intersection and then tackled a responding officer to the ground. Her blood alcohol limit was 0.14, almost twice the legal limit, police said.
ABC News’ Alex Stone, Aaron Katersky and Sabina Ghebremedhin contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — A new winter storm is beginning to develop in the southern high plains this morning and it will bring some snow across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi over the next 36 hours.
The very beginnings of this storm brought some snow across parts of New Mexico and Colorado on Saturday.
While snow amounts were relatively light — locally 1 to 2 inches — it was enough to make roads slippery and cause spinouts and accidents in parts of Colorado Springs.
The storm is currently bringing some snow across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle and as the storm moves east across Texas today, a couple of heavy bands of snow will develop across parts of Central Texas.
Dangerous travel conditions are expected in parts of the state, especially near Abilene, where snowfall rates could exceed 1 inch per hour.
As the storm moves across the eastern half of Texas, the system will meet some mild air and there will be rain and snow mixed across the region which should hold down accumulations in Dallas and Waco.
However, there should be enough snow to cause slippery roads with locally 1 to 3 inches of snow and the best chance for accumulation well outside the city itself.
Some of the heavy snow might have a chance to accumulate in eastern Texas after sunset with locally over 3 inches of snow possible in locations such as Lufkin.
On Monday morning, snow will be possible across parts of Louisiana and Mississippi and the National Weather Service is reporting the last time more than 2 inches of snow was reported in Shreveport was in 2015, and the last time there was a good measureable snow in the city overall was in 2018.
It is important to note that this storm will fall apart as it reaches the Southeast with little impact expected by Tuesday and Wednesday.
Overall, the weather pattern is fairly quiet across much of the U.S. while the Northeast will have a cold January morning with wind chills in the teens and 20s as winds in the region begin to subside.
On the West Coast, several storms lined up across the Pacific will move towards the Northwest over the next few days which should add to rainfall totals and snow totals in the region.
One of those storms today will help waves to exceed 30 feet in some parts of the West Coast of the U.S. as high surf advisories have been issued for nearly the entire western U.S. coast line as a result.
For those that enjoy winter surfing, some spots — especially in California — could see excellent surfing conditions.
In Southern California there could be some brief critical fire conditions due to dry gusty offshore winds that could exceed 50 mph at times.
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