Rochester, N.Y. — A former state trooper has been charged in federal court with tipping off targets of an illegal sports gambling ring investigation while he was a police officer, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Thomas J. Loewke, 51, was charged on Jan. 6 and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the charges of obstructing state and local law enforcement investigations into the Rochester-based operation that drove …….

PokerGO announced that there wasn’t a willing participant to pay $1.6 million to enter Round 6 of High Stakes Duel III, which means Jason Koon is the game’s official champion.

The GGPoker ambassador paid $800,000 to enter Round 5 against Phil Hellmuth in place of Scott Seiver, who backed out at the last-minute. Koon dominated the match from start to finish and came out victorious.

High Stakes Duel on PokerGO: A Comprehensive Guide

Why Koon Can Cash Out

Despite winning, he wasn’t permitted to immediately c…….

One of the most famous poker players in the world has moved on from the game. This player is a Poker Hall of Famer, a four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, including one from the Main Event, and has more than $7.6 million in lifetime earnings according to the Hendon Mob.

Do you know who it is yet?

If not, here are a few more hints. This player’s best live cash of a smooth $1 million, his only seven-figure score, came in the 1990s. This player was also a force on Poker After Dark, took down the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship, and won the …….

What do Eric Bana, the Wiggles and a child-stealing spirit have in common? They’re all teaming up to star in a new musical comedy from the director of The Dry! Just kidding. But they are all in Australian films set to come out later this year, both in cinemas and on streaming platforms. Here are 10 to look out for.

Transfusion

The trailer for Transfusion

Where and when: cinemas now; on Stan from 20 January

Aussie star Sam Worthington will ditch the motion-capture suits he wore in Avatar: Way of…….

At the movies, for the first time, close to the giant silver screen, I could see clenched fists, grimaces, smiles, nods and other expressions and gestures. Back in the day, I would have had no idea of what a life hack was. But that’s what movies have been for me.

In real life, I frequently have trouble reading the room because I rarely see facial expressions, gestures or what people are wearing unless I’m very close to them. I frequently miss visual information that gives sighted people clues about the people they date, fall …….

On Wednesday, there will be 268 shiny silver faces glinting in the sun near the steps of City Hall. The cluster of palm-sized, mirrored faces may be eerily beautiful, but they are the bearers of bad news. Each of them represents a 2022 New Orleans murder victim.

For eight years, artist Mitchell Gaudet has created a similar sculpture that records the murder tally in New Orleans. At the start of each new year, he selects a day to place the sculpture on the sidewalk at 1300 Perdido Street, where municipal officials and other passersby are confronted with …….

On one of his first official tours through the new Sydney Modern, after roughly a decade developing the project as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Michael Brand highlighted a few signature pieces: a new commission by an Aboriginal artist using found metal; an immersive sculpture, first exhibited in Seoul, that visitors create by rolling balls of clay; and a giant video from a New Zealander, imagining Oceania without people of European descent.

But at each stop Sydney’s natural surroundings beckoned. State offici…….

I went to college at the University of Texas at Austin, a place where football reigns supreme. I wasn’t much of a fan, but many of my classmates showed up as dyed-in-the-wool devotees. Their zealotry wore me down, and I eventually joined the fans who packed into Darrell K. Royal stadium for every single Saturday home game. I was swept up, along with everyone else, in the annual cycle of anticipation, fanaticism, disappointment and acceptance.

I could never wholly embrace the game, though. I felt strange watching guys in their l…….

‘Dad it yourself’ catches on

A YouTuber based in Oak Harbor recently hit a significant milestone – 10,000 subscribers.

A YouTuber based in Oak Harbor recently hit a significant milestone – 10,000 subscribers.

This father, grandfather and Navy veteran is no stranger to social media. Scott Oram describes himself as a DIY-er on YouTube, a woodworker on Instagram and a “dad bod model” on TikTok.

Oram created his YouTube channel, Dad It Yourself DIY, in April of 2019…….

Oppenheimer Executive Director and Senior Analyst Owen Lau to weigh in on Coinbase’s latest round of layoffs and how the company’s cost-cutting moves are helping it stay afloat in the broader crypto space.

Video Transcript

SEANA SMITH: Coinbase shares closing up about 13% today after announcing plans to cut 20% of its staff. Now the stock, though, has been under a tremendous amount of pressure over the last year, off about 80%.

Well, ahead of this announcement today, our next guest warned about the cuts in his latest note that was published yesterday, so we want to bring…….