Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick chose not to further engage in a public spat with Charles Barkley after the Hall of Fame analyst criticized Redick’s team and questioned his job security on Thursday’s “Inside the NBA” broadcast.
“I didn’t make it all the way through the clip, I got to be honest with you,” Redick said Friday before the Lakers hosted the Atlanta Hawks. “My resting heart rate is probably 64 [beats per minute]. I watched the clip, it was 64. Literally don’t care. I have other thoughts, but don’t care.”
Barkley was responding to what Redick said Dec. 19 when L.A. played the Sacramento Kings when the Lakers coach shared his opinion on the state of NBA coverage in light of national TV ratings dwindling compared to past seasons.
“[Redick] said something about we’re the reason people ain’t watching this crappy product we got. … Yeah, us,” Barkley said. “Like we’re out there jacking up a hundred 3s a night.”
When Redick first broached the ratings issue, he argued against the widespread belief that the volume of 3-point shots being taken is prompting too many teams to play the same style and making the games less interesting.
“I don’t think the league is as homogenized as a lot of people make it out to be,” Redick said at the time. “There are certain rosters and certain players that because of their skill set, it makes sense to shoot a lot of 3s. What I think gets lost a little bit in the amount of 3-point attempts is what has been taken away, which is a steady decline in long 2s.”
Redick said that 3s have also led to an uptick in points near the basket, as defenses cannot simply clog the inside because they must have personnel spread out on the perimeter to guard deep shots.
“The 3 has allowed more space for people to actually score at the rim and score in the paint,” Redick said. “So that’s the strategy.”
Redick, a former NBA analyst for ESPN, also offered a lengthy take on how the game is covered by the league’s television rights partners in TNT and ESPN.
“I don’t think we as — and by we, I was part of it — we as the sort of national partners have done a good job of storytelling, of celebrating the game,” Redick said. “If I’m a casual fan and you tell me every time I turn on the television that the product sucks, well I’m not going to watch the product. And that’s really what has happened over the last 10 to 15 years. I don’t know why. It’s not funny to me. Nothing is entertaining to me. This game should be celebrated.”
Redick refrained from naming names in delivering his critique. However, Barkley, apparently, believed it was directed at him.
“JJ, you come for the king, you better not miss,” Barkley said, paraphrasing a line from the character Omar from “The Wire” on HBO. “Because I can get you, brother. Remember, I got your Lakers games. You can’t hide them flaws they got. You’re just a dead man walking. They got rid of Frank Vogel, who did a good job. They got rid of Darvin Ham, who did a good job. But you came out there thinking you were going to change things with that same ugly girl you went on a date with. The Lakers stink.”
Long before Barkley suggested Redick’s job could be in jeopardy, the first-year coach acknowledged it himself. Before his first training camp coaching the Lakers even began, he told ESPN: “There’s no assurances in this industry. I recognize that at any point in time, I could be let go. That’s a reality.”
Barkley continued: “He came in there thinking, ‘I can make this thing work.’ The hell you can. You can put some makeup on that pig. The Lakers stink, man. Come on, man.”
L.A. is currently No. 6 in the Western Conference with a 19-14 record.
Redick is not the first Lakers figure to be involved in a tête-à-tête with Barkley.
KAPALUA, Hawaii — Hideki Matsuyama opened the new season with a record performance, though it was hard to tell from his emotions. He was a machine at the Sentry, with 35 holes at birdie or better to finish at 35-under par, both PGA Tour records.
He broke into a wide smile only when his caddie, Shota Hayafuji, spoke to him on the side of the 18th green Sunday at Kapalua after one final birdie gave Matsuyama the scoring records and a three-shot victory over Collin Morikawa.
“Otoshidama arigato gozaimasu.”
It translates roughly to thanks for a traditional Japanese gift to children in the new year to wish them luck and prosperity. Matsuyama won $3.6 million from his 11th career victory.
There was little luck involved over four days on a Plantation course that was vulnerable as ever without hardly any of the wind for which it was designed. Matsuyama made only one bogey over the final 59 holes to finish at 35-under 257.
Staked to a one-shot lead going into the final round, Matsuyama holed out from 107 yards for eagle on the third hole, expanded the lead when Morikawa had consecutive three-putts — one for par, another for bogey — and answered a late challenge with another wedge to 4 feet.
He closed with an 8-under 65 and started the new season in ways Matsuyama would not have imagined.
The 32-year-old Japanese star had only a few days of practice leading into the season opener because he was not feeling well, most recently with sores in his mouth. He decided on a whim to switch to a more center-shafted putter he received a few days after Christmas.
“I used the putter for the first here,” Matsuyama said through his interpreter. Asked why that style of putter worked so well for him, he added, “I’m not sure, but it went in.”
The last one was for the record book. Matsuyama wasn’t entirely sure that 34 under had been the record for 72 holes. The tournament already was in the bag.
“That last putt, it felt like if I make it, then it’s going to be the record,” he said. “So I’m so happy that it went in.”
He extended his arm and lightly pumped his first when it fell. His 35 under broke by one the record to par Cameron Smith set at Kapalua in 2022. It also was his 35th hole of birdie or better, breaking the record set by Smith in 2022 and matched by Sungjae Im at Kapalua last year.
“He was matching me yesterday shot for shot,” said Morikawa, alluding to both posting a 62 in the third round that set them apart from the field.
“Today he just never let up,” Morikawa said. “Then you get to the third hole and the guy holes it. I just knew I had to be on top of everything, and just kind of let a few slip on that front nine. Played a good back nine, but to win on a course like this, conditions like this, you’ve got to have it for 72 [holes]. And I had it for 65.”
Morikawa closed with a 67 to finish three behind at 32-under 260.
Matsuyama has three PGA Tour victories in the past 10 months, all of them against strong fields — Riviera last February and the first FedEx Cup playoff event in August. He moves to No. 5 in the world ranking.
Matsuyama began to build some separation when he holed a sand wedge from 107 yards on the third hole, the ball landing in front of the pin, taking one hop and disappearing in the cup for eagle.
Matsuyama saw the crowd cheer from behind the elevated green, widened his eyes and pursed his lips and tapped fists with his caddie. And that was that. It was a methodical game, a methodical week.
Morikawa, determined to give it his best shot, stayed within two until he had a three-putt par on the fifth hole after Matsuyama hit a superb chip from behind the green to tap-in range. Then, Morikawa had another three-putt from 60 feet, this one for bogey on the sixth.
That put him four shots behind, and he did well to stay in the game until the final few holes. Morikawa birdied the 14th and 15th holes — Matsuyama missed birdie chances from 6 feet and 10 feet — to close to within two shots with three to play.
Matsuyama effectively ended it with a wedge to 4 feet on the 16th for birdie.
The Sentry is a signature event with a $20 million purse, and the $3.6 million payoff to Matsuyama put him over $60 million for his career.
Im closed with a 65 to finish alone in third, worth $1.36 million.
Matsuyama is the seventh player to win both Hawaii tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule. Justin Thomas (2017) and Ernie Els (2003) are the only players to win both in the same year. Matsuyama will have a chance to join them next week in the Sony Open on Oahu, where he won three years ago.
Taylor Pendrith delivered the most unlikely shot of the tournament, holing out his 6-iron from 200 yards on the par-5 fifth for the first albatross on the Plantation course since this season-opening tournament moved to Kapalua in 1999.
“As soon as I hit it, I knew it was going to be really good,” Pendrith said. “Didn’t expect it to go in. Didn’t see it go in. But the fans that were up by the green went crazy so, yeah, it was a really good bonus.”
Under the Wiltern’s center-stage spotlight, a bedazzled tejana slowly rises into the audience’s view. As the concealed hydraulic platform peaks on the stage’s second level, Chiquis appears, sparkling in an all-white rhinestoned outfit. Her surrounding 13-piece band plays the energetic opening notes of “Porque Soy Abeja Reina,” a single off her 2022 album “Abeja Reina,” and the Wiltern’s crowd roars. The multi-hyphenate talent born as Janney Marin Rivera descends from the staircase and the only thing going through her mind is that all her hard work is finally paying off.
Over the past decade, Chiquis has fought what she calls an uphill battle to make music she’s proud of. In the face of harsh comparisons to her late mother, the música Mexicana legend Jenni Rivera, and expectations to carry on the family legacy, the three-time Latin Grammy winner stands firm in her corner of contemporary banda music. Unafraid to bring “new school influences” to the traditional genre, the 39-year-old brings a reignited sense of confidence to her latest album, “Diamantes.”
“I was actually crying right before the show. You know, it’s the end of the year and my mom passed away in December. This season usually makes me feel more sensitive,” said Chiquis. “I started thinking, ‘Are people going be able to tell? Are they going see?’ But then I reminded myself, that’s what my music’s all about. If I need to cry, I’m going to cry. I’m going to talk about it. This is my space to be myself.”
As the singer took the Wiltern’s stage that night for what she considers to be a hometown concert, with an extravagant stage design and a full production crew, she says putting on a show of such a large scale reminds her of how much things have changed — she began her musical career by performing at places like the Grove and small nightclubs. Now she sips Don Julio 70 from a diamond-shaped flask and unapologetically belts her lyrics of resilience to a packed theater.
Tequila in hand, Chiquis sings to the Wiltern’s crowd.
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A few days after her show, I catch Chiquis at a boutique cafe in the heart of Beverly Hills. Wearing a full-length trench coat and a matching beige L.A. baseball cap, the fresh-faced singer recounts the musical breakthrough she experienced with her fourth album “Abeja Reina.”
Bringing touches of R&B to banda and experimenting with a corrido style for the first time, Chiquis says she finally discovered how to be authentic in her artistry. While making this album, she let go of imposter syndrome and stopped seeking others’ approval in her sound.
“If I’m true to myself, people are going to feel that. And the people that I’m going to attract are the people I want to listen to my music,“ she said. “There’s always going be someone that doesn’t like me, and I’m okay with that now. I am who I am. I cuss. I love God. I’m a little bit of everything.”
She also began to fall in love with her voice. Due to her mother’s wide vocal range and the public’s constant comparison, Chiquis admits she has always been insecure about her vocals. After years of not listening to her own music, she hired a vocal coach and set out to improve.
Because of her inherited sense of fame, her music career originally started as a supplement to her already popular reality TV presence. In the early 2010s, she starred on “Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis y Raq-C,” continued to appear on her mother’s show “I Love Jenni” and starred in her own spin-off “Chiquis ‘n Control.” Much like the Kardashian clan, Chiquis was famous for the sake of being famous.
To this day, she maintains a whole other life outside her music career — with her continued pursuits in reality TV (“Chiquis Sin Filtro” and “Foodie on the Go”), podcasting (“Chiquis and Chill”), writing books (“The Girl Who Sings to Bees,” “Forgiveness” and “Unstoppable”) and appearing as a judge on Mexico’s “La Academia.”
As she juggles these passion projects, her music is where she strives to outdo herself. With each new release, she says she will always be her own biggest competitior.
Wearing tejanas and matching botas, the crowd showed up ready to hear Chiquis’ spin on música Mexicana.
(Ringo Chiu/For The Times)
If her 2022 album “Abeja Reina” was the catalyst in making Chiquis who she is today and giving her what she calls her “crazy a— confidence,” her May 2024 release “Diamantes” is the culmination of that artistic growth.
“‘Abeja Reina’ was more rough around the edges. I knew I wanted my next project to be more refined,” said Chiquis. “I’ve had a lot of pressure in my life from being the daughter of Jenni Rivera and all the BS that has happened after that. The idea of ‘Diamantes,’ and being a diamond made it all come together.
“There’s not one diamond that’s perfect. And I feel like we all have that. Life polishes us and it makes us shine. You can never break a diamond. They represent resilience in a lot of ways,” said Chiquis. “I’m a diamond and we all are. We are still here no matter what we do. This album speaks a lot of words of affirmation. For me, it’s like a note to self.”
Bedazzled mic in hand, Chiquis captures the crowd’s attention.
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Ulises Lonzano, a longtime collaborator and main producer on the album, first came to know Chiquis when he was asked to help make a theme song for one of her reality TV show. Over the years, he says her essence has always remained the same, but as they move from one project to the next, he sees her trust her abilities more and more.
“When she’s singing she taps into her emotion, especially when she performs. For me, as a producer, that’s what makes the difference from one artist to another. It’s about their ability to express the song,” said Lonzano. “Because it’s not about who’s a better singer or songwriter. It’s about how you present your emotions through that piece of music. And that’s how Chiquis does it.”
Resilience is something that has always characterized the singer’s life. Throughout our conversation, she doesn’t shy away from explaining her life’s adversities. Mentioning the unprecedented death of her mother and its aftermath, the pressure of keeping the Rivera family united and her recent miscarriage while on the Diamantes tour, she comes across as an open and earnest book. She assures me that no matter what’s happening in her life, she will always come out the other end for the people who love her the most – her fans.
At her L.A. tour stop, the venue was filled with a sea of sparkly botas, glittery beards, denim jackets embossed with Jenni Rivera’s face and tattoo sleeves dedicated to Chiquis. Longtime fan Dora Bartolo, 29, has been following Chiquis since 2013. As we stand in the Wiltern’s historic lobby, the Compton native recalls buying tickets to see Chiquis for $25 at her first few performances. Attending the Diamantes tour six different times, Bartolo says she’s proud to have witnessed Chiquis’ evolution.
Chiquis dances on stage at her December show.
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“I will be completely honest with you — in the very beginning [of her music career] her sound was a work in progress. It wasn’t her industry yet. It felt like she was just thrown in,” said Bartolo. “I knew we had to give her some time because she doesn’t give up. It’s in her blood. And when she gets on stage you really can see her strength and her growth.”
As much as the singer has shied away from comparisons to her late mother, their careers seem to reflect each other. Both acts have left a mark in the male-dominated subgenre of banda and expand their reach beyond music, all while trying to get out from under the shadow of the previous generation — Pedro Rivera, Chiquis’ grandfather, is also a música Mexicana artist.
As the new year kicks off, Chiquis says she isn’t entirely certain what her next step will be. Reflecting on her recent marriage to photographer Emilio Sánchez, she said she hopes to write more about a happy kind of love, instead of a tumultuous one, and explore how música Mexicana can lend itself to meditation music.
“I’m always going to move forward. But I feel like I need to take a step to the side to kind reconnect in a different way with my music. I need a breather. I want to get inspired again,” said Chiquis. “There’s a shift coming.”
Emilia Pérez was the biggest winner on the film side at the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday (Jan. 5). The film won four awards: best motion picture, drama; best motion picture – non-English language; best original song – motion picture for “El Mal” (co-written by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard); and best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture for Zoe Saldaña.
Shōgun was the biggest winner on the TV side, with four awards: best television series – drama, plus acting awards for Anna Sawai, Hiroyuki Sanada and Tadanobu Asano.
The 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted for the first time by Nikki Glaser, were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Anora was the night’s biggest shutout on the film side; it went 0-5 for the night. Only Murders in the Building was the biggest shutout on the TV side; it went 0-4 for the night.
Wicked won the Golden Globe for cinematic and box office achievement. Barbie won the award last year in the category’s inaugural year. Barbie went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including best picture. This year’s Oscar nods will be announced on Jan. 17. Wicked and Barbie are both music-driven hits. The soundtracks to both films reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (though Wicked may yet reach No. 1).
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won for best original score for Challengers. This is their third win in the category, following The Social Network (2011) and Soul (a collab with Jon Batiste, 2021). This puts the Nine Inch Nails members in a tie with Justin Hurwitz as the only three-time winners for best original score this century at the Globes. Hurwitz won for La La Land, First Man and Babylon.
Demi Moore won her first Golden Globe – best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy – for The Substance, 34 years after she landed her first nomination in the same category for the box-office smash Ghost.
Ali Wong won best performance in stand-up comedy on television for her Netflix special Ali Wong: Single Lady. This was a bit of a surprise. Many figured the Globes’ host, Glaser, would win for her HBO/Max special, Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die. Ricky Gervais, a five-time Globes host, was the inaugural winner in the category last year for his Netflix special, Ricky Gervais: Armageddon.
Flow won best animated feature, beating The Wild Robot and sequels to Inside Out and Moana, among others.
All of the winners were present to receive their awards except Jeremy Allen White, the star of The Bear, who won for best performance by a male actor in a television series – musical or comedy.
At a ceremony on Friday, EGOT recipient Viola Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a career honor for film work. Ted Danson won the Carol Burnett Award, the equivalent award for work in television. The awards were briefly mentioned on the telecast, but were not given the extended airtime they were afforded in the past.
Multi-Emmy-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment served as executive producers and showrunners for the 82nd Golden Globes.
The Golden Globes are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.
When her daughter suggested she visit her doctor to talk about the bags she had developed under her eyes, Lizzie Spear worried she would be accused of wasting the GP’s time.
“My daughter Lowri had said, ‘Mum, I think you need to go and see the GP because you don’t look very well’,” recalls Lizzie. “The bags under my eyes were ridiculously large, which I put down to tiredness as I wasn’t sleeping well. I actually told Lowri that I wasn’t going to waste the doctor’s time with a cosmetic issue, but she convinced me to go.”
In February 2021, Lizzie reluctantly went for an appointment where she underwent routine blood tests. She was shocked when the results came back a day later flagging up an abnormality and told to go urgently to hospital for a bone marrow biopsy.
“I wasn’t expecting that and instantly knew this wasn’t good news,” says Lizzie, a professional cellist and teacher.
When the 56-year-old from near Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, arrived at the hospital with her fiance John, the news got worse. “I was told there was now no need for a biopsy as my blood tests showed I had leukaemia and it was just a case of narrowing down which type,” she says.
“I felt numb. Only a few days earlier I had to be convinced to go to the GP and now I’d been diagnosed with blood cancer.”
Lizzie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). There are fewer than 800 new cases in the UK annually, and it’s more common in children than adults.
One of the symptoms is extreme tiredness, which doctors think possibly explained the puffy bags under her eyes. Lizzie spent eight weeks undergoing treatment at Nottingham City Hospital, where she was given an intense course of chemotherapy, which required drugs to be injected directly into the fluid around her spinal cord.
Unfortunately, the gruelling two months of treatment failed to put her ALL into remission, so she was prescribed a course of immunotherapy before doctors revealed she needed a stem cell transplant to replace the damaged blood cells with healthy ones.
As an only child, Lizzie didn’t have a sibling to help, which meant her only child, Lowri, who was 21 and studying at university, was the obvious choice. “The doctors said Lowri was a half match and, given the severity of my situation, it was our best hope,” says Lizzie. “She was brilliant and said she would do whatever she could to help.”
In September 2021, stem cells were harvested from Lowri via a tube into her femoral artery in the groin. The next morning they were infused into Lizzie’s arm, before weekly tests monitored the new cells weren’t being rejected. Six months later, a top-up of more stem cells from Lowri followed.
For a long time, things looked positive and the family thought Lizzie’s health worries might be behind them, but in November 2023 she was given the devastating news that her leukaemia had returned.
“I was totally flabbergasted,” says Lizzie. “I’d just come back from a lovely holiday and although I was feeling quite fatigued, I assumed that was due to my earlier treatment.
“I was told it would be pointless for Lowri to donate again. But then my consultant said, ‘You’re in luck, there’s a new treatment called CAR-T cell therapy’.
“It wasn’t simple though as you have to be approved by the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund panel and there’s no guarantee they will, as one infusion costs £500,000.”
CAR-T therapy involves a patient’s own immune system cells (T-cells) being modified in a lab so they can attach and then kill cancer cells once they have been returned to the bloodstream. Evidence has shown it’s effective against ALL and can extend survival rates.
Continuing with chemotherapy while waiting for a decision, Lizzie’s health deteriorated. A reaction to her particular chemotherapy treatment led to a temporary loss of sight in her right eye and she began to rely on a wheelchair after losing sensation in her legs and struggled to stay awake.
“I knew that if I didn’t have the CAR-T I would die, so it was my only option,” says Lizzie.
“As it’s so expensive, I would not get a second go. The wait for the panel to decide was agonising.” Then, last February approval came, making Lizzie one of the few in the UK – and the first at the Nottingham Hospital – to receive it for relapsed ALL. It’s estimated that about 90 people in England with this cancer could now benefit.
“The actual drug came in what looked like a DVD case and took about three hours to be infused,” says Lizzie, who received confirmation of its success last August – her cancer was in remission.
“After it had worked, I had a T-shirt made showing me as the guinea pig because that’s what I had been. I’m hugely grateful to the NHS,” she adds.
Although still suffering with side-effects, including nerve damage to her spinal cord which means she walks with a stick, Lizzie is back to playing gigs with her cello and travelling.
“I’m so grateful Lowri spotted those bags under my eyes and made me see my GP,” says Lizzie, who is doing a fund- raising walk for Leukaemia UK with her dog Scout.
■ For more details about the life-saving research funded by Leukaemia UK, visit leukaemiauk.org.uk. You can find Lizzie Spear’s fundraising page on justgiving.com.
Since 2021, Christine Brown and Kody Brown have gone their separate ways thanks to an unconventional divorce. The former couple had been married for over 20 years, but Christine never felt the love between them. But even with six children, the former couple found it hard to keep an amicable peace between them. Instead of moving on gracefully, the Sister Wives chose to rub the patriarch’s face in her new relationship. And Kody enjoyed throwing shade whenever he got the chance. The two are now in a custody dispute over their teenage daughter, Truely Brown, and it isn’t going well.
Christine Brown is putting Truely first
Three years after calling it quits on their marriage, news broke that Christine had decided to sue Kody. The Sister Wives star filed a lawsuit against for child support. Christine is also asking for full custody of their 14-year-old daughter, Truely. The paperwork was filed on September 16 and showed the Utah native formally requesting the court to establish paternity of her youngest daughter. Christine is asking for this step since Kody isn’t listed on Truely’s birth certificate as her birth father. In earlier seasons, fans learned Kody couldn’t put his name on the birth certificate because it would put him at risk of being arrested by local authorities.
Truely has grown up on Sister Wives, with her birth being a major plot during Season 1. At the time, Kody was courting Robyn Brown, his fourth and favorite wife. Christine was nine months pregnant and went into labor while he was hours away sneaking kisses with Robyn. Kody arrived late to the hospital and almost missed the birth. Truely was special to Christine as she was her rainbow baby. She once shared, “I had a miscarriage over a year ago. And I’m not sure my body is OK. I’m not sure my body is going to work like it should. I hemorrhaged, and I passed out. And it was really horrible.”
Christine Brown is putting up a fight
Christine is also requesting a domestic relations injunction. This was a big step for Christine as in the state of Utah, the injunction stops both parties from harassment, domestic violence, canceling or modifying services. But more importantly, the request also stops either parent from taking Truely for any nonroutine travel without a court order. On top of that, the injunction demands that Kody and Christine stop any disparaging of the other party. In the last few seasons, Truely has been shown traveling back and forth between Utah and Arizona. The teenager currently resides in Utah with her mom, but Kody mentioned that he didn’t want his daughter to live so far away. The move was a no-brainer for Christine as her youngest daughter would be around her older siblings and more family.
Christine also hinted that Kody was absent in their daughter’s life. The Sister Wives star has shared that Kody often wanted his former wife to accommodate his lifestyle. Fans watched as Kody became paranoid during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was then the fractures in the family started to become an issue.
Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s court case is heating up
On December 1, Kody and Christine went to court to attend a hearing. According to the court documents, both Kody and Chirstine’s lawyers met via a web conference to discuss the status of their case. Both sides have now completed and submitted their disclosure, and the TLC stars have been ordered to attend meditation, which is now set for May 21, 2025. According to the legal documents, the Utah court classified the case as Track 1, which is standard, and Track 3. However, to be classified as Track 3 in the state means that the case is a “significant custody dispute.”
The documents read, “This category includes cases with 15 significant custody disputes, including custody disputes involving allegations of 16 child abuse or domestic violence. For a Track 3 case, at the case management, 17 conferences, the court and parties will address: 1) whether a custody evaluation is 18 necessary, and, if so, the form of the evaluation and appointment considerations; 19 and 2) whether the appointment of a private guardian ad litem is necessary.” Needless to say, I imagine that Kody will have a lot to say about Christine if TLC decides to film a more up-to-date season.
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A Costco-brand cold and flu medicine has been pulled from shelves “due to potential foreign material contamination.”
A notice shared on the retail giant’s website says the recall of Kirkland Signature Severe Cold & Flu Plus Congestion involves item number #1729556 with specific lot code P140082, which was sold at select locations in the Midwest and southeast.
“Out of an abundance of caution, LNK has initiated a recall for the accidental release and shipment of a specific lot code that was rejected due to potential foreign material contamination,” the statement reads.
The impacted over-the-counter medicine was purchased by customers between Oct. 30 and Nov. 30, 2024.
Consumers are told to not use any remaining product with the lot code and to return it to Costco for a full refund.
Anyone with issues or concerns is told to contact manufacturer LNK International Inc. at 1-800-426-9391 or email complaints-inquiries@lnkintl.com.
Fox Business reached out to Costco for more information.
A Costco-brand cold and flu medicine has been pulled from shelves “due to potential foreign material contamination.” CostcoA notice shared on the retail giant’s website says the recall of Kirkland Signature Severe Cold & Flu Plus Congestion involves item number #1729556 with specific lot code P140082. LNK International Inc
Last month, 8,640 boxes of Kirkland Severe Cold & Flu Plus Congestion Day and Night packs were recalled by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) due to the ingredient oral phenylephrine being deemed “not effective” as a nasal decongestant following an “extensive review.”
“This chemical is shown to be ineffective against cold and flu in its oral form, except at a dose that has some heart toxicity and can lead to palpitations, arrhythmia and high blood pressure,” Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, said.
The impacted over-the-counter medicine was purchased by customers between Oct. 30 and Nov. 30, 2024. Refrina – stock.adobe.com
The December recalled boxes of the Kirkland Cold & Flu product had lot numbers P139953 or P139815 with an August 2026 expiration date.
Fox News’ Angelica Stabile contributed to this report.
