Pft: Pimp In Lawrence Taylor Case Gets 7-9 Years

Eighteen years ago, on a steep snow slope high in the French Alps, on skis nearly eight feet long, Ross Anderson of Durango set the American speed skiing record that still stands: 154 mph. Across a career that spanned 17 years, he was the lone person of color in an obscure form of skiing in which competitors sheathed in aerodynamic suits ski straight downhill searching for maximum velocity, an experience he likened to jumping out of an airplane.

Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag. Pose a Rockies- or MLB-related question for the Rockies Mailbag. Patrick, I am tired of seeing the Dodgers spend all this money and have millions deferred. Will that money eventually hit them on the luxury tax side of things?

By MARK SCOLFORO and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The suspect charged with shooting to death a health insurance company chief executive on a Manhattan street will be taken Thursday morning to hearings on related Pennsylvania criminal charges and efforts to extradite him to New York. The preliminary hearing on forgery and firearms charges and consideration of a fugitive from justice complaint against Luigi Mangione may not take long. He is expected to waive extradition, clearing the way for his return to New York, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

By JOHN LEICESTER, TOM NOUVIAN and MARINE LESPRIT, Associated Press AVIGNON, France (AP) — A court in France on Thursday sentenced the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her and allowing other men to rape her while she was unconscious, in abuse that lasted nearly a decade. The sentence against Dominique Pelicot was the maximum possible under French law.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I was in college, a friend’s family graciously opened their home to me for a couple of months while I worked a summer job near their home, which was an hour from my family’s. I did my best to treat their home as respectfully as my parents’ home, and at the end of summer, I gave them what I could afford out of my earnings for their kindness. During one evening meal, I was enjoying some garden tomatoes that the lady of the house had provided.