SYDNEY, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Bindi Irwin paid tribute to her late father, wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin, in a touching Instagram post this weekend.
"You"ll be my hero for my entire existence. I love you more than words can describe," the Dancing with the Stars champ captioned a throwback photo of her father holding her as a baby.
Irwin, 18, wrote the post in honor of the 10th anniversary of her dad"s death. He was struck in the heart by a stingray barb when he was 44 and died on Sept. 4, 2006.
This is a different Caroline Wozniacki than the one who was first embraced by the New York crowds almost a decade ago. Shes been through highs and lows, victories and injuries. And now that she has returned to the spotlight, she is seeing it all from a different perspective.
I think my motivator is clearly winning tournaments. Its winning big matches. Its being out there on Arthur Ashe Stadium and playing in front of a big crowd, Wozniacki said after her dominant 6-3, 6-4 win over American Madison Keys on Sunday afternoon at Ashe, sending the two-time U.S. Open runner-up to the quarterfinals to take on recently un-retired Latvian, Anastasija Sevastova.
I just think I get to kind of reflect and enjoy these moments more, because Im like, You know what? You never know, Wozniacki said. Could be injured tomorrow and I may not be able to play out here again. I mean, I know thats very negative thinking, but at this point Im just gonna have fun with it.
Wozniacki, 26, was speaking from experience. The 5-foot-10 blonde Dane has dealt with an ankle injury that kept her out of the French Open this year. Then she had to retire mid-match in June in Washington, D.C., with an arm injury. In that span, she had fallen to No. 74 in the rankings coming into this tournament, seemingly a long way off from 2010 and 2011, both years having finished atop the rankings.But those rankings are just numbers to Wozniacki, not something that is going to affect her confidence.
I know it sounds bad, but honestly, at this point Im like, I really dont care what my ranking is, Wozniacki said. The main thing is that when Im on court I have to believe in myself. Thats what I care about, that I know that I can do it.
Madison Keys returns a shot during her round of 16 match against Caroline Wozniacki on Sunday.Photo: Anthony J. Causi
I know I can beat anyone. I think it just sucks for some of the other players who have to play me early.
That is surely true for Keys, who was the last American still alive in either singles draw who is not Serena or Venus Williams. But the 21-year-old from Illinois who came in as the No. 8 seed was overwhelmed by the big stage the exact opposite of Wozniacki.
I think it was nerves a little bit, Keys said. I definitely felt like I got off to a bad start, and then I felt like I was trying to catch up from there.
Keys has a big serve, but Wozniacki was able to show a renewed mobility, and her defense was outstanding for the whole of the match.
Shes an amazing mover, Keys said. She gets a million b***s back.
There are familiar foes still in front of Wozniacki, most notably Serena Williams, who ousted Wozniacki in the 2014 final and the 2011 semifinal. Williams has been rolling through this tournament as she tries to break Steffi Grafs career record of 22 Grand Slams. Yet Williams and Wozniacki wouldnt meet until the final.
Before then, Wozniacki is trying to focus on the moments, and enjoy them all.
Before it was all about, Okay, I have to win this; I have to do that. Now Im like, I dont have to do anything, Wozniacki said. You know, whatever is meant to be its going to be, and Im just going to give myself the best shot out there. Im going to work hard and give my best shot every time out on court.
And I think Im enjoying the whole atmosphere and everything else so much more.
Labor Day: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
Laura and Brian Lane, with son Jackson, 4, are enjoying the Labor Day holiday weekend in the nation"s capital.(Photo: Susan Miller, USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON For Laura and Brian Lane of Milton, Pa., the Labor Day holiday is usually a day to just kick back with family.
"It"s a great way to wrap up summer and put a bookend on it," Brian Lane says. This yearthe family decided totake son Jackson, 4, tothe nation"s capital for the weekend.
"Christmas and Thanksgiving are kind ofcommercialized," he said Saturday as an exuberant Jackson bounced up and down on the sidewalkoutside the White House, waiting for the chance to see the "gigantic" dinosaurs atthe Museum of Natural History. "This is moreabout people."
Labor Day for manyisallabout a last blast at the beach with family and friends,backyard barbecues, school retail bonanzasand the grudging realization that sun-soaked play days are no more.
But the dayhas a deeper meaning and marks a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history and ithad a pretty violent start.
In the late 1800s, the state of labor was grim as U.S. workers toiled under bleak conditions: 12 or more hour workdays; hazardous work environments; meager pay. Children, some as young as 5, were often fixtures at plants and factories.
The dismallivelihoods fueled the formation of the countrys first labor unions, which began to organize strikes and protests and pushed employers for better hours and pay. Many of the rallies turned violent.
On Sept. 5, 1882 a Tuesday10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march in a parade from City Hall to Union Square in New York City as a tribute to American workers. Organized by New Yorks Central Labor Union,It was the countrys first unofficial Labor Day parade. Three years later, some city ordinances marked thefirst government recognition, andlegislation soon followed in a number of states.
Newspaper illustration shows the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. being held on Sept. 5, 1882.(Photo: Library of Congress)
Then came May 11, 1894, and a strike that shook an Illinois town founded by George Pullman, an engineer and industrialist who createdthe railroad sleeping car.The community, located on the Southside of Chicago, was designed as a company town in which most of the factory workers who built Pullman cars lived.
When wage cuts hit, 4,000 workers staged astrike that pitted the American Railway Union vs. the Pullman Company and the federal government. The strikeand boycott against trainstriggered a nationwide transportation nightmarefor freight and passenger traffic
At its peak, the strike involved about 250,000 workers in more than 25 states. Riots broke out in many cities; President Grover Cleveland called in Army troops to break the strikers; more than a dozen people were killed in the unrest.
After theturbulence, Congress, at the urging of Cleveland in an overtureto the labor movement, passed an act on June 28, 1894, making the first Monday in September Labor Day. It was now a legal holiday.
In the coming decades, the daytook root in American cultureas the "unofficial end of summer" and was marked by parades, picnics and family/friend time.
This year,Labor Dayhas a deeper meaningfor Jim Francis and Arlene Persach of New York.Francis" father, a captain in the Navy, was buried at Arlington Cemetery outside the nation"s capital ina moving serviceon Thursday, a few days before the holiday.
Persach says the history of the holiday should not be overlooked. It is a "guarantee of freedom" for all U.S. workers and a chance to "honor that history of America."
But for others enduring tough times not unlike those long-ago Americans in the 1800s there is little to relish.
Shawn O"Brien of Riverside, Calif., has been living on the streets of Washington, D.C.,since April. As he rested on a park bench in Lafayette Squarereading a book, he pondered the question of what Labor Day means and shook his head."I"m not working," O"Brien said. " For me, all days are pretty much the same."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Stay on top of Ohio State"s football"s scholarship situation with the updated chart below.
We"ll update this every time the Buckeyes have a roster move: Players graduating, leaving early for the draft, transferring, being dismissed from the team and committing to the next recruiting class.
A reminder that Ohio State is allowed 85 scholarship players each season.
Below is the scholarship chart as it stands right now. Here"s a breakdown by class:
Seniors: 6
Juniors: 20
Sophomores: 17
Freshmen: 42
* WR Torrance Gibson has been suspended for the fall semester, but he is still included in the scholarship count for now.
Total scholarship players for 2016: 85
Commitments in the Class of 2017: 18
You can see the numbers are off for fitting in Ohio State"s 2017 recruiting class. We discussed that situation in an episode of our Buckeye Talk Podcast:
Earthquake in Fairbury, NE Updated Sept. 3, 2016 8:06 p.m. ET
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Oklahoma on Saturday, damaging buildings and tying for the strongest temblor ever recorded in the state, which has experienced a rash of earthquake activity in the past decade that U.S. seismologists have tied to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas drilling.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said via Twitter TWTR 0.26 % on Saturday afternoon that state regulators were contacting operators of 37 disposal wells in a 500-square-mile area and asking them to shut down following the quake.
The earthquake took place around 7:02 a.m. central time near Pawnee, Okla., a town of about 2,200 people roughly 55 miles northwest of Tulsa, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely through the middle of the country, with reports coming from as far as Houston and Kansas City, according to the USGS.
There were no reports of serious injuries, but officials reported damage to some buildings in Pawnee. It wasnt clear whether the temblor was natural or triggered in part by human activity.
An assessment deemed six buildings in the Pawnee Nation reservation uninhabitable, Gov. Fallin wrote on Twitter. In rural Pawnee County, three homes were damaged and a homeowner was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries in the quake, she wrote.
Staff from the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management were in Pawnee assessing damage to buildings, said Keli Cain, spokeswoman for the department.
Residents in Oklahoma City and Stillwater, a city southwest of Pawnee that is home to Oklahoma State University, have also reported building damage via social media, Ms. Cain said.
Were monitoring social media, and weve seen some reports, she said. The department hadnt received reports of serious injuries.
Chunks of a 100-year-old building fell two stories to litter the sidewalk near the Pawnees main street, officials said.
Thats one of our historic buildings, said Lou Brock, a city councilman.
Mr. Brock said he was awake and was wishing a friend happy birthday when the rumbling started. This was not the gift I wanted to give them, he said. He felt the ground moving for over a minute.
One of those incredible feelings, he said.
The city asked residents to report any structural problems or smells of gas, he said.
Right now the situation is that as long as we get the most information from our wonderful city people I think were going to be just fine, Mr. Brock said.
Gov. Fallin, a Republican, said on Twitter that structural engineers found very minor issues and none concerning structural problems with state highway and Oklahoma Turnpike Authority bridges following the quake. Oklahoma Corporation Commission staffers were also reviewing oil and gas wastewater disposal wells in a 725 square-mile area of interest around the quake area, she added.
So far, the commission has ordered at least 37 wells to be shut down within a week to 10 days. This is a mandatory directive, she wrote, adding that state regulators are working with the Environmental Protection Agency in Osage County. The governor didnt say why the state ordered the wells to close.
Representatives for the governor didnt respond to requests for comment.
The shutdowns are a direct response to the earthquake and seek to minimize further seismic activity around the fault line, said Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
The commission focused on wells that dispose wastewater into a rock formation deep underground called the Arbuckle. Seismologists are in broad agreement that the Arbuckle formation is linked to earthquakes in Oklahoma, Mr. Skinner said.
This is the quickest action weve taken after an event, said Mr. Skinner, adding that state regulators are working with Environmental Protection Agency in Osage County, which is under federal control.
The shutdown order is the latest action the commission has taken against the oil and gas industry since 2013, when it asked some wastewater-well owners to reduce disposal volumes, he said. Since then, the commission has taken action against around 700 Arbuckle wells. There are about 4,000 wastewater wells across the state, he said.
Oklahoma has a history of seismic activity, and earthquakes in the state aren"t unheard of. But it has stepped up regulation of the wastewater injection wells after seeing a dramatic increase in seismic activity over the past decade. In 2015 the USGS recorded 2,500 quakes with a magnitude of 2.5 or higher in the state, up from just three in 2005.
The USGS in March released maps that for the first time show the potential risk of man-made as well as naturally occurring earthquakes, and they listed some parts of Texas and Oklahoma now at the same danger of temblors as California, due largely to the injection-well trend.
The strongest quake previously recorded in Oklahoma was also a 5.6 magnitude event, and took place near Prague, Okla. in 2011, buckling roads and destroying 14 homes. It spurred several lawsuits from homeowners who claimed energy companies burying wastewater nearby had helped trigger the quake.
When energy producers extract oil and gas from wells, thousands of barrels of salty water laced with heavy metals come up along with the fuel. The water often is injected back underground under high pressure into special disposal wells.
But government and academic researchers have found that the practice may help trigger movement along geologic fault lines. The oil-and-gas industry has acknowledged the validity of the studies and cooperated with regulators, but has said that more research is needed to link specific wells to specific incidents.
After Oklahomas Corporation Commission began taking stronger actions to police the location and volume of injection wells, the number of quakes in the state fell by roughly 25% compared with a year earlier, state officials said in June.
The Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Neb., experienced minor tremors from the earthquake and declared an unusual event at 7:10 a.m., according to a press release. There is no threat to the public or plant personnel, and the station continues to operate safely, the release said.
The quakes epicenter was roughly 25 miles north of Cushing, Okla., one of the worlds major oil hubs. The town holds some 64 million barrels of crude in about 400 massive, aboveground tanks.
A representative of Enbridge Inc., ENB 3.59 % one of the top pipeline and storage companies in Cushing, said no damage had been reported at its sites there.
Following the earthquake, Enbridge employees were directed to conduct visual inspections of tanks, manifolds and other facilities. The Cushing Terminal is currently operating normally, the company said.
Bruce Heine, a spokesman for Magellan Midstream Partners LP, which is another tank farm owner in Cushing, said in an email, We have no damage to report at this time.
The quake was the largest one in the continental U.S. this year, according to Lucy Jones, a quake expert and seismologist formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey. Only Alaska has had a larger quake this year, she said in a flurry of Twitter responses she typically unleashes after a significant quake.
Scientists have linked the increase in the rate of quakes in the region of Saturdays temblor to the rise of the oil and gas industry, especially the injection of wastewater into the ground. But it is more difficult to link specific quakes to those processes.
Some scientists have suggested man-made quakes cant produce shaking as intense as naturally occurring quakes, possibly because the faults havent reached maximum stress levels before the injections weaken them and cause a break.
Dr. Jones said Oklahomas longest fault is long enough to produce a magnitude 7 quake.
Dan Molinski and Tammy Audi contributed to this article.
Corrections & Amplifications: Oklahoma Corporation Commission staffers were reviewing oil and gas wastewater disposal wells in a 725 square-mile area of interest around the quake area. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the area was 725 square meters. (Sept. 3, 2016)
Write to Miguel Bustillo at miguel.bustillo@wsj.com
JACOB WETTERLING REMAINS FOUND (ONE DISAPPEARANCE FINALLY SOLVED!)
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Jacob Wetterling was 11 when he was abducted Oct. 22, 1989.
September 03, 2016 03:18 PM
The 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling from a deserted road has intrigued Minnesota residents and others around the country for more than two decades. Despite extensive searches, tens of thousands of leads and a reward offer, Jacob was never found. Now, sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that the suspect in his disappearance led investigators to Jacob"s remains.
Here are things to know about the case:
What Happened
Jacob was riding his bicycle with his 10-year-old brother, Trevor, and a friend on Oct. 22, 1989, when a masked gunman abducted him near his home in St. Joseph, about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The gunman was on foot, and no car was in sight. Authorities said the man held onto Jacob and threatened to shoot the other two unless they ran into the woods.
Sheriff"s deputies, National Guard troops and hundreds of volunteers scoured the area but found no clues. The FBI released a personality profile of the type of person who may have kidnapped the boy - probably a previous s*x offender, a white man 25 to 35 years old and likely someone who worked at an unskilled job.
A Frustrating Search
Jacob"s disappearance generated more than 50,000 leads. Despite extensive publicity, repeated aerial and ground surveys and an initial reward of more than $100,000 after the kidnapping, state, local and federal authorities were frustrated by the lack of evidence. The seemingly unsolvable case remained open.
In 2010, authorities spent two days searching and digging at a farm near where Jacob was last seen, but forensic tests on the items showed no link to the crime.
Attention on Children
In 1990, Jacob"s parents, Patty and Jerry Wetterling, founded what is now known as the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, which works to help communities and families prevent child exploitation. She later would chair the board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Patty Wetterling would continue to speak passionately about making the world a safe place for children. And in 1994, Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Act, legislation for a s*x offender registry.
"Person of Interest"
Last year, authorities re-examined the case and said Danny Heinrich, of Annandale, was a "person of interest" in Jacob"s disappearance. He faces federal child p*********y charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty, but has denied any involvement in Jacob"s abduction, and has not been charged with that crime.
