Deadlifting competition
Sports shorts Weightlifting
Lotman’s Body Shop will sponsor a deadlifting competition at 4 p.m. Saturday at Laurel Mall.
Admission cost is $5. Weight classes include 114, 132, 148, 165, 181, 198, 220, 242, 275 and super heavyweight. For more information, call 724-317-8212.
Olympics Crosby in torch relay
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Canadian hockey star Sidney Crosby will carry the Olympic torch in his home province of Nova Scotia next month.
The Pittsburgh Penguins captain will run in the torch relay Nov. 18 in Halifax and represent Canada in the Olympic hockey tournament.
“The torch relay will pass through so many communities and hands on the way to Vancouver, and I’m privileged to be part of that special group,” said Crosby, who is from Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia.
Other Canadian athletes scheduled to carry the torch include former Vancouver Canucks captain Trevor Linden, NBA star Steve Nash and golfer Stephen Ames.
Crosby will be one of 12,000 torchbearers in the relay, which begins in Victoria on Friday. Over 106 days, it will stop in every province and territory leading to the lighting of the cauldron at BC Place. The games will be held Feb. 12-28 in Vancouver and Whistler, followed by the Paralympics from March 12-21.
Football Murder charges filed
STORRS, Conn. (AP) – Police have charged a Connecticut man with the murder of a University of Connecticut football player outside a school-sanctioned dance, but his defense attorney says he was just trying to break up a fight.
Two others also were charged in the fight that led to the stabbing death of 20-year-old Jasper Howard, of Miami.
Police say 21-year-old John William Lomax III is charged with murder and conspiracy to commit assault.
Police say they also charged 20-year-old Hakim Muhammad, of Bloomfield, with conspiracy to commit assault, and 21-year-old Jamal Todd with pulling a fire alarm that emptied the Oct. 18 dance, triggering the fight.
Lomax’s attorney says his client wasn’t present when the argument started, but tried to break up the fight.