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Woman says she had stroke in her 20s while on birth control

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Jenna Goldman said she was out on a run with her now-husband two years ago when she started feeling like she was getting a migraine.

“In my right eye, there was some vision stuff happening, like a typical ocular migraine,” Goldman, 28, told Good Morning America, referring to a type of migraine headache that temporarily causes vision loss in one eye, according to the American Optometric Association.

Goldman, of New York, said she had suffered from ocular migraines since the age of 21, so when symptoms struck during her run, she went home and began to treat it as she usually did, with deep breaths, a wet cloth on her face and over-the-counter pain medication.

This time though, Goldman said she continued to feel worse and soon felt numbness in her body and had difficulty speaking.

Goldman’s husband took her to a local hospital, where she said doctors first treated her for a migraine but ultimately diagnosed her as suffering a stroke.

“The doctor said, ‘Jenna, you’re going to need to get your parents or your fiancé to hop on the phone because you’re not going to be able to comprehend what I’m going to tell you,’ and she said that I had a stroke,” Goldman recalled. “I didn’t even know what that meant, but just knew that it was really bad.”

While the highest rates for stroke are among older populations, stroke rates for young adults have increased by more than 40% over the past several decades, according to the American Heart Association. Each year, as many as 15% of strokes in the United States happen to people between the ages of 18 and 45.

Goldman said that in addition to her shock that she, as a healthy 20-something, would be impacted by a stroke, she was also surprised to learn from doctors that the hormonal birth control she had taken since the age of 17 may have added to her stroke risk.

Experiencing migraines with aura, of which ocular migraines are included, slightly increases a woman’s risk of stroke, according to the American Migraine Foundation. Taking hormonal birth control can also slightly increase a woman’s risk of stroke.

And while in some cases taking hormonal birth control may be helpful in treating the subset of migraines that occurs around one’s period, the so-called “menstrual migraines,” hormonal birth control is generally avoided with women with migraines with aura for fear of compounding stroke risk.

Goldman said that when she began taking the birth control pill, also known as oral contraceptives, in high school, she had no idea she would need to ask her doctor about the potential risks of the medication when she started developing migraines later on.

“Being on birth control from 17 to 26, I wasn’t aware of how it affected my body,” said Goldman. “I feel like I wasn’t properly educated about birth control when I started it.”

Birth control pills are made of either both estrogen and progestin — the two hormones made naturally in a woman’s ovaries — or just progestin, according to the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Nita Landry, a board-certified OBGYN, told GMA that estrogen-containing birth control pills can also be associated with a small increased risk of stroke, which, if taken by someone who suffers from migraines with aura, would add an additional stroke risk.

“You don’t want to necessarily combine those two stroke risks,” said Landry. “If someone does have a history of migraines with aura, or someone has a history of ocular migraines, I would suggest that they use a form of birth control that does not contain estrogen just because of the potential increased risk of stroke.”

Landry, author of the forthcoming book, Dr. Nita’s Crash Course for Women: Better Sex, Better Health, Better You, said that women do not need to be fearful of using hormonal birth control, but they do need to be aware of what they’re putting into their bodies.

“You deserve to have all of the information. It’s your body,” she said. “I’m really big on informed consent, and you can’t give informed consent if you don’t understand the risks and benefits.”

Landry pointed out that hormonal birth control has many benefits, including managing period pain and lowering the risk of ovarian cancer in some cases.

“We need to talk about risks, but we also have to consider all of the benefits,” she said. “We have to put put the risks in perspective and understand that there are some situations when taking birth control pills will be riskier than it’s worth, but there are a lot of cases when the potential benefits far outweigh those risks.”

Non-estrogen containing contraceptives including intrauterine devices, the Depo-Provera injection and progestin-only birth control pills can also be options for women, according to Landry.

She said she encourages women to check in with their doctors frequently to make sure they are using the birth control method that is right for them and their changing needs.

“The birth control that works best for you at the age of 16 may not be the best for you when you’re 37, for example,” she said, noting that, for instance, women who are 35 years of age or older and smoke should also not use estrogen-containing birth control pills.

In addition, women should discuss with their doctor why they are using birth control, whether it be for acne control or period pain or to help lower high blood pressure, according to Landry, who said, “All of those things will determine which contraceptive methods are the safest for you to use.”

Landry said the two specific questions she encourages women to ask their doctor are, “Based on my personal history and my family history, is this still the best contraceptive option for me, or is there something that has transpired since my last visit that may make this a less ideal option?,’ and, ‘What are the risks and benefits of this particular option?”

Goldman, who has undergone extensive physical therapy in her ongoing recovery from her stroke, said she is sharing her story to encourage women to do exactly as Landry said.

“I hope that younger women will ask questions like, ‘How will this affect my body if I start taking it regularly? What are the impacts? What are the implications? Why am I going on birth control? Are there other ways to avoid getting pregnant?,'” she said. “Those are the most basic, simple questions that you can ask.”

Goldman added that she has learned through her own health journey of the need to educate and empower when it comes to your own health.

“Everyone’s body is so different but you really have to know what you’re putting in it, and you really have to protect it,” she said. “It’s your body, you have to nurture it.”

Houston Texans surprise Uvalde football team ahead of first home game

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(UVALDE, Texas) — After a summer plagued with grief, anxiety and anger, Uvalde gets an escape, celebrating the high school’s first home football game of the season.

Residents will descend on the Honey Bowl Stadium on Friday night to watch the Uvalde High School Coyotes take on the C.C. Winn High School Mavericks. Uvalde’s stadium is just 2.4 miles from Robb Elementary School, where 19 elementary students and two teachers were killed on May 24.

Senior Uvalde linebacker Justyn Rendon was selected by his coaches and peers for the honor of wearing the No. 21 jersey this season, commemorating the 21 victims killed.

“I automatically started crying,” his mom, Venessa Rendon, said when she learned the news. “I was proud. It was a very humbling moment.”

Justyn Rendon said nearly everyone in town was impacted by the massacre, including his own family. His youngest brother was at Robb that day and survived.

“I was devastated, I couldn’t get here fast enough. All the ‘what ifs?’ started playing through my mind,” said his father, San Antonio police officer Eluterio Rendon.

Now football is “like a therapy,” Justyn Rendon told ABC News.

At practice “everybody didn’t have to feel the sadness and the sorrow. They just were able to feel the comfort of the family that we have,” the 18-year-old said.

As the team gathered for a pre-game dinner Thursday night, they were greeted by surprise visitors: Houston Texans coach Lovie Smith and Texans linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill.

“Whenever you have the opportunity to be of help, to be of inspiration, or just to be a person that can get, you know, things of these young men’s minds. You can talk ball with, or talk life with, you just want to be there,” Texans linebacker Christian Kirksey told ABC News. “I think that we have a job not just playing football, but to be role models and to be a helping hand.”

“I think it’s awesome,” Uvalde coach Wade Miller said of the NFL visit. “It makes us feel the love that we’re getting from around the world and especially the state of Texas. And to have those guys here and keeping up with us, makes our kids feel really special.”

The surprises kept coming on Good Morning America Friday. The Texans are gifting Uvalde with new uniforms and equipment for the season, and will honor the team with “Uvalde strong” stickers on their helmets at their first home game on Sept. 11.

“We’ll always be in you corner, we’ll always have your back,” Kirksey said.

The Texans are also hosting a football clinic for the Uvalde community on Friday.

“The guys just enjoy giving back,” Texans owner Cal McNair told ABC News. “All these guys have really embraced that as what they do and what they believe in.”

The special NFL visit was made possible by the Texans’ athletic trainer, Roland Ramirez, who is a Uvalde native.

“It’s been tough. Some really close friends have lost loves ones … so it hits home for me,” he said.

Ramirez said he’s glad the Texans can extend support and encouragement to the high schoolers — and he’s especially excited to watch his alma mater take the field Friday night.

Uvalde football ended last season 2-8. But already this year is off to a new start.

The season began last Friday with an away game. Uvalde beat the Carrizo Springs Wildcats, scoring a total of 21 points — a poignant and powerful reminder of the 21 lives lost.

“It was just a sign that the 21 angels are looking down at this community, and saying that they’re here, that they’re still present, and that they will remain present. So that was a pretty, pretty special moment,” Eluterio Rendon said.

Defensive end Jonathan Elizondo, 17, said the tragedy has brought the team together and that they’re mentally stronger now.

Elizondo transferred to Uvalde in the wake of the shooting to lend support to his family. He has cousins who attended Robb.

“I just don’t want them to see this as, like, a tragic town, you know? I want there to be positivity again,” he said.

Football “brings everybody together” in Uvalde, and Justyn Rendon said he’s excited to “bring the joy back to this town” at Friday’s home opener.

“It’s gonna mean a lot more this season. … It’s gonna be very emotional, very exciting,” he said. “And hopefully those little kids get to come out and watch us win. And that they don’t have to feel like scared, or have to be sad, but they get to feel the joy of being around their friends, their families.”

“This team means a lot to me,” added 16-year-old quarterback Brodie Carnes.

Carnes said Friday night’s game is “gonna be packed. Our community is kinda down … we’re gonna go out there and play for them.”

“It took us a while to be able to smile again without feeling guilty,” Eluterio Rendon said. “I believe that football will hopefully bring the community out … find a reason to smile, by enjoying watching our kids do what they love to do.”

ABC News’ Olivia Osteen, Jenny Wagnon Courts, Katie Conway and Kat Caulderwood contributed to this report.

Kendrick Lamar drops short film for “We Cry Together,” with Taylour Paige

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The visual for Kendrick Lamar‘s “We Cry Together” has arrived, in the form of a short film starring Lamar and actress Taylour Paige.

The short film dropped on Thursday and is an all-out reenactment of the track, which is from Lamar’s recently released Mr. Morale & the High Steppers album. It begins with Paige getting ready for work as Lamar sits at a kitchen table, smoking. As the fight escalates, the pair get in each other’s faces on occasion, exchanging the chorus’ explicit lyrics.

At one point, Lamar takes the car keys and locks himself in the bathroom. However, Paige enters through another door and gets the keys back. The two continue to argue around the apartment before reconciling in a graphic sexual act on the living sofa as the camera zooms out, exposing the set.

Lamar released two versions of the short film, one censored and one not.

“We Cry Together,” which was recorded live on March 15, 2020, is eligible for Best Live Action Short category at the 2023 Academy Awards. Eligibility does not equal nomination.

Biden seeks to reframe midterms into stark choice between democracy and Trump-led extremism

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden used to steadfastly avoid uttering the name, “Donald Trump.”

But now, bolstered by stronger poll numbers and relatively positive economic news, Biden as of late has been seeking to make the midterm elections a referendum on the former president — and the extreme ideas he says Trump’s supporters espouse.

“There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the ‘MAGA Republicans,’ and that is a threat to this country,” Biden said Thursday during a prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

His remarks represented the culmination of weeks of ramped-up rhetorical attacks on not all Republicans but Trump-loyal Republicans, whom he has blasted as “ultra-MAGA Republicans” and “MAGA extremists.”

Last week, he said “the entire philosophy that underpins” the GOP was akin to “semi-fascism.”

Trump complicates Republican strategy

Biden has increasingly sought to portray Americans’ choice this November as one between light and darkness — with Trump and his supporters representing “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” as he said Thursday.

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden said. “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

And he has been helped by Trump, whose actions have put him in a less-than-positive light.

Since the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump has publicly fought back — even making the raid public in the first place. His haphazard approach has led to sensational headlines as the Justice Department pushes back on his claims.

By holding onto hundreds of documents — many allegedly classified — in the first place, the former president has left Republican candidates who want to look tough on crime struggling to answer for those in their party publicly attacking the FBI, all while U.S. intelligence agencies are assessing the fallout.

“I think that Trump is making this a referendum on himself by the way he’s behaving, and it’s causing a lot of problems for other Republicans,” James Thurber, a professor of government emeritus and author who founded American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, told ABC News. “He’s the story, rather than inflation and other issues they’re accusing the Democrats of failing on.”

Fortunes reverse for Biden

Historically, midterm elections have served as a referendum on the current president. And this year’s did not look good for Biden, who faced sagging poll numbers, roadblocks on Capitol Hill and Democratic candidates who signaled they did not want him to join them on the campaign trail.

But in just a few months, he’s notched up a string of legislative victories: a historic climate, health and tax package; a gun reform law; hundreds of billions to boost the domestic semiconductor industry; and new protections for veterans. Last year’s $1.9 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, whose results are now starting to materialize.

By overturning Roe v. Wade and taking away the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court has energized voters — with signs Democrats could benefit this fall.

Last week, a Democrat who declared “choice is on the ballot” won a special congressional election in upstate New York, and last month, voters in traditionally conservative Kansas voted to protect abortion rights.

Biden has benefited from his own rapidly rising poll numbers, after suffering record-low approval ratings earlier this year. In a Quinnipiac University survey conducted Aug. 25-29, 40% of Americans said they approved of the job Biden was doing, up 9% from the month before.

At the same time, Americans are acutely aware of developments surrounding Trump — and most view them in a negative light.

In that same poll, 76% of Americans said they had been following the news about the Mar-a-Lago seizure. Fifty-nine percent said they think Trump acted inappropriately, and 50% said they thought he should be prosecuted on criminal charges.

While Biden has repeatedly deferred questions about the investigation to the Justice Department, he has — by implication — made clear the choice he says voters have.

“In 2020, you and 81 million Americans voted to save our democracy,” he told thousands of supporters at a rally in Maryland last week. “That’s why Donald Trump isn’t just a former president, he is a defeated former president.

“It’s not hyperbole,” he continued. “Now you need to vote to literally save democracy again.”

Changing economic tides

Biden has also been buoyed by changing economic tides.

For much of his presidency, he has struggled to persuade Americans he had a handle on the economy, as prices for gas and other goods skyrocketed and inflation hit 40-year highs. Presidents historically foot the blame for high gas costs, even though they don’t have much control over them.

But now, prices at the pump have dropped 11 weeks in a row, and there are signs inflation is slowing.

Still, inflation could remain a weak point for Biden, who understands the economy is always a top issue for voters, according to Todd Belt, a professor and expert on the presidency at The George Washington University.

“Republicans wanted to run on inflation and crime,” Belt told ABC News. But Trump retaining government documents and Republicans’ attacks on the FBI have allowed Biden to take the side of law enforcement and look tougher on crime, he said.

“The question is, are there enough voters for whom other issues are more important, such as abortion, such as saving democracy, such as health-care benefits,” that Biden and the Democratic Party can push candidates past the finish line in enough Senate and House elections to retain power in either body, Belt said.

Democrats had long expected to lose control of both the Senate and House, but that dynamic is shifting.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last month that Republican “candidate quality” may hurt Republicans’ chances of flipping the Senate — after a handful of Trump-endorsed nominees have stumbled campaigning before the wider, general electorates in their states.

And while Republicans are still favored to gain control of the House, they may pick up fewer seats than originally expected.

Voting to save ‘the soul of the nation’

Making the November midterms a choice between those who want to save democracy — the “soul of the nation,” as Biden has put it — and those he says seek to destroy it fits a central theme Biden has returned to repeatedly for years.

His Philadelphia remarks harkened back to the moment he says he decided to run for president in 2017, when Trump defended white nationalists after violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then, Biden declared, “We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation.”

“I ran for president because I believe we were in a battle for the soul of this nation,” he said Thursday. “I still believe that to be true.”

His Philadelphia remarks were deeply partisan in nature, but the White House had insisted the president was holding an “official,” as opposed to political, event, since most a majority of Americans agreed with its theme that “we need to save the core values of our country.”

Biden has shown a particular interest in Pennsylvania; his Thursday trip was the second of three planned in just one week.

His speech may not have reached as many voters’ eyeballs, though, with Penn State football kicking off its season at the same time.

And none of the three largest broadcast television networks aired the speech live nationally; while the networks often show more official addresses like those from the Oval Office, they typically eschew airing speeches that are more political in nature, like Biden’s.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats hope to pick up a Senate seat during a race between Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, and Republican Mehmet Oz. The state has also hosted a hotly contested race for the governor’s mansion, with Trump-supporting Republican Doug Mastriano taking on Democrat Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s attorney general.

ABC News’ Mary Bruce and Hannah Demissie contributed to this report.

Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, ‘very dire’ for local businesses

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(JACKSON, Miss.) — When the water stopped running at her restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, Tanya Burns was preparing for a private event set to begin about one hour later. Suddenly, her dishwasher didn’t work and her toilets couldn’t flush.

“How do you host something for people and you can’t flush toilets?” Burns, the manager of BRAVO! Italian Restaurant and Bar, told ABC News. She canceled the event.

“We have not been open since,” she said.

The restaurant is one of many businesses in Jackson that have suffered as the city reaches nearly a full work week of little or no water, according to interviews with local business leaders.

The financial challenges stretch back even further, they said, since the city has fallen under a boil-water notice for more than a month that puts the onus on companies to sanitize water or find alternatives, while at the same time customers dial back shopping for fear of the services a business might lack.

In an interview on ABC News Live Tuesday, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, said the current crisis stems from up to 30 years of deferred maintenance and a lack of capital improvements to the system.

“We’ve had hotter summers, colder winters and more precipitation each year and it’s taking a toll on our infrastructure,” he said.

The crisis in recent days has only intensified the difficulties, as businesses either take on heightened costs for fixes like portable toilets and on-site water tanks that allow them to stay open, or temporarily close their doors altogether.

Jackson, a city of roughly 150,000 people, has an economy with a gross domestic product of over $28 billion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Jeff Rent, the president and CEO of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, which boasts roughly 1,400 member companies, said about 75 businesses have contacted him this week with concern about the impact of the water shortage. “It’s very dire,” he said of the crisis.

The effects of the shortage likely extend to just about every business in Jackson, he added, since many staff who live in the city cannot shower, companies that need clean water often must buy it and in-person workplaces need functioning toilets for customers and employees.

“If you do business in Jackson, this has affected you,” he said.

On the other hand, Gotta Go Site Service Rentals, which rents mobile facilities like portable toilets and hand-washing stations, has seen demand surge, the owner, Lauren McGraw, told ABC News.

“We’ve been swamped,” she said, adding that the company has been contacted by hundreds of new clients since Monday. “We’re getting so many calls we can’t handle them.”

The company, which employs 18 people and currently rents facilities to the state capitol building, purchased several hundred additional toilets from a supplier in Georgia to help meet the spike in demand, McGraw said. All of the employees are working overtime, as well as McGraw, she added.

The company has also raised prices. While prices vary widely, they’ve climbed about 50% overall, in part to account for a rise in costs as the company weathers the additional work, McGraw said.

Despite her company’s sudden growth in business, McGraw laments the devastating reason behind it.

“It’s not fun because we want to give great service,” she said. “It’s tragic to turn people down that you know need equipment and you can’t get it to them.”

Steven O’Neill, the co-owner of two Jackson-area restaurants, The Manship and Aplos, found himself in need of quick solutions when the water stopped running at his locations on Monday afternoon with customers in the middle of their meals. The restaurants informed their customers of the water shortage, let them finish their meals, and closed for the day, he said.

The two restaurants reopened the following morning and have remained in operation ever since. To do so, the company bought portable toilets and hand-washing stations, plastic plates and cutlery for customer use and water tanks that funnel clean water into the restaurants, O’Neill said.

But traffic at the restaurants has dried up, leaving the business with increased costs and a drop-off in revenue. Sales at Aplos is down 30% this week; and at The Manship, it’s down 50%. The company is barely breaking even, he said.

O’Neill has kept on all of his staff, but he may need to “make hard decisions” soon, he said.

“It’s a horrible situation to be in,” he said.

When asked whether he might take the restaurants out of Jackson altogether, he said, “It’s hard. I haven’t made that decision yet.”

Mother and her 1-year-old child abducted from Target parking lot while packing car

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Police are searching for two men after they allegedly abducted a mother and her 1-year-old child from the parking lot of a Target while the woman was putting groceries into her car.

The incident occurred at approximately 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday at a Target store in Memphis Tennessee, when authorities from the Memphis Police Department were told that a woman and her 1-year-old child had just left Target after purchasing groceries when they were approached by two men who were armed with a handgun, police say.

“The males forced the victim and the child into the suspect’s vehicle,” the Memphis Police Department said in a statement released on social media detailing the abduction. “The suspects drove to the Regions Bank at 7790 Highway 64 and forced the victim to withdraw $800.00 from the ATM.”

The ATM location they drive to was approximately a half mile west of where the abduction took place. Authorities say once the suspects had the money they demanded, they released the victim and her child who were then able to immediately alert authorities.

The Memphis Police Department did not say where the victims were released or how long the entire incident lasted before they were freed.

However, during the subsequent police investigation, police were able to find video of the two suspects at a Walmart location about a mile east of where the abduction happened and determined that they had been there prior to their arrival at Target.

The two male suspects are still currently on the run and are wanted for kidnapping and aggravated assault, police say.

A cash reward of up to $2,000 is being offered for any information leading to the identification and arrest of the two suspects and authorities are asking that anybody who witnessed the abduction or can give them more information on the incident to contact Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-CASH.

August jobs data to show whether US sustained hiring boom

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Policymakers and market watchers will be closely watching August hiring data as it comes out Friday.

The report comes one week after Fed Chair Jerome Powell triggered a stock sell-off and stoked recession fears with his vow to fight inflation with interest rate hikes “until the job is done.”

The Fed has instituted a series of aggressive borrowing cost increases in recent months as it tries to slash near-historic inflation by slowing the economy and choking off demand. But the approach risks tipping the U.S. into an economic downturn.

So far this year, however, employment has boomed. The robust hiring numbers have defied expectations and quieted fears of a major slowdown.

U.S. hiring far outpaced expectations in July, as the economy added 528,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, which matches a 50-year low, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month.

The jobs added in July exceeded the already-robust hiring sustained over the first half of 2022, during which the economy added an average of 461,000 jobs each month.

Economists project hiring to have slowed from its breakneck pace, but predict fairly robust numbers in August. Predictions hold that the U.S. added 300,000 jobs last month, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The experts surveyed expect the unemployment rate to remain at 3.5%.

Government data put out this week reinforced evidence that the jobs market remains strong. Job openings rose in July after falling for three consecutive months, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, which showed job openings on the last day of July had jumped to 11.2 million from 11 million the month prior.

The labor market has withstood the Fed’s effort to slow the economy, even as the central bank tries to bring down inflation in part by cutting demand for workers and slowing wage increases, AnnElizabeth Konkel, a senior economist with Indeed Hiring Lab, told ABC News.

At meetings in June and July, the central bank increased its benchmark interest rate 0.75% each time — dramatic hikes last matched in 1994.

“We aren’t seeing the employer demand get tamped down,” Konkel said. “Your interpretation of it in a macro sense depends on what hat you’re wearing.”

“If you’re a worker and see a strong labor market, that means you have choices,” she added. “You might be able to negotiate a higher wage or flexibility on work location. If you’re the Fed, it means your job just got tougher.”

Serena Williams, Venus Williams walk off court in likely last doubles match together

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Venus Williams and Serena Williams, a pair who first walked onto the national stage of professional tennis in the 1990s, have most likely walked off the court together for the last time.

The legendary sister act likely came to a close on Thursday night after the pair lost 7-6(5), 6-4, to the Czech team of Linda Noskova and Lucie Hradecka.

The first-round game marked, most likely, the final time Serena Williams and her older sister Venus Williams would play in a Grand Slam doubles tournament together. Serena Williams had announced that she was “evolving away” from tennis in a personal essay in Vogue in August.

Venus Williams had told reporters earlier in the week that the idea to play together was her sister’s.

“She’s the boss so I do whatever she tells me to do,” she had said while smiling.

The two sisters have dominated the tennis world for nearly three decades, ending their go as a pair on the same court they had won their first U.S. Open Doubles title in 1999. The duo would go on to win 22 titles, 14 Grand Slams and three Olympic gold medals while playing together.

See Reba McEntire + boyfriend Rex Linn in the new trailer for ABC’s ‘Big Sky’

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Reba McEntire and Rex Linn play back country outfitters with a dark secret in the newest trailer for season 3 of ABC drama Big Sky, which premieres next month.

Reba and Rex play Sunny and Buck Barnes, co-owners of glamping company Sunny Day Excursions, which runs hunting trips in a small Montana town. But this luxury outdoors company is more than meets the eye and just might find Reba in her most sinister role to date.

A new trailer for the show features Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight” and follows two detectives as they head out to the woods to check out the Sunny Day experience.

Big Sky is based on the C.J. Box book series The Highway and chronicles a detective team’s attempts to solve a series of kidnappings.

The new season kicks off September 21 at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

Tyler Hubbard has loved being self-employed since long before he hit it big in the music business

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

It’s no secret that Tyler Hubbard loves being his own boss. For years, he enjoyed a successful career as part of Florida Georgia Line before striking out on his own to become a solo singer-songwriter.

But did you know that Tyler’s favorite gig before that was when he ran his own car detailing business, which he started when he was still a teenager?

“So I would wash cars, working for myself, and had a lot of fun doing that and working for myself,” the singer explains, adding with a laugh: “I think anything outside of that was not the best job.”

He’s had plenty of not-so-fun gigs, too, including a “tough” summer he spent pouring concrete. “I don’t know if that was my worst, because I enjoyed being outside and I do enjoy manual labor and all that stuff,” he concedes.

Tyler’s least favorite job, he continues, was his stint working at Italian-American chain Maggiano’s. “I would probably say that was my worst, only because I was in the back polishing silverware and bussing tables,” the singer explains.

“I never could work my way up to being a server. And that’s what I thought I eventually was going to get to do,” he adds. “So I polished silverware and cleaned dishes for, I don’t know, six or eight months at Maggiano’s.”

Fortunately, country music eventually worked out. Tyler now has his dream job as a solo singer-songwriter, and he recently dropped his latest EP, Dancin’ in the Country. He heads out on tour with Keith Urban this fall.

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