Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

An ex-Los Angeles deputy mayor of public safety learned his fate at his sentencing for calling in a fake bomb threat to City Hall after growing “desperate” to get out of a virtual meeting. Brian Williams, a former senior staffer of LA mayor Karen Bass, was sentenced to one year of probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine in the US District Court on Monday. Brian Williams, a former senior staffer of LA mayor Karen Bass, was sentenced to one year of probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine in the U.S. District Court…

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s surface, the European Space Agency said in a statement Monday. “This is a similar altitude to the orbit of the International Space Station, and one of the closest approaches ever recorded,” the agency wrote on X. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s surface. ESA The asteroid, which was roughly 3 to 10…

Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon is saying sorry to running back Emari Demercado for the way the head coach handled an encounter after Demercado made a boneheaded error by dropping the ball before crossing the goal line and costing Arizona a key touchdown.  The error occurred on what would have been a 72-yard touchdown run during Sunday’s surprise loss to the Titans and afterward, Gannon was seen on video tearing into Demercado while he was being consoled by a teammate.  Emeri Demarcado drops the ball before crossing the end zone during the Cardinals-Titans game on Oct. 5, 2025. CBS Jonathan Gannon…

Isaiah George is going to have to wait for his NHL opportunity.  The Islanders formalized what had been becoming clear throughout training camp Monday, sending George to AHL Bridgeport as the last cut before submitting their 23-man roster to the league.  There were ultimately no surprises in the group, though general manager Mathieu Darche was spared making what was set to be his toughest decision when prospect Cal Ritchie suffered a lower-body injury in the final preseason game Thursday.  As for George, it was deemed better for the 21-year-old defenseman to play every night in Bridgeport, presumably on the top…

In 2025, researchers Willis Klein, Suzanne Wood, and Jennifer Bartz published findings on how gaslighters use the brain’s dependence on relationships to upend the way we co-create reality. We depend on others to “verify our self-views and our experience of the world,” but when we connect with emotional abusers, specifically gaslighters, for the building of our shared reality, we may replace self-trust with self-doubt, lose our sense of agency, and succumb to “emotional and mental instability.” When we think about gaslighting, we tend to focus on the gaslighter and the victim. Klein, Wood, and Bartz expand this focus to include…

The two young girls horrifically killed in a Brooklyn subway surfing tragedy have now been identified – while the younger victim’s devastated dad sobbed that his slain daughter was “full of life, and taken from us far too soon.” Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13, of Manhattan, were found unconscious and unresponsive on top of a Brooklyn-bound J train at the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg around 3:10 a.m. on Saturday, cops and sources said.  The two young girls horrifically killed in a Brooklyn subway surfing tragedy have now been identified. LoudlabsNYC Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, was…

Sean “Diddy” Combs wants to serve out his 50-month sentence in New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix because of the low-security prison’s drug treatment and rehabilitation program. Combs’ legal team filed request on Monday naming the Sunshine State facility as the disgraced rapper’s lockup of choice after he was hit the paltry sentence for prostitution-related charges on Friday. “In order to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts, we request that the Court strongly recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that Mr. Combs be placed at FCI Fort Dix for RDAP purposes and any other available…

A police officer and his businesswoman wife died from heatstroke after getting into an overheated bathtub while drunk and high on cocaine as they celebrated their 4-year-old daughter’s birthday, authorities in Brazil have said. Military cop Jeferson Luiz Sagaz, 37, and his nail salon owner partner, Ana Carolina Silva, 41, were found dead in a motel in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina on the night of Aug. 11, Brazilian outlet G1 Globo reported. The couple had spent the day celebrating their young daughter’s birthday, drinking alcohol and doing cocaine, before going to a nightclub and checking into the Dallas Motel…

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It was almost exactly 30 years ago when Don Mattingly got one of the biggest hits of his career: a go-ahead homer off Andy Benes in Game 2 of the 1995 ALDS, the first Yankees playoff appearance in 14 years and the only postseason series of Mattingly’s career.  And it happened at the previous Yankee Stadium in what proved to be Mattingly’s final home game.  He’s been back to The Bronx as a coach and manager plenty of times since, even after leaving the Yankees coaching staff following the 2007 season, but on Tuesday, he’ll have a chance to clinch…