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Texas A&M 5-Star Terry Bussey Added To Freshman of The Year Watch List
In an upcoming season full of championship anticipations for the No. 20 Texas A&M Aggies, another Aggie is on the preseason watch for an award: two-way player Terry Bussey.
Bussey was named to the Shaun Alexander Preseason Watch List, as announced by the Maxwell Football Club Wednesday morning.
The award, named after the Seahawks running back that won the 2005 NFL MVP, is presented annually to the most outstanding freshman player in all of college football.
The freshman from Timpson, TX has been consistently ranked as one of the best two-way recruits in the nation’s 2024 class, playing at cornerback/safety and quarterback in high school. He ranked as a five-star prospect and the top athlete in the nation by 247 Sports, Rivals.com, and ESPN’s recruiting services.
Bussey already has some accolades to his name, such as being named a 2024 Under Armour All-American and Polynesian Bowl selection. In 2023, Bussey was a finalist was for Dave Campbell’s Mr. Texas Football Player of the Year award.
During his senior year at Timpson, he led the school to a perfect 16-0 record and a UIL 2A-D1 state championship. Scoring six touchdowns while throwing for 311 yards and adding 155 more with his legs, Bussey was easily named the championship game’s offensive MVP. He also set the championship-game record for longest touchdown pass (97 yards), as well as a Class 2A record 93-yard rushing touchdown.
The finalists for the seventh annual Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year will be announced on Dec. 4, and the winner will be announced Dec. 26. The presentation for the award will be on March 14, 2025 at the 88th Annual Maxwell Football Club Awards in Atlanta.
Safe to say, the Aggies have quite the weapon on their hands that is sure to give Notre Dame, Texas, and LSU fits if used correctly in the game scheme.
AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) that two Texas residents were passengers on the MV Hondius, a ship that experienced an outbreak of hantavirus while traveling in the Atlantic Ocean. The passengers left the ship and returned to the United States before the outbreak was identified.
“Public health workers in Texas have reached the two individuals, and they report they are not experiencing any symptoms and did not have any contact with a sick person while aboard the ship. They have agreed to monitor themselves for symptoms with daily temperature checks and contact public health officials at any sign of a possible illness,” the agency said on Thursday in a statement.
DSHS will not release additional personal details about the passengers to protect their privacy.
“This is not the next COVID, but it is a serious infectious disease,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the World Health Organization. “Most people will never be exposed to this.”
More than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board.
Health authorities on at least four continents are now tracking down and in some cases monitoring the cruise passengers who disembarked on April 24, and trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then.
That includes two people in Georgia who are also being monitored, according to our affiliate WTOC.
Hantaviruses are usually spread through contact with wild rodent droppings or urine. The strain in the Hondius outbreak, Andes virus, can spread from person to person in limited circumstances. It typically requires close, prolonged contact with a person who is actively sick with the disease.
It is not known to spread through casual contact such as shaking hands or being in the same room for a few minutes. There have been no documented cases where a person without symptoms spread it to someone else.
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PORTLAND (WGME) – A Portland woman who has been held in a Texas ICE facility for more than six months is reportedly set to be released by Friday.
That’s according to Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who traveled to the facility this week to demand that ICE release 19-year-old Olivia Andre.
Pingree says a federal district court judge ordered Andre to be released no later than Friday.
Andre and her family were arrested by ICE when they were seeking asylum in Canada.
DHS previously said Andre is in the United States illegally but didn’t explain why the rest of her family was released and she wasn’t.
Pingree called the conditions at the facility inhumane, and Andre’s lawyer says her physical and mental wellbeing deteriorated from not having access to clean drinking water, palatable food and appropriate medical care.
“Olivia and her family should never have been detained. The federal court ordered her release because the Trump administration had no lawful basis for detaining her,” Pingree said. “She suffered in detention for six months in violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution’s protections.”
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