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Steve Granitz/WireImage; Shutterstock Britney Spears and Jamie Spears Los Angeles Judge Brenda Penny has not made a decision regarding Britney Spears' father Jamie's request for her to continue paying his legal fees after the termination of her conservatorship. Before discussing the fees during a court hearing on Wednesday, Jamie's lawyer, Alex M. Weingarten, tangled with Britney's lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, over allegations Britney made against her father in a court filing first reported by the New York Times on Tuesday. Weingarten accused Rosengart of planting the story with the Times, calling Britney's accusations "nonsense." "Virtually everything that is alleged is ... fake or taken out of context," said Weingarten, referring to Britney's claims that Jamie bugged her bedroom...

As the father of three young children, Alan Power is no stranger to the difficulties of buying children’s shoes. Having been frustrated by the buying process once too often, he decided to use his skills in engineering and mobile app development to create SizeWise, an AI-based sizing solution that allows parents scan their child’s foot using a smartphone. “With such variation from brand to brand, shoe size on its own is not enough, which is why SizeWise also recommends ideal footwear for the scanned foot,” Hoka Sneakers Power says. “Two out of three children are wearing footwear that is too small for them which can have long-term health implications. However, because a child doesn’t know any better, they generally don’t complain about it.” Problems with sizing can become even more acute i...

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By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored 25 points and Stanley Johnson had 10 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 101-95 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Russell Westbrook added 15 points and the Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak, rebounding after an ugly 37-point loss to the Denver Nuggets two days earlier. Mike Conley had 20 points and Rudy Gobert had a double double with 19 points and 16 rebounds for the Jazz. Johnson, who was just re-signed to another 10-day contract earlier in the day, scored six consecutive points in the fourth quarter. He tied the game at 83 Steve Madden Shoes with a 15-foot pull-up jumper. He scored a layup with a nice move around Rudy Gob...

BY JOHN PYE, AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Open started well for second-seeded Daniil Medvedev, one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of Novak Djokovic’s deportation. Aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win his second major title on his next Grand Slam appearance, Medvedev had a 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (3) win over Henri Laaksonen on Tuesday in the first round at Melbourne Park. Defending champion Djokovic was already back in Serbia, two days after losing his legal challenge to stay in Australia despite being unvaccinated against COVID-19, when Medvedev went onto Rod Laver Arena and raced through the first set in 26 minutes. Nobody has dominated on that court like Djokovic, who was unbeaten in the nine finals he reached...

By JULIUS ERVING, For The Associated Press (EDITOR’S NOTE: Hall of Famer Julius Erving, an NBA and ABA champion, is considered one of the greatest basketball players ever and one the greatest ambassadors of the game off the court. He is an 11-time NBA All-Star and league MVP. The player fans know as “Dr. J" shares some of the experiences that helped make him who he is, and provided him with the foundation to help him lead the transformation the NBA during the 1980s.) Those of us who played in the NBA in the 1980s definitely played a role in what the league has become today. And I think that in communicating with the next generation of players, they gave a lot of credit to myself and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. If you start in 1980, Swarovski Necklaces  and you look at t...