Rend Lake College Board of Trustees Meeting Highlights for December 2022

The RLC Board of Trustees met on Dec. 13 and approved the following agenda items.

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Tornado slams Louisiana town leaving 2 dead, including child; mother missing

Tragedy struck Louisiana Tuesday evening after a possible tornado tore through the town of Keithville, killing two, including a young boy, and leading first responders on a search for his 30-year-old mother.

Here’s a link to the story at Fox News.

MLB free agency: Giants land Carlos Correa with 13-year, $350 million contract, per report

The San Francisco Giants have landed the best shortstop on the free agent market. Carlos Correa and the Giants have agreed to a massive 13-year contract worth $350 million, reports ESPN.

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Daily Hope: Why Showing Love at Work Matters

God wants to use your job to make you more like Jesus. But learning Christ-like qualities such as responsibility, character, and love is never easy.

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Former VP Pence says positive response to autobiography ‘great source of encouragement’ as he mulls 2024 bid

EXCLUSIVE – BEDFORD, N.H. – Former Vice President Mike Pence says that the positive response he highlights he’s receiving from his new autobiography “has been very encouraging” as he weighs launching a bid for the White House in 2024.

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Alabama governor bans TikTok from state devices, network

(The Center Square) – Alabama is joining other states in banning TikTok from state devices and the state’s computer network.

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MLB rumors: Dansby Swanson market includes Cubs, Giants, Dodgers; Mets listening on Carlos Carrasco trade

Spring training camps open in roughly two months and 21 of our top 50 free agents remain unsigned, including three of the top nine. Don’t worry, those guys will sign soon enough. Here are Tuesday’s hot stove rumors.

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Remembering the unique life of Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach

Perhaps the highest compliment about the most improbable college coaching career of this generation is that as time marches on, and new eras of homogenized football coaches emerge, explaining the Mike Leach coaching experience will sound like fiction.

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There is no ‘horseshoes and hand grenades’ exception in the First Amendment and latest SCOTUS case proves it

On Dec. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in 303 Creative v Elenis, the case about Colorado graphic artist Lorie Smith. Lorie creates custom websites for clients of all backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBT. She just does not want to create custom websites celebrating same-sex marriage for anyone.

Here’s a link to the editorial at Fox News.

The Missouri Valley Conference announces 2023 Hall of Fame Class

The 26th MVC Hall of Fame class features baseball star and former No. 1 overall pick Andy Benes (Evansville); three four-time first-team All-Conference selections in Melanie (Boeglin) White (Indiana State women’s basketball); Barb (Gaines) Porter (Missouri State softball), and Rachel Tejada (Illinois State women’s soccer); Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith (Tulsa); and a 2007 Master’s and 2015 British Open champ in Zach Johnson (Drake). Including this year’s six inductees, the MVC Hall of Fame consists of 145 former student-athletes, administrators, coaches, and contributors.

The league will conduct its annual Hall of Fame ceremony as part the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Championship in St. Louis, Mo., next March 2-5. The Friday, March 3, festivities will begin with an 8:00 a.m. breakfast, followed by the induction ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Tickets to the 2023 Hall of Fame event – scheduled to be held at Stifel Theatre, which is adjacent to Enterprise Center – can be obtained by contacting the league office at (314) 444-4300. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The 2023 State Farm MVC Tournament marks the 33rd-straight year the event has been staged in St. Louis. With 33-consecutive years at the same neutral site, Arch Madness is the second-longest neutral site tenured collegiate tourney in the nation (following only the Big East in New York City).

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