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—GOOD MORNING Midweek Edition - July 22-23, 2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Tuesday, July 21,2020 CASH 3 Midday: 9-8-7 Evening: 7-6-4 CASH 4 Midday: 3-7-6-8 Evening: 0-7-1-8 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 3-9-9-4-3 Evening: 7-0-1-2-9 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (7/20) 4-5-15-18-24 P0WERBALL (7/18) 13-16-32-58-59 Power Ball: 9 Current jackpot: $106M MEGA MILLIONS (7/17) 12-13-21 -46-57 Mega Ball: 21 Current jackpot: $113M Lottery numbers are unofficial. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. DowntownGainesville.com Bilik MUTTS ON MAIN Main Street DOWNTOWN GOES TO THE DOGS! Gainesville Historic Downtown Square Saturday, August 15th, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. WEATHER Gainesville 5-Day Forecast #AcCuWeather Planyourweek | Visit AccuWeather.c: TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mainly clear A t-storm around A t-storm or two Some sun, a t-storm A p.m. t-storm HIGH: 90° LOW: 71° 90772° 89772° 91772° RFT: 102°/75° | RFT: 99775° | RFT: 101776' 90773° RFT: 101*776' Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: 55% 25% 40% 60% 50% 50% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Almanac | Regional Weather Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport through 5 p.m. yesterday Temperature High/low 92 74 Normal high/low 87769° Record high 103° in 1986 Record low 56° in 1929 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. yest. Month to date Trace 1.53 Normal month to date 2.93 Year to date 42.76 Normal year to date 30.24 Record for date 1.83 in 2013 Main Offender: Ozone Source: Environmental Protection Agency Pollen Yesterday absent i i r ° 0 u o Low Mod. High Verjj Main Offender: Grass/Plantain/Dock Source: National Allergy Bureau Trees Grass Weeds Toccoa „ 91/71 O Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 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Lake Levels Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Full Present 24 hr Lake Pool Level Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1071.18 -0.03 Allatoona Lake 840.0 840.58 -0.01 Burton Lake 1865.0 1865.01 -0.06 Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 330.13 +0.04 Hartwell Lake 660.0 660.39 -0.07 Russell Lake 480.0 474.53 -0.15 West Point Lake 635.0 635.43 +0.09 Sun and Moon Sunrise today 6:39 a.m. Sunset tonight 8:44 p.m. Moonrise today 8:32 a.m. Moonset today 10:34 p.m. First Full Last New 0090 Jul 27 Aug 3 Aug 11 Aug 18 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice ABOUT US AND OUR VALUES The public has a right to know, and The Times is dedicated to that principle and the “continued enlightenment and freedom of the people of North Georgia,” as engraved outside our building. The pursuit of truth is a fundamental principle of journalism. But the truth is not always apparent or known immediately. 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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe CELEBRITY REPORT Heard says Depp tried to throw her sister down stairs Amber Heard dismissed accusations Tuesday that she fabricated allegations of domestic violence against ex-husband Johnny Depp, and told a British court that the first time she struck him after years of abuse was to defend her sister from being thrown down the stairs. Taking to the witness box for a second day during Depp’s libel case against a Brit ish tabloid at the High Court in London, the actress faced a barrage of questions over alleged incidents that are central to The Sun’s labeling of Depp in an April 2018 article as a “wife beater.” She also admitted striking Depp for the first time in March 2015, after years of alleged abuse, to defend her sister, Whit ney. When asked whether she had punched Depp “with a closed fist,” Heard conceded she had struck him after he had hit both of them. “He was about to push her down the stairs and the moment before that happened, I remembered information I had heard that he pushed a former girlfriend — I believe it was Kate Moss — down the stairs.” she said. Depp dated the top model in the 1990s. “I will never forget this incident,” she said. “It was the first time after all these years.” Depp’s counsel, Eleanor Laws, won dered why Heard had not mentioned the Moss allegation previously. “I’ve not had the liberty of time or space or energy even to list every thought that crossed my mind,” Heard said. Depp, 57, is suing The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over the article. The Hollywood star strongly denies abusing Heard, and claimed in court that she had been violent to him. He was pres ent to hear Heard’s testimony. His lawyer sought to show inconsisten cies in Heard’s allegations, accusing her of weaving a “web of lies” and “making this up as you go along. ” West wants $1M for new moms, slams Tubman at campaign rally Self-declared presidential candidate Kanye West delivered a winding and unconventional campaign introduction speech in which he proposed a $1 million payout to each new mother and decried Harriet Tubman for her work on the Underground Railroad. But whether the rapper and fashion designer is actually seeking the nation’s highest office remains a question. West said Sunday before a crowd of sev eral hundred in North Charleston, South Carolina, that Tubman “never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people,” comments that drew shouts of opposition from some in the crowd. Tubman, among the most respected fig ures in American history, escaped slavery, helped enslaved Black men and women travel north to freedom on the Under ground Railroad and fought for the Union during the Civil War. She later became a supporter of women’s suffrage. Despite Sunday’s event, West failed to qualify as a candidate for the South Caro lina ballot. According to State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire, neither West nor a campaign representa tive handed in 10,000 signatures by noon Monday, as required by state law to appear as a petition candidate. Associated Press TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he returned to New York’s Floyd Ben nett Field after traveling for 7 days, 18 and 3/4 hours. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater. In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roos evelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard. In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys (Dahmer ended up be ing beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate). In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.) In 2011, Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II. BIRTHDAYS Actress Louise Fleteher is 86. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 83. Actor Terence Stamp is 82. Game show host AlexTrebek is 80. Singer George Clinton is 79. Ac tor-singer Bobby Sherman is 77. Movie writer-direc tor Paul Schrader is 74. Actor Danny Glover is 74. Singer Mireille Mathieu is 74. Actor-comedian-di- rector Albert Brooks is 73. Pock singer Don Henley is 73. Movie composer Alan Menken is 71. Singer- actress Lonette McKee is 67. Actor Willem Dafoe is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 59. Actress Joanna Going is 57. Actor Rob Estes is 57. Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 57. Actor- comedian David Spade is 56. Actress Irene Bedard is 53. Actor Colin Ferguson is 48. Actor/singer Jaime Camil is 47. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 47. Actress A.J. Cook is 42. Actress Selena Gomez is 28. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is seven. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO CHARLES TASNADII Associated Press Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, of the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, talks to Supreme Court nominee judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, and her son James during a break in her confirmation hearing before the committee at Capitol Hill on Thursday, July 22, 1991 in Washington. HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21 -April 19). It is not necessary to fight the old guard. Nor is it your responsibility to overturn the powers that be. For now, it is enough to observe and note where change needs to hap pen. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your habits are perfectly positioned to match up with certain goals and with how you see yourself and who you want to be in this lifetime. This is a magic alignment. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The poet Kahlil Gibran per fectly described your day today when he said, “Your soul is oftentimes a battle field, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.” CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your thought process is like a television in which you can’t control the programming, but you can choose what you’ll watch. And if you choose wrong, you can always change the channel. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Maybe something has changed; maybe nothing has changed. However you need to see it, look at it that way. You’ll be adept at creating the exact mindset you most need in or der to get this day done right. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Great positions require au thority sufficient to fill the role. Without this, no effect is possible. Before you take on a responsibility, you’ll make sure you have all you need to not only meet the expectation but also exceed it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). Those who insist that people pay them respect are showing the world that they have not yet done the work required to deserve it. Respect is an organic gift and can only be earned along the way. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you give it your best shot, either nothing much happens and you learn how not to do it, or magic happens that you may or may not be able to repeat. So you abso lutely can’t lose by trying! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your environment changes, and your behavior will change right along with it in a natural and free-flowing way. New habits will lead you to a very good place. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You’re a weaver! You’ll weave a lineup of happy thoughts into an overall positive at titude and attract harmoni ous relationships and loving, cheerful people. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18). Logically, you know that you have more than enough, and yet there is a small and unsure part of you that needs reas surance and might buy too much. Take a friend with you to the store. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). No one wants to be honored for their position; they want to be honored for what they per sonally bring to it. With your bright eyes and busy mind, you’ll figure out the political landscape at hand.
