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ROSEMONT, Ill. - Pain still grips C. Vivian Stringer's face when she thinks of her time in Iowa City.

The 67-year-old Hall of Fame coach held court at a basement table in a hotel outside of Chicago. Her Rutgers squad enters the Big Ten this year, an immeasurable move for the school and her program. But the emotional toll of facing Iowa every year amounts to collateral damage on a personal level.

Stringer guided Iowa to nine NCAA tournament appearances from 1983 through 1995. Twice she claimed Big Ten titles (1988, 1992) and four times Iowa tied for championships (1987, 1989, 1990, 1993). Her Hawkeyes were ranked No. 1 for eight consecutive weeks in 1988, when they finished 29-2. A 1985 game against Ohio State drew 22,157 fans at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. For Iowa women's basketball, that era was Camelot and Stringer was the queen.

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But her world shattered Nov. 26, 1992 when her 47-year-old husband, Bill, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving night. Stringer, understandably, was devastated. She had three school-age children, and her youngest son was born in Iowa City. Her husband was an exercise physiologist at Iowa and worked every day at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Coach Stringer missed the first five games of that season, which ended in Iowa's only Final Four berth.

Stringer struggled with the situation. She coached one more season at Iowa before deciding she needed a new start.

'It was the pain ... that was the joy of my life, was Iowa,” Stringer said while gathering herself. 'Everything was good to me raising a family happened in Iowa. The people, the program ...”

After moving to Rutgers in 1995, Stringer returned to the state twice for NCAA regionals but neither were in Iowa City. Ten years after Stringer's departure, former Iowa women's athletics director Christine Grant asked her to return for a game. Stringer complied in 2005, and Rutgers beat Iowa 57-51. The teams met against in New Jersey a year later and faced each other in the 2010 NCAA tournament.

Each time she faced Iowa was difficult for Stringer. Now she'll play the Hawkeyes every year. This season they meet just once in Piscataway, N.J. But in the future, they'll have games in Iowa City as conference foes.

'I'm glad I had the opportunity to come back once,” Stringer said. 'It's strange sitting on the visitor's side. I just remember being so stressed out, I can't even tell you.

'I'm glad they're coming here first.”

Stringer enters her 20th season at Rutgers and she has taken the Scarlet Knights to 14 NCAA tournaments, two Final Fours and the 2007 NCAA title game. Her impact on the game is profound. She has compiled a 929-341 record in 43 years and is the first African-American coach - male or female - to reach 900 wins. She was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and is the first coach to take three basketball teams to the Final Four.

Stringer still follows the Hawkeyes closely. She recorded a message of congratulations to Iowa women's coach Lisa Bluder, who surpassed Stringer as Iowa's all-time wins leader last year. Stringer also met with current Iowa players before Big Ten Media Day last week and she left a major impression.

'It's crazy how much she loves Iowa, and the impact she has had on this program and it has had on her,” Iowa center Bethany Doolittle said.

'It's really cool to see that connection she has with Iowa,” Iowa guard Melissa Dixon said. 'She loves Iowa and thinks highly of our program and Iowa in general. She's a legend.”

Stringer has two sisters and a brother who reside in Iowa City, as did one of her sons recently. Her love for the community, the program and the state remain evident, a generation after leaving Iowa.

'I was talking to the men's basketball coach at Iowa State,” she said of Fred Hoiberg. 'I was letting him know that I was following him. I always wanted the Hawkeyes to win, but that was my team. From that point, when Iowa was done, I was supportive of Iowa State.

'If you are from Iowa, while you may hate the Cyclones in preference to the Hawkeyes, the truth of the matter is, you always support an Iowan against anybody else in the country.”

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Vivian Trimble, a singer and keyboardist best known as a member of the stylish 1990s rock band Luscious Jackson, died Tuesday. She was 59.

Her former bandmates announced her death in an Instagram post that said Trimble had “been in treatment for cancer for several years and developed a complication on Monday.”

“We were not expecting this,” read the statement by the group, which also included singer Jill Cunniff, guitarist Gabby Glaser and drummer Kate Schellenbach. “We are devastated beyond words to lose our graceful sister.”

Once described by Mike D of the Beastie Boys as “somewhere between Hole and the Indigo Girls,” Luscious Jackson played a funky and melodic brand of alternative rock that seamlessly blended samples and live instrumentation; the music, which documented life in the band’s native New York City with wit and attitude, was built on sturdy, low-slung grooves yet showcased elements drawn from the many genres the members absorbed growing up in New York.

“Back in the early ’80s, one night you would be in a hip-hop club, the next night you would be at a Bad Brains show, the next night you would be at a reggae club,” Glaser told The Times in 1997. “It was a fantastic time for a young brain to be influenced by music.”

Named after the ’60s basketball star Lucious Jackson, the quartet was long associated with the similarly eclectic Beastie Boys, for whom Schellenbach played drums in the early ’80s and whose Grand Royal label released its records.

Luscious Jackson scored its biggest chart hit in 1996 with the lithe and propulsive “Naked Eye,” which peaked at No. 36 on Billboard’s Hot 100; the single came from the group’s second album, “Fever In Fever Out,” which it recorded with esteemed producer Daniel Lanois. The band also had songs featured in the movies “Clueless,” “Good Will Hunting” and “A Life Less Ordinary.”

Trimble was born May 24, 1963; her parents were classical musicians, she told Out magazine in 2000, and she spent her childhood between the United States and France. Citing female punk bands like the Slits and the Raincoats as inspirations, Luscious Jackson formed in 1991 and released its debut EP, “In Search of Manny,” in 1992; “Natural Ingredients,” the band’s first full-length, came out in 1994 and earned admiring reviews from Rolling Stone, NME and The Times.

Trimble and Cunniff formed an acoustic-based side project, Kostars, which released an album in 1996 with guest spots from Dean and Gene Ween of the comic rock act Ween. Trimble also played with the Breeders’ Josephine Wiggs in a mellow, ’60s-ish duo called Dusty Trails, which released a self-titled LP in 2000 that featured an appearance by Emmylou Harris.

Trimble — whose survivors include her husband, David, and their two children, Nathaniel and Rebecca — left Luscious Jackson in 1998. The group continued without her for “Electric Honey” in 1999, then split up in 2000 before reuniting without Trimble to make 2013’s “Magic Hour.”

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - A 22-year-old man disappeared from his home and was found deceased days later.

On Saturday, Jan. 14, just before 1 p.m., Micah Roberts was found deceased in a heavily wooded area behind his grandparents’ home, during an organized search.

A death investigation is underway.

On the morning of Jan. 11, Micah Roberts was reported missing to the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office (CPSO) around 8 am. He was last seen leaving his grandparents’ home in the 12000 block of Boyter Lane on Wednesday after 1 a.m., wearing a white shirt and khaki pants.

Katrina Roberts, Roberts’ mother, got a call from him the same day he left his grandparents’ house. He called at 2:45 p.m. She answered the phone and stayed on the line for 50 minutes before the reception gave out.

During the phone call, no verbal communication was able to be made.

It is not confirmed that Roberts was the person that answered the phone, but his mother assumes it was her son.

“A person that does not want to be found would not answer and stay on the phone for 50 minutes,” emphasized Roberts.

She says her son is the type of person that goes out into the woods and camps. She believes that’s what led to his disappearance; he is possibly lost and injured in the woods, according to his mother.

Roberts has long, wavy hair and thin facial hair. He weighs 125 pounds and is 5′11 with fair skin.

He left the house with a camouflage fleece jacket, white shirt, and athletic pants.

Accordingly, the only traces of him at this time is a footprint found near his home, his shoes were found inside, so he is barefoot.

Micah Roberts was found deceased in a heavily wooded area behind his grandparents’ home during an organized search.

Deputies describe the man as being a very private person who likes to explore.

CPSO assumes he may be lost. As the search continues, other agencies, local and out of state, deployed personnel to the area. The Texas Department of Public Safety Air Support Operations provided an airplane and Life Air provided a helicopter to search the area from above. The Marion County Sheriff’s Department, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Shreveport Fire K9 Search & Rescue, and a K9 volunteer group from Texarkana provided extra support on the ground.

The man’s phone has pinged a location over a four-mile radius.

The search will continue until all options are exhausted.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Caddo Sheriff’s Office at 318-675-2170.

He was last seen wearing a white shirt and khaki pants.

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STEVENS POINT, Wis.--University of Wisconsin-La Crosse secured the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Baseball Tournament (presented by Culver’s) with a 7-3 triumph over UW-Whitewater at Zimmermann Field on May 13.

The tournament title is the fourth in program history and first since 2016. UW-La Crosse (31-9) also claimed the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Championship.

The Warhawks (30-13) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Donovan Brandl singled with two outs after UW-La Crosse's Tyler Schmitt struck out the first two batters. Brandl went to second on a wild pitch and then scored on Adam Cootway's single.

The Eagles tied the game in the bottom of the inning on Anthony Vivian’s solo home run. UW-La Crosse took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third on singles from Chris VandenHeuvel and Jack Olver to start the inning. Vivian followed with a single to score VandenHeuvel to give the Eagles a one-run lead.

The Eagles extended their lead in the fourth with a pair of runs. George Seaman and Jordan Williams walked to lead-off the inning and Jack Moran’s infield single loaded the bases. After a strikeout, Olver's single knocked in Seaman to give UW-La Crosse a 3-1 lead. Williams then scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-1.

UW-Whitewater cut the margin to 4-2 in the sixth, but UW-La Crosse responded with a run in the bottom of the frame. Cootway had a sacrifice fly scoring Matt Scolan for the Warhawks in the sixth. In the bottom of the inning, Williams doubled and went to third on a wild pitch. VandenHeuvel's sacrifice fly knocked in Williams for a 5-2 lead.

UW-La Crosse added single runs in the seventh and eighth. Vivian hit his second home run of the game and 16th of the year in the seventh. His 16 home runs ties the single-season school record of Born set last year. Williams singled to lead-off the bottom of the eighth, moved to second on Moran's bunt single and advanced to third on a UW-Whitewater throwing error. Williams then scored on VandenHeuvel's fielder's choice for a 7-2 lead.

Schmitt (6-2) earned the win, pitching 7.0 innings, allowing five hits and two runs (one earned) while striking out six. Caleb Matl went 2.0 innings, allowing two hits. UW-La Crosse finished with 12 hits as Vivian and Williams each went 3-for-3. Vivian had two home runs, two walks and three RBI while Williams scored three times. Olver went 2-for-5 with an RBI while Moran finished 2-for-4. VandenHeuvel had a pair of RBI.

Brandl (2-3) took the loss for UW-Whitewater, going 3.1 innings, allowing seven hits, four runs and four walks with two strikeouts. The Warhawks totaled seven hits with Scolan going 2-for-4.

Vivian Girls, “Memory” (Polyvinyl)

The first album in eight years from the reunited trio moves with distorted energy, with each short, sharp punk song making its point and repeating it a few times before driving to the coda. That shouldn’t surprise. Across three sublimely abrasive records starting in 2008, core members Cassie Ramone and Katy Goodman coupled first-wave punk’s DIY intransigence with an affection for Ronettes- and Lesley Gore-style harmoniousness.

The band was born in Brooklyn, but during a hiatus Goodman relocated to Los Angeles and issued records as La Sera. Ramone went solo too. Last year the pair reunited with drummer Ali Koehler in Los Angeles and committed anew to Vivian Girls, a moniker drawn from the reclusive Chicago artist Henry Darger’s epic works.

The 12 songs on “Memory” reveal musicians who have grown both as artists and technicians, even if their approach is as impatient as ever. Unlike another reunited band, Sleater-Kinney, Vivian Girls haven’t gone glossy or aimed at the crossover crowd. Instead, they’ve dug deeper into their decade-long aesthetic, adding a more accomplished sound below while piling mounds of feathery stuff up top.

The whole album comes and goes in 34 minutes. The wash of distorted guitars that flood through “Sick” nearly overwhelm Goodman and Ramone’s verses and choruses, which they sing in layered unison, as if an army of Vivian Girls was marching on Glandelinian overlords.

Chulita Sue Problema (a.k.a. Spin and Sparkle), “Encuentros Cercanos” mix (Chulita Vinyl Club)

Like Wu-Tang Clan, BTS or Menudo, members of the Chulita Vinyl Club combined forces as a way to multiply the power. The DJ collective is, in its own words, “made up of women, gender-non-conforming, non-binary, LGBTQ+ and self-identifying people of color” with chapters across the Southwest.

In California, the club spins in both Southern and Northern California. Like the other branches, its stated mission includes using “music and vinyl as a form of resistance against the erasure of culture.”

A noble cause, one made more so by their combined aesthetic. The club documents its DJ nights and festival appearances across social media and regularly updates its Soundcloud with mixes that jump from funk, soul and disco to vintage cumbia and Tejano.

Though each has its charms, the recent party mix “Encuentros Cercanos” (“Close Encounters”) from San Francisco-based Rebecca Gonzales — who DJs as both Chulita Sue Problema and Spin and Sparkle — is particularly beguiling.

A mostly instrumental set, Sue Problema (who is a children’s librarian by day) selects cuts so obscure that Shazam can’t track them: cheesy Casio-toned salsa songs, organ-driven mariachi marches and surf-inspired Peruvian chicha music. Luckily, the club posts its track lists. One highlight: As performed by Fito Olivaras y Su Grupo, the oddball ’80s cumbia song “E.T.” celebrates Steven Spielberg’s alien character with lines sung by a helium-pitched, would-be extraterrestrial.