Today is Saturday, April 5, the 95th day of 2025. There are 270 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On April 5, 1933, as part of his New Deal programs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a Depression-era work relief program for single men aged 18-25; the program employed more than 2.5 million men for federal conservation and safety projects over its nine-year history.

Also on this date:

In 1614, Pocahontas, the daughter of Tsenacommacah chief Powhatan, married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.

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In 1764, the British Parliament passed the American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act.

In 1887, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6-year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.

In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. (They were executed in June 1953.)

In 1986, two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya nine days later.

In 1991, former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.

In 1994, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain died by suicide in his Seattle, Washington home at age 27.

In 2010, a coal dust explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, West Virginia, killed 29 workers.

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor Michael Moriarty is 84.
Actor Max Gail is 82.
Singer Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA) is 75.
Rapper-actor Christopher “Kid” Reid (Kid ’n Play) is 60.
Rock musician Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) is 59.
Country musician Pat Green is 53.
Musician-producer Pharrell Williams is 52.
Rapper-producer Juicy J is 50.
Actor Sterling K. Brown is 49.
Actor Hayley Atwell is 43.
Actor Lily James is 36.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Losses can be costly for multiple reasons. For the Minnesota Wild, this one was costly for, roughly, every reason.

In desperate need of a feel-good win, of standings points and of elusive good health, Minnesota got none of the three on Friday night in the New York City suburbs, watching a second-period lead disappear quickly in a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders.

Along the way, they suffered what appeared to be another costly injury, as defenseman Jake Middleton left the game following a scary play in the second period and did not return. And with one regulation win in their last seven games (1-4-2), the Wild are seeing a challenger for their once-secure playoff position creeping ever closer in the Western Conference standings.

Minnesota got a second-period goal from Mats Zuccarello and a 24-save performance from Filip Gustavsson but will head home with a 0-1-2 record on its three-game East Coast road trip.

More concerning for the Wild’s life beyond the regular season is their lead on Calgary for the final Western Conference playoff spot has shrunk to just five points, and the Flames have two games in hand on Minnesota. The Wild play their next road game in Calgary on April 11.

Noah Dobson had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who had lost their last seven games to the Wild and had never previously beaten Minnesota at UBS Arena since the building opened in 2021.

Both teams killed penalties in the scoreless first period. The Islanders own the NHL’s worst power play and did not manage a man-advantage shot, putting just four shots on goal in the first. Minnesota pelted New York goalie Ilya Sorokin with 11 shots in the period but could not break through.

Zuccarello opened the scoring early in the second, whacking at a puck from behind the goal line, and seeing the shot glance off Sorokin’s helmet and into the net. The lead lasted all of 36 seconds, as Casey Cizikas deflected a Dobson shot that changed directions on Gustavsson and was past the goalie before he could react.

The Islanders took the lead a short time later on a kind of “own goal” when Simon Holmstrom’s backhander from the side of the net deflected off Wild forward Freddy Gaudreau’s stick and over the goal line.

Minnesota’s second power play of the game came at considerable cost after the Islanders’ Bo Horvat gave Middleton a push from behind while chasing a loose puck. Middleton went headfirst into the end boards and had to be helped from the ice. Horvat was given two minutes for boarding on the play.

The Wild were held without a shot on the ensuing power play, and got caught in their own zone for an extended shift later in the second but got to the second intermission trailing by just one goal.

When Wild forward Yakov Trenin went to the penalty box early in the third period, the Islanders used the man advantage to double their lead, when Dobson blasted a long-range shot past Gustavsson’s glove.

Sorokin finished with 27 saves for the Islanders, who had gone winless in their previous six games.

For the Wild, defenseman Declan Chisholm and forward Brendan Gaunce were healthy scratches. Among the Islanders scratches were defenseman Scott Perunovich, the Hibbing, Minn., native who won a pair of NCAA titles and the 2020 Hobey Baker Award at Minnesota Duluth.

Down to just five games remaining in the regular season, the Wild will play the next two at home, starting on Sunday when the Dallas Stars make their final visit before the playoffs. It is a 2 p.m. CT opening faceoff at Xcel Energy Center.

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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday.

The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, far surpasses a $2.6 billion settlement reached in 2022 with Boy Scouts of America that was the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history at the time.

“On behalf of the County, I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who was harmed by these reprehensible acts,” Fesia Davenport, the county’s chief executive, said in a statement.

The agreement would settle lawsuits filed by thousands of people who alleged they were mistreated and sexually abused in foster care and juvenile detention facilities in Los Angeles County. The plaintiffs were able to sue because of a California law that took effect in 2020 and suspended the statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse victims to bring cases for three years.

Many of the claims involved the MacLaren Children’s Center, which was closed in 2003. The facility, which was intended to be a safe space for children awaiting placement in foster homes, opened in 1961 and was overseen by probation officials until it was placed under the county’s Department of Children and Family Services in 1976.

One man said he was sexually abused by a physician at the facility when he was 8 years old, while another said he was assaulted by a male staff member in a bathroom when he was 5. Children were routinely placed in solitary confinement, drugged and restrained in chairs at the facility, according to court papers filed by plaintiffs.

“It is bittersweet for the survivors, because nothing is ever going to take away what was done to them, and how badly their lives were altered and how much they have suffered,” said Adam Slater, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “However, the settlement hopefully gives them some measure of justice and provides them with some measure of closure.”

Other private and public entities have been rocked by allegations of wide-ranging abuse and subsequent settlements.

The 2022 settlement by Boy Scouts of America, which recently renamed itself Scouting America, involved more than 80,000 men who said they were molested as children by scouting leaders and others.

And last year the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay $800 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse, bringing the total payout to more than $1.5 billion.

Disclosure of the massive tentative payout by Los Angeles County comes at a time when the nation’s largest county — home to about 10 million residents — is facing a tightening bind of financial obligations on its $49 billion annual budget. Officials fear hundreds of millions of dollars for public services could vanish in Trump administration cutbacks, while the county has seen additional costs from January’s historic wildfires as it also deals with an ongoing homeless crisis.

Davenport recently said the county is facing a “large amount of uncertainty” with its budget — some agencies are largely funded by federal dollars.

The proposed agreement includes creating a countywide hotline for reporting child sexual abuse allegations against employees and developing a system to expedite investigations, officials said.

“By balancing justice for the victims with a commitment to reform, this resolution ensures both acknowledgment of past wrongs and a pathway to a safer, more accountable future,” Patrick McNicholas, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, said in a statement.

The county’s claims board will consider the proposed settlement Monday. If approved, it would be considered by the Board of Supervisors on April 29.

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Taxin reported from Santa Ana, California. Associated Press writer Olga R. Rodríguez in San Francisco contributed.

ELMONT, N.Y. – One of the costly turnovers — and there were several by both teams — in the Minnesota Wild’s 5-4 overtime loss to the New York Rangers earlier this week came when defenseman Declan Chisholm lost control of the puck at the side of the Minnesota net, and New York forward Chris Kreider pounced, giving the Rangers their first lead of the game.

For Friday’s game versus the Islanders in the New York City suburbs, Chisholm was a healthy scratch and Jon Merrill took his place on the Minnesota blue line. At the Wild’s morning skate at UBS Arena on Friday morning, when asked about the change, and the costly mistake two days earlier, coach John Hynes stressed that the lineup change was not in any way about punishing Chisholm.

“Chisholm’s not coming out because he turned the puck over, to be very honest,” Hynes said. “We made other mistakes in the game. (Justin Brazeau) made one in New Jersey. I think that when you’re looking at roles and pairs and different things like that, Chisholm’s been a big reason why we are where we are.”

In fact, when the Wild have been mostly healthy on defense, and veteran Jonas Brodin has been in the lineup (he has missed multiple games due to injury on four separate occasions this season), Chisholm and Merrill have rotated in and out of the lineup, and Hynes had nothing but praise for both. Chisholm has played in 62 of the Wild’s 77 games, missing four due to injury.

“We’ve had massive injuries at D all year long. This kid’s come in and played great hockey for us,” Hynes said. “I just think when you look at the roles, it seems that at this point right now, he’s a good pairing defenseman when he plays with (captain Jared) Spurgeon, and he plays different minutes…Right now where we’re at in the season, it’s strictly role based and pairing based. If there happens to be an injury in the top four (defensemen), then that’s Chizzy’s spot.”

Chisholm, 25, is in his first full season with the Wild after coming over from Winnipeg in a waiver claim last season. He has two goals and 10 assists.

Zuccarello honors New York media legend

Sam Rosen, the longtime television voice of the New York Rangers, is retiring this season after 40 years behind the microphone at Madison Square Garden and wherever the “Broadway Blueshirts” play on the road.

Born in Germany, Rosen and his family immigrated to Brooklyn when he was just two years old. Wild forward Mats Zuccarello, who spent parts of nine seasons with the Rangers, became friends with Rosen, 77. Before the final game he would play with Rosen behind the microphone, the Minnesota standout offered a special tribute.

During warmups at Madison Square Garden, Zuccarello wore a Wild sweater with Rosen’s name on the back and the number 40 on it, in honor of the broadcaster’s four decades of work. After warmups, each Wild player signed the sweater and Zuccarello presented it to Rosen after the game.

“It’s about the respect. He’s been in the game for 40 years. He’s a legend in the game, especially here in New York. So, yeah, it was out of respect that we all signed a jersey for him,” Zuccarello said in the postgame locker room. “Obviously I spent some time with him and around him. So, for me it’s kind of a thank you and a special night…last game he’s going to commentate of me. So, I think it’s a nice token of respect from the team and wish him good luck on his retirement.”

Rosen was enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame’s broadcasting wing in 2016.

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