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There’s shockingly sad news to share about Mickey Lee, a former Big Brother contestant whose vibrant personality made her a fan favorite. Lee’s family announced Friday that she passed away early Christmas evening after suffering several cardiac arrests. She was 35.
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News of her death comes just days after supporters learned she had been hospitalized in critical condition.
“With profound sadness, the family of Mickey Lee announces her transition on Christmas in the early evening,” her family said in a statement shared to Instagram. “Mickey captured the hearts of audiences nationwide through her appearance on Big Brother, where her authenticity, strength, and spirit left a lasting impression on fans and fellow cast members alike. She will be remembered for the joy she brought into the lives of so many and for the genuine connections she formed both on and off screen.”
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Lee, who appeared on Big Brother Season 27, was initially reported last week to be in intensive care after experiencing a series of cardiac arrests linked to complications from the flu, according to a GoFundMe shared by her family and supporters. At the time, she was listed in critical but stable condition and receiving round-the-clock medical care.
In the days following her hospitalization, friends, fans, and members of the Big Brother community flooded social media with messages of support, describing Lee as resilient, deeply loved, and unforgettable.
She is survived by her family, friends, and the Atlanta community, where she shone brightly as a beloved socialite and entrepreneur.
As 2025 draws to a close, India’s consumer electronics market is showing clear signs of evolution, one driven not just by volume, but by premiumisation, wider geographic adoption, and more informed buying behaviour. Insights shared by Zeba Khan, Director, Consumer Electronics, Amazon India, highlight how customers across the country are upgrading to higher-end devices, with tier 2 and tier 3 cities emerging as key growth engines for categories ranging from smartphones and laptops to large appliances and home entertainment.
Consumer electronics delivered strong growth in 2025, with premiumisation emerging as one of the most defining trends of the year. As Khan notes, “Consumer electronics delivered strong growth in 2025, with momentum expanding beyond metros into tier 2 and tier 3 cities.”
Customers increasingly upgraded across categories, with ultra-premium laptops above ₹1 lakh growing over 30% YoY, premium tablets above ₹30,000 seeing 60% YoY growth, 75% of which came from first-time buyers, and premium smartwatches above ₹10,000 recording 40% YoY growth. Smartphones also saw a sharp shift upward, with devices priced above ₹50,000 growing over 70% YoY by volume, aided by affordable financing options such as no-cost EMI.
Large appliances emerged as another strong growth driver in 2025, supported by policy tailwinds and improved service infrastructure. “Premium air conditioners and refrigerators grew 2X YoY, driven by tier 2 and tier 3 demand and supported by installation services across 300 cities,” Khan explains. The GST 2.0 impact further accelerated upgrades in categories such as air conditioners and dishwashers. Home entertainment also saw momentum build, with 55-inch-and-above televisions posting double-digit growth, while premium TV segments witnessed rising adoption beyond metros.
Premium products across multiple categories were key contributors to category performance. In large appliances, demand was led by 2-ton air conditioners, high-capacity front-load washing machines, washer-dryers, and premium refrigerators. Tablets and premium smartphones continued their strong run, while home entertainment saw increased traction for 75-inch-and-above televisions and QLED and Mini-LED models. In computing, AI-enabled laptops outperformed, reflecting a growing appetite among Indian consumers for higher-performance, future-ready devices.
One of the most significant shifts in 2025 was the broad-based nature of growth across regions. According to Khan, television sales grew 25% in tier 2 cities and 30% in tier 3 cities, while premium smartphones above ₹50,000 recorded 70% volume growth alongside double-digit overall growth in these markets. Large appliances posted 25% growth in the premium segment and 20% overall growth in non-metro regions. With pan-India deliveries across 100% of serviceable pin codes, same-day delivery on over 10 lakh products, and installation services rated 4.85 stars, Amazon has played a key role in accelerating the democratization of premium electronics beyond metros.
Customer behaviour in 2025 reflected a growing emphasis on research, value, and long-term usage. “Two trends defined 2025 – premiumization and growth beyond the metros,” Khan says, noting that customers are spending more time researching premium products compared to entry-level options. To support this shift, Amazon introduced AI-powered discovery tools, expanded creator-led content, and strengthened installation and post-purchase services across 300 cities. Smartphones continued to deliver strong double-digit growth, driven by demand for flagship features such as advanced cameras, AI capabilities, and superior displays, signalling that Indian consumers are increasingly confident in investing in higher-end technology.
by Bob Francis, Fort Worth Report December 28, 2025
Fort Worth had a banner fiscal year in economic development in 2025 with $6.7 billion in new capital investment and more than 6,900 in new and retained jobs, the strongest year in more than a decade, the city manager said.
Currently, 98 projects are in the development pipeline, with 44 of those company expansions and 54 focused on new community and real estate projects, according to a recent report presented to city council.
Can the city maintain that pace?
New City Manager Jay Chapa discussed Fort Worth’s economic development strength and its challenges on Dec. 16 at River Crest County Club at an event sponsored by the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors and the Society of Commercial Realtors.
Bell will build the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft set — to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk as the U.S. Army’s long-range assault aircraft — at the new site, which is expected to create 520 full-time jobs with an average annual salary of $85,000 by the end of 2039.
It was the first project in Texas to use the state’s new Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation program, known colloquially as JETI. The state kicked in a Texas Enterprise Fund grant of $2.7 million, while the Fort Worth City Council approved more than $47 million in incentives.
Fort Worth City Manager Jay Chapa (left) and retired Fort Worth Assistant City Manager Fernando Costa discuss economic development, the Texas Legislature and other topics at a Dec. 16 event at River Crest Country Club. (Fort Worth Report |Scott Nishimura | Fort Worth Report)
At the time, military officials said the contract was worth $1.3 billion but could end up being worth about $70 billion over the long term.
“That’s a major, major project for Fort Worth,” Chapa said. “They’ve been around here for a long time, and those big defense projects with millions of dollars tied to them have lasted for generations in Fort Worth.”
Bell has had its headquarters and a large manufacturing operation in Fort Worth since 1951.
“That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the contract as we go forward,” he said. “That project will continue, and once, when you think about it, typically, when the federal government invests in that level like that, and they go with it for a really long time.”
Like many other areas of Texas, Fort Worth also saw plenty of data center development in 2025, but one related project stood out, Chapa said.
Wistron, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of components used in NVIDIA computers, announced in August it will build two AI supercomputer manufacturing facilities in the AllianceTexas development.
That’s a $761 million investment set to create more than 800 jobs, officials have said.
“Everybody wants to capitalize on (data centers), and one of the projects that we were able to bring to town is going to start off small, but it has a potential to grow,” Chapa said.
“They’re going to start off with about 600 employees,” he said. “But once that takes off, that could be a generator of employment for a long time.”
Chapa said that the finalization of the Evans-Rosedale project in 2025 was a long time coming. The urban village will have a mix of housing and retail in the Historic Southside. Officials are working to attract businesses to the project, including a grocer or market to sell healthy food.
“You and I worked on that for 25 years, trying to get things going there,” Chapa said to Fernando Costa, the former assistant city manager for the city who recently retired. Costa interviewed Chapa for the event.
“We hope to have all that signed, sealed and delivered next month so they can actually move forward the final financing, final engineering design and be able to break ground in the coming year,” said Chapa.
In October, Royal Capital officials said they are investing $63 million in the planned Evans-Rosedale urban village under a revised financial package that decreases city costs.
City officials estimate the project — expected to break ground by late 2026 — will bring in more revenue over 15 years than initially expected.
In November, Fort Worth was ranked No. 1 in a survey of building permitting among 500 cities.
The city was able to turn around a building permit in a week or less 97.7% of the time, according to the Red Tape Index 500 from AI company Labrynth. Chapa said city staff worked hard over the last 10 to 12 years with the Real Estate Council of Greater Fort Worth and other groups to improve the process. He noted, however, that the survey was just about building permits, not the whole process.
“We still have work to do,” he said.
Bond package in 2026
City council and staff recently completed a series of public meetings about the next bond program expected to go before voters in May.
Among the proposals are $5 million for affordable single-family housing, which would be used to acquire vacant or blighted properties ($1 million) and pay for public infrastructure ($4 million). The funds will leverage contributions from the development community.
Other Texas cities have had an affordable housing bond proposal, but this is the first for Fort Worth, Chapa said. Meanwhile, city officials plan to work with the Community Land Trust, Trinity Habitat for Humanity and other groups to bring more single family housing, whether for rent or for purchase, he said.
The bond package would not raise the property tax rate in the city if approved. However, Chapa explained that state law requires all bond language — regardless of the impact to the rate — to begin with the words, “This is a tax increase.”
“But it can all be done without changing your tax rate,” he said.
Big development projects
The long-awaited Panther Island dredging project is expected to begin next year, either by summer or fall, Chapa said.
“I’ve said all along that if we could ever — this is tongue-in-cheek — that if we could ever get started digging the ditch, the actual channel, then things will start moving,” he said.
Chapa said that there has never been a federal project that began like this and wasn’t finished.
“The good news is that the project is being (put out for bid) as we speak by the Corps of Engineers,” he said.
The recent government shutdown delayed the process or the project might have already started, he said.
Once dirt begins moving, Chapa expects the commercial real estate community to respond with more ideas about how to develop the 300 to 500 acres of land available.
“We’re going to start seeing more activity here this next year, which is good,” he said.
Nearby Panther Island in the Northside, more older homes and buildings are being refurbished while keeping the neighborhood’s historic Hispanic culture, Chapa said. The area along North Main is part of Fort Worth’s Main Street program.
“What the group doesn’t want is to change that completely and become like the Stockyards, right?,” he said. “It’s got to have its own, its own perspective, its own identity as we go forward.”
The Stockyards itself is continuing to pay dividends, Chapa added. It is a good example of why the city chooses to give incentives to certain projects.
The Stockyards Heritage Development Co. — a partnership between Majestic Realty and The Hickman Co. — is making such a significant investment in the area that it made sense for the city to make the investments it did in the redevelopment of the Mule Barns and the Hotel Drover, Chapa said.
Before the Stockyards underwent redevelopment, hotel rooms were around $200 a night in that area, Chapa said.
“Now, sometimes they are going for $2,000 a night for hotel rooms. It’s insane right?” he said. “Not all of us can afford it, but some do, and we’re already benefitting from that.”
While tourism in the Stockyards has increased since the first phase of the redevelopment began, Chapa said to reporters after the meeting he is concerned about the project’s next phase.
Majestic, one of the partners in the redevelopment, had changes in leadership, both locally and at headquarters. Earlier in 2025, longtime local Majestic leader Craig Cavileer was forced out by the company.
In 2024, the city passed a plan to support the second — and more extensive — phase of redevelopment for the area. But Chapa said progress has slowed since the company’s leadership changes.
He said he has sent a letter to the California-based firm asking for clarification on what their plans are moving forward.
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(WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth, TX – American Airlines is changing the structure of it’s flights at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the airline’s largest hub.
Beginning in April — and now visible in the airline’s schedules — American’s DFW operation is increasing the number of banks in the system – large clusters of flights across the operating day.
Moving from a 9-bank system to a 13-bank structure is designed to provide more certainty to the Fort Worth based carrier’s 100-thousand peak daily customers traveling on the more than 900 peak DFW daily departing flights.
“As the operating environment and our customers’ expectations have evolved in the last 10 years, our approach at our largest and most impactful hub must also evolve,” said Jim Moses, Senior Vice President of DFW Operations. “We’re making this significant shift while maintaining the same breadth, depth and schedule quality our customers expect and depend on. That means good things for American’s customers, our team members and just about everyone who depends on the airline.”
American’s new structure at DFW reduces the concentration of very short connection times, creating more balance to offer customers greater confidence when planning their journey.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing renewed scrutiny this week as a tense exchange with Sen. Mark Kelly starts circulating again — landing just as Hegseth moves to escalate an investigation targeting the same lawmaker who once put him on the spot under oath.
The video, now going viral on social media, shows Kelly methodically pressing Hegseth during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with a series of true-or-false questions about alleged episodes of public intoxication back when Hegseth led Concerned Veterans for America.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing in the U.S. Capitol with Congressional leaders and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean, on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The exchange devolved into repeated deflections that critics now say look even worse in hindsight.
At the time, Hegseth was President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, seeking control of a department with roughly 3 million military and civilian employees. Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, said he was unconvinced Hegseth had the discipline, credibility or experience required for the role.
“And there were very specific cases cited by individuals about your conduct. I’m going to go through a few of them, and I just want you to tell me if these are true or false. Very simple,” Kelly said before listing incident after incident.
“On Memorial Day 2014, at a CVA event in Virginia, you needed to be carried out of the event for being intoxicated.”
“Senator, anonymous smears,” Hegseth replied — a phrase he would repeat to nearly every allegation, without directly denying them.
Kelly pressed on: “Just true or false. Very simple. Summer of 2014 in Cleveland, drunk in public with the CVA team.”
“Anonymous smears.”
Pete Hegseth has admitted to personal issues in his past. Yet when asked about those same issues yesterday, he blames an “anonymous smear campaign” against him.
Kelly continued, citing an event in North Carolina where Hegseth was allegedly drunk in front of three young female staff members after reversing a no-alcohol policy.
“Anonymous smears.”
The questioning culminated with allegations involving a strip club visit with staff while on official business in Louisiana, and whether the organization later reached a financial settlement with a female staffer connected to the incident.
“Absolutely not. Anonymous smears,” Hegseth said, later adding, “Senator, I was not involved in that. I don’t know the nature of how that played out.”
Near the end of his allotted time, Kelly delivered a blunt assessment. “It’s clear to me that you’re not being honest with us or the American people because you know the truth would disqualify you from getting the job,” he said.
Social media critics suggested Hegseth might have been aware of the legal risk if he refuted the accusations, with one person saying, “A denial would likely be lying to congress so….”
Other voices called out Hegseth’s reliance on a single phrase to deflect every allegation, which many compared to invoking legal privilege.
“‘Anonymous smears’ must be the new ‘I plead the fifth.’” Another observed, “Absolutley not! Anonymous smears”….you KNOW that one was fuckin true.”
“He just admitted that he was at a strip club with the young female and male soldiers,” added Brenda.
Critics across several platforms mocked Hegseth for apparently refusing to deal with his reality.
“He’s an alcoholic and can’t admit it,” another person riffed on Threads with another asking bluntly, “Is he drunk now….that’s a weird way to say false.”
“As a former alcoholic, I promise you that this man has a drinking problem,” another critic observed. “He tells himself the same lies all alcoholics do.”
Some observers cut straight to Hegseth’s fitness for office, “Unqualified! Disgusting! Resign Party Pete!”
The renewed attention to the clip comes amid an extraordinary escalation by Trump and Hegseth against Kelly and his colleagues.
Hegseth, now nearly a year into the job, has threatened disciplinary action over a separate controversy involving Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers — all military or intelligence veterans — who appeared in a video last month, urging active service members to refuse unlawful orders.
Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into “an official command investigation.”
If Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they’ve got the wrong guy. pic.twitter.com/wjKVr37vby
Trump reacted with a series of incendiary Truth Social posts, accusing Kelly and the others of “seditious behavior, punishable by death.”
The move by Democrats left Trump fuming for days. The White House later denied Trump was calling for executions.
Hegseth soon amplified the president’s stance. “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false,” he wrote. “Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ‘good order and discipline.’”
The Pentagon confirmed it had escalated its review of Kelly from a preliminary assessment to a formal command investigation, according to ABC News. Hegseth has said the video risked confusing troops and encouraging insubordination, and has floated the possibility of recalling Kelly, who retired in 2011, to active duty for court-martial or administrative punishment.
Kelly has dismissed the effort outright. “This is very performative for him,” he told reporters, later calling the investigation “a bunch of bull****.”
“This is just about sending a message to retired service members, active duty service members, government employees — do not speak out against this president, or there will be consequences,” Kelly said.
Weeks later, a 2016 video emerged of Hegseth saying the U.S. military “won’t follow unlawful orders,” prompting accusations of hypocrisy.
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Local police said they have charged an Illinois driver who struck and killed a pedestrian while she was livestreaming on TikTok.
The New York Times reports that Tynesha McCarty-Wroten, who posts to TikTok under the name Tea Tyme, has been charged by the Zion Police Department with two felonies — reckless homicide and aggravated use of a communications device resulting in death.
In a video that has been reshared by other accounts on TikTok, woman posting as Tea Tyme can reportedly be seen speaking into her phone when there’s a loud thud. An offscreen child asks, “What was that?” then the woman replies, “I hit somebody.”
Surveillance videos reportedly showed McCarty-Wroten’s vehicle entering the intersection while the traffic light was still red, with investigators determining that she did not seem to slow down or change course before striking Darren Lucas, who was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
McCarty-Wroten’s lawyer told the NYT that evidence will show that “what happened was an accident, was a negligent act, but was not an intentional or reckless act.”
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AUSTIN – A fatal crash shut down northbound U.S. Highway 183 in Southeast Austin on Sunday morning.
US Hwy. 183 shut down near airport
What we know:
The collision happened in the northbound lanes of the highway near McCall Lane, not far from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Austin Police and emergency crews arrived on the scene shortly before 9:45 a.m.
Police said that at least one person died in the crash. To allow investigators and cleanup crews to work, officials closed all northbound lanes of Highway 183.
As of about 1 p.m., the highway was reopened and Austin Police say an adult female driver involved in the crash is now facing charges of intoxication manslaughter.
What we don’t know:
Authorities have not yet said how many vehicles were involved in the crash.
The identities of those involved have not been released.
The Source: Information in this article is from the Austin Police Department.
Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday. He was 83.
IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner’s death in an email sent Sunday to its employees, but didn’t provide a cause of death.
Gerstner’s nine-year tenure as chairman and CEO of the company known as “Big Blue” is often used as a case study in corporate leadership.
On April Fool’s Day, 1993, he became the first outsider to run IBM, which was facing a choice of bankruptcy or dismemberment after a period when it had been the undisputed leader in personal computers and mainframes. He pivoted the Armonk, New York-based company toward business services and away from hardware production, reversing a move to break up the company into a dozen or more semi-autonomous units — “Baby Blues” — in pursuit of greater profits.
Gerstner slashed costs and sold off unproductive assets, including real estate and IBM’s collection of fine art. He fired 35,000 of the 300,000 employees, who had become accustomed to a culture of lifetime tenure based on principles established by former CEO Thomas Watson Sr. in the early 20th century.
He stressed company-wide teamwork to replace the tradition of loyalty to various divisions, and he pegged compensation to corporate performance rather than individual results. To meet performance goals, he emphasized regular accountability rather than waiting for yearly performance reviews.
“People do what you inspect, not what you expect,” he said.
Gerstner’s key change was to scrap IBM’s culture of selling bundled products that only worked with other IBM goods, from PCs to operating systems to software. Products he considered losers were jettisoned. He pulled the plug on OS/2, an operating system intended to challenge Microsoft’s Windows that hadn’t proved popular with customers.
“His leadership during that period reshaped the company,” Krishna wrote. “Not by looking backward, but by focusing relentlessly on what our clients would need next.”
Focus on Middleware
IBM put its focus on so-called middleware — software for databases, systems management and transaction management. The company became the impartial integrator for companies’ networks and systems, happy to help whether the hardware used had the IBM name on it or not.
Gerstner made an early bet on the internet and e-business, which he guessed correctly would put less emphasis on personal computers and more on servers, routers and other more sophisticated equipment that would benefit from IBM’s service know-how and involve buyers familiar to IBM’s sales force, such as chief technology officers.
Later in his tenure, he also made some strategic acquisitions such as the $2.2 billion paid for Lotus Development Corp., whose Notes product was vital for helping IBM customers collaborate on an enterprise-wide basis.
The switch in focus from hardware to services resulted in an increase in services revenue from $7.4 billion in 1992 to $30 billion in 2001. IBM’s share price went from $13 to $80 in his nine years as CEO, adjusted for splits,.and IBM’s market value rose from $29 billion to about $168 billion in that period.
“If I had a vote, the most significant legacy of my tenure at IBM would be the truly integrated entity that has been created,” he wrote in Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change (2002). “It certainly was the most difficult and risky change I made.”
Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr. was born on March 1, 1941, in Mineola, New York, to Louis Gerstner Sr., a milk truck driver, and Marjorie Rutan, a secretary and college administrator. He was one of four brothers.
He graduated from Mineola’s Chaminade High School, a competitive Catholic institution. He got an engineering degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.
After Harvard he joined McKinsey & Co. as a consultant. He made partner in four years and spent 12 years there before taking a job with American Express.
He worked for the credit-card division there, then took over travel-related services. Under his leadership, Amex, which offered primarily a travel card at that point, increased its presence in retail stores and created premium cards that permitted customers to carry unpaid balances.
With his way to the top of management at Amex blocked by CEO James D. Robinson III, Gerstner agreed to run RJR Nabisco Inc., where he stayed four years before joining IBM. His primary focus at RJR Nabisco was to reduce the $25 billion in debt produced by the leveraged buyout that created the tobacco and consumer products firm.
IBM’s board began its search for a new CEO after it forced out John Akers in January 1993, just as the company was reporting its largest annual loss. In selecting Gerstner, the board chose managerial experience over computer expertise. (Gerstner’s brother Richard had worked for IBM for 30 years and headed the division that included personal computers.)
From Gerstner’s first day in April 1993 until the January 2002 announcement that he was stepping down, IBM’s shares rose ninefold while the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 154%. Sam Palmisano succeeded him, first as CEO, then as chairman when Gerstner retired at the end of 2002.
In 2003, Gerstner became chairman of the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based private-equity firm. He oversaw the firm’s expansion into Asia and Latin America and early preparations for going public, which it did in 2012. He retired in 2008, remaining as a senior adviser.
With his wife, Robin, he had two children. Their son, Louis III, died in 2013 after a choking accident in a restaurant.
Through Gerstner Philanthropies, the family has supported biomedical research, environmental and education programs, and social services in New York City, Boston and Florida’s Palm Beach County. The family has been a longtime supporter of the Mayo Clinic.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Zach Charbonnet ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns, and the Seattle Seahawks turned two third-quarter Carolina turnovers into TDs to beat the Panthers 27-10 on Sunday and close in on the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs.
Sam Darnold threw an interception in the end zone but finished 18 of 27 for 147 yards with a touchdown for the Seahawks, who can wrap up the NFC West title and the top seed if the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams both lose or tie.
Jaxson Smith-Njigba added nine catches for 72 yards as Seattle (13-3) won its sixth straight.
The Panthers (8-8) had a chance to win the NFC South because the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost 20-17 at Miami on Sunday. Now the Panthers will likely need to win at Tampa Bay next weekend to win their first division title since 2015 and snap a seven-year playoff drought. Carolina could still claim the division with a loss to the Bucs if the Atlanta Falcons (6-9) win their final two games.
Bryce Young was limited to 54 yards on 14-of-24 passing and threw an interception for the inconsistent Panthers, who followed up a win with a loss for the fifth straight time. Young ran for 30 yards and accounted for Carolina’s only touchdown with a 10-yard scamper.
Carolina was limited to 139 yards of offense.
After an ugly first half that ended in a 3-3 tie, the Seahawks took control in the third quarter thanks to their defense.
DeMarcus Lawrence recovered a fumble by Chuba Hubbard deep in Carolina territory and Charbonnet cashed in with a 2-yard touchdown run. On the ensuing possession, Young’s pass to a Tetairoa McMillan was intercepted by Julian Love, leading to Darnold’s 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end AJ Barner.
The Panthers, who were held to 72 yards in the first three quarters, responded with a 13-play, 69-yard drive. Young scored on a 10-yard run to cut Seattle’s lead to 17-10.
The Panthers’ defense appeared ready to get off the field on Seattle’s next possession, but two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaycee Horn was flagged for grabbing Smith-Njigba’s facemask on a third-down reception on third-and-21, more than 15 yards behind the first-down marker.
That gave Seattle a first down and the Seahawks cashed in with Jason Myers’ 30-yard field goal to make it a two-possession game with eight minutes remaining.
Seattle sacked Young twice on the ensuing possession to get the ball back, and Charbonnet sealed it with his second TD run.
Injuries
Seahawks: WRs Rashid Shaheed (concussion) and Cody White (groin) left in the first half and did not return.
Panthers: TE Ja’Tavion Sanders (ankle) was carted to the locker room after getting injured on the game’s first play and did not return. CB Robert Rochell (concussion) left a short while later. LB Claudin Cherelus left with a calf injury in the third quarter.
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