EricVega/iStock (CLEVELAND) — Fifty-thousand football fans gathered for the NFL Draft in Cleveland Thursday to check out the newest stars in the league, with Trevor Lawrence from Clemson being selected as the No. 1 pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars. After last year’s pandemic draft kept fans and athletes at home […]
LeoPatrizi/iStock (NEW YORK) — The virus causing COVID-19 has begun to recede, just slightly, in the U.S. As experts predicted, the pandemic is operating on less of a light switch than a dimmer — dialing back and forth in different pockets of the country. For once though, it seems, the […]
miodrag ignjatovic/iStock (NEW YORK) — Playing basketball is Adi Topolosky’s “favorite thing to do,” but when the 12-year-old went searching for basketball shoes inspired by WNBA player Elena Delle Donne, the salesman’s reaction — mocking women in sports — left her in shock. Topolosky’s parents inspired her to blog her […]
Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff (FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.) — Josh Duggar, the eldest son from the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting, has been charged with possession of and receiving child pornography, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Duggar was arrested on Thursday by U.S. Marshals in Arkansas and booked at […]
Vacaville Police Department (NEW YORK) — On Aug. 16, 2020, Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, California, headed to nearby Vacaville for a first date with a man she met on a dating app, according to police. She was never seen again, Vacaville police said. Now her date, who was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets selected BYU quarterback Zach Wilson with the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft. Wilson had been linked to the Jets for the last few months and New York made him the newest face of a frustrated franchise that has gone […]
JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ma’Khia Bryant will be laid to rest in a funeral service at the First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, Friday afternoon. The viewing will start at noon and the service will begin at 1 p.m. Bryant, 16, was fatally shot by […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 3, Tampa Bay 2 Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Seattle 1, Houston 0 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox 11, Detroit 0 Texas 4, Boston 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE St. […]
United States Courthouse (NEW YORK) — A federal judge overseeing the criminal case of Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday ordered the government to explain and justify the use of nightly flashlight checks of Maxwell’s jail cell, which her lawyers contend are disrupting her sleep, harming her health and compromising her ability […]
RiverNorthPhotography/iStock (LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a reopening plan Thursday that will tie loosened restrictions to COVID-19 vaccination rate milestones, as the state starts to emerge from a surge in cases and hospitalizations. So far, nearly half of residents ages 16 and up have gotten their first […]
