Sonoma Sheriff’s Office/Facebook (SANTA ROSA, Calif.) — A man is lucky to be alive after he was rescued from being stuck for two days inside farm equipment at a California vineyard. The incident occurred in the early morning on June 8 when the Sonoma Sheriff’s Office in Santa Rosa, California […]
sportpoint/iStock (NEW YORK) — A former Olympian has been charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration over a pandemic loan. Luka Klasinc, a Slovenian figure skater, competed in the men’s singles event at the 1992 Winter Olympics. He finished 26th in the short program, and did not advance to the […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Baltimore 10, NY Mets 3 Tampa Bay 3, Washington 1 Cleveland 10, St. Louis 1 San Francisco 9, Texas 4 Oakland 5, Arizona 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 5, Seattle 3 Houston 7, Boston 1 […]
Matthew Stockman/Getty Images (DENVER) — Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic was named the MVP of the NBA’s 2020-21 season, becoming the sixth international player ever to win the award according to an ESPN report. Jokic also became the lowest drafted player to win the award. He was drafted in […]
Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A lawsuit against Donald Trump by magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll is dragging on as President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice follows in the footsteps of the prior administration by seeking to substitute for Trump as the defendant […]
FroggyFrogg/iStock (NEW YORK) — New York City officials voted Tuesday to end the current rules on solitary confinement in all city jails starting in the fall. Critics of the controversial punishment, however, say the changes proposed by the city’s Department of Correction don’t go far enough to ensure that inmates […]
Nick Oxford/Bloomberg via Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma may be forced to throw out tens of thousands of vaccines set to expire in coming weeks, according to the state health department. “We have pulled expired vaccine from active inventory and are in the process of following CDC guidance […]
ablokhin/iStock (DENVER) — Nearly 8,000 people in Colorado have applied for a state program that gives up to $1,600 in “incentive” payments to unemployed people who return to work full time. In the less than three weeks since the “Colorado Jumpstart” program was announced, the state’s Department of Labor and […]
Courtesy of the Wimmer Family (SALISBURY, N.C.) — Mike Wimmer, from Salisbury, North Carolina, graduated from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21 with a 4.0 GPA and an associate degree. A week later, he graduated from Concord Academy High School with a 5.45 GPA as valedictorian. In just a year, […]
AlexanderFord/iStock (GRAFTON, Wis.) — The former Wisconsin pharmacist who pleaded guilty to deliberately tampering over 500 COVID-19 vaccine doses was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison. Steven Brandenburg, 46, of Grafton, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless […]
