kali9/iStock (VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla.) — After a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy apparently ran away from a Florida group home and allegedly opened fire on deputies, that home — and the juvenile justice system — are now under the spotlight. The children ran away Tuesday evening and then allegedly […]
Bruce DierdorffNFL Photos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The USFL has announced it is returning to play in 2022. The football league first started playing in 1983 with 12 teams but folded following the 1985 season after trying to move its schedule to the fall season to compete with the NFL. […]
Clive Brunskill/Getty Images (PARIS) — Ashleigh Barty, the top seed in the women’s bracket at the French Open, has withdrawn from the French Open because of a left hip injury. “We did everything we could to give myself a chance,” said Barty following the match. “It was a small miracle […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 26 of his 30 points in the first half and the Utah Jazz advanced to the second round of the playoffs, beating the Memphis Grizzlies 126-110 on Wednesday night in Game 5. Mitchell also had 10 assists and six rebounds in 29 […]
sshepard/iStock (BLACKSBURG, Va.) — A freshman Virginia Tech football player has been charged with second-degree murder, authorities said. Officers responded to a building in Blacksburg, home to the university, on Tuesday night for a welfare check and found 40-year-old Jerry Smith dead, the Blacksburg Police Department said. His death was […]
Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images (DURHAM, N.C.) — After 41 seasons with the Blue Devils, Duke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski is retiring, the university announced on Wednesday. Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in Division I men’s basketball history, will step down after the 2021-22 season. “My family and I […]
Wachiwit/iStock (NEW YORK) — The U.S. has seen a disturbing surge in hate incidents against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, with a total of 6,603 incidents reported from March 2020 to March 2021, according to data gathered by the group Stop AAPI Hate. Stop AAPI Hate, which formed […]
DNY59/iStock (PULLMAN, Wash.) — Fifteen men who belonged to a Washington State University fraternity were charged Wednesday in connection with the alcohol-poisoning death of a 19-year-old pledge two years ago, officials said. Whitman County prosecutors charged the former members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity with furnishing liquor to one […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Toronto 6, Miami 5 Colorado 6, Texas 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 6, Minnesota 3 NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 3 Houston 2, Boston 1 Oakland 6 Seattle 0 Chi White Sox at Cleveland (Postponed) […]
FroggyFrogg/iStock (PHOENIX) — Arizona intends to resume executing death row inmates in gas chambers with Nazi-era chemicals, according to a report. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has spent thousands of dollars “refurbishing” gas chambers for executions, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained government documents […]
