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Month: March 2023

Elite runner Kara Goucher comes out about sexual assault allegations against former coach in new memoir

Elite runner Kara Goucher comes out about sexual assault allegations against former coach in new memoir

Thomas B. Shea/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Kara Goucher, one of the fastest female long-distance runners in American history, describes a “secret world” of professional running in her new memoir. “​​Running is life-changing,” Goucher told Good Morning America. “It’s given me so much freedom and strength and power.” In her […]

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Alaska oil drilling Willow Project approved, despite viral protests

Alaska oil drilling Willow Project approved, despite viral protests

Jim Sugar/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite heavy opposition from environmental activists, a viral TikTok campaign and a campaign promise by President Joe Bien to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels, the federal government greenlighted a controversial oil drilling project on pristine Alaskan land on Monday. That decision won’t […]

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Puerto Rico throws combined perfect game against Israel in World Baseball Classic

Puerto Rico throws combined perfect game against Israel in World Baseball Classic

krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Puerto Rico shut out Israel in the World Baseball Classic Monday night, beating them 10-0 in eight innings. Four pitchers retired all 24 batters they faced, marking the competition’s first-ever combined perfect game. Puerto Rico will next face off against Dominican Republic on Wednesday […]

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‘Football City’: Nearly two dozen NFL players have come from one small South Carolina town

‘Football City’: Nearly two dozen NFL players have come from one small South Carolina town

Freshman player J’Zavien Currence is shown during an interview with ABC News. (ABC News) (ROCK HILL, S.C.) — Friday night high school football games are an American tradition. But only one town — Rock Hill, South Carolina — calls itself “Football City.” That’s because the city of 75,000 says it […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 3/13/23

Scoreboard roundup — 3/13/23

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Atlanta 6, Baltimore 5 Washington 7, Houston 6 Oakland 8, Colorado 7 LA Dodgers 11, Cleveland 4 Arizona 11, Texas 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 1, NY Yankees 0 Baltimore 11, Detroit 7 […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 3/13

Prep Sports Roundup: 3/13

Baseball Non-Region CASTLE DALE, Utah-The Emery Spartans overpowered Manti 11-6 Monday in non-region baseball play. Braxton Henningson and Bryce Boehrer each drove in two runs for the Templars in the loss.

Five alleged Mexican cartel members charged in kidnapping of four Americans

Five alleged Mexican cartel members charged in kidnapping of four Americans

Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city […]

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Independent autopsy finds ‘Cop City’ protester had hands raised during shooting

Independent autopsy finds ‘Cop City’ protester had hands raised during shooting

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Attorneys for the family of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who was fatally shot by police during a sit-in protest against the upcoming Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, say an independent autopsy report found that Terán’s hands were raised during the fatal shooting. Terán, […]

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Suspect in fatal Missouri cop shooting surrenders to authorities

Suspect in fatal Missouri cop shooting surrenders to authorities

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (HERMANN, Mo.) — A suspect accused of fatally shooting a police officer has surrendered outside of a Hermann, Missouri home, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP). The Missouri State Highway Patrol SWAT team took 35-year-old Kenneth Lee Simpson into custody Monday following the shooting in […]

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Missing 13-year-old rescued from locked North Carolina shed

Missing 13-year-old rescued from locked North Carolina shed

Kali9/Getty Images (LEXINGTON, N.C.) — Law enforcement rescued a missing 13-year-old girl from a locked shed in Lexington, North Carolina, after federal authorities provided a tip about the missing minor. Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons said his office received a tip from an FBI Violent Crimes Task Force about a […]

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