RIVERSIDE, Mo. (AP) — Four students at a Kansas City school district who were disciplined after a petition to “Start Slavery Again” are suing the district. The students allege in a lawsuit filed Friday that the posting started as private bantering between a biracial student and a Black student. They say school district officials over-reacted
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Huskies are hiring a search firm, creating an advisory committee and hoping to find the right fit this time after football coach Jimmy Lake was fired. Athletic director Jen Cohen says the school will conduct a swift but thorough search to find a replacement
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Huskies are hiring a search firm, creating an advisory committee and hoping to find the right fit this time after football coach Jimmy Lake was fired. Athletic director Jen Cohen says the school will conduct a swift but thorough search to find a replacement
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A Klamath Falls man has been jailed on two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder, accused of firing several gunshots Sunday evening into a home north of Chiloquin, leaving two people dead and two others seriously injured.
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami is searching for a new athletic director. Blake James’ tenure ended Monday in a move that came two days after the Hurricanes’ football team lost at Florida State. Both sides said James’ departure was a mutual decision. It certainly indicates that Miami is
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Katz Click here for updates on this story NORTH TEXAS, Texas (KTVT) — You’ve heard that old saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” A North Texas woman is taking that to the next level. “The most expensive thing that I found was at World Market,” Tiffany Butler told CBS 11. “A
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS RODRIGUEZ Associated Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Maria Sakkari has upset top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (1), 6-7 (6), 6-3 in the longest match so far at the WTA Finals in Mexico to advance to a semifinal against Anett Kontaveit. Fourth-seeded Sakkari took advantage of Sabalenka´s 19 double-faults in a match that lasted 2
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Kostek Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Video shows a drunken driver ramming right into a West Loop business in reverse early Friday, and neighbors said they heard it, felt it – and then broke out the cameras to record what happened next. CBS 2’s Jackie Kostek caught up
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Steve Sarkisian’s first season as Texas coach is very much going from bad to worse. A five-game losing streak is the program’s worst in 65 years. The latest defeat to Kansas came with a season-ending elbow injury for star running back Bijan Robinson. Texas now
Continue ReadingBy Sherry Liang, CNN A dinner of Mars-grown vegetables, bread baked on a shuttle, and insects for dessert may be on the menu for future astronauts. Systems to grow plants and bake bread in space are among the winning submissions of NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, announced in late October. Teams of inventors brainstormed solutions
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Any Green Bay Packers fans wanting to invest a personal stake in their favorite team has a chance to do so this week. The NFL’s only community-owned team is opening the sixth stock offering in franchise history Tuesday morning. The price per share is $300. Potential investors should keep in
Continue ReadingBy PATTY NIEBERG AP / Report for America AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say six teenagers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in a park near a suburban Denver high school, but all are expected to survive. The victims in Monday’s shooting range in age from 14 to 18. Aurora police chief Vanessa Wilson says
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second rebuke for her criticism of former President Donald Trump. Saturday’s 31-29 vote by the state party central committee followed similar votes by GOP officials in several Wyoming counties. Cheney didn’t
Continue ReadingBy Shayla Girardin Click here for updates on this story FRESNO, California (KFSN) — On Saturday morning, volunteers and staff of the Fresno Mission had one goal in mind – to break the Guinness World Record for the longest line of socks. What started as a basic need for the mission quickly grew into something
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers placed safety Minkah Fitzpatrick on the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list, where he joins quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Teams are not required to release information whether players are vaccinated. If Fitzpatrick is, he would be required to be free of symptoms and have two negative tests 24 hours apart. If he is
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees have hired Luis Rojas as their third base coach, a month after he was let go as manager of the New York Mets. Rojas managed the Mets for the past two seasons. The team declined its 2022 option for him on Oct. 4, a day after finishing
Continue ReadingSERRAVALLE, San Marino (AP) — England has hit double figures in goals in a competitive game for the first time to power into the World Cup. Harry Kane enjoyed himself, in particular, in the embarrassingly one-sided 10-0 win over San Marino that secured England first place in Group I of European qualifying. England’s captain scored
Continue ReadingBy KABC Staff Click here for updates on this story BURBANK, California (KABC) — A utility box in Burbank has been painted with the images of three young people who were killed in a street-racing crash earlier this year. Two cars that were racing collided with a Volkswagen on Glenoaks Boulevard at Andover Drive on
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On Saturday, the Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance is hosting an event for anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Aspen Hall in Bend. A statewide virtual event will be held from 2 to 3 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A new report says misinformation is hurting efforts to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, be it climate change, COVID-19 or political polarization. The analysis from the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder concludes that addressing misinformation requires a ‘whole of society’ effort by policy makers, tech companies, journalists, educators
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