BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — The family of a student who died from alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity has sued Bowling Green State University. The complaint filed Thursday in the Ohio Court of Claims by Stone Foltz’s family alleges the school knew about but didn’t stop hazing in Greek life there and should be
Continue ReadingZoe Sottile, CNN The first official joint portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been revealed to the public at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. The Duke and Duchess visited Cambridge on Thursday to see the 210 centimeter by 110 centimeter oil painting, crafted by British artist Jamie Coreth. The portrait shows
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced an additional $450 million in military aid for Ukraine, with the US giving the war-stricken country four more multiple launch rocket systems and artillery ammunition for other systems. The package, which will be drawn from existing Defense Department stocks, also includes 18
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday proposed strengthening protections for transgender students under Title IX and overhauling controversial Trump-era guidance on how schools should handle sexual assault cases. The new rules would clarify that Title IX’s protections against discrimination apply to sexual orientation and gender identity and that preventing someone from participating
Continue ReadingNEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle has signed goalkeeper Nick Pope to a four-year contract after the England international completed a move from relegated Burnley. The Premier League club paid a fee reported to be 10 million pounds ($12.3 million) for Pope who made 141 league appearances in his six seasons at Burnley. The 30-year-old Pope
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials have approved a $725 million bond sale to help finance the construction of two supersize prisons intedned to house up to 4,000 inmates each. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, which is chaired by Gov. Kay Ivey, met Thursday and approved the bond sale.
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — In Gee Chun breezed to an 8-under 64 and jumped out to a record-tying five-stroke lead in the first round of the Women’s PGA Championship. Most of the field slogged through the day on the wet Blue Course at Congressional. But Chun birdied seven of
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While Justice Clarence Thomas spent 63 pages in a 6-3 majority opinion Thursday painstakingly explaining the court’s reasons for striking down a New York conceal carry gun law and changing the way judges will analyze a host of other gun regulations going forward, his colleague Samuel Alito
Continue ReadingBy TARA JAKEWAY Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — Human remains were found in a shallow grave Wednesday after a man says he made the startling discovery while searching for a chicken. This chicken escaped from a yard on Sapodilla Tuesday afternoon, leading his owner James to the
Continue ReadingBy KATIE SIVCO Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Deputies in Marion County found a missing boater dead in Lake Weir on Thursday morning. His identity is not yet being revealed until his family is made aware, deputies said. According to the sheriff’s office, on Tuesday around 2:30 p.m.,
Continue ReadingBy ED WEINSTOCK Click here for updates on this story CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — Fifteen people were taken to hospitals after being sickened by carbon monoxide at a Kohl’s in Franklin County. Emergency crews were called around 9:30 a.m. Thursday to the store on Norland Avenue in Chambersburg. According to Chambersburg Fire Chief Dustin Ulrich,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced legislation that would allow US intelligence agencies to hire applicants who have used marijuana in the past, according to committee aides. Language included in the committee’s annual authorization bill for the intelligence community — which passed unanimously on Wednesday — would prohibit intelligence agencies
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar material contained
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar material contained
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press MANZA, Albania (AP) — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has denounced the Iranian regime for its “brutality” and is urging the Biden administration not to renew a nuclear deal with Tehran. He says the pact would embolden Iran’s leadership. Pence on Thursday flew 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from his
Continue ReadingBy LOWELL MELSER Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — Three people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside a shopping center in northeast Baltimore. Police were called just before 10 a.m. to the Moravia Mart at the Parkside Shopping Center on Sinclair Lane. Police said officers found two 21-year-old men
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s 3 biggest banks have enough capital to withstand a severe economic contraction. That’s according the Federal Reserve’s latest annual “stress tests” of the U.S. financial system. The Fed built a scenario under which the nation’s unemployment rate would more than double to 10%,
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani accomplished two feats that would both be career landmarks for practically any other player in baseball history on back-to-back nights during an otherwise ordinary June homestand for the Los Angeles Angels. He hit a pair of three-run homers and drove in a career-high
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Just in time for summer, Central Oregon Community College has received a $247,819 award from the Oregon Association of Education Service Districts to support a range of free and low-cost summer programs, symposiums, camps and credit-based coursework for regional K-12 students.
Continue ReadingBy WES CROSBY Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Michael Chavis hit a tying home run in the eighth before pulling off a defensive gem and delivering a game-ending single in the 10th, sending the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Chicago Cubs 8-7. Chavis’ solo homer made it 7-all after the Cubs scored five times in the
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