By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Boston College has hired its third athletic director since 2017, and this one is promising to stick around for a while. Former Miami AD Blake James is taking over in Chestnut Hill after predecessors Martin Jarmond and Pat Kraft used the school as a stepping stone
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Air Force changed its procedures to move the U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama after President Donald Trump’s re-election loss in 2020. That’s the finding of a new report from Congress’ General Accounting Office. The report says Trump was at the White House meeting
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Air Force changed its procedures to move the U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama after President Donald Trump’s re-election loss in 2020. That’s the finding of a new report from Congress’ General Accounting Office. The report says Trump was at the White House meeting
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven jurors accused one juror of political bias before saying they were deadlocked in deliberating the fate of a Colorado businessman accused of defrauding investors in a wall along the U.S. southern border. Federal Judge Analisa Torres read jurors a so-called Allen charge late Thursday in
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven jurors accused one juror of political bias before saying they were deadlocked in deliberating the fate of a Colorado businessman accused of defrauding investors in a wall along the U.S. southern border. Federal Judge Analisa Torres read jurors a so-called Allen charge late Thursday in
Continue ReadingCatherine Thorbecke, CNN Business For much of her first decade at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg’s public stature grew alongside the size and influence of the company she helped run. As second-in-command to Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, she oversaw the massive growth of its core advertising business while positioning herself as an icon of corporate feminism. When
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby acknowledges the there is “some weirdness” with the conference’s annual spring meetings. There are 14 schools taking part this week in North Texas. There are representatives from future members BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. There is also the lingering presence
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has fined a nonprofit group and its lawyer more than $28,000 for making legally meritless claims alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. The Washington Election Integrity Coalition United was ordered to pay nearly $9,600, and its Sequim, Washington-based attorney, Virginia Shogren, was ordered to pay
Continue ReadingBy LES EAST Associated Press METAIRE, La. (AP) — Jarvis Landry grew up less than 60 miles from New Orleans and was a huge Saints fan. Now he’s a Saints wide receiver after leaving Cleveland to sign with New Orleans as a free agent last month. Saints coach Dennis Allen is happy to have him
Continue ReadingOAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Roger Valdiserri, who helped tell the story of some of Notre Dame’s greatest football teams as the school’s sports information director for three decades, has died. He was 95. Valdiserri’s family says he died of natural causes at a retirement community outside Chicago. The family said he was surrounded by
Continue ReadingSHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man convicted of killing his girlfriend who was a city police officer has been sentenced to life in prison, followed by 30 years. Life is the only possible sentence for second-degree murder, one of two crimes for which a Caddo Parish jury convicted 29-year-old Tre’Veon Demarcus Anderson on April
Continue ReadingBy W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders will go into next season with recent acquisition Chandler Jones playing opposite fourth-year pro Maxx Crosby on the defensive line, giving them two top edge rushers as they navigate one of the toughest schedules in the league. Jones has 107 1/2 sacks
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses increase, state officials and lawmakers said on Thursday. Oregonians passed Ballot Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalizing
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Hideki Matsuyama is out of the Memorial because of paint on the face of his 3-wood. Matsuyama had 10 small lines in the shape of a circle on the face. Alignment help is OK. But the substance can’t be so thick on the surface that
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Democrats are ready to drop some of their most pressing demands to restrict access to guns amid the nationwide onslaught of massacres. But even that may not be enough to reach a deal with Republicans. “I’m certainly prepared for failure,” Sen. Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat helping
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A national conservation group has acquired a sprawling ranch near a New Mexico mountain peak held sacred by Native American tribes. The Trust for Public Land announced Thursday that land managers will be able create New Mexico’s largest state-owned recreation property, near Mount Taylor. The
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La Cumbre de las Américas comienza este 6 de junio y, sin embargo, se encuentra en un terreno de incertidumbre. La administración Biden se enfrenta a la amenaza de un posible fracaso en la Cumbre de las Américas Ante este contexto de inestabilidad geopolítica y aún a la espera de cuáles
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A jury has found a man guilty of murder and other counts in a shooting attack on a Minnesota medical clinic last year that killed one staff member and wounded four others. KARE-TV reports that jurors began deliberating Thursday afternoon, following testimony by the defendant, Gregory Ulrich, and short closing arguments.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has announced sanctions against six people in Mexico, including a police official, for aiding the Jalisco drug cartel. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, says the police official gave information to Mexico’s most violent and powerful gang. The office said Jalisco
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Boys” serves notice immediately that its third season will be as ferociously gory and savagely satirical as the preceding two, racing through story at something approaching super-speed. While obviously not intended for every taste, the Amazon series remains a scathing examination of the superhero genre and society at large,
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