By The Associated Press Caitlin Clark appears to be on the cusp of setting another record. The most prolific scorer in NCAA Division I history and the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft will continue her association with Nike by signing a $28 million contract that spans eight years and includes a signature
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has reached a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 victims of disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar over the FBI’s initial failures in investigating the sexual assault case. More than 150 women and girls, including Olympic athletes, have alleged that Nassar sexually abused them
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Two adults were killed and a child was injured over the weekend in a shooting in remote Harney County that sheriff’s deputies determined to be a murder-suicide involving an Idaho family camping along a road in the area.
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on
Continue ReadingBy Ava Rash, Yazmin Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — A woman is speaking out after her house has been the target of antisemitic incidents. She says there have been four incidents just this month, with the most recent happening Sunday morning. She told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 her fears
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — GoFundMe is expanding into Mexico, the company announced Tuesday. That marks 20 countries now serviced by the crowdfunding giant. CEO Tim Cadogan says the for-profit platform is eyeing new international targets now that COVID-19’s unprecedented campaign levels have eased to pre-pandemic figures. Mexico remains a country
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Scruggs Click here for updates on this story RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — Students and staff are safe after a man was shot Monday morning in the parking lot at Suncoast Community High School in Riviera Beach. The family of the man who was shot identified him as 29-year-old Delroy Clive Thomas. It
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A former school resource officer in Washington state accused of killing his ex-wife and his girlfriend and kidnapping his 1-year-old son died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a vehicle chase by police in Oregon on Tuesday – and the child is safe in police care
Continue ReadingBy Jamy Pombo Sesselman Click here for updates on this story WEBSTER, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A Southbridge man is accused of kidnapping a girl from a Webster beach and sexually assaulting her before returning the victim to her home, police said Monday. The victim told police on April 15 that she was at Memorial Beach,
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The Oregon National Guard’s Biak Training Center in Powell Butte is hosting active-duty Army rotary wing (helicopter) night training missions outside of normal operations hours through next Monday. But weather can be a factor, so the cloudy, showery conditions made for a pause in their plans.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Burger Click here for updates on this story YUKON, Oklahoma (KOCO) — A homicide investigation is currently ongoing in Yukon, following the discovery of five deceased individuals, including two children, in a subdivision Monday morning. Neighbors said the owner of the home where the people were found dead was always a good person.
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia’s Morehouse College and at West Point next month. But his Morehouse appearance is drawing pushback from some faculty and alumni who oppose the president’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war. Some Morehouse alumni want
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s Kensington Palace has released a photograph of Prince Louis to celebrate his 6th birthday, the first image by the Princess of Wales it has distributed since news organizations, including The Associated Press, withdrew a photo edited by Kate over concerns about digital manipulation. The photo published on Tuesday was taken by
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan woman was arraigned Tuesday on second-degree murder and other charges after prosecutors say she drunkenly crashed her SUV into a boat club that was hosting a child’s birthday party, killing a young brother and sister and injuring several other people. Marshella Chidester, 66, did not enter a plea
Continue ReadingBy Curadhan Powell Click here for updates on this story NELSON COUNTY, Kentucky (WLKY) — It has been 10 years since a Nelson County mother and her daughter were killed. Kathy Netherland and her daughter Samantha were found shot to death inside their Botland home on April 22, 2014. They were determined to have died
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Google has fired an additional 20 workers that it says were involved in protests last week over the company’s cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of workers fired to 50, according to the group organizing the demonstrations. No Tech for Apartheid, the organizers of the
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer. She said she’ll be be swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. The Seine River is the venue for marathon swimming at the Games and the swimming leg
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Maiden Click here for updates on this story BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (WDSU) — Many crews in the Baton Rouge area came together to help a driver who was stuck inside an overturned tanker truck for three hours. The Central Fire Department was sent to a report of an overturned tanker truck with power
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A legal challenge over the British government’s role in allowing weapons to be sent to Israel can be heard at the High Court later this year, a judge said Tuesday. Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the U.K.-based Global Legal Action Network filed the challenge in December,
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