By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The Clemson baseball team’s 11-0 start following a three-game weekend sweep of in-state rival South Carolina has quickly put the Tigers’ first losing season since 1957 in the rearview mirror. The Tigers are out to their best start since Jack Leggett’s 2002 team opened 13-0 and finished 54-17 with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou softball standout Kara Daly is the SEC freshman of the week after hitting four home runs in three days over the weekend in the Mizzou Tournament. The former Jefferson City star has hit a home run in every home game to start her MU career. She was 7-for-11 with nine RBI
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Wake Forest says second-year coach Steve Forbes has signed a “long-term” contract extension as he leads a rapid rise for the long-struggling Demon Deacons program. The school announced the deal Monday. It came the same day the Atlantic Coast Conference picked Forbes as coach of the year. The private
Continue Reading NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma will dedicate a statue of 2017 Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield on April 23 following its spring football game. Mayfield passed for 4,627 yards and 43 touchdowns in 2017 and led the Sooners to a Big 12 Conference title and the College Football Playoff. The university already has statues of
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By KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Philadelphia Police have made an arrest in connection to a triple stabbing in Mayfair that left a mother and her two sons injured on Sunday. The incident happened on the 3200 block of Knorr Street around 2 p.m. Police say about two
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By Katie Hunt, CNN More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts — giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elongated snout. These extinct giants are among many animals immortalized in an 8-mile-long (13-kilometer-long) frieze of rock
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A judge had denied bail to former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he fired at a pickup truck carrying a man accused of sexually abusing a 4-year-old family member. Velasquez was arrested last week in San Jose. Prosecutors say he chased
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Cash-stripped Sudan has announced it will float the country’s currency as economic conditions deteriorate further, some four months after a military coup plunged the African nation into further turmoil. The Central Bank of Sudan said on Monday that banks and exchange firms will determine the value of
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama”
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis has broken his own world pole vault record with a 6.19-meter clearance at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting. Duplantis set the record of 6.18 in February 2020 indoors in Glasgow. He missed his first two attempts at 6.19 on Monday. On his third and final try, he nudged
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By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN A powerful, bipartisan group in Congress announced Monday that it would craft legislation suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and grant the White House the authority to increase tariffs on the two countries, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a significant statement, four top
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By Steve Contorno and Carma Hassan, CNN The Florida Department of Health will recommend against Covid-19 vaccinations for healthy children, the state’s top public health official said Monday, putting the state at odds with the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommended that children get vaccinated in November, when
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La Federación Internacional de Gimnasia (FIG) criticó el “comportamiento ofensivo” del atleta ruso Ivan Kuliak en un evento de la Copa del Mundo de Gimnasia Artística en Doha, Qatar. La FIG no dio detalles sobre la conducta que condenó. Pero, la declaración se produjo después de que el gimnasta de 20
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By Eric Levenson and Stella Chan, CNN Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, was driven by her own “narcissistic behavior” in the hoax, Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson told “Good Morning America” on Monday. “It is a case of calculated deception driven, I think, by her narcissistic
Continue ReadingDaniela Patiño (CNN Español) — La cantautora Vivir Quintana conversó con CNN sobre sus experiencias tras crear una de las canciones que ha unido a las mujeres de Latinoamérica en la lucha contra la violencia de género. Desde su estreno en 2020, la canción ha sido reversionada por cantantes y colectivos feministas en Colombia, Argentina,
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — FIFA has intervened to allow foreign players and coaches based in Russia to leave their clubs, although only for the rest of the season. Clubs in other countries will be allowed to sign up to two players who had been at clubs in Russia or
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The City of Columbia said it will open its overnight warming center at Wabash Bus Station on Monday night after the National Weather Service forecast overnight low temperatures below 25 degrees.
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts have established the Tony Dungy Diversity Fellowship to advance the opportunities for football coaching candidates. The program in honor of the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, announced Monday by the Irsay family that owns the Colts, will provide the team with access to talented coaches while fostering and
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno and Carma Hassan, CNN The Florida Department of Health will recommend against Covid-19 vaccinations for healthy children, the state’s top public health official said Monday, putting the state at odds with the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommended that children get vaccinated in November, when
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By Nadia Kounang, CNN People who have even a mild case of Covid-19 may have accelerated aging of the brain and other changes to it, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature, is believed to be the largest of its kind. It found that the brains of those who
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