CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio school board outside Cincinnati voted during an emergency meeting on Wednesday to censure a member who said she accidentally posted a link to a pornography site on her campaign’s Facebook page. The board for the Lakota Local School District in Liberty Township also asked Darbi Boddy, 41, to resign. She
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By Peter Nickeas A recent study showed nighttime lighting in New York City public housing complex courtyards could reduce crime, and the reduction in crime held over the three-year period of the study. Though the lighting appeared to reduce crime at the experiment sites in New York, the researchers and other experts cautioned against drawing
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By Mark Gonzales Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Kansas City Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi’s season is in jeopardy after tests Thursday revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. The 26-year-old Mondesi, who played in only 35 games in 2021 because of left hamstring and left oblique injuries, had started 14 of 15
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By Mark Gonzales Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Kansas City Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi’s season is in jeopardy after tests Thursday revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. The 26-year-old Mondesi, who played in only 35 games in 2021 because of left hamstring and left oblique injuries, had started 14 of 15
Continue Reading By Mark Gonzales Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Kansas City Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi’s season is in jeopardy after tests Thursday revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. The 26-year-old Mondesi, who played in only 35 games in 2021 because of left hamstring and left oblique injuries, had started 14 of 15
Continue Reading JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars exercised the fifth-year option in pass rusher Josh Allen’s rookie contract on Thursday. The move keeps Allen under contract for two more seasons and fully guarantees his 2023 salary at $11.5 million. The former Kentucky standout and seventh overall pick in the 2019 NFL draft has 20 1/2
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — UEFA is facing pushback against its overhaul of the Champions League and will review its plans next month. European leagues, more mid-ranking teams and fan groups are still trying to limit changes that favor the wealthiest clubs. UEFA tells The Associated Press its Club Competitions Committee
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Today: Temperatures warm into the mid-’60s for Thursday’s high as winds remain out of the southwest at 8-12 mph. Scattered showers and storms will become more widespread late this afternoon with some lightning possible. Tonight: Showers and storms continue to track across Mid-Missouri along a stalling warm-front leading to temperatures parking into the mid-’50s once
Continue ReadingBy Steven Graves Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Get ready to experience art in a whole new, first-of-its-kind way in A Chicago neighborhood. A transformed venue on the South Side is ready to invite people indoors. As CBS 2’s Steven Graves explains, it comes with the goal of changing the
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins are heading to the Stanley Cup playoffs for a 16th straight season. Yet Sidney Crosby and company aren’t exactly on a tear. Pittsburgh is just 6-9-2 in its last 17 games heading into its regular-season finale against Columbus. Head coach Mike Sullivan is
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Tucked between the Chilean coast and Patagonian mountains lives a small population of sheepdogs, which exists only in that region and in small numbers of only about a few hundred total. These rare herding dogs are not just cute and not just fluffy — though they certainly are those things, too
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By Ella Nilsen and Lauren Fox, CNN Democrats are quickly running out of time to clinch a deal on a climate and clean energy package — one of the last vestiges of President Joe Biden’s original agenda. With just weeks to go before a deadline, what exactly Democratic swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin of West
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By Brian Fung, CNN As the public combs through Elon Musk’s Twitter feed for clues on how the billionaire entrepreneur intends to run the social media platform he’s buying for $44 billion, one mysterious line stands out: “authenticate all real humans.” That cryptic proposal is vague enough to keep people guessing about what Musk has
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants Congress to provide $33 billion to bolster Ukraine’s fight against Russia. The request came Thursday and signals a long-haul American commitment as Moscow’s invasion and the international tensions it has inflamed show no signs of receding. The measure
Continue Reading MUNICH (AP) — Seventh-ranked Casper Ruud took his time finding his rhythm as he beat Alex Molcan 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals at the BMW Open. Ruud is the highest-ranked player in the draw after Alexander Zverev’s surprise loss to 18-year-old Holger Rune on Wednesday. Ruud moves on to face eighth-seeded Botic van
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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN April 28 marks National Superhero Day — and what’s a better way to observe the occasion than to celebrate the world’s most popular superhero? If you go by at least one analysis of the past year’s Google search data, that hero is Spider-Man. According to online entertainment retailer Zavvi, the web
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving to phase out the nation’s second-highest state sales tax on groceries, but Republican lawmakers wouldn’t have the state lower consumers’ bills until after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly faces reelection in November. The House voted 114-3 on Thursday to approve
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Texas man pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court to climbing through a broken window and walking around the US Capitol with his parents and sisters on January 6, 2021. Josh Munn, 24, pleaded guilty to illegally protesting inside the Capitol. He could face up to six months in prison
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los actores Johnny Depp y Amber Heard, más conocidos, quizás, por sus interpretaciones de espadachÃn y guerrera del mar, respectivamente, se encuentran actualmente protagonizando un polémico juicio por difamación en Virginia. Depp demandó a Heard, su exesposa, por US$ 50 millones ya que alega que ella lo difamó con un artÃculo
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — The smile on Peter O’Reilly’s face was as bright as the desert sun. The man in charge of putting together the NFL draft, an event in some ways as difficult as staging a Super Bowl, stood Wednesday near the theater built exclusively for these proceedings. Nearby, 20 prospects were involved in
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