PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns have hired Morgan Cato as an assistant general manager and vice president of basketball operations. She becomes the first woman of color hold an assistant GM title for an NBA franchise. Cato comes to Phoenix after spending nearly a decade with the NBA league office, where she most recently
Continue ReadingBy Jermont Terry Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — Video shows a Good Samaritan stepping in to help a store clerk during an attack on the city’s North Side last week. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Monday night, what the attacker didn’t know was that the Good Samaritan also
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story FREEMAN TOWNSHIP, Minnesota (WCCO) — A semi truck’s blown tire caused a fatal crash in southern Minnesota Monday morning, the state patrol said. It happened just after 8 a.m. on southbound Interstate 35 in Freeman Township. The state patrol said a 45-year-old Wisconsin man driving
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN A wildfire in southern New Jersey has grown to more than 13,500 acres in size, but is now 85% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Tuesday. The fire in Wharton State Forest had almost doubled in size since Monday morning, when it was reported to have burned 7,200 acres,
Continue ReadingBy Dan Noyes Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The brother of San Francisco Mayor London Breed appeared in court on Monday asking that his 44-year sentence for murder, robbery and carjacking be reduced. The ABC7 I-Team was there as the mayor’s brother, Napoleon Brown, reacted to the case being
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Las Vegas and Chicago will meet in the second annual Commissioner’s Cup championship game next month. This year the in-season competition title game will be played at the home of the team with the better record, which right now is Las Vegas. The Aces can clinch the home game
Continue ReadingBy Dion Lim Click here for updates on this story SAN LEANDRO, California (KGO) — San Leandro police arrested a man on hate crime charges after multiple instances of anti-Asian graffiti were found on a home along Inverness Street over the weekend. According to police, someone vandalized a for-sale sign in front of the home
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By JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — The downtown Huntington Bank building, the tallest building in Saginaw, has stood at Washington and East Genesee since 1925. Developers want to turn the 170,000 square-foot building into a 120-unit apartment complex with commercial space. Saginaw City Council members voted Monday
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Philip Donahue, a staple of Market Basket stores in Lowell and Tewksbury, is calling it a career after nearly three decades. Donahue, who has Down Syndrome, is retiring after working as an associate for 27 years, the company announced on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Two ambulances collide head-on late Monday night in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It happened around 10:30 p.m. on Union Street near Seventh Avenue. Police said both ambulances were responding to an intoxicated man near the Barclays Center. One ambulance struck
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer American investor John Textor has become the main shareholder of French soccer club Lyon and he immediately targeted the dominance of Qatar-funded rival Paris Saint-Germain. Lyon last won the French title in 2008 and has struggled to compete as PSG spent lavishly to win Ligue 1 in eight of
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Philadelphia police are searching for the driver of a Tesla wanted in a deadly hit-and-run in the city’s Germantown neighborhood. An image of the dark grey Tesla released by police shows extreme damage to the passenger side windshield. When officers arrived
Continue ReadingBy GARRETT BEHANNA Click here for updates on this story GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A burial service for the remains of unclaimed soldiers has now been moved to a different venue. Last month, Westmoreland County Coroner, Tim Carson, discovered boxed cremated remains sitting in a room at the county’s forensics facility. Carson, along with the
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Former Missouri governor and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens defended a campaign ad that sparked harsh backlash in a radio appearance Tuesday morning.
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By Melanie Zanona, Gabby Orr and Zachary Cohen, CNN Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, riot as it lifts the curtain on some of its findings with public hearings that have garnered gavel-to-gavel cable coverage — much to the annoyance of the TV-obsessed former President. Tucked
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By Katie Hunt, CNN An inability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds in later life is linked to nearly double the risk of death from any cause within the next decade, according to a new study. The simple balance test may be useful to include in routine physical exams for people in middle
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua have gone head-to-head for the first time since their rematch for the world heavyweight championship was announced. The boxers attended a news conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where the Aug. 20 fight will take place. It culminated with Usyk, the WBA, WBO and IBF
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has reached an agreement to settle 20 of the 24 civil lawsuits that had been filed by women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment, an attorney for the women said Tuesday. Watson, who has been accused by massage therapists
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida (WALA) — An Okaloosa County deputy was sent to the hospital after a man threw meth in his face, the sheriff’s office said. Investigators said they stopped 35-year-old Todd Adams of Mississippi and asked him to get out of his car.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former teacher at a private Christian school in Wichita has pleaded guilty to one count of having sexual relations with a student under 16 and faces prison time when he’s sentenced later this summer. Police arrested Matthew McFarren, who had been a high school teacher and assistant soccer coach at
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