TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs promoted Hockey Hall of Famer Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf to assistant general manager and hired Curtis Sanford as a goaltending coach. Wickenheiser, a four-time Olympic gold medalist with the Canadian women’s hockey team, joined the Leafs as assistant director of player development in 2018 and
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a huge and sudden blow on Tuesday when two of his top ministers announced their resignations, saying they could no longer work for a government mired in scandal. Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced their decisions to quit within minutes of
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The Los Angeles Sparks have been on roll lately, battling their way back to just below .500 after a slow start to the season. Los Angeles has won four of its past five games and a big reason why is the play of All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and free agent
Continue Reading EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Islanders have hired Doug Houda and Brian Wiseman as coaches. The Islanders announced the additions to new coach Lane Lambert’s staff on Tuesday. Houda joins the Islanders after six seasons as an assistant with the Detroit Red Wings. He had worked the previous decade in the same
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By Devon M. Sayers and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida’s law banning abortions at 15 weeks will remain in effect after the state filed an appeal Tuesday that stayed a state judge’s order temporarily blocking the ban. In a verbal ruling last week, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said that the Florida law was
Continue Reading PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — The Coachella Valley Firebirds have hired the American Hockey League’s first female assistant coach. Jessica Campbell spent the past year working with the Tri-City Storm of the USHL development program and she was an assistant coach with Germany at the IIHF men’s world championships. Coachella Valley is set to begin
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL star Demaryius Thomas, who died last December at age 33, had CTE, his family said Tuesday. Boston University CTE Center researchers diagnosed the four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy following a brain study through the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Thomas’ family released the findings of the
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in suburban St. Louis say a 70-year-old man who grew frustrated caring for his disabled 63-year-old sister beat her, leading to her death. Police say Anthony Sokolich on Sunday called medics and officers to his home in an unincorporated part of St. Louis County, saying his sister was unresponsive. Police
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By Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and Nectar Gan, CNN A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible for more than a year — until an anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data and brought it to wider
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Casi tres años después del “estallido social” en las calles de Chile, que llevó a un plebiscito para cambiar la constitución y finalmente a un cambio de gobierno en las últimas elecciones, el paÃs tiene el borrador final de su nueva Constitución, que se someterá a votación el 4 de
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A boil order in California remained in effect Tuesday after Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources reported a positive test for E. coli in the city’s water last Wednesday.
Continue Reading EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — University officials say a wide receiver on the Emporia State football team died over the weekend in a cliff-diving accident. Brexten Green died Saturday at Grand Lake in Oklahoma. He came to Emporia State from Cashion High School in Cashion, Oklahoma. Emporia State President Ken Hush said Tuesday in a campus-wide
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EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — University officials say a wide receiver on the Emporia State football team died over the weekend in a cliff-diving accident. Brexten Green died Saturday at Grand Lake in Oklahoma. He came to Emporia State from Cashion High School in Cashion, Oklahoma. Emporia State President Ken Hush said Tuesday in a campus-wide
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic has erased a two-set deficit against 10th-seeded Jannik Sinner to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the 11th time. Djokovic came back to win 5-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 at Centre Court. It is his 26th consecutive victory at the All England Club. Djokovic
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Curtright is leaving to take a job in Oklahoma as COO at OU Health, MU Health said in a news release Tuesday. He has led MU Health Care since 2016.
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By Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the European Organization for
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the European Organization for
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El tenista Nick Kyrgios deberá comparecer ante un tribunal el mes que viene en Canberra, la capital de Australia, tras haber agredido supuestamente a su exnovia a finales del año pasado, según informa la prensa australiana. Cuando se le preguntó sobre la acusación este martes, la policÃa australiana dijo a CNN en
Continue Reading By The Associated Press EUROPEAN TOUR AND PGA TOUR GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN Site: North Berwick, Scotland. Course: The Renaissance Club. Yardage: 7,237. Par: 71. Prize money: $8 million. Winner’s share: $1.44 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel), noon to 3 p.m. (CBS). Defending champion:
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN A gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people and injured dozens more on a July Fourth parade route on Monday, setting off a manhunt that paralyzed the Chicago region before a suspect was apprehended by police later in the day. The wounded ranged from ages 8 to 85. All the
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