By Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story ROMULUS, Michigan (WWJ) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered a dolphin skull in unaccompanied luggage at Detroit Metro Airport last week. The luggage was unintentionally separated from its owner during travel, and when the luggage reentered the country, X-ray screenings showed an image
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El cantante de los Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter, presentó una contrademanda contra dos mujeres que lo acusaron de cometer agresión sexual en dos ocasiones hace más de 15 años. La respuesta legal de Carter se produce después de que Shannon “Shay” Ruth presentara una demanda por agresión sexual contra
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has formed a new economic study committee in light of a possible bankruptcy for the company that owns local broadcasting rights to 14 of 30 teams. The committee will gather next week at the owners’ meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. The committee
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has formed a new economic study committee in light of a possible bankruptcy for the company that owns local broadcasting rights to 14 of 30 teams. The committee will gather next week at the owners’ meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. The committee
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox have acquired reliever Franklin German in a trade with the Boston Red Sox. The White Sox sent minor league right-hander Theo Denlinger to Boston for German, who made his major league debut in September. Right-hander Jason Bilous was designated for assignment to make room for German on Chicago’s
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Perennial powers frontloaded the final poll of the 2012-13 college basketball season. Flash forward 10 years and the AP Top 25 has a different look and feel. New programs have risen to the top tier. Upsets have turned up the madness in March even more. A few bluebloods have
Continue ReadingBy WCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — An owl that went missing from the Central Park Zoo is now on the loose in Manhattan. The zoo said the Eurasian eagle owl was reported missing from its exhibit at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The exhibit appeared to be vandalized and
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Disturbing and alarming cell phone video captures the moment a 9-year-old girl is beaten by several older boys while riding on a bus from Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead. “Emotionally, I couldn’t even last two minutes. I couldn’t look at the
Continue Reading VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Two gang members were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, in the January massacre of six people including a baby at a central California home associated with a rival gang, the Tulare County sheriff said. Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Noah David Beard, 25, was taken into custody and Angel “Nanu”
Continue Reading TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama coach Nate Oats has agreed to a new six-year, $30 million contract amid the program’s best regular season in decades. Oats will average $5 million plus incentives over the deal running through the 2028-29 season under a deal approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees Compensation Committee.
Continue Reading By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are wading into the housing crisis with a proposal to free up vacant parcels of state-owned land that could be leased or sold at a discount for affordable housing projects. The proposal is part of a snowballing trend kicked off by cities utilizing
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By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida lawmakers will return to the state Capitol in Tallahassee next week to finalize their efforts to strip the Walt Disney Company of its special governing powers, the latest round of the yearlong feud between Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the entertainment giant. In addition to settling Disney’s future, lawmakers in
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of Amir Locke, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer when a SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant one year ago, are suing the city and the officer. They’re alleging he was “gunned down in cold blood” in violation of his constitutional rights.
Continue Reading GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge says a second-degree murder charge against former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr will go to trial. Judge Christina Elmore on Friday rejected a defense motion to dismiss the case. Schurr was fired after shooting Black motorist Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head last April
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Prosecutors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial are asking a judge to allow jurors to hear from the son of the family’s housekeeper who says Murdaugh promised to take care of them when she died in a fall, but kept a $4 million settlement for himself. Tony Satterfield told a
Continue Reading RAS AL KHAIMAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — David Law’s strong finish has give the Scot a share of the lead with Adrian Meronk and Rasmus Højgaard at the halfway point of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship. Law’s bogey-free 8-under 64 included an eagle and three birdies over the last five holes at Al Hamra
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy ships are getting fewer steaming hours because of growing maintenance delays and costs, a troubling trend that comes as at time when the U.S. is struggling to keep pace with China’s growing fleet. Operating and support costs grew by about $2.5 billion across 10 ship classes while the number of propulsion
Continue Reading By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of “When We” — he’d never released a song that explicit. “He’s like, ‘You’re crazy, but it’s jammin’!’” the R&B singer recalled. “It ended up being my biggest record ever.” Released in 2017, the seductive chorus
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With next year’s Paris Olympics on the horizon and Russia’s invasion looking more like a prolonged conflict, Ukraine’s sports minister on Friday renewed a threat to boycott the games if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete and said Kyiv would lobby other nations to join.
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With next year’s Paris Olympics on the horizon and Russia’s invasion looking more like a prolonged conflict, Ukraine’s sports minister on Friday renewed a threat to boycott the games if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete and said Kyiv would lobby other nations to join.
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