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The NCAA allocated $28 million for the Division I men’s basketball championship for the 2018-19 season, nearly twice the amount budgeted for the women’s basketball championship that season, its budget report shows. CNN obtained the budget document on Friday from the NCAA. The New York Times was the first to report on the issue. The

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a transgender sports bill into law Friday requiring students to prove their sex at birth in order to play in middle and high school sports. The bill states that “a student’s gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be

Click here for updates on this story     SANFORD, Michigan (WNEM) — A Sanford family was lucky to avert disaster last year as their home was spared by the dam failures, but their house is now destroyed after a fire ripped through. Karrie Ludwig, her husband Randy, and their 15-year-old son Dylan lost everything to a

Xiaojie Tan, one of eight people killed in last week’s Atlanta-area spa shootings, was remembered at her funeral Friday for forging her own way in business, raising her daughter well and treating her customers as friends. And if Americans could learn from her example, “the violence and bloodshed might stop,” her ex-husband said at the

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We are getting a first look inside the investigation of a deadly attack on a corrections officer. An inmate murdered 45-year-old Joseph Gomm at the Stillwater prison in 2018. WCCO investigates what the never-before-seen evidence reveals and the warning the killer had sent in the

Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI BEACH, Florida (WFOR) — On Sunday March 21, when police closed popular Ocean Drive at 8 p.m., not everyone went home. Some people continued the party on the streets of residential Meridian Avenue, just a few blocks over. “Over 1,000 people easily,” said John Walter, who lives

Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck led police on a slow-speed pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles early Friday morning that lasted more than five hours. The chase started at around 1 a.m. in Burbank when officers spotted the truck, ran

Click here for updates on this story     GOSHEN, New York (WCBS) — That’s one driver on a fast track for trouble. According to State Police, a trooper patrolling on State Route 17 in Goshen Sunday just after 10 a.m. spotted an Infiniti G35 going 117 mph on the 65 mph road. The trooper pursued the

Click here for updates on this story     PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Teeth! Who would have thought they could be so impacted by the pandemic, but the Pennsylvania Dental Association says they absolutely are. Dr. John Pawlowicz who’s dad and brothers are all dentists says the pandemic impact has come in an interesting way. “So many people

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s not something you see every day: sharks swimming in a container on the back of a truck on a Maryland highway! A woman filmed a video when she was on I-895 in Baltimore. In the video, you can see the sharks swimming in a

Click here for updates on this story     RANCHO CORDOVA, California (KOVR) — If you come across a bear, that bear’s first instinct should be to run away, but researchers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have come across some bears with very odd behavior. “Someone opened the trunk and it climbed in the

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A Bay Area lawmaker is seeking to decriminalize jaywalking in California, saying such citations are disproportionately issued to people of color and have led to life-threatening encounters with law enforcement. “In California, jaywalking citations are enforced entirely arbitrarily,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco).

Long gone are the days when you only needed your phone, keys, and wallet to walk out the door (hello masks). With Covid-19 vaccinations becoming more widespread, you may soon need to carry proof that you’ve been vaccinated to do something like travel or go to a concert. While some companies have been working on