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Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar has been banned from Major League Baseball following an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct in 2014, the league announced Friday. Alomar, who retired before the 2005 season, has also been terminated from his job as a consultant to Major League Baseball. Commissioner Robert Manfred said his office

Once there was a bustling construction zone here. Now it’s like a ghost town, frozen in time. Heavy machinery is parked and motionless. Stacks of steel bollards stretch as far as the eye can see. The Trump administration built more than 450 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border — including hundreds of miles of

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A group of St. Paul high school students walked out of class Thursday to address the issues of social justice and racism. More than 100 Cretin-Derham Hall students dressed in black walked in solidarity to express their feelings about what some students have had to

Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer employed” by the department, Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer said Friday. Karen Garner was arrested in June for walking out of a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items, according to a federal lawsuit

Ma’Khia Bryant loved styling her curly hair in front of her camera phone and posting about it on TikTok. “This was a child that had so much love in her heart,” her cousin Don Bryant said at her funeral on Friday. “A smart girl, capable, and deserving of fulfilling all her hopes and dreams in

Click here for updates on this story     AUSTIN, Texas (KTVT) — It sounds like science fiction but “ghost voting” is a real, if little-known legal practice at the Texas state capitol. And it happens thousands of times during the legislative session. During most votes in the House, members use buttons to vote from their desks

Click here for updates on this story     BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Three plumbers rescued a man after he fell into a creek next to a T stop in Bethel Park. John Oakes’ is the owner of All Pro Plumbing, which is located near The T stop on Logan Road. On Thursday morning, Oakes was

After four successful flights on Mars, the Ingenuity helicopter is graduating to a new phase of its mission and will fly for at least another month on the red planet. The little 4-pound chopper has achieved all of its objectives — and now it will chase after new ones. This also means the Perseverance rover

Click here for updates on this story     GROVE CITY, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — When the virus locked people out of nursing homes, one Grove City man found a creative way to get in. “On a Positive Note,” he shows us why time is always more valuable than money. Wayne Winarski enters the kitchen every afternoon around

Click here for updates on this story     PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The Jersey shore is the place to be this summer. With coronavirus restrictions slowly being lifted, more and more people are making plans to put their toes in the sand in a few months. And that’s driving up demand for rental homes with Memorial Day

Click here for updates on this story     PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — All across our region there are thousands of unsolved mysteries. It takes just one memory or tip that could help close one of these cold cases and bring closure for both families and detectives who’ve vowed to never give up hope. We kick off our

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — There’s new video of the moment two Chicago police officers made a decision that saved the life of a 13-year-old boy in South Chicago. Swaysee Rankin was walking with his 14-year-old cousin Monday night at 82nd and Coles when someone in a red Jeep shot

Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — A shooting at an iconic Brooklyn steakhouse left two innocent men hurt as they were dining outside at Peter Luger Steakhouse in Williamsburg. The suspect, Arkies Sommerville, remained in custody Friday and was charged with two counts of attempted murder in addition to several

Click here for updates on this story     GOLD RIVER, California (KOVR) — California’s water woes and slow-running rivers in the Central Valley are causing a big problem for the state’s salmon stocking program. Instead of releasing them into the river, where they’d likely die under current conditions, hundreds of thousands of salmon will be hitching