By Wayne Sterling, CNN Fenway Sports Group (FSG), which owns Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and English Premier League team Liverpool, has reached an agreement to acquire controlling interest of the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins. FSG made the announcement on Monday and said as part of the transaction, Hockey Hall of Famer, Mario
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say three people, including two children, have died after an impaired driver left a trail of injuries and damaged vehicles in Nye County. Nevada State Police say the crash happened Sunday around 11:30 a.m. on U.S. Highway 95 near Amargosa Valley. The driver of a Volvo veered out of its
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Fenway Sports Group has reached an agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins that would give the conglomerate controlling interest in one of the NHL’s marquee franchises. The Penguins announced the two sides have come to terms on a deal, which will need to be approved by the
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Fenway Sports Group has reached an agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins that would give the conglomerate controlling interest in one of the NHL’s marquee franchises. The Penguins announced the two sides have come to terms on a deal, which will need to be approved by the
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader says she will renew her push for independence from the United Kingdom next year with the aim of holding a referendum on secession in 2023. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday that the independence campaign “will resume in earnest” in spring 2022 “COVID permitting.” She
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader says she will renew her push for independence from the United Kingdom next year with the aim of holding a referendum on secession in 2023. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday that the independence campaign “will resume in earnest” in spring 2022 “COVID permitting.” She
Continue Reading By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Organizers of the Miss Universe pageant say a contestant tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Israel. The country is pressing ahead with plans to host the pageant despite closing its borders in the face of a newly detected variant. It was unclear if the contestant, who
Continue Reading MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate whose execution by lethal injection was halted nearly four years ago has died after a long fight with cancer. Doyle Hamm’s attorney, Bernard Harcourt, says complications from lymphoma contributed to Hamm’s death in prison on Sunday. He was 64. Hamm was scheduled to be put to death for
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer German coach Ralf Rangnick has been hired as Manchester United manager until the end of the season. The 63-year-old Rangnick has left his role as head of sports and development at Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow to take charge of the English club. United has been led by former player
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple has fired football coach Rod Carey after three lackluster seasons. The Owls completed a 3-9 season on Saturday with their seventh straight lopsided loss, falling to Navy 38-14. Carey went 12-20 at the Philadelphia-based school after being hired away from Northern Illinois in January 2019.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, a jury has been picked in New York City to determine whether Ghislaine Maxwell was his puppet or accomplice. Twelve jurors and six alternates will hear Maxwell’s case, starting with opening statements expected later Monday. Maxwell is accused of recruiting and grooming young
Continue Reading German government people have suggested that big crowds at sports events should be reduced. That follows a weekend which featured one empty-stadium Bundesliga game and another with a crowd of 50,000. Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert says it is “really hard to understand” how 50,000 people can attend an event when the official
Continue Reading LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four children and a woman have been found shot to death in a Southern California home and that a man believed to be the children’s father has been detained. The victims were found Sunday night in a home in the city of Lancaster in the high desert Antelope Valley
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Joy Behar offered up some life advice that was not well received by some. During a recent episode of “The View,” the comic weighed in on a conversation about talking politics over Thanksgiving dinner. Behar suggested that gay people who haven’t come out to their families yet do so. “I’d
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Stocks made a comeback Monday, bouncing back from the steep selloff at the end of last week, when investors feared the Omicron Covid variant could disrupt the global economic rebound. Reports of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus brought back memories of last summer when the fast-spreading Delta variant
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Fears about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 rattled the world’s financial markets Friday and early Monday morning. But shares of the major coronavirus vaccine makers were getting a boost from the latest pandemic jitters. Moderna soared more than 20% during Black Friday’s abbreviated session of trading on Wall
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CNN By Nick Watt and Jack Hannah, CNN Founded 68 years ago, the Cubs, the football team of the California School for the Deaf Riverside, had never reached a championship game. “I mean, the team stunk, quite honestly,” Jordy Valencia, the team’s 6-foot-2 starting wide receiver told CNN. “CSDR were often viewed as kind of
Continue Reading By Nick Watt and Jack Hannah, CNN Founded 68 years ago, the Cubs, the football team of the California School for the Deaf Riverside, had never reached a championship game. “I mean, the team stunk, quite honestly,” Jordy Valencia, the team’s 6-foot-2 starting wide receiver told CNN. “CSDR were often viewed as kind of a
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, Naomi Thomas and Karla Cripps, CNN Governments are trying to buy time with a rash of new travel restrictions as they figure out the potential impact of Omicron. But the restrictions are being criticized by some officials and medical experts as ineffective and potentially damaging to global coronavirus tracking. “I think this
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says Temple has fired football coach Rod Carey after three seasons with the school. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Monday because the firing was not officially announced. The Owls completed a 3-9
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