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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer The Great Britain SailGP Team led by former Olympic stars Ben Ainslie and Hannah Mills has signed a three-year partnership with renewable energy company Low Carbon in its quest to become the most sustainable elite sports team in the world. The partnership, announced Monday, is intended to help the
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ANNAPOLIS, Md (AP) — The Maryland Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital is unconstitutional. Maryland’s highest court announced Friday that it will hear an appeal from Maryland’s comptroller in May. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Alison Asti ruled in October that the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame football player Shannon Sharpe apologized Monday after getting into a heated courtside conversation with Memphis Grizzlies players Ja Morant and Dillon Brooks and Morant’s father during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Fox Sports personality issued the apology during the “Undisputed” show with Skip Bayless. “I’ve
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN What if you could look at all the things you do daily — walking from room to room, preparing a presentation at your desk, running up and down stairs to deliver folded laundry or taking a jog around the block — and know which ones will best help or hurt your
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno has decided not to sell the team. Moreno took his franchise off the market Monday after announcing his plan to explore a sale of the team last August. The 76-year-old owner met with prospective buyers during the winter. “During
Continue ReadingBy Matt Petrillo Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — It happened again. Another Temple University student was attacked near the main campus Sunday night. It happened after a town hall was already scheduled with students and university officials over crime in the North Philadelphia area. Temple’s president and the school’s safety
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The Los Angeles Lakers acquired former lottery pick Rui Hachimura from the Washington Wizards on Monday in exchange for Kendrick Nunn and a package of second-round draft picks. Hachimura and the Wizards did not agree on a rookie extension before the season started, which prompted speculation that the Japanese
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By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police plan to indict a Colombian fish trader as mastermind behind the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, on June 5, 2022. According to the investigation, Ruben Dario da Silva Villar provided the ammunition used to kill the pair, made
Continue ReadingBy Samiar Nefzi Click here for updates on this story BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina (WLOS) — Several Haywood County Veterans banded together to lay a soldier to rest. “It’s sombering,” Paul Taylor, adjutant of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 90, said. Last week, U.S. Veteran Thomas Chapman passed away at the V.A. Hospital in Asheville.
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un hombre de Arkansas al que fotografiaron cuando apoyó sus pies sobre un escritorio del despacho de la entonces presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, durante la insurrección del 6 de enero de 2021, fue declarado culpable de ocho cargos por un jurado de la ciudad Washington, este lunes.
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to nullify abortion ordinances that local elected officials passed in recent months in some communities. Democrat Raúl Torrez claims in a writ filed with the court Monday that the ordinances exceed local
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By Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WALA) — For the past couple of days, 18 handlers and their dogs have been getting critical training to help them find missing and endangered people. It’s all part of Spike’s Tracking School which is part of Spike’s K9 Fund. “We provide sponsorships
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right extremists accused of plotting to forcibly keep President Donald Trump in power. The verdict against Joseph Hackett
Continue Reading By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is scheduled to be executed for killing a woman after escaping from prison in 1990. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Monday for 59-year-old Donald David Dillbeck. He is schedule to die Feb. 23 by lethal injection for the 1990 murder
Continue Reading CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The actual amount of pandemic
Continue Reading By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two students were killed Monday and an adult employee was injured in what police said was a targeted shooting at a Des Moines school that is dedicated to helping at-risk youth, and three suspects were arrested afterward. The shooting was at an
Continue Reading HONOLULU (AP) — Luke Shepardson was declared the winner in one of the world’s most prestigious and storied surfing contests held in Hawaii over the weekend for the first time in seven years. Shepardson was declared the winner Sunday of The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, while John John Florence — the winner of the
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