Texas Eliminates Tennessee In WCWS Semifinals After Comeback

 

Oklahoma City. Texas eliminated Tennessee in a deciding Women's College World Series semifinal game Monday, ending the Volunteers' season; earlier this week Tennessee reached the semifinals by defeating Texas Tech on Saturday with Emma Clarke's ninth-inning walk-off home run. Texas had also won the opening semifinal match 5-2, prompting the...

Maine Senate Candidate Faces Sexting Allegations, Campaign Reacts

 

Portland, Maine. Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign disclosed that his wife, Amy Gertner, informed campaign aides that she found sexually explicit text messages exchanged between Platner and multiple women, a development reported publicly over the weekend and first flagged by campaign staff last summer as the campaign prepared for a...

London royals unsettled by Sarah Ferguson controversy reports

 

Members of the British royal family are reportedly experiencing renewed internal tension following a recent, unspecified action by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. According to unnamed insiders cited in the article, Prince William is described as furious, while King Charles and Queen Camilla are said to view the situation as...

Alabama defeats Nebraska 5-1 in WCWS winners bracket

 

OKLAHOMA CITY — Alabama defeated Nebraska 5-1 at Devon Park on Saturday night, May 30, in a Women's College World Series winners-bracket game. Marlie Giles hit a three-run home run in the first inning that provided the early margin, and Nebraska's lone run came on a Hannah Camenzind solo homer;...

Oklahoma coach banned after ordering dugout beanball

 

A 38-year-old youth baseball coach from Oklahoma, identified as Michael Ryals, has been permanently banned from all sanctioned events after directing his 12-year-old son to throw a baseball at an opposing team’s dugout during a recent youth tournament. Witnesses said the pitch, thrown in apparent retaliation following disputes over officiating...

United States charges Google worker over Polymarket bets

 

U.S. authorities have charged a Google employee with insider trading for allegedly using confidential internal search trend data to profit from wagers on Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market. Investigators say the employee accessed non-public information on search volumes related to geopolitical events and corporate activities, enabling highly accurate bets that...

Weekend weather: Denver storms, Maui mostly sunny forecast

 

Denver meteorologists forecast isolated afternoon storms Saturday and strong-to-severe storms in northeastern Colorado Saturday evening, including severe thunderstorm and tornado watches from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., before skies clear and Sunday brings sunny, seasonally warm conditions with highs near 80 and continued thunderstorm chances into Monday through Wednesday. Maui...

Drone-assisted arrest follows fatal Carroll County deputy shooting

 

CARROLL COUNTY, Va. — Deputies from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office responded to a welfare check at 13658 Fancy Gap Highway on Friday at 9:26 p.m., where they made contact with a man identified as Michael Puckett. During the interaction, Puckett opened fire on the deputies, who returned fire. Both...

Longview, Washington confirms ninth death in chemical disaster

 

Authorities in Longview, Washington have confirmed a ninth fatality following the May 26, 2026 chemical tank failure at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company. Recovery teams are continuing to search for the remains of two additional missing individuals amid concerns over the structural stability of damaged industrial equipment. The ruptured tank,...

United States inflation gauge climbs, complicating Fed outlook

 

U.S. inflation accelerated in April, with a key Federal Reserve gauge rising to 3.8%, the highest level since May 2023, the Commerce Department reported on May 28. The annual rate, up from 3.5% in March, and a 0.4% monthly increase underscore broad-based price pressures in groceries, clothing, electricity, and gasoline....