Fayetteville — The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Arkansas catcher Ryder Helfrick with the No. 15 pick in the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday in Philadelphia. Helfrick, a right-handed-hitting backstop known for defense and power, tied the Cape Cod League lead with 11 homers in 2024 and later slugged .616 with 15...
DEMOREST, Ga. The Demorest City Council unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement Thursday authorizing Mayor Jerry Harkness to sign support for a proposed countywide one-cent sales tax under House Bill 581 and Senate Bill 33, moving Habersham County closer to placing the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot to reduce property...
Des Moines: Major Brad Hovey, a 35-year-old Iowa native and U.S. Air Force pilot, returned this week to his hometown of Adel following a mid‑June B‑52 test flight crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California that killed eight people. Hovey, assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron, was identified...
Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board met Thursday, July 9, 2026, in Wolfsburg, Germany, to examine a sweeping restructuring plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume. According to internal sources, the proposal under consideration includes cutting up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and permanently closing four major German production plants. The plans have...
MONTVILLE, New Jersey – Authorities confirmed that 20-year-old Milania Giudice, daughter of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice, was arrested and charged with simple assault following a domestic dispute at the family’s Montville mansion on May 14, 2026. According to records from the Montville Township Police Department,...
San Francisco-based OpenAI on Thursday released its GPT-5.6 frontier model family for general availability and introduced ChatGPT Work, an agentic AI tool designed to execute complex professional tasks across applications and files. The GPT-5.6 lineup consists of three models: Sol, the flagship model that OpenAI says delivers significant performance gains...
PHOENIX, Arizona — A prolonged extreme heat wave is scorching the western United States this week, with forecasters warning that some desert communities could reach 117°F. The hottest conditions are expected in southern California’s Coachella Valley, including Palm Springs, on Thursday and Friday, where temperatures could climb to a dangerously...
The NBA has paused a proposed trade sending Kawhi Leonard from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Toronto Raptors while it investigates potential salary cap circumvention involving Leonard’s endorsement deals. The June 30 agreement would move Leonard to Toronto in exchange for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, multiple unprotected first-round picks,...
In Nevada on July 9, 2026, retired NFL center Jason Kelce offered the first public family remarks on the wedding of his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, to singer Taylor Swift. Speaking at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in South Lake Tahoe, he called the...
A federal grand jury in Columbus, Ohio, on July 9, 2026, indicted eight men accused of plotting a coordinated drone and sniper attack on the “UFC Freedom 250” mixed martial arts event planned for the South Lawn of the White House. Prosecutors say the conspiracy began in May 2026 and...
