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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Gainesville: Florida's baseball team moved its game to an 8 p.m. start Saturday after Miami's late contest with Troy finished at 1:48 a.m., invoking the NCAA 12-hour rule; Florida then beat Miami 22-10 on May 31 to advance in the Gainesville Regional and set up a final versus Troy, with...
AAFS Infrastructure and Energy, a little-known company registered in Sarajevo, is close to securing contracts worth more than $1 billion to build and operate a fossil-gas pipeline across the Balkans. The pipeline would carry U.S.-shipped gas aimed at reducing regional dependence on Russian energy. AAFS has attracted scrutiny because its...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, California – A newly reported wildfire, designated LAC-187617, was detected on private land in Los Angeles County at 6:05 a.m. local time on May 30, 2026. Emergency response teams have been notified and are working to assess the size, location, and behavior of the blaze, but officials...
Hackers from the ShinyHunters group have published what they claim are more than 42 million customer records stolen from Charter Communications, the operator of Spectrum internet, cable, and mobile services in the United States. According to the attackers, the breach began on April 1, 2026, when they used voice phishing...
LUBBOCK, Texas – Court filings in Lubbock, Texas, made public on Friday, May 29, 2026, allege that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby placed at least 40 bets involving Indiana University football while he was playing for the Hoosiers. District court documents state that Sorsby used sportsbook accounts registered to a...
