CRESCENT — It always seems there is an unknown when tournament time rolls around. Be it a sleeper team that makes noise or a player that silences the noise. Joe Myers has been that player so far in the Ohio Valley Baseball League’s postseason. The right-handed Bishop Donahue grad went ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Love Island USA” will crown the winning couple of its seventh season Sunday evening, culminating a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits. The finale will air on Peacock at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Eastern, following a chart-topping run since the ...
OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers condemned Florida's new Everglades immigration detention center after visiting Saturday, describing it as crowded, unsanitary and bug-infested. Republicans on the same tour said they saw nothing of the sort at the remote facility that officials have dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz." The state-arranged tour came after some Democrats were blocked earlier from viewing the 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. So many state legislators and members of Congress turned up Saturday that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout and appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base after the administration’s decision this week to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never existed in the first place, sparked a contentious conversation between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House earlier ...
BEND, Texas (AP) — Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the town of Bend, about two hours north of Austin, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his stranded ostrich hens. Matthew Ketterman spent several agonizing hours trapped on top of his truck amid coursing rapids after driving out to check the fences on his exotic game ranch outside Burnet, about an hour south of Bend. And the overflowing San Gabriel River knocked Christmas trees sideways and staff had to get petting zoo animals into a ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – St. Clairsville Post 159 walked a tightrope on their way to a 6-5 victory over Wheeling Post 1 in an eventful game which saw the two squads go tit-for-tat until Post 159 scored on an error in the bottom of the seven to walk off Wheeling. Wheeling took the lead in the second inning upon an RBI base hit from Ryland Robb, and extended their lead to 3-0 in the top of the fourth, but St. Clairsville tied the game in the bottom half with a three-spot. A single by Max Miller and double by Rowan Mellott drove in a trio of runs for Post 159. Wheeling and St. Clairsville each ...
