Federal prosecutors have unveiled a betting ring involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association game fixing, charging 26 people, including current and former college basketball players. The case involves gamblers placing bets and bribing players with large cash payouts for underperforming during a game, even texting players pictures of stacks of money if they complied. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the investigation is ongoing and shows a "significant corruption of the integrity of sports," according to coverage in APNew.com.
I was grabbing a hold of any and all connections that felt good or safe, she said. Leone thought she found that after a relative recommended she talk with a self-described medicine man named Nathan Chasing Horse. As a child, Chasing Horse had acted in the 1990 Oscar-winning movie Dances with Wolves. As an adult, he traveled North America performing healing ceremonies.
As lightweight champion Ilia Topuria takes a short hiatus, Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett will fight for the interim lightweight title in the main event at UFC 324 on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas. Volkanovski picks Pimblett to beat Gaethje. The UFC featherweight champion has seen Pimblett pass enough tests to prove his mettle. Volkanovski also saw Pimblett's ability to stick to a game plan in his latest stoppage win over Michael Chandler.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield's attorneys told a court Friday he should be released while he awaits the outcome of child sex abuse charges against him because an independent investigation undermined the state's allegations, the parents of his accusers have a history of fraud and dishonesty, and he passed a polygraph test. Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he turned himself in to face charges stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico.
"Every day that the entire crew is present on the ship, a trouble call has been made for ship's force personnel to repair or unclog a portion of the VCHT system, since June 2023," reads an undated document provided by the Navy, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The carrier has called for help outside the ship 42 times since 2023.
An Abington man was arrested Friday morning after police say he attempted to set fire to the Abington Police Chief's cruiser outside department headquarters. Authorities said that around 9 a.m., a lieutenant spotted the suspect, identified as 39-year-old Franklin Cederholm, pouring gasoline on the chief's marked cruiser parked right outside the station at 215 Central St. Surveillance video released by the Abington Police Department shows a man approaching the SUV and pouring liquid onto the driver's side of the vehicle.
A helicopter flies low across the water at night before heavily armed figures rappel to the ground, take their positions and break down a door. It's not a trailer for a movie, a video game or a recap of a Pentagon operation. Instead, it's a video from the Department of Homeland Security showcasing Border Patrol agents at work. Despite the combative visuals, it is captioned with the Bible verse, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk's Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a few miles north of the Provo courthouse. Prosecutors with the Utah County Attorney's Office plan to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. Robinson has not yet entered a plea. An 18-year-old child of a deputy county attorney attended the campus event where Kirk was shot.
Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last week, was struck four times in the gunfire, the fire department said. When first responders reached her, 36-year-old Good was unresponsive in the driver seat of her maroon Honda pilot, and her pulse was inconsistent and irregular, according to report obtained by the Star Tribune.
According to a Minneapolis fire department incident report obtained by the Guardian, along with police records and 911 transcripts, paramedics arrived at the scene at about 9.42am on 7 January and found Good unresponsive in the driver's seat of her car, with blood on her face and torso. The report states that paramedics removed Good from the car and reported that she was unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity.
The arrest of the older brother of Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua and another man, initially suspected of taking Laker rookie Adou Thiero's BMW, in December 2025 stemmed from a misunderstanding, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Samson Nacua, 27, took the SUV from a valet believing the car was his brother's, investigators said.
An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy allegedly shot his father to death after previously having his Nintendo Switch handheld gaming system taken away. The boy is facing criminal homicide charges after a 13 January shooting at his family's home in Duncannon Borough. As put in court documents obtained and reported by WGAL News 8, the case illustrates how easily children can access guns in the US, where firearms are ubiquitous.
A 59-year-old man was charged Thursday with the nearly 30-year-old cold case strangulation murder of an unidentified woman inside a Queens motel - decades after he was convicted of killing a woman in Brooklyn in a similar way, prosecutors said. Jose Velasquez, 59, formerly of Astoria, now stands accused of fatally strangling a "Jane Doe" victim - believed to be between 25 and 35 years old - inside Room 119 of the since-shuttered Turf Motel on 14th Street near Broadway in 1998, the DA's office said.
"Today, I sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the company immediately stop the creation and distribution of deepfake, nonconsensual, intimate images and child sexual abuse material," said California AG Rob Bonta in a press release. "The creation of this material is illegal. I fully expect xAI to immediately comply. California has zero tolerance for [CSAM]."
The US dollar held steady on Friday after Thursday's advance. The stronger-than-expected labour market data supported the currency. The reports reinforced the scenario where the Federal Reserve holds its interest rates unchanged in the near future. Initial jobless claims fell by 9,000, reaching 198,000 claims and contradicting expectations for an increase to 215,000. Continuing claims also declined, extending a downward trend in place since October. Together, these figures suggest labour market conditions remain relatively firm, easing concerns about a rapid deterioration in employment momentum.
A 23-year-old man has been charged with attempting to murder an 11-year-old girl who survived being shot in the head while riding around town with her family, police announced Thursday. Ryan Hardy, of Antioch, was charged with five counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm for allegedly shooting the girl in the early afternoon of Jan. 5, as she rode in a car on the 3900 block of Delta Fair Boulevard, police said.
"I started getting into the frame of mind most people get sucked into. I worried, 'What's going on? Is there something wrong with me?'" he says. That fear of not being able to sleep is a phenomenon called "sleep anxiety," says Orma, who went on to become a specialist in insomnia treatment. Left untreated, that anxiety can prevent people from actually falling asleep. "The more you focus on it, the less chance you'll sleep, which then makes you more anxious. That's the cycle that spins," he says.
"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,"
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person cautioned the information was still preliminary, and the investigation was in its early stages. The person could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
The vote is taking place under an internet blackout and a heavy military presence. Hundreds of activists have been detained, and journalists and human rights groups face restrictions, measures the government calls necessary for security. On Tuesday, the Uganda Communications Commission told mobile operators and internet service providers that the blackout was imposed on the "strong recommendations" of security agencies.
