The final season of the four-team College Football Playoff turned out to be the most controversial with an unprecedented snub. Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama were selected Sunday and Florida State became the first unbeaten Power Five conference champion to be excluded from the field. Michigan will face Alabama in… Read More
Italian officials secure leaning tower in Bologna to prevent collapse
Officials have secured the area around one of two 12th Century towers that have become symbolic of the northern city of Bologna, fearing its leaning could lead to collapse. The city on Friday announced 4.3 million euros ($4.7 million) in works to shore up the Garisenda tower, one of the… Read More
Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him, authorities say
A pair of multicolored briefs peeking out above a robbery suspect’s low-slung trousers helped police arrest him more than a year later, federal authorities in New York said Wednesday. The robbery happened at a tobacco shop in Queens on Sept. 14, 2022. Three masked men got out of a Mazda… Read More
Final concert by Kiss prompts a look at the band’s 50-year history
Fifty years ago, four young New Yorkers dragged their guitars, amps and drums to a loft on 23rd Street in New York, dreaming of becoming the biggest band in the world. This weekend, Kiss, the band started by those four — albeit with two different members currently in the fold… Read More
Hurricane season officially ends Thursday after rare California storm
A busy hurricane season that saw the National Hurricane Center in Miami issue the first-ever tropical storm warning for the coast of California and hurricane warnings as far north as Nova Scotia is coming to a close Thursday night. The Atlantic basin had 20 named storms — the fourth-highest total… Read More
Penguins sleep for just a few seconds at a time to guard newborns, study shows
It’s a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day, researchers discovered. Chinstrap penguins in Antarctica need to guard their eggs and chicks around-the-clock in crowded, noisy colonies. So they nod off… Read More
BREAKING: Longtime Supreme Court Justice dead at 93
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, died Friday, the high court said. She was 93. O’Connor was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981. She retired in 2006. In 2021, she announced a likely Alzheimer’s diagnosis. She said at the time in a… Read More
Family of Marine killed in Afghanistan fails to win lawsuit against Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin didn’t have to pay anything to resolve a $25 million lawsuit filed by family members of a Marine killed in Afghanistan after the actor chastised them on social media over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Baldwin’s attorney said. U.S. Southern District of New York… Read More
Species not seen for 80 years and presumed extinct is found again in South Africa
Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a species of mole with an iridescent golden coat and the ability to almost “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn’t been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct. The De Winton’s golden mole — a small,… Read More
CDC issues salmonella warning about pre-cut cantaloupe
Consumers shouldn’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as the number of illnesses and recalls tied to a deadly salmonella outbreak grows. At least 117 people in 34 U.S. states have been sickened by contaminated cantaloupe, including 61 who were hospitalized and… Read More
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