Year: 2024

Every player in MLB wants the chance to play in the World Series some day.  With the New York Yankees set to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Fall Classic starting Friday, Nestor Cortes Jr., who has not pitched all postseason due to an elbow injury, wants to help his team win four games…

Colin Kaepernick may remain in NFL shape, but that does not mean the polarizing former quarterback is watching games each week.  In fact, he revealed during an appearance at the WSJ Tech Live Conference in California this week that he has not watched an NFL game in eight years.  Instead, the quarterback-turned-activist who has not…

An Illinois jail continues to teach democracy behind bars, particularly by showing inmates and detainees how they can vote while incarcerated. Nathaniel Carswell is one of many being temporarily held while not serving a sentence at Cook County Jail’s Division II, which still has barbed wire surrounding the property and the sound of doors getting…

A funeral home in Camden, New Jersey is facing allegations of placing the wrong body in a family’s deceased loved one’s clothes. The family first realized the heartbreaking mistake when they came to inspect the casket ahead of a public viewing. “At or around 4:00 p.m. on February 17th, Plaintiffs approached the casket supposedly holding…

Donald Trump has settled on a closing message, but it’s not clear what final impression Kamala Harris wants to leave with voters in the last two weeks.  Trump, as I’ve reported, has boiled it down to immigration and the economy. Of course, the former president has also wandered off script to talk about Arnold Palmer’s…

A funeral home in Camden, New Jersey is facing allegations of placing the wrong body in a family’s deceased loved one’s clothes. The family first realized the heartbreaking mistake when they came to inspect the casket ahead of a public viewing. “At or around 4:00 p.m. on February 17th, Plaintiffs approached the casket supposedly holding…

A Texas husband and wife are facing charges for an alleged plot to kidnap and kill the man the wife was cheating with. Omar Bishtawi, 48, and Hana Alolaimi, 35, are both charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to Fox 26. The man Alolaimi was cheating with was also married to someone else….

The defense attorney for 15-year-old Carly Gregg says their client deserves a new trial because she was previously treated for hearing voices using horse therapy. In Sept., a jury in Rankin County, Mississippi, found Gregg, 15, guilty on all counts, and prosecutor Kathryn Newman said Gregg had shown “zero remorse.” The teen was charged with…

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 94 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.  Trump has held six news conferences where he took questions from the media since the beginning of August, including another this month after meeting with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp about hurricane…

The moment Los Angeles Lakers and NBA fans alike have been waiting for finally happened on Tuesday night.  History was made as Lakers teammates LeBron and Bronny James became the first father-son duo to ever play in a regular-season NBA game.  LeBron, 39, and Bronny, 20, both checked into the game with four minutes left…