A heartbreaking 911 call was played in court as Tracey Nix stands trial for aggravated manslaughter in the death of her granddaughter. What’s truly shocking is that the little girl is the second grandchild to die while in the grandmother’s care. Less than a year earlier, her 18-month-old grandson drowned in a pond on her […]
In the wake of a New Year’s attack on Bourbon Street that resulted in 10 deathsthe New Orleans police department superintendent indicated that Wednesday night’s College Football Playoff Sugar Bowl quarterfinal between Georgia and Notre Dame at the Superdome will go on as planned. Anne Kirkpatrick said a man intentionally drove a pickup truck around […]
The Baseball Hall of Famer was one of three players to ever steal 100 bases or more in three separate seasons
Dr. David Dekker is a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Business School, part of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Dekker is an expert in social network theory, a science which merges mathematics and sociology. Credit: Heriot-Watt University Researchers have developed a new way of understanding international relations by analyzing almost 200 years of alliances, hostilities […]
A slew of actors have played Santa Claus over the years, in various forms. No matter your holiday mood, there is a Santa to suit it. There is the reluctant Santa (Tim Allen in The Santa Clause), the con man Santa (Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa), the rockin’ Santa (Kurt Russell in The Christmas […]
The Midwest played a crucial role in the growth of Black freedom movements and in expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey in the 20th century. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign African American studies and history professor Erik S. McDuffie examined the importance of the region in his new book, “The Second Battle for Africa: […]
The idea that comets delivered water to early Earth has fallen out of favor in the past decade, but a new look at data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission to an iconic “rubber ducky” comet has reopened that possibility. Water has a pretty simple chemical makeup: just three atoms (two hydrogen and […]
Daniel Craig said in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he couldn’t have played his character in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” while working on James Bond movies. In the film “Queer,” based on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs, Craig plays William Lee, an American expat who […]
A woman faces charges after leaving a four-year-old girl inside a car while she played games inside a rest stop, police said. Brittney Clark, 27, was arrested by police in Lincoln, Nebraskalast week, according to KOLN. Police were first alerted to the problem after a caller told 911 dispatchers that they saw the young girl […]
Jeremy Willis, ESPN.comNov 29, 2024, 07:32 AM ET On Thanksgiving in 2011, we thought we saw the end of the Texas-Texas A&M football rivalry. When Texas senior, and future NFL great, Justin Tucker nailed a 40-yard, winning field goal, it gave the Longhorns a 27-25 win over their hated rivals and closed out a series […]
