At one point this offseason, Saquon Barkley admitted he was prepared to hold out of training camp as his contract negotiations with the New York Giants weren’t going the way he hoped. Both sides couldn’t find common ground, and the franchise tag extension deadline eventually passed without a signing on […]

Sierra Leone said Thursday it is working with neighboring countries to step up the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea after a Chinese fishing vessel was hijacked in its waters earlier this week. The area off the coast of West Africa is one of the world’s most dangerous […]

Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load. Incentives to ensure wind power developers steer clear of lucrative lobster fishing grounds are included […]

Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company’s inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people and injured 49 others in 2021, federal investigators said Thursday in a final report. The severity of the injuries were made worse by […]

Mar-a-Lago’s head of maintenance Carlos De Oliveira was indicted out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation related to former President Trump’s alleged improper retention of classified records.  Oliveira was the third person indicted out of the investigation.  Trump was indicted in June on charges stemming from Smith’s investigation into his […]

Two women were arrested in connection with a July 4 fight that resulted in one of them biting part of the other’s ear off, Florida authorities said.  Dixie Stiles, 18, was charged with battery – touch or strike – and Macy Regan, 23, has been charged with felony battery causing […]

Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan, a four-time Olympic medalist and four-time individual world champion, was disqualified from this year’s championships in Milan after she refused to shake hands with her Russian opponent Thursday. The decorated fencer defeated Russian Anna Smirnova, who was competing as a neutral athlete, 15-7, in the women’s […]

For three decades, nobody knew for certain what happened to 12-year-old Jennifer Odom after she got off a school bus on a typical day in 1993. The girl was found dead in a Florida orange grove not long after. Now, authorities in Hernando County say a DNA match has identified […]

A longtime suspect in the death of a woman whose body was found in her Pennsylvania home 16 years ago has now been charged with homicide and several other counts. Charles Earl Ream, 53, of Latrobe was arrested Wednesday and remains jailed without bail. Court officials said there was not […]

Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown agreed to a record five-year, $304 million supermax extension, the richest deal in NBA history. Brown spoke to reporters on Wednesday and expressed his goal to “attack the wealth disparity” in Boston with his record contract. “I want to launch a project to bring Black […]