A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las Vegas said on Friday. Three of the men died, authorities said, and she has been charged in…
Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable,…
A British archaeologist believes his team may have found a second tomb in Egypt belonging to King Thutmose II. The potential find comes just days after Dr Piers Litherland announced the discovery of the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was revealed over a century ago. Dr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this…
Anfernee Simons hit five 3-pointers and scored 25 points in the largest blowout victory in Portland Trail Blazers history, a 141-88 romp over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday night. The 53-point margin topped the franchise record of 50 set in a 129-79 home victory over Cleveland on Nov. 21, 1982. Toumani Camara added 20 points,…
Joel Embiid got benched and the 76ers got beat at the horn. A season full of championship hopes has turned into a debacle for the 76ers. The latest blight came against Brooklyn on Saturday night when they lost their seventh straight game, this one on a buzzer-beating tip-in — and with Embiid on the bench….
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder more than 20 years after a man went missing in north-east England. Robert Scott Clive, 30, originally from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, was living in North Shields when he disappeared on 10 October 2002. The disappearance of Clive, who was known as Scott, prompted police to…
Lionel Messi was undeterred by the frigid temperatures on Wednesday night, when he scored the only goal in Inter Miami’s 1-0 win against Sporting Kansas City in a CONCACAF Champions Cup match. Days later, he didn’t score in their MLS opener, but he came up huge in another way: with a late game-tying assist. Telasco…
A man is recovering in a Brisbane hospital after being bitten by a shark and airlifted for treatment from a Moreton Bay island. The man, who is reported to be 29, was mauled in the waters off the bay side of Moreton Island near the Wrecks Walking Track shortly after 3pm on Saturday. Paramedics treated…
John Fanta College Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter Under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden in front of 19,812 and a couple million people on network TV, the Duke Blue Devils showed the country why they have the pieces to cut down the nets for the first time since 2015 this April in San Antonio. …
Gregg Popovich is not expected to return to the San Antonio Spurs’ bench for the remainder of this season, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on Saturday. The Spurs head coach had a mild stroke on Nov. 2 at the team facility and has not coached since then. Interim coach Mitch Johnson, who’s a longtime Spurs assistant,…
