When his father looked good in batting practice, Eduardo and his brother Victor would call their mom, Juana, and tell her to come to the game because he was going to go deep. “I loved it in Boston,” Eduardo Pérez said. “We had a huge pool where we lived and we’d go to the ballpark … [Read more…]
The Nares River is like an accidental time capsule. Beneath the surface of the water, you’ll find everything from a flatscreen TV to pieces of a 100-year-old steamship. And that’s just the top layer. “I knew there was stuff down there, but I didn’t think there was that much,” says Danny Cresswell, a land guardian … [Read more…]
Several details from the MCU’s history need to be remembered when Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion releases on Disney+. An MCU series focused on Nick Fury was reported to be in development in September 2020, and was later confirmed to be Secret Invasion by Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige at Disney’s 2020 Investor Day. Releasing on … [Read more…]
It’s time to recognize the squads that survived the season-long carnage that came in the 2023 outdoor track and field slate. The county and conference championship stretch brought chaos, and then came sectionals. Two different girls teams won titles for the first time and four cracked dry spells of 20-plus years. At groups, five of … [Read more…]
Starspangled Saga was last seen at the races in April last year but the long time between runs was no issue for the talented mare at Murray Bridge on Saturday. The five-year-old daughter of Real Saga came into Saturday’s Benchmark 62 (1000m) with just the one public trial but produced the performance of the day … [Read more…]
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A worker uncovered more than just a broken 85-year-old headstone in Gary’s Oak Hill Cemetery recently. Cracked off its base, the buried marker bears the name of a former Kentucky slave set free by his owners after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. His somewhat Forrest Gump-like career in a Kentucky Black infantry … [Read more…]
Friday June 16, 2023 – A court has ordered, Coffee giant Starbucks to pay $25.6 million to a former store manager who a jury determined had been fired because she was White. The former regional manager, Shannon Phillips, who oversaw dozens of Starbucks coffee shops, was fired by the company in the aftermath of a 2018 … [Read more…]
The parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie are one step closer to trial after a Florida judge denied all the motions to dismiss the case, RadarOnline.com has learned. Petito and Laundrie made headlines in 2021 after Gabby went missing on a cross-country road trip with her then fiancé and was found dead. Brian later … [Read more…]
An Australian surfing identity is warning road travellers after he was assaulted by a gang of knife-wielding thieves at a rest stop. Queensland businessman Wayne Dart, a former editor of national surfing magazine Tracks and who helped develop Australia’s first man-made wave pool at Yeppoon, used a swim flipper to fight off the five young … [Read more…]
Baseball teams have long provided a means for youths growing up in rural areas to remain active in the summer months and often served as a point of pride for many small towns. In the years following World War II, the community of Enon in Moniteau County had a rustic baseball diamond used by local … [Read more…]