Tyler Fairley, who was unvaccinated, passed nine days after testing positive for COVID-19 A 17-year-old Georgia high school football player died of COVID-19 complications after he was sent home twice by the hospital where he sought care, according to the teenager’s parents. Tyler Fairley, a student-athlete at Douglas County High School west of Atlanta, succumbed…
Felix leaves the stage having won the most medals of any track athlete in U.S. history and trails just one person in the Olympic record book Allyson Felix knows the way to the Olympic medals stand better than any runner alive. She made her record-setting 11th trip there Saturday, after starring as the headliner on…
Elmore Bolling Initiative to receive more than $235,000 to maintain school building A foundation named for a Black man who was lynched in Alabama is being awarded more than $235,000 to preserve a school that was important to the Black community in Lowndes County. The Elmore Bolling Initiative is receiving money to preserve the Lowndesboro…
Melvina Bogard faces felony aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct charges A Chicago police officer who shot an unarmed man in the back as he tried to escape capture by running up an escalator in a busy subway station has been charged with felony aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct, prosecutors said Thursday….
U.S. sprinter Allyson Felix will forever be an Olympic legend after becoming the most decorated track and field athlete in American history. Felix, 34, received her eleventh medal on Aug. 7 in Tokyo when the women’s U.S. 4×400 team — Sydney McLaughlin, Felix, Delilah Muhammad and Athing Mu — won gold with a time of…
Thomas was “the quintessential cool cat in the group,” the band says in announcing the musician’s passing Dennis ‘Dee Tee’ Thomas, alto saxophonist and co-founder of hit-making funk and pop band Kool & the Gang, passed away Saturday at the age of 70. The legendary music group announced Thomas’ death in a statement on Facebook,…
The U.S. has now won the last seven Olympic gold medals matching the country’s men’s program for the most ever in a row Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi walked off the basketball court together, arm-in-arm, one last time at the Tokyo Games. They started their journey together five Olympics ago and ended it in the…
Martha’s Vineyard was undoubtedly the place to be Saturday night. And if you were one of the hundreds of guests who attended former President Barack Obama‘s 60th birthday party at his mansion on the tony Massachusetts island, you can surely attest to that as fact. One of those attendees — made up of Obama’s family,…
Poland’s Marcin Urbaś called Mboma’s participation a “clear and insolent injustice against women who are definitely women.” Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma proudly draped the Namibian flag around her shoulders Tuesday after winning the silver medal in the women’s Olympic 200-meter race, just over one month after learning she could not compete in her signature 400m…
Thompson averaged 7.6 points and 81 rebounds with Boston in 54 games The Sacramento Kings acquired 10-year veteran center Tristan Thompson from the Boston Celtics on Saturday as part of a three-team trade that also involved the Atlanta Hawks. The Kings traded guard Delon Wright to Atlanta. The Hawks sent guard Kris Dunn, forward-center Bruno…
