We learned two things Wednesday from Draymond Green. 1. He still has a Snapchat account, despite previous transgressions. 2. He’s still in pain from Kyrie Irving’s dagger 3-pointer in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Green used the social media service to comment on another Irving shot Wednesday at the ... Read More »
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two lost divers about 20 miles off Anclone Key in Florida after they resurfaced and were unable to locate their boat. A Coast Guard crew out of the St. Petersburg sector took the rescue call around 11:30 a.m. Saturday after the divers resurfaced and realized ... Read More »
Police in North Carolina are investigating a report of shots fired inside a shopping mall after social media posts showed people rushing toward the exits in a panic. Police in Raleigh, N.C., said no one was shot in the incident, which was reported around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Crabtree ... Read More »
Police in North Carolina are investigating a report of shots fired inside a shopping mall after social media posts showed people rushing toward the exits in a panic. Police in Raleigh, N.C., said no one was shot in the incident, which was reported around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Crabtree ... Read More »
Today is Sunday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2016 with 139 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include pioneer German psychologist Richard ... Read More »
A 27-year-old Swiss man set fire to a train and attacked passengers with a knife in northeastern Switzerland on Saturday, injuring six, including a six-year-old child, police said. The motive for the attack is unclear and has left several of the injured in serious condition, suffering from stab wounds and ... Read More »
An Alberta man made the most of his city’s flooding by going for a cruise on his jet ski in the middle of a street. The video, recorded July 31 in Fort McMurray, shows a man riding a jet ski around a flooded street in the Alberta city amid heavy ... Read More »
Torrential rainfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has caused “unprecedented” flooding in parts of Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said on Saturday, while claiming at least three lives. The National Weather Service issued flood watches for parts of southeastern Texas through Sunday evening and extended its flash flood warning further ... Read More »
Boutique advisory firms now receive nearly half of all mergers and acquisition fees in Europe, stealing market share and top dealmakers from global investment banks hamstrung by a renewed focus on cost-cutting and regulations on how much they can pay. Founded largely by veterans fleeing bureaucracy and shrinking paychecks at ... Read More »
Olympics organizers battled an array of persistent problems as the Games entered its second week on Saturday, from a lurid green diving pool to competitors taken to the wrong venue, and a long-distance swimming pontoon swept away by the waves. The refusal of the Olympic diving pool to return to ... Read More »
Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) militants early on Sunday, as part of a campaign to capture the de facto IS capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said. The advance began after heavy shelling and U.S.-led coalition air strikes against IS forces, a Reuters correspondent reported ... Read More »
