Skip to Content

Month: August 2024

SEC to release player availability reports as a sports-betting safeguard

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference will release player availability reports in football, baseball and basketball before league games this season as part of safeguarding efforts in college athletics amid the growth of legalized gambling, the conference announced Thursday. The SEC joined the Big Ten and Mid-American conferences by adopting the new policy. “This

Continue Reading

SEC to release player availability reports as a sports-betting safeguard

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference will release player availability reports in football, baseball and basketball before league games this season as part of safeguarding efforts in college athletics amid the growth of legalized gambling, the conference announced Thursday. The SEC joined the Big Ten and Mid-American conferences by adopting the new policy. “This

Continue Reading

Lamont nominates Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become next chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court

Associated Press Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated state Supreme Court Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become the next chief justice. Lamont on Thursday called Mullins a fair, sensible and empathetic jurist with experience serving in all three levels of the state court system. If confirmed by the General Assembly next year, Mullins will replace

Continue Reading

California “crime tourism” ring worked with South American theft groups and laundered millions, prosecutors say

By Marissa Wenzke Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A so-called “crime tourism” ring in Southern California is accused of directing co-conspirators from abroad — often from South America — to fly into the country and commit thefts across the U.S., according to federal prosecutors. The group allegedly laundered

Continue Reading

TVS OR TURTLES: Resort fighting order to remove televisions to protect sea turtles

By Anvar Ruziev Click here for updates on this story     FORT MYERS BEACH, Florida (WFTX) — The Margaritaville Resort is pushing back against a recent order from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to remove televisions from their “License to Chill” bar to comply with sea turtle protection regulations. Concerns are that the light

Continue Reading

Cannabis and hallucinogen use remain at ‘historically high levels’ among young and middle-age adults, survey finds

By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — The use of cannabis and hallucinogens “stayed at historically high levels” among both younger and middle-age adults in the US in 2023, according to the latest survey from Monitoring the Future, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan since 1975 and funded by the National Institutes of Health. “The

Continue Reading