A new study examining comments posted to sports news stories by fans of the nation’s Major League Baseball clubs finds that New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies fans fail basic grammar while Royals fans give their opinions most often.
An unvaccinated child who was visiting Martha’s Vineyard was diagnosed with measles last week, authorities are now reporting.
Pennsylvania’s Niagara Bottling company has initiated an voluntary recall of 14 brands of bottled water, sold mostly under store names, over fears that the products might be contaminated with the E. coli bacteria.
The president of the Media Research Center demands the Associated Press apologize to Sen. Ted Cruz for distributing a photograph depicting a gun pointed directly at the GOP candidate for President’s face.
Despite being fired as the coach of Penn State’s football program after revelations that a former defensive coordinator had abused minors, coach Joe Paterno is being honored with a new beer being branded with his name and image.
In only a few hours time on Saturday evening, eleven people were shot in Detroit, one fatally. Ten of those were hit as they attended a block party in the Motor City. An eleventh person was shot in a separate incident only a short time later.
An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
On Friday, a Democrat South Carolina state legislator appeared on CNN insisting that the 21-year-old man who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston last week was driven to his act because he watches Fox News. This is despite the fact that no one seems to know what media habits the killer possessed.
Maryland officials had assumed that they could charge the federal government and FEMA–and thereby the US taxpayers–for tens of millions in damage caused by the rioting in Baltimore earlier this year.
New technology was unveiled at the Paris Air Show this year, with a proposal that robots could replace human immigration officials at airports.
During an interview with Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, the lone female candidate in the hunt for the 2016 Republican nomination said that long-time feminist icon Gloria Steinem is a “feminist hero” even if she and Steinem do not always agree.
Major League Baseball may have just found out how easy it is to game an electronic, online election after its All-Star Game voting erupted with tens of millions of ballots for players for the Kansas City Royals. Now the league is canceling up to 65 million of those votes.
As the 2016 race for president begins, the Gallup polling agency has found that the Democrat Party of 2015 is much farther to the left than that of the year 2008.
Despite the fact that San Antonio Spurs big man Tim Duncan lost a whopping $25 million in bad investment deals, the five-time NBA champion is still not sure he’ll re-sign with his team next year and remain in the league.
On Thursday, NBC News made it official: longtime newsman Lester Holt is no longer the temporary “Nightly News” host, he’s the full-time anchor.
Tina Charles of the New York Liberty is not only a star player for her team, she is a star in the world of charity as well.
Obama’s continued sluggish economy has been called a “jobless recovery,” an “illusory recovery,” sluggish, and slow. But even as most say a recovery is happening, it is still hard to tell from the retail sector, which continues to shrink. This month is no exception with many national chains announcing layoffs, cut backs, and closings.
What if your driverless car decides that your life is expendable in order to save a school bus full of children?
On Tuesday, UT President Greg Fenves announced that the school is now investigating charges of infractions purportedly tied to the men’s basketball program. The review will be headed by former NCAA Infractions Committee member Gene Marsh.
A 35-year-old Spartanburg man reportedly snuck up behind an 80-year-old woman in the checkout line of a grocery store and knocked her to the ground in what is reminiscent of the odious “knockout game.”
After another unsatisfactory outing, the Padres relieved manager Bud Black of his duties and appointed Dave Roberts as the interim manager.
The Ohio woman whose head was smashed by a large rock thrown by teens from a highway overpass is preparing for a seventh surgery which she hopes will give her a new “custom made skull.”
One witness was so shocked by a shark attack in the ocean near Oak Island, North Carolina, that she thought it was a movie, and another noted that the creature literally jumped out of the water to bite off a boy’s entire arm with one, swift chomp.
Two people have died this year in Florida from seafood laden with the “flesh-eating” bacteria, officials report.
In a Saturday editorial board piece, The New York Times scolded the auto loan industry, proclaiming that its practices are a “bastion of predatory lending and racial discrimination.” And emulating its favorite leftist, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Times relies on a thoroughly discredited “study” that features the unsupported claim that auto loans cost Americans nearly “$26 billion” in unfair charges a year.
