Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction.After being released from prison Wednesday, Cosby tweeted: "I have always maintained my innocence."The "Cosby Show" actor has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence.Pennsylvania’s highest...
Breaking with a long-held stance on athlete compensation, the NCAA Division I schools’ top rules-making group Wednesday approved policy changes that will greatly enhance athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, beginning Thursday.The decision announced by...
Rep. Liz Cheney said Republican leaders' courage "has faded."Cheney said former President Donald Trump is accelerating his attacks on the Constitution.Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger were the only GOP representative to vote in favor of the committee.Rep. Liz...
Authorities from Oregon to British Columbia are investigating hundreds of deaths in connection to the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest corridor.Temperatures in Oregon topped 117 Monday, according to the National Weather Service, due to a heat dome...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Nikole Hannah-Jones was granted tenure Wednesday by the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, ending a weeks-long controversy that had erupted on the North Carolina campus and online.Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, is set to begin her...
The sun has set on the old era of college sports. Beginning Thursday, the last gasps of an antiquated model will be replaced by a landscape defined by the open marketplace for student-athletes to capitalize on their name, image...
The Police Merit Board in Louisville voted 4-0 to uphold the January firing of Joshua Jaynes, a former detective.Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, the other officers fired in connection with Taylor’s death, also have appealed to the city’s merit...
ALBANY, N.Y. – Allison Mack, the actress who spent years as a key member of the cult-like NXIVM organization, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for her role in a master-slave group whose followers were branded.Mack, 38, pleaded guilty...
NEW YORK – Stanley Richards long faced the label of "formerly incarcerated person." For decades, he's also worked to help others return home from jails and prisons. He's served on an oversight board for New York City's jail system, and the...
The Trump Organization, the namesake enterprise founded by former President Donald Trump, and its chief financial officer are expected to be charged as soon as Thursday with tax-related offenses as part of a long-running inquiry headed by the Manhattan district...
