LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Lathrop (Mo.) High School junior Brooke Huitt was named MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week for games played the week of Sept. 11-17. Highlighted by a perfect game against Lawson, Huitt recorded two strong outings in the circle for Lathrop. On Sept. 14, the right-handed hurler struck out 18 of
The Dow Jones fell over 450 points to more than a year’s lows as concerns grew over a partial government shutdown after US President Donald Trump signaled he would not sign a spending bill without funds for a border wall. Shares had already been plunging since the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on
Colorado Springs, Colo.- The NJCAA National Office announced this week’s NJCAA Softball Players of the Week for games played March 5-11. — Courtesy of NJCAA
EDMONTON — Alberta’s cannabis Crown corporation has stopped issuing any new pot retail licences after only receiving 20 per cent of the stock it ordered amid a Canada-wide supply shortage. The Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission had ordered enough cannabis product to stock up to 250 recreational pot shops for the first six months
LONGUEUIL, Que. — The spacecraft carrying Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques has successfully docked at the International Space Station, six hours after blasting off from Kazakhstan. “Good contact, and capture,” a commentator said on NASA television as the Soyuz MS-11 space capsule reached the space station at 12:33 p.m. Eastern Monday. With Saint-Jacques, Anne McClain of
Two years of Donald Trump’s presidency has brought the international situation back to the moment when Hitler came to power, according to three-star Russian General Vladimir Shamanov. Speaking at a briefing for foreign military attaches, Shamanov recalled that Hitler had begun preparing Germany for war just two years after coming to power. “Trump has been
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Forty-eight student-athletes from 38 programs were selected to the 2017 NFCA High School All-American teams, announced the association on Friday afternoon. Sixteen different institutions were represented on the first team. Los Alamitos (Calif.) High School and Keystone (Ohio) High School led the way with three honorees. Deer Park (Texas) High School, Donovan
A dramatic video shot near St. Petersburg shows dozens of people rush towards poorly parked cars to drag them away from the path of a fire truck rushing to respond to a fire at a residential building nearby. The short clip was shot on Monday in Kudrovo, a satellite-town located just east of the former
LEDUC, Alta. — An Alberta judge says three people involved in a bizarre kidnapping engaged in pseudo medical science while discussing the state of the world before they succumbed to a rare, shared but brief psychotic disorder. Provincial court Judge Jacqueline Schaffter said the trio didn’t intend to harm a neighbouring family they kidnapped last
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Florida State’s Sydney Sherrill and Oregon’s Miranda Elish were named Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games played April 2-8. Elish was nearly unhittable in her three outings last week, helping Oregon rise to No. 3 in the latest USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches