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Elias West rested on the turf while the group of players who had tackled him slowly untangled themselves and got up. As they started to peel away, West said, he noticed one boy on the other team linger over him. With his back to the stadium lights and his teammates providing cover, the boy hissed just loud enough, West said, for him to hear from the ground: “Stay down, you n-----.” West said he could see that the boy’s face was white from the gaps in his helmet. And West knew the boy could see the Black skin of his arms extending from under his shoulder pads. West immediately felt the sting and reacted. “Don’t f-----g call me a n-----,” West said he shouted back, jumping up to defend himself. The next thing he heard was a loud whistle from the referee and the word “ejection.” But only West was being pulled from the game. “I was the one that got punished,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune, recounting what happened to him at the October game. He was stunned.

A major milestone has been breached in the quest for fusion energy.

In a lot of ways the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in 1861 found its modern parallel on January 6, 2021.

Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said the parents are missing.

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The lawyers for the parents of the Oxford High teenager charged in Tuesday's school shooting said Friday that James and Jennifer Crumbley are returning to the area to be arraigned on charges of involuntary manslaughter. The Oakland County Fugitive Apprehension Team was searching Friday for the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old Oxford High sophomore charged with first-degree murder of four students and other criminal charges, after county Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the couple had stopped responding to their attorney. "On Thursday night, we contacted the Oakland County prosecutor to discuss this matter and to advise her that James and Jennifer Crumbley would be turning themselves in to be arraigned," lawyers Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman told The Detroit News. "Instead of communicating with us, the prosecutor held a press conference to announce charges." "The Crumbleys left town on the night of the tragic shooting for their own safety. They are returning to the area to be arraigned. They are not fleeing from law enforcement despite recent comments in media reports."

A plumbing repair at televangelist Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston reportedly led to the discovery of "bags and bags" of cash and checks in a bathroom wall. The discovery came several years after someone stole $600,000 in cash and checks from a safe at Osteen's Lakewood Church, according to a report from KRPC Channel 2. The station suggested that whoever stole the money in 2014 may have hidden it in the bathroom wall. "Justin said the church or HPD never thanked him or reached out to him about $25,000 reward money," the station reported, referring to the reward that was offered following the 2014 theft. "Justin said he even called Crime Stoppers about reward money, but never heard back. He even tried reaching out to Joel Osteen but hasn’t heard back."

Day four of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial was a tease of the book, and detailed testimony on the scene at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.

Noel Gugliemi has played Latinx criminals for 20 years — a role that propelled the formerly homeless actor to internet-legend status. Now, as a motivational speaker, he's out to reclaim his own legacy

The Ohio GOP Senate candidate’s investment firm appears to have failed at some very basic clerical work that resulted in it losing its business charter.

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In the clearest indication yet that an ownership change is imminent, representatives for the team last month interviewed potential sell-side bankers, according to multiple people familiar with the meetings... If the Broncos are sold it will be for a record price. The NFL is the world’s richest sports league, and its franchises don’t trade often. Only two controlling stakes—the Carolina Panthers (2018) and Buffalo Bills (2014)—have been sold over the past nine years. As franchise valuations soar, many in the industry are looking at Denver as a litmus test for how high the market can go. Sportico recently valued the Broncos at $3.8 billion, No. 11 in the 32-team league. The current record valuation for a sports team in a controlling transaction is the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, which were valued at $3.3 billion when Joe Tsai bought the rest of the franchise and Barclays Center in 2019. The Broncos are currently controlled by the three-person Patrick D. Bowlen Trust, and operated by Ellis. The trust was established to handle Bowlen’s estate and name a new principal owner following his death in 2019. Bowlen died without declaring which of his seven children he preferred to replace him as the team’s primary decision-maker, a requirement under the NFL’s ownership rules.

A threat actor has hacked the website of the Principality of Sealand, a micronation in the North Sea, and planted malicious code on its web store, which the government is using to sell baron, count, duke, and other nobility titles.

The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election. And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training ranges of Camp Lejeune.

Jury rules in favor of customer who accused the retailer of "falsely accusing innocent Alabama citizens of shoplifting."

Neo-Nazis and far-right activists are coaching followers on how to use a new Twitter rule to persuade the social media platform to remove photos of them posted by anti-extremism researchers and journalists who specialize in identifying episodes of real-world hate. Advocates said they worry the new policy will suppress efforts to document the activities of the far right and will prove to be a gift to members of hateful movements eager to keep their identities concealed. The rule, company officials said Tuesday, would not apply to photos that added “value to public discourse” or were of people involved in a large-scale protest, crisis situation or other “newsworthy event due to public interest value.” In the days since, however, white supremacists on channels such as the encrypted chat service Telegram have urged supporters to use the new policy against activists and journalists who have shared their information or identified them in photos of hate rallies or public events. “Due to the new privacy policy at Twitter, things now unexpectedly work more in our favor as we can take down Antifa … doxing pages more easily,” a white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer wrote to followers on Telegram on Wednesday night, referring to the anti-fascist political movement whose members often clash with far-right protesters and to the practice of publishing people’s personal information online.

A professor at Liberty University is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and Lynchburg, Virginia, court records

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Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project after a Sunshine Law request to the department. ... Mask mandates have been one of the hottest political issues of the year, pitting the authority of local officials against political opposition to masks led by Republican state officials. Parson has spoken out repeatedly against local mask mandates, calling them "WRONG" in a tweet and a contributor to the erosion of public trust. Attorney General Eric Schmitt has gone a step further, suing St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County to block enforcement of their mask mandates.