The Ohio University Bobcast mascot tackles Ohio State’s Brutus Buckeye mascot before Saturday’s game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The student who was dressed in the Bobcat costume has since been banned from any further Ohio U. athletic events (Sept. 20)
The Cleveland Cavaliers are on top of the NBA draft yet again, only this time there is no LeBron James waiting to save them. There may not even be a Kyrie Irving. The first big NBA draft question was answered Tuesday night when the Cavaliers won the lottery for the second time in three years. But there are still plenty of questions left with a draft that many talent evaluators believe lacks the [...]
Read more →VATICAN CITY (AP) — El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to beatify assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. The Central American country now has a government made up of former guerilla fighters who battled the same military hierarchy that Romero denounced. The Vatican now has a Latin American pope who channels [...]
Read more →WASHINGTON (AP) — The baseball star, the Hollywood 10, Oliver North. And Lois Lerner of the IRS. The official enmeshed in a probe of the tax agency is the latest on a roll call of witnesses called before Congress who refused to answer lawmakers' questions. A few well-known names who invoked Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination: ___ White House gate crashers Michaele and Tareq [...]
Read more →CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, 'You're my mother's favorite actress.' So I had to. It was a good [...]
Read more →BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines in the hometown of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla are upset at the prospect that he may be buried there. Videla died Friday at age 87 while serving a life term for crimes against humanity for his leadership of a bloody junta from 1976 to 1983. Authorities said Wednesday that his family has yet to arrange his burial in the municipal cemetery in [...]
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