MINNEAPOLIS — Simone Biles has officially punched her ticket to a third Olympic Games. She will be joined in Paris this summer by Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera. The team was selected at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Minneapolis on Sunday after two days of competition. With four returning Tokyo Olympians, … Read more
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won the 400-meter hurdle final and set a world record for the event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Sunday. McLaughlin-Levrone, the reigning gold medalist and world No. 1, finished with a time of 50.65 seconds. Just over two seconds behind her were Anna Cockrell and Jasmine Jones. As the top three … Read more
A typical day for U.S. track and field athlete Gabby Thomas is a full 24 hours. During the day, she trains three to six hours in anticipation of the 2024 Paris Olympics. But at night, she works at an Austin, Texas, volunteer health care clinic for people without insurance. How does one of the fastest … Read more
Indiana State Police are asking for help locating the 14-year-old son of former NFL player Daniel Muir after the boy’s grandmother alleged his father gave him a black eye and split lip. Bryson Muir.Indiana State Police Bryson Muir was picked up by his parents from a relative’s home near Cleveland, Ohio, on June 16, but … Read more
Share Picking an Olympic team is no easy job Brett McClure, the high performance director for the men’s team, has done wonders for the U.S. men’s gymnastics program since Tokyo, leading it to a team bronze medal at last year’s world championships. He and the athletes collaborated to implement the Olympic selection procedures, which prioritized … Read more
A judge on Friday rejected Alec Baldwin’s latest attempt to dismiss his involuntary manslaughter case, allowing the actor’s trial over the fatal shooting of a “Rust” cinematographer to proceed in less than two weeks. Baldwin’s attorneys had asked a New Mexico judge to throw out the case after the firearm that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — The men’s U.S. Olympic gymnastics team is hoping to be the first to win an Olympic medal since 2008. The men’s team was named at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in Minneapolis on Saturday: Frederick Richard, Brody Malone, Paul Juda, Asher Hong and Stephen Nedoroscik are going to Paris. The Olympic alternates are … Read more
Gabby Thomas beat Sha’Carri Richardson in the highly anticipated 200-meter final of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for track and field. Thomas came in first with a time of 21.81 seconds. Richardson missed qualifying for the 200 meters by fractions of a second, but will still compete in the 100. Brittany Brown, who set a … Read more
Proponents of abortion rights were dumbfounded by President Joe Biden’s vague and sometimes incoherent messages on abortion access during Thursday night’s debate, especially when he declined to rebuke former president Donald Trump’s false claims that Democrats are in favor of killing babies. “The debate was a disaster,” said Dr. Warren Hern, director of the Boulder … Read more
Four people were killed and nine others were injured after an SUV crashed into a Long Island, New York, nail salon Friday afternoon. The vehicle slammed into Hawaii Nail & Spa on Grand Boulevard in Deer Park shortly before 5 p.m. The driver, Steven Schwally, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Suffolk County … Read more