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In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves
DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — The April Facebook post hardly seemed like national news at the time for Deptford Little League president Don Bozzuffi. He’d lost patience when two umpires resigned in the wake of persistent spectator abuse. So he wrote an updated code of conduct. It...
In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves
DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Back in Mudville, when mighty Casey took an unheeded pitch for a strike, there went up a muffled roar: “`Kill him! Kill the umpire!' shouted someone on the stand." Even in 1888, well before pitch clocks, $17 beers and instant replay, a common thread for the...
Social media helps invent, then circulate info on DIY air purifiers amid wildfire smoke
NEW YORK (AP) — Social media users are sharing a surprisingly effective way to protect yourself indoors from the toxic wildfire smoke blanketing much of the East Coast: a box fan, four air filters and a whole lot of duct tape. As searches for “air purifiers” spike on Google,...
A third day of smoky air gives millions in US East Coast, Canada a new view of wildfire threat
NEW YORK (AP) — Images of smoke obscuring the New York skyline and the Washington Monument this week have given the world a new picture of the perils of wildfire, far from where blazes regularly turn skies into hazardous haze. A third day of unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires...
Off-duty officer testifies he didn't know just where shots fired from during Parkland massacre
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An off-duty police officer who was on the baseball field at Florida's Parkland high school during the 2018 massacre testified Thursday that he mistook gunshots for fireworks before he realized what was happening and approached the school unarmed. Coral...
West Virginia Supreme Court: Governor shouldn't have been forced to block charter school approvals
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia circuit court erred when it briefly prevented Gov. Jim Justice from enforcing a 2021 law he signed allowing an independent board to authorize publicly funded charter schools, the state Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. Justices...
Dispute erupts over a section of Kentucky's transgender law that hinges on one word
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new dispute has erupted over Kentucky's sweeping transgender law, revolving around one word in a section banning sex education topics — including sexual orientation — from discussion in classrooms. The measure's top Republican sponsor pushed back this...
Acclaimed Cleveland school dance teacher gets life in prison for raping students
CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually abusing two others. Terence Greene, 57, was convicted late last month by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury that also found him...
Swarbrick to step down as Notre Dame's AD next year; NBC Sports' Peter Bevacqua will take over
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the school maintain the football program's independent status amid unprecedented realignment by some of the top conferences in the nation. ...
North Carolina bill ensuring Native American school graduates can wear feathers heads to governor
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — American Indian students in North Carolina public schools could wear items like feathers and plumes to their graduation ceremonies to signify their cultural heritage in legislation given final General Assembly approval Thursday. The House bill, which after...
