The Auburn Little League in Auburn, Mass., has been around for more than five decades. Over the course of that half-century of play, the league has been strong enough to offer many divisions, including Tee Ball, Coach Pitch, Minor, Major, Intermediate (50/70), Junior, and Senior. In fact, the league has consistently grown for the last…
New European research has found that the risk of having a heart attack is higher on Christmas Eve and during certain holiday periods than at other times of the year. Carried out by researchers at Lund University, the Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University, and Örebro University, Sweden, the new study is believed to be the largest…
Jason Reitman has been working on a secret Ghostbusters sequel for some time, and it has just gotten its first teaser trailer. The brief teaser was tweeted out by Reitman (after being revealed by EW) with the line “Everybody can relax, I found the car.” This line was used in the original film when Dan…
The anti-government opposition in Venezuela seems to be lining up a made-for-TV moment, shipping in boxes of flowers to protesters, presumably intended for soldiers guarding the country’s Colombian border. Venezuela’s border with Colombia is the scene of an escalating row over foreign aid shipments. Opposition leader Juan Guaido has promised to bring US-supplied aid into…
NEW YORK — Ariana Grande capped off a successful year as a pop star — but a trying one as a maturing young woman — at the 13th annual Billboard Women in Music event, where she was named Woman of the Year. The 25-year-old singer was teary-eyed at times during her acceptance speech as she…
Thousands of war crime-themed cases involving asylum-seekers were referred to the German authorities in recent years, but only a small portion of them was eventually picked up for investigation, a new report has found. From 2014 to early 2019, the German migration and refugee services referred around 5,000 cases of “crimes under international law” to…
With the reviews now in for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, we can reveal whether there are any end- or post-credit scenes in the Sony-Marvel film and, if so, how many. Turn away now if you don’t want to know! Still here? OK then… There isn’t really a mid-credits scene in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but there is a nice and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After 21 years as the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Executive Director, Lacy Lee Baker has announced her resignation, effective August 31. Baker, a 2014 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee, joined the Association in 1994 as its second full-time executive director, two years before a name change from the National Softball…
I’ve spent a large portion of my life as an urban Indigenous person. My father’s side of the family is from Tyendinaga (The Bay of Quinte), a Mohawk community two hours east of Toronto, while my mother’s is of primarily Scottish descent, I think from Kirkcaldy. I grew up in Taymouth N.B., but I’ve also…
Despite tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors having reached dangerous levels following the deadly blast in Kashmir, a war between India and Pakistan is highly unlikely, former leaders of the two states have stressed. India remains committed to a no-first-use policy, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday, calling his country a “reluctant nuclear weapon state” whose…