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In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves 06/09/2023 04:04pm • 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 specified: Any spectato In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves 06/09/2023 04:03pm • 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 fans in basebal Review: 'Flamin' Hot' tells inspiring (true?) tale of underdog Frito-Lay janitor 06/09/2023 03:21pm • Jesse Garcia stars in the new movie "Flamin' Hot." (Emily Aragones/Searchlight Pictures) Call it superhero fatigue or multiverse exhaustion, but lately, I have been drawn to inspiring, true stories about the making of real-life products because they ironically feel less packaged than blockbu Tom Brady still has a full plate and plenty of drive after retirement 06/09/2023 12:19pm • Tom Brady may be really done playing football now, but his discipline and drive endure. The seven-time Super Bowl champion is enjoying retirement while staying busy. He���s preparing for his new 2024 broadcasting gig at Fox Sports, is set to become a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, and is f After making Oscar history, Troy Kotsur pays tribute to his father in new short film 06/09/2023 09:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Troy Kotsur made history as the first Deaf male actor win an Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards, he was thinking about his father. By then, Kotsur had already become a hero to the Deaf community, widely celebrated for his acclaimed performance in the family drama ���CODA.��� It Delayed justice: 3 states remove all time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits 06/09/2023 08:52am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Ann Allen loved going to church and the after-school social group led by a dynamic priest back in the 1960s. The giggling fun with friends always ended with a game of hide and seek. Each week, the Rev. Lawrence Sabatino chose one girl to hide with him. Allen said when it was Movie Review: Who let the beasts out? New 'Transformers' tries but fails to energize the saga 06/09/2023 07:59am • With the ���Transformers��� franchise clearly at a crossroads, its latest protectors have turned to their deep bench of characters. But just adding more robots won't transform this tired series. ���Transformers: Rise of the Beasts��� returns the franchise to its galaxy-wide self-importance after tak Sabally sisters to play against each other for 1st time Sunday in WNBA game on ABC 06/09/2023 07:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Satou and Nyara Sabally were never competitive with each other growing up in Germany. Their mom made sure of that. The sisters, two years apart in age, will play against each other for the first time when Dallas visits New York on Sunday in a nationally televised WNBA game on ABC. 'American Idol' champ Phillip Phillips drops new album 'Drift Back' 06/09/2023 06:05am • Hear our full chat on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.��� He won season 11 of "American Idol" and became a chart-topping radio success with "Home." On Friday, Phillip Phillips releases his new album "Drift Back" with the single "Dancing With Your Shadows." "The album 'I'm making everybody proud, especially my daughter': Fairfax Co. high school senior gives grad speech 06/08/2023 09:45pm • Anyeli Salguero walked across the stage on Wednesday alongside her Bryant High School classmates. ���I know we all have different stories, but I know we all have one thing in common," Salguero said in a graduation speech at the Fairfax County High School. "And that is today, we can say we made it Los Angeles county DA's office quits Twitter due to barrage of 'vicious' homophobic attacks 06/08/2023 08:05pm • The Los Angeles county district attorney's office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to barrage of ���vicious��� homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported. The account, which went by the handle @LADAOffice, no longer exists on Twitter. �� Look for These Red Flags in a College's Finances 06/08/2023 08:00pm • U.S. colleges are facing a laundry list of challenges that affect their financial viability, from higher operating expenses and downward enrollment trends to shaky state support, shriveling endowments and a crisis in public confidence. For many institutions, two other thunderclouds are adding to a g Will Adding Your Children as Authorized Users Help Their Credit? 06/08/2023 08:00pm • As you teach your kids about money, an important concept is how to use credit responsibly. Adding your children as authorized users on your credit card is one way to help teach sound credit management skills, and it might give their credit scores a head start. Read on to learn the best time to add y Off-duty officer testifies he didn't know just where shots fired from during Parkland massacre 06/08/2023 06:42pm • 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 Springs Sgt. Jeffrey H Dispute erupts over a section of Kentucky's transgender law that hinges on one word 06/08/2023 06:01pm • 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 week over how the