Arkansas death row inmate dies in prison of unknown causes (AP) Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s. The Arkansas Department of Corrections did not provide Johnson’s cause of death and declined…
File photo of Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma. At the launch of Cheteshwar Pujara‘s wife Puja’s book ‘The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife’, Rohit Sharma revealed an anecdote from their 2012 tour of West Indies. Then part of India A setup, the team were in Trinidad and Tobago when Pujara was mobbed.“She’s aware but she…
In a stunning cosmological find, astronomers saw an ultra-massive and magnetic stellar remnant speeding through our galaxy at record speed. Called a “zombie star,” the object—properly known as SGR 0501+4516—is moving through the Milky Way at over 110,000 miles per hour (177,000 km/h). Even more dramatic is the star’s fatal magnetic field capable of ripping…
Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in the second discovery of a king’s tomb this year. The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos,…
An unidentified illness has killed scores of people and infected hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has reported, with preliminary investigations tracing the outbreak to three children who in January ate a bat and died. Fifty-three people in the country’s northwest had died from the disease, out of 431 reported…
NEW YORK: A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last year. Thomas Mascia shot himself at Hempstead Lake State Park then stashed the gun, drove to…
White House officials said on Friday that the truth behind the mysterious ailments known as Havana Syndrome was still unknown, contradicting a new intelligence assessment about what had befallen spies and diplomats for the last nine years. On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated assessment about the ailments, one…
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The first time Spencer Danielson watched Boise State football was the first time for a lot of people: the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. Danielson was a senior in high school, watching from Southern California with his father as the Broncos pulled off one of the most preposterous upsets in college football history: the…
All your favorite characters are competing for the same NBA award once again. Nikola Jokić is the MVP favorite. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander follows him up. Two-time winner Giannis Antetokounmpo is on their tails, as are Jayson Tatum and Luka Dončić. Those five made up First Team All-NBA last season. Now, they make up the quintet atop…