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Queens, NY

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The New York Mets have made an addition and bolstered their depth behind the plate. Former Kansas City Royals catcher Logan Porter is heading to Queens on a major league contract, according to Ari Alexander of KCPR2. Through 11 games in the majors last season with the Royals, Porter hit just .194/.324/.323 with one home […]
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Mets sign former Giants, Royals catcher to major league contract

Philadelphia, PA

Awful Announcing ranked the MLB broadcasting booths using more than 13,000 reader votes. TMac, John Kruk, Ben Davis, and Ruben Amaro Jr. came in seventh. Crazy, right? Top 3 if you’re asking me. Turns out though that #7 is their highest ranking since AA started doing this exercise a decade ago:

Awful Announcing Readers Rank Phillies Broadcasting Booth Top 10 in Major League Baseball

Florida State

Florida, NY

Florida high school baseball took center stage at the 2024 MLB Draft, with prominent players from the Sunshine State making waves despite some opting for college over signing bonuses. Kellon Lindsey, SS, Hardee: 1st Round, 23rd overall, Los Angeles Dodgers. Blake Larson, LHP, IMG Academy: Competitive Balance Rd. B, Chicago...

Florida High School Baseball Players Shine in 2024 MLB Draft Recap

Springfield, MO

Shortly after Missouri State saw its first player selected in the 2024 MLB Draft, a second Bear heard his name called when the St. Louis Cardinals selected Brandt Thompson with the 501st overall pick. Thompson, the Bears' Friday starter this past season, is a fourth-year freshman selected to two straight All-Missouri Valley Conference first teams. He became the first Bear to earn back-to-back first-team recognition since Nick Petree, Thompson's pitching coach both years at MSU, in 2012 and 2013. Thompson had a 3.61 ERA in two seasons and an 11-7 record between his two seasons. He was 5-2 in 2024...

Missouri State baseball pitcher Brandt Thompson picked by Cardinals in 2024 MLB Draft

Minnesota State

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DayTripper

The hit History Channel series "American Pickers" is gearing up for an exciting return to Minnesota this fall. The show's production team has announced plans to film episodes throughout the state in September 2024, offering locals a chance to showcase their unique collections and share their stories with a national audience.

"American Pickers" Set to Unearth Minnesota's Hidden Treasures

Missouri State

Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Updated on July 17, 2024, concerning two of the missing children listed below. Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Kansas State

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) helps to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 174 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Since January 1, 2024, there was a total of 1,445 reported missing in the country.

Missing Missouri children as of July 17, 2024, according to the NCMEC

The MLB All-Star festivities are officially underway from Arlington, Texas. On Tuesday, Bryce Harper along with his teammates spoke with the media on a variety of topics, including the ongoing debate over umpiring standards. Harper suggested that umpires who “grade out” as the best should be entitled to higher pay....

Bryce Harper shares thoughts on umpires and how to improve the standard across Major League Baseball

Los Angeles, CA

The 2024 MLB All-Star Game was held at Globe Life Field on Tuesday, which saw the American League earn a 5-3 win over the National League. The AL has now won the Midsummer Classic in 10 of the last 11 years. The Los Angeles Dodgers were represented by Shohei Ohtani,...

How Shohei Ohtani, Teoscar Hernández & More Dodgers Did In 2024 MLB All-Star Game

Missouri first used the death penalty in 1810. A man named Peter Johnson was hanged for murder. Missouri is one of 27 states which has the death penalty. Since 1973, four individuals who were wrongfully accused were exonerated from death row.

Missouri's longstanding practice of the death penalty since 1810

Georgia State

DeanLand

Two rural Georgia counties lost more than 12% of their population over the past three years, leading a worrisome trend in many of Georgia's rural counties and smaller towns. The populations of Telfair County and Stewart County, both largely rural counties with agricultural based economies and located in the Southern half of Georgia, shrunk by more than 12% each from 2020 to 2023, according to data from the US Census Bureau.

Georgia's Fastest Shrinking Rural Counties Share Big Problems

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Chatham County, NC

The Current GA

Just days before a new law went into effect in Georgia that allows more sweeping challenges to the state’s voter rolls, a resident of Chatham County last week submitted the names of nearly 900 people she said should be taken off the rolls.

Bolstered by new Georgia law, woman challenges around 900 voter registrations in Chatham County

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Bulldogs make history in Major League Baseball Draft

Three days, 20 rounds and 615 picks came and went in the Major League Baseball Draft in 2024 and Mississippi State made some history along the...

Bulldogs make history in Major League Baseball Draft

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