Columbus, OH

World No 1 Iga Swiatek has been handed a tough draw at the Cincinnati Open as the Pole returns to action after her Olympic Games campaign. A semi-finalist in Cincinnati a year ago, the 23-year-old will be looking to run to the title this year – and seal her first tournament win since Roland Garros.

Cincinnati Open women’s singles draw: Iga Swiatek handed tough quarter, Coco Gauff vs Zheng Qinwen projected QF

Cincinnati, OH

The second Masters-1000 event before the US Open takes place in Cincinnati. Unsurprisingly, there is a very strong ATP entry list for the tournament. Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz and 2021 US Open winner Daniil Medvedev are among the top men’s players set to be in action. However, three ATP players have decided to withdraw from the Cincinnati Open. This article names those who have withdrawn and then lists their four replacements in the draw.

Four ATP Players Withdraw From Cincinnati Open

Due in part to torrential rain on Friday, the National Bank Open in Montreal is nowhere close to concluding. Nonetheless, the bracket for the next Masters 1000 tournament is already out. The Western & Southern Open draw ceremony was held on Saturday afternoon, officially marking Carlos Alcaraz’s return to the...

Cincinnati draw: Sinner, Alcaraz top two seeds with Djokovic out

This weekend at the Cincinnati Open, four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will play a qualifying match at a WTA tournament for the first time in six years. The former world No. 1, in the midst of a comeback season after her 2023 maternity leave, will play Anna Blinkova on Sunday in an effort to make the main draw at the WTA 1000 event that is the premier tune-up for this year's US Open. The 26-year-old is currently ranked No. 95, having returned to the Top 100 in the WTA rankings at the end of last month, and needed to be given a wild card just to play qualifying. When she returned from maternity leave in January, she was ranked No. 833.

In Cincinnati, Naomi Osaka will play qualifying at a WTA tournament for the first time since 2018

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A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

South Carolina State

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Town Talks

When it comes to deciding who to marry, many people choose to spend the rest of their lives with a high school sweetheart, college classmate, or someone they met at work. Others decide to tie the knot with someone who they have known their whole lives — and maybe even met at a family reunion.

Can you marry your first cousin in North Carolina? What state law says

Herbie J Pilato

In the mid-1970s, Good Timesmade a star of actor/comedian Jimmy 'JJ'/'Dynomite' Walker. However, behind the scenes, the tension between the stars was relatively challenging. According to what Jimmie Walker once relayed, most of the show's cast rarely had any interaction behind the camera. Walker didn't recall having any conversations with actress Esther Rolle, who played his TV mother, Florida Evans, or actor John Amos, who played James Evans, his TV mother.

Actor/Comedian Jimmie "JJ" Walker Behind the Scenes of TV's 'Good Times' in the 1970s

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

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Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

Florida State

Gov. Ron DeSantis has issued a state of emergency in Northeast Florida and across much of the state as a tropical system appears almost certain to develop. The National Hurricane Center said Friday morning that a tropical wave has a 90% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression over the next seven days. Most models show it moving into the Gulf of Mexico and then coming ashore and crossing the state, possibly moving over Northeast Florida.

Tropical system is nearly certain to develop

Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

Georgia State

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The chances for the tropical wave in the Atlantic developing have now risen to 80% over the next seven days. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has advised that this disturbance could become the next tropical storm or hurricane within the coming days, potentially targeting the U.S. East Coast.

Tropical Wave That Could Impact Georgia Now Has 80% Chance of Development

Denver, CO

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No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

Kansas State

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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

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

An advocate for people experiencing homelessness who recently won $130,000 in settlements from the City and County of Denver for violating her civil rights rubbed it in the noses this week of the Englewood City Council.

Homeless advocate paid $130,000 for Denver police settlements blasts Englewood City Council

TORONTO (AP) — Amanda Anisimova beat eighth-seeded Emma Navarro 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 on Sunday in an all-American semifinal in the windy National Bank Open. "Huge accomplishment," said Anisimova, ranked 132nd in the world. "Something I've been working really hard toward." She will face third-seeded defending champion Jessica Pegula in...

Jessica Pegula ends Diana Shnaider's Toronto run to reach Canada final for second year in a row

World number one Jannik Sinner is knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Canadian Open by Andrey Rublev.

Rublev too good for Sinner at Canadian Open

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\"What just happened?\" Alexei Popyrin joins Jessica Pegula in making pre-US Open statement

“What just happened?” That’s what a baffled and elated Alexei Popyrin scrawled on a sideline camera lens after beating Andrey Rublev to clinch his first Masters...

"What just happened?" Alexei Popyrin joins Jessica Pegula in making pre-US Open statement

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