New York Post

(The Center Square) – Keeping men from playing women’s sports in the NCAA is being requested of the association’s president by both North Carolina senators among 23 Republicans.

US Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd each affixed their signatures on a Tuesday letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker.

The lawmakers in the minority party of the chamber asked Baker and his nearly $1 billion nonprofit representing 1,098 schools to follow the lead of the NAIA, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and more than 20 states in protecting women’s sports.

Stopping short of calling the NCAA hypocritical, the senators say the rules forbidding...

Republican senators ask NCAA to keep men out of women’s sports

USA TODAY

Jackie Young and Kahleah Copper are shining at the Paris Olympics, showing the future of USA basketball is in good hands.

At Paris Olympics, youth movement proves U.S. women's basketball is in good hands

The Spun

If Charles Barkley had his way, the U.S. men's basketball team would have more at stake than a shot at Olympic gold medals when facing Serbia in the semifinals. Before Team USA's quarterfinal win over Brazil, Barkley discussed the team's outlook with 2016 gold medalist Paul George on Podcast P. ...

Charles Barkley Sends Warning To U.S. Men's Basketball At The Olympics

WashingtonExaminer

Team USA is well on its way to securing its fourth straight gold medal crown at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Aug. 11, an honor it has secured every four years since China won at the Beijing Games in 2008. As impressive as Team USA’s performance was, however, trouble looms on the horizon. And […]

The college football threat to Team USA

Women's Fastbreak On SI

NBA player Grant Williams called the lack of coverage the women's USA basketball team has received relative to the men at the Olympics disrespectful

NBA Player Lamented 'Disrespectful' Media Coverage of USA Women's Olympics Basketball Team

Georgia State

Van Zandt County, TX

(The Center Square) – A rural east Texas district attorney has described how the border crisis is impacting her community after two Chinese nationals were arrested on money laundering charges. Their arrest was not the first where “we have encountered Chinese nationals on the highway engaged in illegal activities....

Chinese nationals illegally in US arrested in east Texas for money laundering

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Chicago, IL

(The Center Square) – Business owners and taxpayers are paying a big price for retail theft. According to CWBChicago, shoplifting reports have soared 45% this year, making 2024 the worst year for retail theft in the city since at least 2003. Illinois Retail Merchants Association President and CEO Rob...

Illinois retailers, communities suffer from shoplifting and robbery spikes

Florida State

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Jacksonville Today

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

(The Center Square) – The state of Illinois is going all-in in its efforts to attract film production. Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed a measure into law that expands the Film Production Services Tax Credit to include talk shows, contests and game shows. The legislation was part of an omnibus economic development bill that also included incentives for quantum computing development and redevelopment zones across the state.

Illinois expanding the Film Production Services Tax Credit

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El Paso, TX

(The Center Square) – A multi-agency operation led to the indictment of a major transnational criminal organization based in Guatemala smuggling thousands of foreign nationals through Mexico into New Mexico and throughout the United States. In the U.S., the organization primarily operated in New Mexico, Arizona, California and western...

Feds crack down on half billion-dollar Guatemalan smuggling operation

(The Center Square) – A U.S. Department of Agriculture official is highlighting the importance of farmers markets in Illinois. The USDA reports there are 290 certified farmers markets in Illinois, from Carbondale to Bloomington to the Chicago area. USDA Under Secretary Jenny Lester Moffitt said farmers markets play a...

USDA official says farmers markets bring communities together in Illinois

Republican Donald Trump has a 7-point lead over Democrat Kamala Harris among Florida voters, 49% to 42%, according to a new poll from the University of North Florida. Four percent are backing another candidate, and 6% are undecided or didn’t answer.

New Florida poll: Trump leads; support strong for abortion and recreational weed

Denver, CO

David Heitz

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

Tampa, FL

Jacksonville, FL

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

Washington State

(The Center Square) – Washington is the eighth most regulated state in the nation, according to a new study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. The study found that as of 2023, the Washington Administrative Code, or WAC, contains 201,634 restrictions and more than...

Study: Washington state ranks No. 8 in the nation for red tape

Tennessee State

John M. Dabbs

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) has issued a health alert to clinicians statewide following reports of severe acute illnesses and adverse effects of consuming Diamond Shruumz™ brand chocolate bars, cones, and gummies. The warning comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received reports of serious health issues linked to these mushroom-containing edible products.

Tennessee Health Alert: Severe Illnesses Linked to Diamond Shruumz™ Products

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

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

Tallahassee, FL

Daily Coffee Press

The FBI is investigating the disappearance of a now 13-year-old girl who went missing from Florida last year and has ties to Georgia and Tennessee. A $15,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information that can lead to her location.

FBI Investigating Disappearance of 12-Year-Old Girl Who Has Ties to Georgia

102.5 The Bone

PARIS — It's quite possible that the 2024 United States women’s basketball team runs the most team-oriented offense in the history of basketball. Like, anywhere. By anyone. Ever. And it isn’t even close. National teams. NBA teams. NCAA teams. Men’s teams. Women’s teams. Whomever. A...

Olympic basketball: U.S. women will play for gold with yet another dominating win

Colorado State

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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NCAA asked to keep men out of women’s sports

(The Center Square) – Keeping men from playing women’s sports in the NCAA is being requested of the association’s president by both North Carolina senators among...

NCAA asked to keep men out of women’s sports

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