The NHL’s newest team just hired the league’s first full-time Black play-by-play announcer. Everett Fitzhugh, 31, will serve as the Seattle Kraken’s lead team broadcaster, NHL.com reported. Fitzhugh spent the past five hockey seasons with the Buffalo Sabres’ ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones. “Everett has established himself as a unique and leading voice for hockey,”…… MORE
When Aimee Ingabire stepped off the plane with her mother, taking her first steps on American soil after a 32-hour journey from the Republic of Congo, she knew her life had changed forever. There she was in Seattle, a 15-year-old fleeing war, thousands of miles from her homeland and suddenly disconnected from her culture and…… MORE
University of Maryland head football coach Mike Locksley announced Friday that six players are opting out of the 2020 season, including last year’s starting quarterback. The players are defensive lineman Jalen Alexander, defensive back Vincent Flythe, offensive guard Austin Fontaine, quarterback Josh Jackson, offensive lineman Johnny Jordan and linebacker T.J. Kautai. Jackson, Jordan and Fontaine…… MORE
A military veteran serving a life sentence for selling less than $30 worth of marijuana will soon be released from prison, his attorney said. Derek Harris, who was arrested in 2008 in Louisiana for selling an officer .69 grams of marijuana, was recently resentenced to time served. He’s already served nine years in prison. Initially,…… MORE
Colorado State University has paused all football-related activities indefinitely, the school’s director of athletics said, after learning of racism and verbal abuse allegations from within the Rams’ athletic administration and in the football program. This comes after Colorado State had announced earlier in the week that it had launched an investigation into its athletic department…… MORE
As cities across the country rethink community policing, Milwaukee’s police oversight board has demoted the city’s police chief due to lack of communication and following the use of tear gas against protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The unanimous vote to demote Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales was made by the city’s Fire…… MORE
A three-game series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs has been postponed after two players and a staff member from the Cardinals tested positive for the novel coronavirus during the past two days. Major League Baseball had announced the postponement of Friday’s contest to allow for additional testing and to complete the “contact…… MORE
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man in his own apartment — saying she thought it was her own residence — has appealed her sentence. Guyger was convicted of murder last October and is serving a 10-year prison sentence. Her defense team says there was insufficient evidence to…… MORE
At least 260 students and eight teachers from a suburban school district in Atlanta, Georgia, were quarantined after multiple students and teachers tested positive for Covid-19 during the first week of school. In statements posted on its website, the Cherokee County School District reported positive cases in at least 11 students and two staff members.…… MORE
Hundreds of motorcycle riders and enthusiasts are arriving in Sturgis, South Dakota, for the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally despite objections from a majority of its residents. The celebration — which nearly 500,000 people attended last year — will take place as the coronavirus pandemic remains out of control in cities across the country and health…… MORE
