CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Late in the summer of 1939, crowds of strangers started showing up at Rhoda Wise’s house next to a city dump in Ohio after she let it be known that miracles were occurring in her room. Eight decades later, people still make pilgrimages to the wood frame bungalow at the edge […]
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Author Paule Marshall dies at 90
NEW YORK (AP) — Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as “Daughters” and “Brown Girl, Brownstones” drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother’s kitchen conversations to narrate the divides between blacks and whites, men and women and modern and traditional cultures, has died at age 90. Marshall’s son, […]
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Mike Johnson: Discovering Similarities
Moving to Florida just before my senior year, was not my idea of a good time. After spending the prior 12 years with the same friends, schools and home, leaving for an out-of-state, smaller apartment complex, was hard to swallow. We especially missed our ball fields. Sports had been our life up north and my […]
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Martinez drives in 7 as Red Sox beat Padres 11-0
SAN DIEGO (AP) — J.D. Martinez had the big game for the Boston Red Sox, hitting two three-run homers and driving in a career-high seven runs. Eduardo Rodriguez had the big moment, reaching base on an error and scoring his first career run to go along with his seven strong innings in Boston’s 11-0 win […]
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Oxford 250 numbers aren’t what they used to be, but that’s OK
OXFORD — The days of 100 cars showing up to qualify for the Oxford 250 are long gone. The funny part is, nobody seems to much care. A decade ago, it was all anybody cared about, so much so that in 2006, Bill Ryan Jr. decided to drastically alter the landscape of the race at […]
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Column: The NFL preseason shows all its ills in 1 night
Cam Newton hobbling to the locker room, the recipient of an unnecessary injury in an unnecessary game. A cash-grab in Canada, leading to what didn’t even qualify as a glorified scrimmage on an 80-yard field. The Falcons charging top dollar to cheer for a quarterback last seen trying to make the Patriots as a receiver. […]
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BASEBALL WORLD: These kids are now taking over
On June 3, of last year, I wrote a column that appeared under the headline “Like Father, Like Son: Blue Jays’ farm system filled with legends’ kids.” In that article, I reported how Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., whose father had recently been elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, Bo Bichette, son of Dante […]
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Patent office sacks Brady’s bid for ‘Tom Terrific’ trademark
BOSTON — It’s settled: Tom Seaver is “Tom Terrific,” not Tom Brady. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected Brady’s application to take control of the nickname on Thursday, ruling that it “points uniquely and unmistakably to Tom Seaver.” It adds that giving Brady a trademark for “Tom Terrific” might lead people to conclude the […]
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Teacher shortage, protests complicate educator pay dynamics
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — First-grade teacher Hillary Madrigal jumped to a nearby school district last year, lured by higher salaries that would allow her to quit her second job as a housekeeper and buy a new car. “I have a college degree. I felt I could make a difference in people’s lives as a […]
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