CHICAGO — Bayou Barbie is back in Chicago. With her own Barbie, too. Angel Reese is playing in her third WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday at the United Center. This time, she is representing Atlanta in her first season with the Dream following a messy split with the Chicago Sky. "It's so ...
From the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix to Pete Rose’s gambling downfall in 1989 and NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s betting scandal in 2007, each generation has been convinced it had seen the gambling controversy that would permanently clean up sports. Yet a century later, the money is ...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size birds, with bright-orange bills and long legs, scampers into a coastal salt pond. The other briefly takes to the air, sending the team running across the mile-and-a-half-long beach in pursuit. “There is a problem. They can fly,” Alan Kneidel, a senior conservation biologist with the environmental group Manomet Conservation Sciences, said as ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full-throated support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left. The federal government has already paused any new right whale rules until 2028, and the House Natural Resources ...
A man who was thrown into the air by a bison in Yellowstone National Park says the animal didn’t seem aggressive until it picked him as a target. Sixty-five-year-old Carl McDaniel recalled the July 10 attack in a video recorded in a hospital bed, where he was recovering from bone ...
HARRISBURG — Absent from Pennsylvania for over 60 years, the federal and state endangered piping plover, a small shorebird, has made a comeback at Presque Isle State Park in Erie. Federal, state and local officials recently came together at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie for ...
