LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Dabecka Kirk of La Monte High School, Villa Grove Elite’s Floyd Fisher and Mount San Antonio College head coach Ruby Rojas are the 2017 winners of the inaugural Diamond Kinetics/NFCA Technology Scholarship. The recipients were announced at the conclusion of JT Gasso’s (Oklahoma) Technology’s Role in Building Elite Hitters” presented by Diamond…
A new video provides a rare glimpse at how an Aurus luxury armored limousine looks from the inside. The line of high-class vehicles are famously used by President Vladimir Putin himself. Footage released by the media on Monday shows a reporter exploring a white Russian-made limo at the IDEX 2019 arms expo in Abu Dhabi,…
VANCOUVER — A Quebec politician says Instagram insults against Canadian world junior hockey team captain Maxime Comtois are “anti-francophone racism.” Parti Quebecois interim leader Pascal Berube used Twitter to share his feelings after Comtois was hit hard with criticism after missing on a penalty shot during overtime in a 2-1 loss to Finland in the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The NFCA is pleased to announce Rapsodo as its newest official sponsor. Rapsodo has agreed to a three-year contract and will be the title sponsor of the NFCA’s upcoming webinars. “The NFCA is thrilled to welcome Rapsodo as our newest official sponsor,” said NFCA executive director Carol Bruggeman. “Rapsodo and its products have made a big splash…
Photojournalists from US, German, Italian, South Korean and Russian outlets will be judging this year’s contest for photographers aged under 33 – that’s how old Andrei Stenin was when he was killed in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The top professionals who made it onto the jury for the 2019 competition include New York Times photographer,…
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba man who sent letter bombs to his ex-wife and two law firms that had represented her has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 10 years. Guido Amsel, who was convicted earlier this year on four counts of attempted murder, has also been sentenced…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Texas A&M slugger Tori Vidales and Florida State hurler Kylee Hanson were named Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games played Feb. 12-18. Vidales, who hails from La Porte, Texas, played a major role in the sixth-ranked Aggies’ 5-0 week. The senior first baseman connected on…
A powerful explosion has rocked a chemical plant near St. Petersburg. The blast leveled the two-story building and injured five workers. Russia’s Investigative Committee released a video of the incident, which occurred at a concrete admixtures producing plant on Wednesday. The blast turned out to be massive indeed, yet luckily no one was killed. Footage…
Birth and death are unavoidable parts of life, but that’s no reason to store baby food at a morgue alongside dangerous chemicals, as allegedly happened in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region. The shocking footage from the improvised warehouse in the city of Yugorsk was uploaded online by local MP Anton Panin. “At first, I thought that…
The Liberal-dominated House of Commons justice committee voted down opposition bids Wednesday to hear from the former attorney general and key members of the Prime Minister’s Office on the escalating SNC-Lavalin controversy. Instead, Liberal MPs chose to study some of the legal issues at the heart of the matter. The committee held an emergency meeting…