An Indianapolis sports columnist will not be covering the biggest story in town — the Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark — following his cringeworthy interaction with the basketball icon, a company official said Tuesday. While Indianapolis Star spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton said she could not discuss any “personnel matters or personnel actions,” she confirmed that Gregg Doyel will not be a part of any Fever coverage following his awkward April 17 interaction with Clark. “Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel will not be covering the Indiana Fever,” Anton said in a...

Chicago Cubs fans caught a glimpse of Cade Horton, the organization’s top pitching prospect, in Des Moines on Saturday. And his outing could be the start of big things to come for the Cubs’ former first-rounder. The 22-year-old pitcher worked his way up through the lower levels of the minors before landing with the Iowa Cubs, and Horton earned his first triple-A start against the Omaha Storm Chasers on Saturday, May 4. “It’s a good feeling, just knowing I’m one step closer to the ultimate goal,” Horton said about his...

ADEL — Gov. Kim Reynolds sat cross-legged, surrounded by first-graders, on the floor of a classroom in Adel Elementary School, watching as the students practiced their vowel sounds. Reynolds had just come from signing a new law aimed at improving how early literacy classes are taught in Iowa. In the classroom, she saw some of those teaching techniques in action. First-grade teacher Erin Koelker showed students letter combinations such as "igh," "ay" and "ore" and had kids call out the sounds the letters make. The students also used handheld whiteboards...

A highly peculiar interview with women’s college basketball legend and Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark has landed a reporter with the Indy Star a two-week suspension. According to Gannett via Fox News, columnist Gregg Doyel has been disciplined for his part in the interaction with Clark. “Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel will not be covering the Indiana Fever,” Indy Star spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton told Fox News Digital. The issues started last month when, before asking Clark a question, Doyel made the heart symbol with his hands that the former...

By Alexa St. John, Sean Murphy and Jim Salter | Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — A tornado destroyed homes, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that stretched into Tuesday. At least one death was reported. The tornado ripped through the 1,000-person town of Barnsdall, about a 40-minute drive north of Tulsa, on Monday night. It was the second...

LOS ANGELES — Through their captivating run to the Elite Eight, the lasting high point from USC women’s basketball’s 2023-24 season may have been the net that fell in Las Vegas in the spring, winners of the final Pac-12 Tournament in a conference that had rarely been better. An hour after beating Stanford in the title game March 10, McKenzie Forbes, Kayla Padilla and Rayah Marshall sat with head coach Lindsay Gottlieb in a haze of emotion at the postgame podium, Gottlieb pointing out this was a group that’d be...

One person has died after several tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma and multiple other states amid an ongoing severe weather outbreak early this week. Authorities with the Osage County Sheriff's Office announced the tornado-related death shortly after a massive twister struck Barnsdall late on Monday, May 6, according to FOX affiliate KOKI-TV and NBC News . This is the second time Barnsdall has been hit by a tornado in the last five weeks, CNN reported. An EF-1 twister hit the town on April 1. The storm this week then moved into...

After Iowa received more rain and severe weather Monday night, the National Weather Service Des Moines issued flood warnings in the metro area. NWS Des Moines issued flood warnings for the following locations in effect Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon: Minor flooding is expected, and NWS encourages residents to take precautionary actions, like monitoring river and stream observations at water.noaa.gov. How much will rivers flood in Des Moines? At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday, the Raccoon River was at 11.2 feet, about a foot below flooding levels. Levels are expected to...

Tyler Broghammer leaves his office nearly every day armed with a small blue cooler. Inside is a weapon against South Dakota’s syphilis epidemic: syringes of penicillin. The sexually transmitted infection case manager at Oyate Health Center in Rapid City also carries rapid STI tests and condoms on his near daily drive around town, meeting with people he’s learned may have the disease. Broghammer is one of two STI case managers at Oyate Health finding and treating people who have syphilis. The organization is one of several working to address the...

Microsoft Corp. has deployed a generative AI model entirely divorced from the internet, saying US intelligence agencies can now safely harness the powerful technology to analyze top-secret information. It’s the first time a major large language model has operated fully separated from the internet, a senior executive at the US company said. Most AI models including OpenAI’s ChatGPT rely on cloud services to learn and infer patterns from data, but Microsoft wanted to deliver a truly secure system to the US intelligence community. Spy agencies around the world want generative...