A large sinkhole in front of a New Mexico home has swallowed up two vehicles that were parked in the driveway and forced evacuations in an Las Cruces neighborhood where the incident occurred, the city of Las Cruces confirmed in a press release Tuesday. The collapse was reported around 9:30 p.m. on Monday evening. Las Cruces firefighters arrived on scene and found a sinkhole 30-feet wide and 30-feet deep that had not yet settled. No one was reported injured. Watch:Video shows Target store sliding down hillside in West Virginia as...

Seventy-nine football players from 17 state universities were named Tuesday to the 2024 Kentucky Collegiate All Commonwealth Team selected annually by the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame. The All Commonwealth Team serves as preseason recognition for Kentucky’s top college football performers on the field and in the classroom and values leadership ability and dedication to team in addition to gridiron glory. Players were nominated by their universities to be recognized.

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...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday insisted that he was not negotiating with hard-line conservatives trying to oust him, despite a nearly two-hour meeting with them a day earlier to hear their demands. Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, is set to again meet with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday. He so far managed to forestall her efforts to oust him, but the speaker has not ended her crusade against him. House Republicans have expressed concerns about Mr. Johson making concessions. Mr. Johnson said he was not negotiating with Ms. Greene,...

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Fourteen people were arrested in connection with an alleged organized chicken-fighting event last weekend in Casey County, Kentucky State Police said. State troopers responded to a call around 12 p.m., May 5, about the event happening at a property along KY-837 in Bethelridge, about 100 miles southeast of Louisville. Once they arrived, investigators found a caged area "with seating around it for spectators, several injured chickens, and a concessions area on the property," according to a news release by KSP. Police noted in the release that Bethelridge residents Leo Harris,...

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday said Apple illegally interrogated staff about union sympathies in 2021. According to the ruling, Apple management at the company’s World Trade Center store in New York City violated federal labor law by questioning employees about their positions on unionization and confiscating pro-union fliers in break rooms. Monday’s decision upholds the ruling of an administrative court last year. The board ordered Apple to cease any questioning of employees’ positions on unionization and to let employees place union information in communal spaces.

Ohio State’s first-year head coach landed Duke transfer forward Sean Stewart, who was officially added to the roster over the weekend. Stewart, 6-foot-9 and 230 pounds, averaged 2.6 points and 3.2 rebounds while logging an average of 8.3 minutes over 33 games. He shot 57.1 percent from the floor. “Sean plays with great urgency/effort, and has a versatility to his game that will be valuable,” Diebler wrote on social media. Diebler previously recruited Stewart when the Florida native was a five-star prospect and McDonald’s All-American ranked the No. 17 player...

A flight delay proved to be a stroke of luck for a North Carolina lottery player. Donald Cardwell of Kernersville said he was planning to give his wife a ride from the airport when he bought a scratch-off ticket worth $100,000. “Her flight was running late so I decided to stop and try my luck,” Cardwell told the N.C. Education Lottery in a May 6 news release. “It was awesome.” Then, Cardwell picked up his wife and shared the news of his jackpot win. “She told me, ‘You are the...

Internationally recognized author, scholar and philosopher Christopher Phillips is searching for answers beyond planet Earth as the new philosopher in residence of Humanity in Deep Space, a think-tank organization dedicated to gathering information and promoting discussion on possible human civilization in outer space. Humanity in Deep Space was created in 2019 and comprises a diverse group of creative thinkers, space professionals and others who are working to develop a better understanding of just how people would be able to inhabit and live outside of Earth.