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The Badgers have signed Old Dominion transfer Colton Joseph, sources told ESPN. He projects as Wisconsin's starting quarterback for next season, after a dominating season at ODU that saw him finish No. 8 in the country in total offense last year at 302.6 yards per game. Joseph will bring Wisconsin a true dual-threat quarterback, as he rushed for 1,007 yards and threw for 2,624. He threw for 21 touchdowns and rushed for 13 more. Joseph will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.

A small, private plane crashed at the Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod on Sunday afternoon, catching fire and killing the pilot, who was the only person on board, city officials said. The fire department and mutual aid partners in Provincetown, which sits at the very tip of the Cape Cod just southeast of Boston, extinguished the fire and the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a city news release.

Gadsden is in an ideal location in northeast Alabama - you can easily get to major hubs like Birmingham or Huntsville, or even Chattanooga or Atlanta. But here's the important thing: with current technology, you can have a great job without living in any of those places. You can live in Gadsden and enjoy our amazing natural resources, events, businesses and quality of life while still being connected and working remotely.

Authorities are investigating an incident caught on video of a man assaulting someone trying to protect a fellow Caltrain passenger whom the attacker was verbally harassing. The incident took place on December 23 at the San Carlos station, and the Good Samaritan was taken to the hospital with facial fractures. [KTVU] Parts of Marin County experienced heavy flooding Friday, and a flood advisory was in effect along the coast of the Bay Area through Sunday.

Undercover FBI officials posed as members of the Islamic State group to extract information about the intended attack, FBI Special Agent James Barnacle, Jr., US federal prosecutor Russ Ferguson and Mint Hill police chief Joseph Hatley told reporters. "He pledged his allegiance to ISIS with that undercover agent, and he disclosed his plans to 'do jihad' soon," Ferguson said, using one of multiple acronyms used to refer to the Islamic State terror group. He disclosed more details to another undercover official, according to Ferguson.

Joseph C. Norton, vice chair of the Framingham Planning Board, was arrested on Dec. 18 in a coordinated online operation between State and Framingham investigators, according to a Boston Globe report. On Dec. 19, he pleaded not guilty to charges of enticing a child under 16, paying for sex with a child under 18, and attempting to commit a crime, according to the report. He was released on $2,000 cash bail and is due back in court for a Jan. 30 hearing.

South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown has entered the transfer portal and is scheduled to visit Auburn this weekend, where he could join former Bulls coach Alex Golesh, sources confirmed to ESPN on Saturday. Sources told ESPN that Auburn is Brown's likely destination, providing a much-needed jolt to one of the worst Power 4 conference offenses this season. Brown, a senior from Raleigh, North Carolina, has one season of eligibility remaining. On3 first reported that he would be visiting Auburn.

In the days since an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man who federal officials said was firing a weapon in a Northridge apartment complex, Los Angeles police officials have offered few details about the events leading up to the deadly New Year's Eve encounter. Deputy LAPD Chief Alan Hamilton said the incident is being investigated by the Robbery-Homicide Division, which handles all shootings by officers from outside law enforcement agencies. On the federal side, he said, the case is being handled by the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security Investigations.

They have every opportunity like they have up to this point to be able to make that decision,

CBS has canceled Tony Dokoupil's 10-city tour of the USA to celebrate him becoming the new host of Evening News, according to multiple reports on Saturday. The scrapped tour comes as Dokoupil will start hosting the program on Saturday evening two days earlier than was originally planned, Deadline reported. Dokoupil will make his hosting debut from San Francisco before going to New York City for his official launch on Monday, the outlet reported.

On Thursday, news broke that Tommy Lee Jones's daughter, Victoria, had suddenly died at 34. According to CBS News, police responded to the Fairmont Hotel in Los Angeles at 3:15 a.m. for a report of a deceased person. Medics informed police that an adult woman was found dead at the scene and was subsequently identified as Victoria. While her cause of death is not currently known, a police source said foul play is not suspected.

When Thorbjornsen imagined his first TGL appearance, surely he didn't think his first shot in the SoFi Center would be in a bunker. But that's how fate would have it on Hole 1. Matters only got worse when the TGL rookie's shot bounced right back into the bunker. Boston went on to lose the hole, giving LA a 1-0 lead.

The crim says the haul spans more than 800 classified raw LiDAR point cloud files in .las format ranging from 100 MB to 2 GB each; full coverage of transmission line corridors and substations, which includes layers for bare earth, vegetation, conductors, and structures; high-resolution orthophotos in .ecw format; MicroStation design files and PTC settings; large vegetation feature files in .xyz format; and other files from active projects.

My friend works in a physics lab at Brown University, in the building where the shots had been reported. His coworkers were sheltering in their office. He listened to the police scanner with his headphones because we didn't want to hear it, and we combed social media for reports from accounts that didn't know much more than we did. The winter's first snow began to fall as police helicopters churned overhead.

In a news release on Thursday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said that hikers reported seeing a mountain lion near a person lying on the ground on the Crosier Mountain trail in unincorporated Larimer county at around 12.15pm local time on Thursday. The hikers scared the lion from the area by throwing rocks at the animal according to officials, and then attended to the woman but were unable to find a pulse.

A Fremont man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing another man during an intense confrontation, minutes after the victim slashed the suspect's throat with a utility knife, court records show. Eddie Moses, 42, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the Feb. 16 2023 stabbing death of Mario Molinari. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped a murder charge against Moses, court records show.

Aside from the criminal charges that can result from this, unnecessarily scaring an individual in their home for 'social media fame' can have serious, unintended consequences when those present believe their home is being broken into,

Located about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta, this small city of 79,000 is ideal for young professionals and families searching for a place with access to the outdoors, cultural activities, and relatively easy access to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). With Johns Creek as your base camp, you can spend your weekends walking the trails at the 46-acre Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center, paddling the Chattahoochee River, attending performances by the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra, and sampling craft beer at Six Bridges Brewing.

Diggs offered an apology for not speaking with reporters earlier in the week in a roughly 45-second-long opening statement before saying he would only answer football-related questions. "Sorry, it's been a couple of days. I usually get to talk to y'all on Wednesday. But, obviously, it's a different time, a very emotional time, taken back by some things that's been going on," Diggs told reporters ( via WBZ's Dan Roche). "But I want to be here to say sorry, I wasn't available for those couple of days. It was a different kind of time. Dealing with everything, it's definitely an open case, so I really can't say anything about it. "I will be open to any football questions, anything you wanna know. I don't wanna be rude or disrespectful in any way."

Most combat aircraft are built with an expected service life measured in decades, not generations. Yet a handful of U.S. aircraft continue flying long past their planned retirement dates, trusted by commanders and relied upon in real-world operations. These airframes survived sweeping changes in technology and strategy by evolving rather than disappearing. Their continued service reveals how modernization, mission flexibility, and institutional confidence can outweigh the push for newer platforms.

There were two fatal shootings in Oakland on New Year's Day which occurred two and a half hours apart in different parts of the city. The City of Oakland, which continues to see drops in violent crime categories and closed out 2025 with 24% fewer homicides than the previous year, opened the new year with two fatal shootings. As KRON4 reports, the first of the shooting incidents happened just after 11 am on January 1, on the 2700 block of East 20th Street.

When the Red Raiders began their head-coaching search in 2021, McGuire didn't have as stacked a résumé as his competition. As ESPN reported, he was 'a true underdog candidate.' At the time, McGuire had spent the majority of his coaching career at Cedar Hill High School in Texas, where he had notched three state championships. He also spent a few years as an assistant coach at Baylor.