US team, Seattle Sounders striker Clint Dempsey retires

Former U.S. national team captain and Seattle Sounders striker Clint Dempsey announced his retirement on Wednesday, effective immediately.

 
NFL LB Mychal Kendricks charged with insider trading

Cleveland Browns linebacker Mychal Kendricks has been charged with using insider trading tips from an acquaintance to make about $1.2 million in illegal profits on four major trading deals, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Comedian Kevin Hart backs new MMA league

The league was formed when Donn Davis, Mark Leschly and Russ Ramsey bought the WSOF in 2017 for $25 and rebranded the organization into a tournament style — think March Madness in a cage — league. The PFL landed two-time Olympic judo gold medalist Kayla Harrison as its star, who won her first two professional fights this summer.

 
Sports Betting Spotlight: Atlanta Falcons season preview

Las Vegas handicapper Kelly Stewart and Wynn Las Vegas sports book director Johnny Avello join the Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey to preview the Atlanta Falcons’ season in the 24th of a series of 32 NFL team videos.

Homeless man sues couple who repaid his kindness, raised $400K

A homeless man whose selfless act of using his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia got him worldwide attention is suing the couple who led a $400,000 fundraising campaign to help him.

Delta Sigma Theta pays tribute to member Aretha Franklin

What began as a thin line swelled into a sea of sisterhood as hundreds of members of Delta Sigma Theta streamed into the rotunda of the Charles H. Wright Museum on Tuesday to pay tribute to the Queen of Soul, a member of the sorority.

White House counsel Don McGahn leaving post this fall

President Donald Trump is tweeting that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, will be departing in the fall after the Senate confirmation vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.

Junior Achievement helps students become financially savvy

Shanice Stevens, a 2007 graduate of the former Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center, hired to raise awareness of the programs it offers to spread financial savvy and economic opportunity to students of all ages.

Nonprofit helps Las Vegas kids learn to play hockey

Las Vegas became a big-league hockey town with the arrival of the Golden Knights, but the high price of gear might preventsome youths from hitting the ice themselves.

Family, public gather to remember Sen. John McCain in Arizona

Cindy McCain pressed her face against the flag-draped casket of her husband, U.S. Sen. John McCain, on Wednesday and several of his children sobbed during the first of two services for the statesman and former prisoner of war before he is taken for the last time from the state he has represented since the 1980s.

 
Mysterious mine found floating in Puget Sound detonated

Coast Guard and Navy bomb technicians have detonated what they said appeared to be an unidentified mine floating in Puget Sound between Brownsville Marina and Bainbridge Island.

Nevada road reopens near Idaho line after fire forced closure

Nevada transportation officials have reopened a stretch of state highway that has been closed for nearly a week because of a wildfire that has burned 370 square miles (958 sq. kilometers) of rangeland and forest near the Idaho line.

Pope makes 1st public appearance since bombshell accusations

Pope Francis has lamented how Irish church authorities failed to respond to the crimes of sexual abuse, speaking during his first public appearance at the Vatican after bombshell accusations that he himself covered up for an American cardinal’s misdeeds.

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