Virginia Wesleyan remains No. 1 in NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Virginia Wesleyan won four more games last week to remain the unanimous No. 1 team in the NFCA Top 25 softball rankings. The (35-1) Marlins swept then-No. 16 Randolph-Macon and Roanoke in a pair of Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheaders to continue as the top team for a second-straight week. Then on…

Alberta Barber Katie Nagy Creates Coolest Wheelchair Batmobile For Kid Client

Lots of kids across Canada will dress up as Batman for Halloween this year, but none will have a costume as awesome as Troy Pardely’s, that’s for sure. The five-year-old boy from Spruce Grove, Alta., got a big Halloween surprise from his barber, who built him a custom Batmobile to fit around around his wheelchair….

Rally at Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow demands release of Russian journalist (PHOTOS)

Prominent journalists and officials have rallied in Moscow to demand the release of Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, held in Ukraine for over six months on suspicion of treason. “Free Kirill Vyshinsky!” chanted scores of people who came to support the imprisoned head of RIA Novosti Ukraine news agency on Friday. Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of…

2017 NFCA NJCAA Division II Regional Coaching Staffs of Year announced

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Three highly successful programs earned 2017 NFCA National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honors, the Association revealed on Tuesday.   Repeat national champion Louisiana State University Eunice was voted by its NFCA peers as the top team in the South Region, while Des Moines…

Brian Gallant’s Days As New Brunswick Premier Appear To Be Numbered

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant’s chances of holding onto power are looking increasingly bleak, after every opposition member officially declared Thursday they don’t want to be Speaker. That leaves few options for the Liberals, who won one fewer seat than Blaine Higgs’ Tories in last month’s election, when the legislature resumes next week….

French court drops money-laundering charges against Russian Senator Kerimov

A court in France’s Aix-en-Provence has cleared Russian senator and key shareholder in the country’s largest gold producer, Suleiman Kerimov, of money-laundering charges and changed his status to ‘witness.’ However, Nice Public Prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre has indicated that his agency will analyze the decision and is likely to appeal it, Russian news agency RBC reported…

Liberty claims inaugural NISC Championship

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty softball claimed its first postseason championship in program history, topping Lamar, 3-1, in a winner-take-all final game of the 2017 National Invitational Softball Championship, held at Liberty Softball Stadium. The Lady Flames (46-24) won five straight elimination games this week, taking the championship trophy from a field of 26 at the…