LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kirkwood Community College’s DoniRae Mayhew was selected the 2018 Schutt Sports/NFCA Junior College National Player of the Year, announced the Association on Tuesday afternoon. Mayhew is the second Eagle to garner the honor, joining Taylor Nearad, who took home the recognition twice in 2016 and 2017. The award was voted on by…
It’s been a decade of lows for commodities after posting seven declines in 11 years, but we’ve seriously underestimated lithium. It’s back with a vengeance in 2019. The commodities market endured yet another annus horribilis, with just four commodities—natural gas, uranium, cocoa and wheat—recording any uptick at all. Last year’s 12 percent slide by the…
EDMONTON — Drivers using Google Maps are getting a last-minute warning as they approach some photo radar camera locations. The feature, which is currently being rolled out by Google, allows users to see speed limits, speed cameras and mobile speed cameras on the map before they leave. It also gives a verbal warning — an…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An unhittable Keely Rochard of Virginia Tech and Nebraska slugger Tristen Edwards earned 2019 Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Pitcher and Player of the Week honors for the week of Feb. 11-17. Rochard, a sophomore from Williamsburg, Va., tossed consecutive no-hitters last weekend at the Wingate by Wyndham Invitational. She picked up a…
TORONTO — Ontario is overhauling its autism program in an attempt to clear a waiting list of 23,000 children, but families and advocates say that backlog will be eliminated at the expense of the amount and quality of treatment. The changes announced Wednesday by Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod include giving funding…
Click:1P 2 200kA Surge LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Another two-win week kept Neshoba Central atop the USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll. The (34-0) Rockets have now won 39 straight and 55 of their last 56 games. Meanwhile, undefeated Madison (21-0) moved up to second following Hamilton’s 4-0 loss to Pinnacle in an Arizona Interscholastic…
The French capital’s real estate market has become even more pricey in 2018 as the property costs reached another historic peak and are not going to go down, paving the way for another record this year. Purchasing a place in the heart of the City of Light cost buyers 5.7 percent more in 2018 than…
INDIANAPOLIS — Former collegiate softball standouts, Newman’s (DII) Delaney Hiegert and Oklahoma State’s (DI) Vanessa Shippy are two of the nine finalists for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award and will be honored at an awards dinner Oct. 28 in Indianapolis, where the 2018 Woman of the Year will be named. The nine…
A group advocating for the prairies to separate from the rest of Canada has launched a series of billboards across Saskatchewan. The Prairie Freedom Movement put up four billboards on Thursday that ask “should Saskatchewan leave Canada?” Three of the billboards are in Regina and one is in Saskatoon, according to Global News. The movement’s…
The second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 since October has forced a number of global airlines to ground the latest version of one of the world’s most popular passenger jets. The Sunday tragedy, which occurred six minutes after a takeoff from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, Kenya,…