A federal appeals court on Friday declined a university's request to stop one of its football players convicted of rape as a teenager from playing on the team.

A federal appeals court Friday declined a university's request to stop one of its football players convicted of rape as a teenager from playing on the team. The ruling means Ma'lik Richmond, 21, will be allowed to play for Youngstown State University in a game against Central Connecticut State University today.

Residents turned out at Monday night's town council meeting to discuss celebrating The Age of Exploration and Indigenous Peoples' Day along with Columbus Day.

Residents turned out at Monday night's town council meeting to discuss celebrating The Age of Exploration and Indigenous Peoples' Day along with Columbus Day.

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The Covenant women's soccer season opener could not have gone much better for the Lady Scots.

President Trump landed in storm-brushed Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday to see for himself some of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey and demonstrate his personal commitment to a region still in the grips of a historic natural disaster. Trump had pushed aides to schedule a visit to Texas as early as possible after Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas, on Friday night as a Category 4 hurricane.

In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy poses for a photo at Bremerton Memorial Stadium in Bremerton, Wash. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 that the Bremerton School District does not have to immediately re-hire Kennedy, who lost his job after refusing to stop leading players in prayer on the football field after games.

Police said that most of the charges were drug charges, and that the effort had been several months in the making.

The two United States Senators from Oregon and six colleagues on Tuesday sent a letter to an NCAA commission that recommended "a strong, uniform policy" for prospective student-athletes who have "serious misconduct violations" in their past. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., co-signed the letter to the NCAA Commission to Combat Sexual Violence, along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn., Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, delivers his message as he leads a ceremony where he baptized 32 babies in the Chapel in 2014 In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. In 1812, the Battle of Fort Dearborn took place as Potawatomi warriors attacked a U.S. military garrison of about 100 people.

Zack Barth, an aide to Texas Rep. Roger Williams, was wounded in the leg during the shooting at the Republicans' baseball practice in Arlington, Va., on June 14. His job was to feed fly balls back to the infield for Republican lawmakers during an early-morning baseball practice ahead of the annual Congressional Baseball Game against the Democrats. That all changed when a man in a red shirt wielding an SKS semi-automatic rifle opened fire that June 14 morning in Alexandria, Virginia, wounding five people, including Zack and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise .

The U.S. Capitol Police department opened an internal investigation into why its elite tactical team was initially directed to respond to the wrong location when a gunman opened fire last month at a GOP congressional baseball practice, according to two people familiar with the matter. Instead of responding directly to the Virginia field where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and several others were shot, members of the Capitol Police Containment and Emergency Response Team were signaled instead to go to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's house in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, several miles away, according to the two people, who asked for anonymity to speak about the sensitive incident.

The 10th Annual Jason Stevens Memorial Softball Tournament raises thousands of dollars every year that benefit some Mt. Vernon High School athletic teams.

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In Mississippi, Jaheim Oatis, who is 6'4", 286-lbs, and going into 8th grade, has received scholarship offers from Alabama, Ole Miss and Mississippi State. Of course, this is Mississippi.

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