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Major League Baseball has seen such a recent decline in Black ballplayers that there was a higher percentage of African Americans in the league during the Civil Rights era. On Opening Day in April, just 7.2% of major leaguers were Black. Eleven years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier …

A Florida man is under arrest after allegedly attempting to use a false identity to purchase over $20 million in properties and a luxury car while also pledging $3 million to a well-known cancer research foundation. Robert Schnepf, 48, was arrested on a single felony charge of scheming to defraud …

Within a 24-hour period this week, a homeless encampment at a Portland, Oregon, park was removed, and a construction crew showed up to build pickleball courts and a skate ramp in its place.  Homelessness has skyrocketed in Portland, most notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than two years, tents …