The Dow was up 0.52% at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, getting a big boost from Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA). Boeing stock soared after Ryanair committed to buying another 75 Boeing 737 MAX planes, and Walgreens stock surged on no meaningful news.
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Dylan Strome was never good at losing, whether it was playing baseball in his front yard or stick hockey in the basement with his brothers. “He hated losing more than he loved winning,” younger brother Matt Strome said. "He was never satisfied unless he won, and if he lost you would definitely know about it. I was on the wrong end of that a couple times.” Strome won the Ontario Hockey League championship and the Memorial Cup at the junior level, was the third pick in the 20
The Broncos top 3-point shooter from last season is in the transfer portal.
Tennessee State has taken its biggest step yet toward becoming the first historically Black college and university to introduce ice hockey by hiring Duanté Abercrombie as the Tigers' head coach. President Glenda Glover and athletic director Mikki Allen announced the hiring Thursday. “I firmly believe that one day, TSU will be recognized not only as a powerhouse on the ice but also as a program whose student-athletes leave a profound legacy on the world, enriched by the lessons learned at TSU,” Abercrombie said in a statement.
Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is back in the lab, working out with quarterback Patrick Mahomes, amid his legal woes.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is running on fumes after an exhausting Masters victory just four days ago. He hit a shank from a bunker. He nearly lost his mind from mud on his golf ball. And he still managed a 2-under 69 at the RBC Heritage on Thursday. J.T. Poston set the pace on an idyllic day on Hilton Head Island with nine birdies — six of them in a seven-hole stretch — for a 63 that gave him a two-shot lead over Collin Morikawa and Seamus Power. Mackenzie Hughes of Hamil
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kawhi Leonard has been fighting “very, very stubborn inflammation” in his surgically repaired right knee for nearly three weeks and he'll be listed as questionable for the Los Angeles Clippers' playoff opener against the Dallas Mavericks. The fourth-seeded Clippers host Luka Doncic and the fifth-seeded Mavs on Sunday. “Progress has been made but the inflammation needs to continue to reduce so he can do functional basketball movements,” Lawrence Frank, president of basketball o
Stocks again failed to hold early gains, with the market power trend about to end. Netflix subscribers jumped in Q1.
George Street Public School, and its surrounding property, have been secured by the Town of Aurora for parkland and redevelopment. The Town announced the $10,722,000 million, four-acre purchase, which will be funded through the Town of Aurora’s Parkland Reserves, on April 11. The latest purchase comes just months after the Town acquired a further 16-acre site in Aurora’s west end, just north of the Woodhaven subdivision, for $3.23 million, funded by the same reserve. Both purchases will go towar
Robert F Kennedy Jr is running for president as an independent - but many family members oppose him.
When inaugurating your tenure running the RSC - as its new joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey did on Thursday night - you might as well begin near the beginning, with an early Shakespeare comedy. No one craves Lear as an opening gambit.
The Aurora Lions Club has never shied away from a challenge – whether it is providing vision services for youngsters or helping to make the holidays extra merry for local families in need – and now they are celebrating 80 years of making a tangible difference in the community. The local branch of the Lions roared as one this month at the Aurora Soccer Club at a special luncheon to mark their milestone anniversary. Attended by several local dignitaries, including Newmarket-Aurora MP Tony Van Byne
Jabil Inc has placed Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Wilson on a paid leave since April 15 pending completion of an investigation related to corporate policies, the electronic components maker said on Thursday. The company appointed its current CFO Michael Dastoor as the interim CEO, effective April 19, according to its regulatory filing. Jabil pointed to the filing in response to a request seeking more details on why Wilson was placed on leave.
Here is who will have direct oversight of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity.
Inflationary pressures in Mexico are mostly being imported from abroad, and are not coming from public spending, Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said in an interview at Mexico's annual banking convention on Thursday. "We don't agree with the assumption that public spending is generating inflationary dynamics," Yorio said. Earlier this week, Bank of Mexico deputy governor Jonathan Heath said that expansive fiscal policy in the run-up to general elections was complicating the bank's work in taming inflation this year.
'I know everyone has somewhere to be, but the arms will save your life': New fines at railroad crossings
NEW YORK (AP) — When the first batch of potential jurors was brought in for Donald Trump's criminal trial this week, all the lawyers had to go on to size them up at first were their names and the answers they gave in court to a set of screening questions. Then the lawyers went to work, scouring social media for posts that might reveal whether people in the jury pool had hidden biases or extreme views. One potential juror was dismissed by the judge after the Republican former president's lawyers
Powell warned earlier this week that rate cuts could be delayed, with his colleagues echoing that in comments on Wednesday.
A military helicopter carrying senior military officers crashes and caught fire, killing ten people.
The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, authorized officers to clear the encampments set up by students demanding divestment
The drop comes amid high prices and steady mortgage rates.
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