Author: Dorcas Onasa

The Minnesota Vikings are cleaning up the wreckage of one of the most expensive and disappointing free agency strategies in recent NFL history. The team released defensive linemen Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave on Wednesday, one year after both veterans were acquired as centerpieces of a record-breaking spending spree that ultimately failed to move the needle in any meaningful way. The releases will clear more than $21 million off the Vikings’ salary cap, assuming Allen receives a post-June 1 designation, though the moves will cost the team a little more than that figure in dead money according to calculations by…

: A bus fire in the Swiss town of Kerzers claimed at least 6 lives and left 5 others injured Tuesday evening, setting off an active investigation by cantonal police into whether the fire was started intentionally. The incident has shaken the local community and drawn expressions of grief from Switzerland’s highest office. The bus involved was a regional transport vehicle operated by Post Bus, the Swiss public transportation company affiliated with the national postal service. By the time emergency services arrived at the scene, the bus had been almost entirely consumed by fire. Images and eyewitness accounts from Kerzers…

A powerful outbreak of severe weather swept across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Tuesday night, spawning multiple tornadoes that killed at least 2 people, injured others, destroyed homes and businesses, and left tens of thousands without power. Rescue and recovery operations were still underway Wednesday as officials urged the public to stay out of the hardest-hit areas. The storm system produced several intense supercell thunderstorms, at least one of which was responsible for 4 separate tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service office in Chicago. Meteorologists said crews were still working Wednesday to confirm the full number and strength…

The Indianapolis Colts are moving on from safety Nick Cross, who departs after four seasons and 322 tackles to sign a two-year deal worth up to $14 million with the Washington Commanders. Safety Nick Cross is heading to Washington after four seasons in Indianapolis. The former Colts starter has agreed to a two-year deal worth up to $14 million with the Washington Commanders, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, bringing an end to what turned out to be a productive but ultimately concluded chapter in Indianapolis. Cross spent his entire NFL career to this point with the Colts, developing from…

A Toledo, Ohio, man has been sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to the rape of a 12 year old girl an assault that left the child pregnant and has drawn widespread attention to the ongoing need for stronger protections for young victims of sexual abuse. Isaiah Monroe, who was 19 at the time of the offense, appeared before Lucas County Judge Lori Olender on Feb. 26, when the sentence was formally delivered. In addition to the prison term, Monroe has been classified as a tier 3 sex offender, the most serious designation available…

Paris Jackson is deepening her legal challenge against the executors of her late father Michael Jackson’s estate, and the dispute has grown increasingly pointed. At the center of the conflict is a request for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that Paris and her attorneys are characterizing as excessive, insufficiently explained and emblematic of broader transparency problems within the estate’s financial management. The case offers a rare public window into the inner workings of one of the most valuable and closely watched celebrity estates in the world  and into the growing tension between Paris and the men entrusted…

For many families across America, learning to swim is simply part of growing up. For many Black families, it has historically been something far more complicated a skill tied not to leisure or summer fun, but to a long and painful history of exclusion, segregation and unequal access that has echoed across generations. One family’s story captures that history and the remarkable work it takes to rewrite it. Across four generations, they moved from a grandmother who never once entered a pool, to a great granddaughter standing on the starting blocks at a state swim championship and winning. A grandmother…

A confrontation at Carson High School in Carson, California, has ignited significant anger among parents, students and civil rights leaders, who are now pressing the Los Angeles Unified School District to take swift and decisive action. The incident, involving campus aide and football coach Daniel Mafoe, reportedly set off a chain of events that included multiple student fights and a sharp escalation of racial tensions across the campus. The community’s response has been swift. A press conference is scheduled for Wednesday, March 11, at 4:00 p.m. at Carson City Hall, located at 701 Carson St., where families and local advocates…

A new report from the Abell Foundation, a Baltimore based nonprofit focused on education and justice reform, is raising pointed questions about how juvenile crime data is collected, shared and understood in Maryland’s largest city. The central finding is both practical and consequential: the fragmented nature of data across multiple agencies is making it nearly impossible for the public, policymakers and journalists to form an accurate picture of youth crime trends in Baltimore and that confusion is actively distorting the conversation. The report, authored by Robin Campbell, draws on data from several agencies including the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services,…

Every genre that defines American music today has a foundation laid in part by Black women whose names deserve to be spoken as often as the songs they helped create. During Women’s History Month and in recognition of International Women’s Day, it is worth pausing to trace the lineage from folk praise houses in South Carolina to the earliest hip-hop stages in New York and acknowledge the ten women whose artistry, resilience and vision changed music permanently. 10 Black female music pioneers who shaped American sound Janie Hunter — folk spiritual Hunter’s work with the Moving Star Hall praise house…