LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced the 2018 NFCA Division II All-Region teams. This year’s squads are comprised of 207 student-athletes from 120 programs. The awards honor softball student-athletes from the Association’s eight regions with first and second team selections. NFCA member coaches from each respective region voted on the teams,…
MELFORT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan court heard Monday that a semi-truck driver barrelled through an oversized stop sign with a flashing red light before the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash. An agreed statement of facts said Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was going between 86 and 96 km/h when he drove into a rural intersection north of…
Russian companies’ stocks attracted the most foreign investment in 5 years, adding nearly $576 million in January, the Central Bank of Russia reported. Investors also actively poured money into Russian bonds despite US sanctions. The ruble-based Moscow stock exchange (MOEX) index has reached a new all-time high, surging 6.4 percent since the beginning of the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Unbeaten Neshoba Central won five more games to extend its run atop the USA TODAY Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll to 10 consecutive weeks. The (9-0) Rockets are led by Mississippi State-bound senior pitcher Aspen Wesley, the three-time reigning Gatorade Mississippi Player of the Year. Neshoba defeated then-No. 5 Fairhope, 2-0,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Florida State remained undefeated with four wins last week and is the unanimous No. 1 for the first time this season in this week’s USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Seminoles (21-0) captured all 32 first-place votes and 800 points. FSU was one of three programs to reach the 20-win…
HALIFAX — Federal officials are closer to bringing as many as 10 relatives of a grieving Syrian refugee to Nova Scotia, as Halifax residents prepared to gather Saturday for the funeral of her seven children who died in a fast-moving house fire. Halifax MP Andy Fillmore said Friday a number of applications were already being…
The European Commission has fined US payment system Mastercard €570 million ($648mn) for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks established elsewhere across the EU. “By preventing merchants from shopping around for better conditions offered by banks in other Member States, Mastercard’s rules artificially raised the costs of card…
OTTAWA — A Conservative MP who lost a daughter to suicide choked back tears Monday during the first debate over an NDP MP’s private member’s motion calling for a national prevention strategy. The motion, titled M-174, was introduced last year by NDP MP Charlie Angus. Among other things, it calls for national public health standards…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Repeat national champion Virginia Wesleyan University continues to lead the pack in an unchanged first four in this week’s NFCA Division III Top 25. The (5-0) Marlins won three games at the Mountain Mash in Salem, Va., to maintain their unanimous top spot in the coaches’ poll for a 23rd-straight week. They…
Venezuela has devalued the bolivar, in an attempt to align the currency’s value with the country’s black market, AFP reported. Amid hyperinflation, many Venezuelans rely on the black market to gauge the currency’s value. The Central Bank of Venezuela announced the devaluation on Monday and reported that the Interbanex private exchange platform would be allowed…