WASHINGTON — Highly touted prospect Makur Maker verbally committed to Howard University on Friday, picking the Bison over college basketball powerhouses UCLA, Kentucky and Memphis.

Plenty of aches and pains around the NBA have healed in the almost-four-month span since the league had to suspend its season because of the pandemic.

Thirty-one Major League Baseball players and seven staff members tested positive for COVID-19 during intake for the resumption of training, a rate of 1.2%.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game senior conservation officer Michael Wampler was getting ready to shut down his patrol vehicle after a long day of bear hunter patrol when he heard a call generated from an Idaho State Police emergency call box near Wilderness Gateway on the Lochsa River.

President Donald Trump planned a fiery Mount Rushmore speech Friday night including denunciations of protesters he says are trying to “tear down” the nation's history. He's adding condemnation of those who pull down statues to a big fireworks show and his more traditional July Fourth praise of America's past and values.

Reigning American League MVP Mike Trout is participating in the Los Angeles Angels' first workout of summer camp, but says he hasn’t made a final decision on playing this year.

PULLMAN – Carlos Rosario made it official on Friday.

CHICAGO – The cancellation of the minor league baseball season cuts many communities as sharply as teachers and students losing a year of school, or families unable to celebrate a holiday.

Dodger Stadium’s 40-year wait to host the All-Star Game is going to last even longer.

 Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights marchers were beaten at its base.

The Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers have all but guaranteed themselves the top two playoff seeds and face a balancing act when the NBA returns to action.

Northern Quest Resort & Casino announced this morning the postponement of dates by Weezer, Dustin Lynch, Rodney Carrington, Brantley Gilbert and Ice Cube until the summer of 2021.

For many Americans, the Fourth of July will be more intimate this year. It also could be riskier.

The number of prison inmates testing positive for the coronavirus soared well past the 50,000 mark last month, as recent outbreaks threatened to undo control measures put in place earlier in the pandemic.

ANKARA, Turkey — An explosion at a fireworks factory in northwestern Turkey on Friday killed four people and injured 97 others, officials said. At least three people were reported missing.