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BOSTON (KFSM) — Fifteen local runners participated in Monday’s Boston Marathon. Four runners from Rogers, two each from Fayetteville, Springdale and Bentonville, and one each from Fort Smith, Charleston, Greenwood, Clarksville and Centerton competed in Monday’s event. They were: Nicholas Inniger, Rogers Andrew Boyer, Rogers Heather Martinelli, Rogers Jenni Pustinger, Rogers Tonya Weaver, Fayetteville Lauren Ross, Fayetteville Abrena Rine, Springdale Katie Thompson, Springdale Margaret Griffing, Bentonville Emily King... Читать дальше...

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• Cold and rainy conditions have caused a near-record number of postponements to start the MLB season.
• The severe weather started on Opening Day and has continued steadily throughout April, with a whopping six games pushed back from Sunday's slate.
• Teams will have to get creative as they attempt to make up for lost games as the season continues.

Severe weather has been wreaking havoc on baseball through the first few weeks of the 2018 MLB season. Читать дальше...

Le Tribunal suprême fédéral du Brésil pourrait, dans les jours à venir, décider de remettre en liberté l'ancien président Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, incarcéré le 7 avril pour purger une peine de 12 ans de réclusion.

SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. — Authorities said an 8-year-old student took a kitchen knife to a central Minnesota elementary school and attacked three other children. Chief Perry Beise said the victims — aged 8, 9 and 13 — suffered “superficial wounds” requiring stitches in the attack before classes started Monday at Pleasantview Elementary in Sauk Rapids. No one else was hurt. School Superintendent Bruce Watkins said the boy lashed out at the other students until an adult intervened. Beise said the boy […]

Donald Trump considered launching a strike three times as big on Syria, potentially including hitting Russian air defence systems, but was dissuaded by James Mattis, his defence secretary. The Pentagon presented Mr Trump with three options for how to respond to the chemical attack by the Syrian regime in Douma on April 7, the Wall Street Journal reported. A first, and most cautious, option consisted of a limited strike on Syrian chemical weapons facilities, while a second targeted those plus military command posts. Читать дальше...

Players had to be withdrawn from their respective dressing rooms after a spot-kick was awarded following the half-time whistle

Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that he will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari when the position of the presidency is zoned to the southeast. Okorocha spoke on Monday, April 16 when he hosted some political stakeholders.

CLEVELAND – Four days after giving birth to her baby girl with NBA player Tristan Thompson, Khloe Kardashian revealed their daughter’s name Monday. Khloe posted on Instagram, “Our little girl, True Thompson, has completely stolen our hearts and we are overwhelmed with LOVE. Such a blessing to welcome this angel into the family! Mommy and Daddy loooooove you True!” Kardashian, 33, and Thompson, 27, who plays with the Cleveland Cavaliers, welcomed True last Thursday in Cleveland. Last week, several... Читать дальше...

In a race to get the long-awaited Model 3 production running as planned, Tesla quietly concealed the true number of workplace injuries at its Fremont, California assembly plant, according to a new report. This offsets reports the company made about a sharp drop in injuries and casts another shadow over the plans to reach mass production targets.

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Stocks rose Monday as focus shifted from geopolitical turmoil to corporate earnings reports. Markets seemed comforted by a lack of immediate Russian retaliation after the US and its allies carried out air strikes against the Syrian government on Friday.

Here's the scoreboard: See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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If you want to design a great website, you’re gonna need some amazing icons. Whether we’re talking tiny bird heads, dollar-to-euro exchange symbols, or just emojis of people nervously whistling, a collection of tiny symbols and icons are a key part of making your website accessible and visually dynamic. 

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL for the first time is prohibiting certain helmets from being worn by players. In notifying the 32 teams Monday, the league has sought to have players stop using 10 helmet varieties. Some, particularly those manufactured by Rawlings, no longer are being made and don't have support from the company. Others were found to be inferior to many of the 34 helmets the NFL and the players' union examined. Previously, NFL players could choose any helmet as long as it passed certification standards. Читать дальше...

Popular Instagram blogger Tunde Ednut has taken to his social media handle to share pictures of a talented 10-year-old boy, Kareem Waris. The little man paints for a living. He just shared the painting he made of Governor Ambode.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian military police and officers from the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation have seized 250 mines, 25 kilograms of TNT and 1.5 tons of other explosives from caches that belonged to the militants from the Jaish al-Islam illegal armed group, the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation said Monday.

Next month, enjoy plenty of sports-related flicks with the addition of the Oscar-nominated “I, Tonya,” on May 31 and all the “Rocky” movies on May 1.

Poirier proved that he is as much a student of the game as he is a natural talent, while Gaethje continued to rely on his old tricks, to his detriment.

Netflix Inc. shares jumped more than 6% in after-hours trading Monday as the streaming-video company reported better profit and subscriber additions than expected. Netflix said it added 7.4 million new subscribers in the first quarter, when it had profit of $290.1 million, or 64 cents a share, on revenue of $3.7 billion. Analysts on average expected 6.6 million new subscribers, with earnings of 63 cents a share on revenue of $3.69 billion, according to FactSet. The company also projected 6.2 million additions in the current quarter... Читать дальше...

AMMAN — Senate President Faisal Fayez on Monday commended the "high level" of relations between Jordan and Romania in the political, economic and cultural fields, calling for further enhancing them.

From Rhiannon Walker at The Undefeated on April 13, 2018:

Jackie Robinson went to the grave with his final request of Major League Baseball unfulfilled. The Los Angeles Dodgers legend died discouraged and frustrated with big league teams because of the way they dragged their feet on hiring black managers and front-office employees.

Some opined that black managers hadn’t been hired in the 25 years since Robinson integrated baseball because white players weren’t ready to take... Читать дальше...

An RCMP officer cited several posts that appeared to incite attacks in Canada and identified infrastructure, such as B.C.’s Revelstoke Dam and the Nipigon River Bridge in Ontario.

After Fox News host Sean Hannity was revealed in court Monday to be a client of President Donald Trump’s personal...

The board called it "a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism." Twitter called it a win for 2018.

NEW YORK — Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music, making history as the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the prestigious prize. The revered rapper is also the most commercially successful musician to receive the award, usually reserved for critically acclaimed classical acts who don’t live on the pop charts. The 30-year-old won the prize for “DAMN.,” his raw and powerful Grammy-winning album. The Pulitzer board said Monday the album is a “virtuosic song collection” and said... Читать дальше...

• Life expectancy increased in the US from 1990 to 2016. Today, overall average life expectancy is up to 78.9 years old. 
• But researchers are worried that increasingly, Americans are smoking and drinking too much, eating bad food, and suffering from more drug use disorders.
• It's all having an effect on how long people can live healthy, disability and disease-free lives.

Americans born today can expect to live to a ripe old age of nearly 79 years old.