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Asdrubal Cabrera

MLB News

Rangers secure Cabrera via one-year deal

ARLINGTON, Tex. (UPI) -- Free agent infielder Asdrubal Cabrera has agreed to a contract with the Texas Rangers. Sources told ESPN and The Athletic that Cabrera's pact is for one year and in the $3.5 million to $5 million range. The agreement is pending a physical. Cabrera, 33, hit .262 with 23 home runs and 75 RBIs in 147 games last season for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. The two-time All-Star began the season with the Mets, before […]

todayJanuary 24, 2019 79

Houston Rockets Chicago Bulls Carmelo Anthony

National

Anthony traded to Bulls, release pending

HOUSTON/CHICAGO (UPI) -- The Houston Rockets traded 10-time NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony and cash considerations to the Chicago Bulls. League sources confirmed the deal to ESPN and The Athletic on Monday. Sources told ESPN that the anticipation is the Bulls will release Anthony and he won't play for the franchise. Anthony will become a free agent if he clears waivers. The Bulls could also hold off on releasing Anthony until the trade deadline on Feb. 7. The franchise could include […]

todayJanuary 21, 2019 81

Drew Brees New Orleans Saints

National

Saints QB Brees plans to return for 2019 season

NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees plans to return for the 2019 season in order to make a run at Super Bowl LIV. Brees, 40, spoke about his football future following the Saints' 26-23 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship on Sunday in New Orleans. "I plan on being here next year and making another run at it," Brees told reporters. Brees had another MVP-caliber season in 2018, passing for 3,992 […]

todayJanuary 21, 2019 90

SoFi

Business & Lifestyle

Student loan servicer SoFi settles charges with FTC, agrees to end false claims about loan refinance savings

Online student loan refinancer SoFi has agreed to stop misrepresenting how much money student loan borrowers have saved or will save from refinancing their loans with the company, in order to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceptively advertised inflated figures for more than two years. In a complaint against Social Finance, Inc. and subsidiary SoFi Lending Corp., the FTC alleged that since at least April 2016, they made prominent false statements about loan refinancing savings in television, print, […]

todayJanuary 21, 2019 16

Kris Bryant Yadier Molina

MLB News

Cardinals’ Molina calls Cubs’ Bryant ‘stupid player and loser’

ST. LOUIS (UPI) -- Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina defended his city by calling Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant a "stupid player and loser" after Bryant called St. Louis "boring." Bryant made the comments on Friday during a forum discussion at the Cubs' annual fan convention. "Who would want to play in St. Louis?" Bryant said "So boring. It's so boring. I always get asked like, 'Where do you like to play? Where do you not like to play?' St. Louis […]

todayJanuary 21, 2019 181

New Orleans Pelicans Anthony Davis

National

Pelicans’ Davis to miss up to two weeks

NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis will miss one to two weeks of action due to a finger sprain. The Pelicans announced Davis' injury status on Saturday. He suffered the left index finger injury while playing against the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday in Portland. "Anthony Davis sustained a left index finger sprain in last night's game," the Pelicans said in a statement. "Davis is expected to be out approximately 1-2 weeks." Davis had a game-high […]

todayJanuary 20, 2019 84

Pennsylvania DUI hard liquor

Business & Lifestyle

Pennsylvania police seeking volunteers to drink hard liquor

KUTZTOWN, Pa. (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania police department is seeking volunteers willing to "drink hard liquor to the point of inebriation" for a training exercise. The Kutztown Police Department said in a Facebook post it is seeking three volunteers to help with a training event designed to teach officers how to administer Standardized Field Sobriety Tests during suspected DUI incidents. The department said volunteers need to be available from 2:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. April 4. "Alcohol will be provided […]

todayJanuary 18, 2019 27

Sears bankruptcy

Business & Lifestyle

Sears chairman’s hedge fund wins company’s bankruptcy court auction

CHICAGO (UPI) -- Sears Holdings said Thursday that ESL Investments, the hedge fund owned by its chairman and largest investor, won the company's bankruptcy auction. Eddie Lampert's investment firm will pay $5.2 billion for substantially all of Sears' remaining assets, including 425 stores, its Home Services business, and the Kenmore and DieHard brands, if approved by the court. "We are pleased to have reached a deal that would provide a path for Sears to emerge from the Chapter 11 process," […]

todayJanuary 18, 2019 67

Chicago Laquan McDonald

Chicagoland Region

Three Chicago officers acquitted of coverup in Laquan McDonald shooting

CHICAGO (UPI) -- A judge found three Chicago police officers not guilty Thursday on charges that they covered up for officer Jason Van Dyke after he shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson ruled that Detective David March, and officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney were not guilty of official misconduct, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in their probe into Van Dyke's killing of McDonald. "This court finds that the state has […]

todayJanuary 18, 2019 51

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