Jury finds ex-cop Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright slaying

Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer Kimberly Potter faces eight years in prison on the first-degree manslaughter charge and five years on the second-degree manslaughter charge. File Photo courtesy of the Hennepin County Jail Dec. 23 (UPI) — A Minnesota jury on Thursday found former police officer Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in the shooting…Continue Reading

Dozens of cars, semi-trucks involved in ‘massive’ pileup on icy I-94 in Wisconsin

Multiple tractor-trailers jack-knifed in the pileup on Thursday along Interstate 94 in western Wisconsin, authorities said. Photo courtesy Wisconsin State Patrol Dec. 23 (UPI) — A “massive crash” involving many vehicles in western Wisconsin on Thursday shut down a major interstate in both directions in freezing rain and icy road conditions, authorities said. The Wisconsin…Continue Reading

Once a month Bon Appétit editor in chief Dawn Davis shares what’s on her mind by taking over our newsletter. You’ll find recipes she’s cooking, stories she’s loving, where she’s been eating, and more. It gets better: If you sign up for our newsletter, you’ll get this letter before everyone else.With so much focus on COVID-19,…Continue Reading

Once a month Bon Appétit editor in chief Dawn Davis shares what’s on her mind by taking over our newsletter. You’ll find recipes she’s cooking, stories she’s loving, where she’s been eating, and more. It gets better: If you sign up for our newsletter, you’ll get this letter before everyone else.With so much focus on COVID-19,…Continue Reading

‘Desperate for workers’: Can this minimum wage increase help stem the US worker shortage?

Proponents have long sought higher minimum wages, but now that some are being enacted, it may not matter21 states and many localities plan to raise minimum wages around Jan. 1The pandemic, however, has already raised wagesIt’s all part of the a topsy-turvy job market where workers have more leverageIn normal times, the prospect of minimum…Continue Reading

Casey FitzSimmons injured his brain but found a way back. Now, he has a message from other ex-players for the NFL: Help us.

Warning: This story contains discussion of suicidal thoughts. Alison FitzSimmons carefully filled the cramped basement in Detroit with gifts from her baby shower, displaying them so she could show her husband when he returned from his road game. Wives of other Lions players had gathered at the home of Jeff and Regan Backus for the…Continue Reading

The 10 best space games

Space games: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the FTW website. Its 1000-word mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new games worth playing. To boldly go where no website has gone before (OK, a few others have a list of the best space games, but this one is the best). …Continue Reading

Kurt and Brenda Warner reveal true love in ‘American Underdog’; was locker-room kiss real?

Kurt Warner’s remarkable story comes to the screen with “American Underdog,” a fitting title for the NFL’s Hall of Fame quarterback.Parts of the one-in-a-million saga are NFL lore. Warner stocked supermarket shelves before signing as an undrafted free agent with the St. Louis Rams in 1998. Against overwhelming odds, he started as practice-squad quarterback but led the Rams…Continue Reading