FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots placed veteran cornerback Malcolm Butler on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season and comeback attempt with the franchise where he became a Super Bowl hero seven years ago. It is unknown what injury Butler, 32, sustained. He had started in the Patriots’ preseason opener Thursday, playing 23 snaps …
If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. The five-year-old firm is targeting $100 million for its second seed-stage fund, and it’s doing so smack in the middle of a climate-tech dealmaking boom. So, if anything, it’s trendy. But when the seed-stage VC — a backer of e-bike maker Zoomo …
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A jury of eight women and four men has been chosen to hear the federal criminal case against R&B superstar R. Kelly in Chicago, and opening statements are likely to begin Wednesday. Half of the jury is Black and half is white, based on observations in the courtroom. Six alternates have also been chosen —five …
The summer transfer window is here, and there’s plenty of gossip swirling about who’s moving where. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals! TOP STORY: Pulisic has options if he leaves Chelsea Christian Pulisic could leave Chelsea this summer with multiple teams across Europe interested …
For much of his Hollywood career, German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen was a maestro of cascading water and pulverized metal. He could conjure disasters both natural and man-made, whether he was scaring a pre-COVID world silly with the pandemic thriller “Outbreak” (1995), pitting a supremely presidential Harrison Ford against terrorists at 36,000 feet in “Air Force …
Larry Ellison could score big after listing his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion for a whopping $145 million — though not as big as the seller of the estate he bought earlier this summer. The tech billionaire had purchased the sprawling 15,500-square-foot property, located in the ultra-pricey Seminole Landing neighborhood, for $80 million just last year. …
WOMEN’S Super League sides are experiencing a ticket sales boom off the back of England’s Euros triumph. Tottenham, Brighton and Reading have all flogged record amounts ahead of the new campaign which kicks off next month. 1 England Women’s Euro 2022 victory has boosted WSL ticket salesCredit: Alamy Chelsea, who have already sold out season …
To paraphrase a classic TV commercial, when Warren Buffett speaks, people listen. And it often pays off handsomely. On Tuesday, the Relative Strength Rating for Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) climbed to 72, up from 66 a day earlier. Berkshire stock closed higher for the seventh time in a row. X A 72 RS Rating indicates Berkshire …
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres have replaced a planned Fernando Tatis Jr. bobblehead night with a Juan Soto T-shirt giveaway after the superstar shortstop was banned 80 games Friday following a positive test for a performance-enhancing drug. Tatis, a 23-year-old sensation and one of the brightest stars in all of Major League Baseball, …
A Long Beach woman accused of making racist threats against her neighbors is facing multiple felony charges, as well as hate crime allegations. Lorrene Mae Lake, 58, “allegedly threatened and hurled racial epithets at several of her neighbors ” at an apartment complex on East 2nd Street in July, as well as on Friday, the …