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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped combine highschool basketball in Georgia earlier than enjoying for the Harlem Globetrotters and turning into a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died Saturday at age 73. Rivers died from most cancers, Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Elli...

Coronation Street and Last Of The Summer Wine actress Barbara Young has died on the age of 92.Singer Liza Pulman described her actress mom - who additionally starred in I, Claudius and Family Affairs - as "warm-hearted and talented". Pulman mentioned Young died on Thursday following care at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge."Just to let people know, my beautiful, brilliant, opinionated, loud, warm-hearted, talented and singular mother died on Thursday night at 10.30pm," she wrote on Instagram."My sister Cory and I had been by her hospital mattress for 30 hours straight and ultimately, as is so usually the case, she slipped away in our absence with an exquisite nurse referred to as Mercy (you could not write it) caring for her. "The care she received in those last days at Ad...

Joe Biden informed journalists at a glitzy bash that he's "working like hell" to free their colleagues who're being held abroad.It got here as celebs akin to Julia Fox and John Legend gathered on the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, typically seen as an opportunity for politicians and comedians to commerce barbs at one another. Mr Biden, who introduced not too long ago he was standing once more to be president, spoke to the mother and father of Evan Gershkovich on the occasion - the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been imprisoned in Russia on spying expenses, which he denies.Some of these in attendance wore "Free Evan" shirts.Also in attendance was Debra Tice, whose son Austin went lacking in 2012 after disappearing from a test level in Syria wherea...

Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling has revealed he'll depart Soccer Saturday after 25 years on the helm of the present.The 68-year-old introduced his intention to step down stay on air throughout Soccer Saturday. "I've been at Sky for more than 30 years and loved every moment of my time as part of the Soccer Saturday team," Stelling stated."It is now the right time to move on and give Sky Sports viewers a break from my relentless rants, bad gags and over-the-top celebrations of Hartlepool United goals. It's been a lot of fun - for me at least!" Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 0:41 ...

LONDON — King Charles III lives in a palace, travels in a chauffeur-driven Bentley and is certainly one of Britain’s richest males, however he’s much like a lot of his topics in a single very fundamental manner: His household life is sophisticated - very sophisticated. There’s a second spouse, an embarrass...

WASHINGTON — There will nonetheless be loads of laughs, however the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner on Saturday additionally plans to tackle the intense and solemn position of journalism in a democracy. This 12 months’s dinner happens as Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich h...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Viewership of the primary spherical of the NFL draft was up 11% over final yr, the league introduced Friday. According to the league, a median of 11.4 million viewers watched the draft on TV and digital platforms. The common was 10.3 million in 2022. ...

LOS ANGELES — Jack is again. Los Angeles Lakers superfan Jack Nicholson was watching at courtside for the primary time in practically two years Friday evening when his staff hosted the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of their first-round playoff collection. ...

Florence Pugh says the thought to chop off her hair for her newest movie was impressed by her personal approach of coping with psychological well being points when she was youthful.In A Good Person the star performs a lady who turns into hooked on painkillers following a tragedy. While scuffling with what she's going by way of, her character Allison cuts her hair and Pugh advised Sky News' movie and TV podcast Backstage that the thought to try this got here from her personal lived expertise."I think we have this awful nature, well, I do sometimes, that when things are going wrong, I just, like, chop bits of myself off, and that idea actually came from me when I was younger," she defined."I used to be simply going by way of that traditional teenage bout of despair the place yo...

After taking Wrexham FC to new heights, it seems Ryan Reynolds could have a brand new sporting enterprise on the horizon - this time in Canada.The Deadpool star, alongside his enterprise companion and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia actor Rob McElhenney, took over the Welsh soccer membership final yr, and received it promoted to the Football League after a 15-year absence at their first time of asking. But now, based on the Ottawa Sun, Reynolds, alongside different enterprise magnates, has joined a bunch with the intention of shopping for the Ottawa Senators, a National Hockey League (NHL) franchise within the metropolis.The membership's former proprietor, Eugene Melnyk, handed away in March 2022, together with his property seeking to promote up.If the Remington Group, whic...