The San Diego Padres have reached an agreement to sell control of the team to an investor group led by Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano. The family of late owner Peter Seidler formally announced the ...

Six one-goal games. Four overtime games. Now, Game 7. It’s a fitting way to decide the Canadiens-Lightning series on Sunday ...

Colombian superstar Shakira will give a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night in an event that Rio officials say will draw approximately 2 million people to one of the ...

Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter George Springer left Saturday’s game against Minnesota in the third inning after being ...

Spain’s foreign minister on Saturday called for the immediate release of an activist detained by Israel after an aid flotilla ...

The governor of Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state said that he would temporarily resign after the United States charged him and nine other officials with drug trafficking in a bombshell indictment that ...

U.S. flags should be flown at half-staff Sunday in observance of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service.

New York City police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who ...

Higher education news and achievements for Johnson County natives and area colleges. To submit a news tip, email ...

The collapse of the U.S.-based Spirit Airlines may mark the end of an era for travelers with a certain financial sensibility.

Spirit Airlines, the scrappy discounter that once rattled the industry with cheeky ads and rock-bottom fares, took its final flight after 34 years of upending the business of flying. Once worth as ...

At 16, Edward Blackmon Jr. was arrested during a protest for voting rights in his Mississippi hometown. He was loaded with schoolmates into a truck once used to haul chickens and was left in the ...