Are Blizzard Servers Down? According to Down Detector, Blizzard games started to experience server issues sometime around 10 p.m. EST. Players were kicked out of their matches and games; I was personally removed from a Hearthstone Arena game that I definitely would not have lost. Currently the games affected seem to be Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Warzone, Overwatch and Hearthstone. World of Warcraft seems to be up and running according to its Realm Status page....

Mark Julius, a resident who lives in South Waterfront apartments in Portland, said the culprit has been throwing the explosives off their balcony for the last month, according to a Fox12 Oregon report. “Basically, this neighborhood has been terrorized, he said. “There is someone living in the building on the 11th floor and has been throwing out M-80 explosives. It sounded like bombs going off. The entire neighborhood shook.”...

Harry claims that she encountered Bundy in the 1970s well before the famous New Wave band that made her famous came together. As she tells it, Harry was alone in the streets of Manhattan in the early morning hours, searching for a taxi. Then, a white car pulled up and the driver offered her a ride. Harry had doubts about getting inside the car, but her feet were aching and the driver appeared to be polite....

The tanks moved out at 2 a.m. Sunday. They roared into downtown Vilnius under cover of a citywide blackout. They plowed into a crowd of hundreds of Lithuanian nationalists outside the state radio and television complex; troops fired tear gas and shot their machine guns into the air. “I saw one man practically sheared in half,” said a volunteer who had rushed to help defend the tower in response to a broadcast appeal by President Vytautas Landsbergis....

The French striker asked off after pulling up on a run and was replaced by Reiss Nelson. The Gunners held a 1-0 lead in the match at the time thanks to a Danny Welbeck goal just before half-time and held on to win the quarter-final tie. Giroud got the start for Arsenal in a well-rotated side, playing through the middle for Arsene Wenger’s team, but pulled up on a run late in the second half and asked off the pitch after going straight to the ground with what appeared to be a hamstring injury....

Lind finished 2014 with an .860 OPS, but only managed to play 96 games as he dealt with back and foot injuries. The presence of 1B/DH Edwin Encarnacion and recent claim of 1B Justin Smoak – a cheaper, albeit less effective alternative – made Lind and his $7.5 million salary expendable. “The more we looked at the areas we needed to address on the team and where we were going to deploy our resources, we ultimately decided we weren’t going to move forward with both Adam and (Edwin) Encarnacion at the first base-DH spot,” Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos told reporters after the deal....

Stroman has been out since March with a torn ACL in his left knee. The initial prognosis was that Stroman would be out for the season, but physicians gave him approval to begin throwing from a mound in August. MORE: MLB’s worst contracts He’s since pitched in two rehab starts for Triple-A Buffalo and stated that he’s ready to go after Monday’s outing. “I’m 100 percent,” Stroman said. “Stuff-wise, arm-wise, knee-wise and health-wise, I’m ready to go....

Much has been made of the Blue Jays’ alleged competitive advantage because of Canada’s travel restrictions on people who are not vaccinated for COVID-19. While it has mostly been talked about through the lens of players like the Yankees’ Aaron Judge not being able to play road games in Toronto, Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro says that the country’s vaccine requirements have hindered the team more than it might help....

MORE: Best deadline day deals of the 2000s | Remember Rickey Henderson in Toronto? Revere said Toronto GM Alex Anthopoulos told him he’d start against right-handed pitching, becoming a part of a platoon. Revere may switch to left field on occasion, where the Blue Jays have split time between several outfielders in the wake of Michael Saunders’ injury. Veterans Chris Colabello and Danny Valencia have often filled the void ably, hitting ....

Throughout his eight-year NHL career, Schenn has yet to top 60 points in a season. The veteran’s career-high happened during the 2015-16 season when Schenn — then with the Philadelphia Flyers — scored 59 points. When the Blues picked up the 26-year-old this past offseason, few expected that Schenn would be St. Louis’ leading scorer. Yet that’s exactly where he’s at, and Tuesday night was no different. Schenn recorded a hat trick during the Blues’ 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday, meant that has already reached 33 points only 28 games into the season, just twenty-six points shy of his career-high that took 80 games....

Reaves took a big hit in the second period from Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook, his face sent crashing directly into the glass. Instead of crying uncontrollably and asking for painkillers like many normal humans would, Reaves calmly pulled out his own tooth on the bench because hockey. MORE: Flyers complete season sweep of Penguins | Lightning get home ice (Source: Sportsnet) The fifth-year winger jumped right back into the game without missing a shift....

The No. 32 ranked golfer in the world shot a course record 63 at Medinah No. 3 to take a one-shot lead at 12 under after two rounds at the BMW Championship. The second round of the playoffs is a great time to shoot a course record and Matsuyama did it with next to flawless putting at a course that has been around since 1923. When his day was done, Matsuyama shot a bogey-free round that featured 165 feet, eight inches of putts....

The 24-year-old joined the Serbian side from Italian Serie B team Latina initially on loan but made the move permanent in June and has had a successful season so far. The former Juventus youth star scored 39 goals in 48 matches in all competitions in the year under review as Zvezda finished second in the Serbian top-flight last season but currently sit at the summit in the ongoing campaign....

The Full House star’s death sent shockwaves through Hollywood last month when he was found on January 9 in a Florida hotel room. He was 65 years old. Now his family has confirmed that the cause of death was an accidental blow to the head. “The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma,” the family said in a statement reported by CNN. “They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep....

Several officers from the Harrisburg Bureau of Police recently responded to a mental health crisis call involving a woman with a loaded handgun who was threatening to take her own life. In the video, the first officers on the scene are seen speaking to her, and they kept her talking until other officers arrived. “Is something bothering you, honey?” one of the officers is heard asking the woman. When others arrived on the scene, an officer with crisis intervention training took the lead and began calming the woman down, establishing a connection with her until she dropped the gun....

Eric Banks, 34, was taken into custody after allegedly assaulting an Anne Arundel County police officer and attempting to take their handgun, after officers responded to an address at 1400 block of Stoney Point Way, Curtis Bay, Maryland to conduct a welfare check on the teenager. Anne Arundel County Police said they received a call at 4:56 p.m. on July 6 from a complainant regarding a child custody dispute. Police said a mother was in the area to pick up her teenage son—identified in court documents as 15-year-old boy Dasan Jones—who had been with Banks....

Richard Scaife, 46, was detained in Folkestone—a port on the English Channel, in the U.K.—in November last year. Bodycam footage of the arrest shows armed cops pulling over a blue hatchback car and shouting at the driver. Scaife then gets out with his hands up, with one officer heard saying: “We’ve been told you’ve got a gun.” A search of his car discovered an imitation handgun, a bayonet, a pierced condom, an expired prison identification badge, and gaffer tape....

Investigative journalist Peter Robison takes a deep dive into the ongoing problems and shortcuts at Boeing that allowed the MCAS problem to get past all the existing safeguards and the aftermath of the crashes in his new book, Flying Blind (Doubleday, November 30). In this excerpt from the book, Robison shares the untold story of the memorial for the Ethiopian Air victims and how the company excluded grieving families from planning and participating in the service in an attempt to control the narrative....

Trump repeatedly considered leaving the 30-nation alliance during his presidency, Bolton and The New York Times have reported. Doing so would have emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin and left the U.S. in a weaker position to oppose him during Russia’s recent invasion into Ukraine, Bolton said. The administration of current President Joe Biden believes that NATO’s unity has deterred Russia from further aggression. “Where would we be right now…if the U....