Mirra died about 4 p.m. ET. Greenville police said officers discovered him sitting in a truck with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Mirra had been visiting friends in the area shortly before his death, according to a press release. Police are still investigating the incident. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 Mirra held the record for most X Games medals until being passed by Bob Burnquist at X Games Munich in 2013, according to Wikipedia....

The Canucks announced on Monday that Horvat has been traded to the Islanders for a package that includes forward Anthony Beauvillier, prospect Aatu Raty and a conditional 2023 first-round pick. Horvat ends his Canucks’ career with 420 points scored in 621 games played. He served as the team captain for the past four seasons. A Horvat trade was expected to come at some point before the March 3 trade deadline....

Dylan’s legal team confirmed on Thursday that the lawsuit alleging the artist sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in New York in 1965 has been “withdrawn.” An unnamed woman filed a lawsuit in 2021 claiming that Dylan left her “emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged.” The allegations were immediately denied by Dylan and his legal team. Now, in a hearing that took place on Thursday, July 28), the plaintiff, who is identified as J....

Never mind the combined 79 points and 854 yards passing between the two quarterbacks. The score and the stats would never had reflected the paradigm shift taking place as Texans players figured out how to react to their owner’s unconscionable comparison of them to prison inmates revealed last week. After several collective protests were reportedly discussed — including taking the team logo decals off their helmets — the overwhelming majority of players decided to kneel in unison, and to do it during the national anthem....

Woodward made the remarks during a Monday night interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett. The famed journalist, who is best known for his original reporting on the Watergate scandal alongside Carl Bernstein nearly a half century ago, was commenting on 88-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) appearing alongside Trump at an Iowa rally over the weekend. “What’s going on now really is an iron curtain of obedience to Trump,” Woodward said. “It’s not just polite deference, it is obedience....

Doerr, born April 7, 1918, turned 97 years and 72 days old on June 18. That made him the oldest living Baseball Hall of Fame member ever. MORE: 75 years, 75 Hall of Famers According to the Hall, Doerr surpassed the late Al Lopez, who died Oct. 30, 2005 at 97 years, 71 days old. Doerr has been able to call himself a Hall of Famer for nearly three decades, having been elected by the veterans’ committee in 1986....

While body aches are a literal pain, there are some things you can do to manage them. This article will go over why the flu causes body aches as well as provide some tips for treating body aches at home when you have the flu. Why Does the Flu Cause Body Aches? Body aches are common flu symptoms and actually serve a very important purpose. The flu is a respiratory infection caused by a virus....

The city of Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) convened to discuss the arrest of Julissa Burgos, in November 2020, at a Valero gas station on Northwest Seventh Street and 17th Avenue on Tuesday. Bodycam footage captured officer Miguel Hernandez confronting the woman, then 20, who was sitting on the sidewalk after previously being moved on from a gas station. Burgos is alleged to have flicked cigarette ash on Hernandez’s vehicle after leaving the gas station....

The 22-year-old was on a months-long trip across the country with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in a white 2012 Ford Transit van, with Florida license plate QFTG03. The pair left New York on July 2, where Petito was originally from, to embark on a four-month road trip after converting the van. Earlier posts on Laundrie’s Instagram document the pair transforming the vehicle, with a post shared last December saying: “New Van means new adventures....

With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Republicans have largely seized on economic factors as their key campaign issues, with the cost of gas being a prime target. Prices surged to historic highs earlier in the year, owing to destabilizing global events like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Efforts by the Biden administration and Congress have seen prices drop continually since then. However, GOP leaders and candidates have continued to push the issues....

According to CBS Sports, Jon Bon Jovi is interested in buying the Buffalo Bills. The Bills, currently owned by 95-year-old Ralph Wilson, would be up for purchase when Wilson passes away. Bon Jovi is emerging as the best competition to Rogers Communications Group. Who says you can’t go home? Bon Jovi is proud of his blue-collar New Jersey heritage, is buddies with New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and once owned part of the Arena league’s Philadelphia Soul....

Claire moves slowly on the ridge above the two valleys full of morning mist. The coast is to her left. On her right is the journey to Sacramento and the delta towns such as Rio Vista with its populations left over from the Gold Rush. She persuades the horse down through the whiteness alongside crowded trees. She has been smelling smoke for the last twenty minutes, and, on the outskirts of Glen Ellen, she sees the town bar on fire—the local arsonist has struck early, when certain it would be empty....

We never got a chance to say goodbye. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary announced this month that it has committed punctuational genocide, eliminating 16,000 hyphens from its pages. Either by combining two words into one or simply uncoupling them—severing the corpus callosum between them—editors of the dictionary’s sixth edition have seen fit to knock hyphens from its pages like so many teeth from a hockey goaltender’s mouth. So, ice-cream becomes ice cream and chick-pea chickpea....

“My First Summer in the Sierra” by John Muir, a wandering mystic who wrote with luscious detail. “The Four Quartets” by T. S. Eliot. Poems about time, impermanence and the glory of everyday life. “The Phantastes” by George MacDonald. A magically strange and sapient book, with a sense of the wondrous present. “Life With Swan” by Paul West. A novel full of all those exotic games couples play and don’t want people to know about....

I’m glad those days are behind us sufficiently for Goolrick to go public with his book. I say sufficiently, because they certainly aren’t gone completely, much less for good. Southerners cherish privacy and discretion and decorum more than they prize good sense. If they didn’t, Goolrick wouldn’t have had to write his memoir. He’s built his book around a punchline ending—a dark surprise—so I won’t give it away, although to be honest, this structure he’s adopted is my least favorite part of the book....

It would take several decades before people began to agree that Johnson was a tragic hero. And perhaps the most important tipping point was Robert A. Caro’s extraordinary multivolume biography of Johnson. Since the first volume appeared in 1982, readers have discovered just how fiercely the forces of darkness and light vied for Johnson’s soul. They’ve also been discovering, thanks to Caro’s writing, just how much fun a biography can be....

Start with the title. Nothing in this book takes place in Prague. To the story’s twentysomething denizens, Prague is the place where someone else is having all the fun, like the party train in Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories.” Mark and Scott and Charles and Emily and John–a scholar, a teacher, a businessman, a journalist, an embassy assistant–none of these American expatriates has much to complain about, except that they live in Budapest, a city that they are convinced lacks all trace of hipness....

The Blues have already seen one offer knocked back, with Juve director Giuseppe Marotta confirming as much. The Serie A champions are eager to ensure that a side which preserved domestic dominance in 2016-17 and reached the Champions League final is not broken up. Juve confirm Alves set to leave They are, however, fending off mounting interest in a number of key players and acknowledge that deals will happen if those in question express a desire to move on....

Two days ago I arrived at Quantico Marine base with 57 other journalists. The commandant promised us action, and he has not disappointed. We’re issued camouflage gear, assigned to platoons and woken up by bellowing officers at 5 a.m. The idea is to give us a taste of what we might experience should we ever deploy with the Marines to write about them. “Our men and women have a job to do,” a general tells us....

Johnson, 55, triumphed in the Conservative Party leadership contest against Jeremy Hunt, 52, the current British foreign secretary. It was a race to replace the incumbent Theresa May, who announced in May her resignation as prime minister. May’s repeated failure to pass her controversial Brexit deal through parliament ended her unpopular premiership as she lost her party’s support. Johnson, a prominent supporter of Brexit, promises Britain will leave the European Union, deal or no deal, by Halloween....