Michael Sweetney dies at 43, weeks into New Jersey coaching job
His wife, India, announced the death on Facebook; Sweetney died Wednesday, Sept. 16, at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and no cause has been released.
Politics
Three Republican senators fault Don Jr. over Russian oligarch's payments
Cassidy, Curtis and Tillis criticized the payments as House Democrats pressed for records.
The Numbers
AllOfficial series, each dated to the observation it comes from.
Inflation3.4%
Unemployment4.1%
30-year mortgage6.95%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Jon Kyl, former Senate minority whip, dies at 84
Kyl's family said he died Wednesday night at his Phoenix home of complications from a neurological disease that ended his public life in December 2025.
Belichick calls reports of Hudson's role at UNC a flat-out lie
Belichick, 74, told The Wall Street Journal that Hudson, 25, handles some of his outside scheduling but has no input at North Carolina.
Politics
4 stories · updated 18 SepAlabama executes Jeffery Lee after courts barred nitrogen gas
Lee, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. at Holman prison in Atmore after the Supreme Court denied his request to intervene.
Travis Shockley charged with first-degree assault in Duluth stabbing
Shockley, 38, also faces a felony drug count and a misdemeanor fleeing charge after an arrest six days later, and is held on $100,000 bond.
Sheriff sends two bodies from Mount Yonah to GBI crime lab
A hiker found two bodies on Mount Yonah at about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, and three agencies worked the scene before the remains went to the GBI crime lab.
Judge sentences Havemann-Niedrach to 12 years for sexual assault
Havemann-Niedrach pleaded guilty in January to one count from a seven-count indictment; the judge also barred her from public employment for life.
World
2 stories · updated 18 Sep
Shark kills swimmer off Perth's Sorrento Beach
Almost 12 kilometres of coastline is closed until at least noon Saturday, four days after a shark seriously injured a surfer near Geraldton.
NTSB to analyze live broadcast video from LA helicopter crash
Reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw and Edy Gutierrez Mejia, 29, were killed; a preliminary report is due within about 30 days.
Business
6 stories · updated 6 SepArthur Lundeen charged after being duct-taped on American Airlines flight
The flight from Dallas to Newark diverted to Baltimore, where police arrested Lundeen, 67, and his Tucson brokerage later cut ties with him.
Entertainment
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Health
3 stories · updated 15 SepCoast Guard hoists hypothermic hiker Craig Berg off Isle Royale
Backpackers spotted Berg on an island where overnight lows hit 48 degrees, and troopers and K-9 teams reached him on foot.
East Greenbush police find Dominick Bianchi dead in wooded area
Bianchi left home on foot on Sept. 8 without his phone, which his glucose monitor paired to, and without his wallet or car.
Panorama Produce recalls mangoes sold at Walmart over Salmonella
FDA sampling found Salmonella in mangoes from the same farm that grew the recalled fruit, which Panorama Produce pulled as a precaution.