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CINCINNATI -- Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is showing "remarkable improvement" after collapsing from cardiac arrest Monday night during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, the team said Thursday morning. "Per the physicians caring for Damar Hamlin at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Damar has shown remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours," the team said in a statement on Twitter. "While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be neurologically intact. His lung continue to heal and he is making steady progress." Hamlin, 24, remains hospitalized in critical condition in the intensive care unit at...

Week 10 Saturday, Nov. 5 Air Force 13, Army 7 No. 2 Ohio State 21, Northwestern 7 No. 7 TCU 34, Texas Tech 24 No. 17 North Carolina 31, Virginia 28 No. 19 Tulane 27, Tulsa 13 Iowa 24, Purdue 3 Kentucky 21, Missouri 17 Wisconsin 23, Maryland 10 Minnesota 20, Nebraska 13 Florida 41, Texas A&M 24 Western Kentucky 59, Charlotte 7 Yale 69, Brown 17 North Carolina A&T 49, Norfolk State 24 Holy Cross 42, Lehigh 14 Charleston Southern 34, Robert Morris 21 Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 27 St. Francis (PA) 38, Georgetown 24 Columbia 21, Harvard...

Week 8 All times Eastern. All schedules and networks subject to change. Saturday, Oct. 22 Iowa at No. 2 Ohio State | 12 p.m. | FOX UT Martin at No. 3 Tennessee | 12 p.m. | SEC Network No. 14 Syracuse at No. 5 Clemson | 12 p.m. | ABC No. 21 Cincinnati at SMU | 12 p.m. | ESPN Kansas at Baylor | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 UL Monroe at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Indiana at Rutgers | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Houston at Navy | 12 p.m. | ESPNU Akron at Kent State |...

Can anyone point me to the GIF of Hillary madly scrubbing the bloodied handprint from a column at Benghazi? I’ve searched for a good bit now, and can’t seem to find the one I’m looking for, which was posted here for a good long time since that event in 2012.

Hello FReepers, my Mom is in deteriorating health, and we found out recently that her home health care insurance has a weekly cap. Dad served in the Army, to my understanding, during the Berlin Airlift and the beginning of the Korean War. We heard there is possibly Aid and Attendance help from the VA for my Mom, but that we need Dad's DD214 to apply for it. So, I engaged the services of a company that does this research, and just heard back that while they can find there is a valid service number for my Dad, his records have...

My daughter will be driving to Gainesville from Jacksonville next week, and I'm wondering if anyone knows if the speed trap in Waldo is any better. It has been a number of years since I've made that drive myself. I know there was some talk about disbanding the police department a few years ago. Does anyone know if that has made a difference?

Three friends of the alleged University of Virginia rape victim are growing more skeptical about her account, saying they have doubts about information she gave them and why she belatedly tried to get herself deleted from the Rolling Stone article that engulfed their campus in controversy. The friends say among their concerns is the fact that the woman, named only as “Jackie” in the article, gave them a cellphone number so they could text a man she said she was seeing about three weeks before she alleged she was gang-raped at a fraternity house. Eventually, the friends ended up with...

Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee said this afternoon that he plans to retire on July 1, an announcement which followed the latest in a series of verbal gaffes that he said were meant as harmless jokes but ended up embarrassing the university. The two-time Ohio State president made his announcement this afternoon in an email to students, faculty and staff. “Without question, the university has achieved remarkable success, and it has been my honor and calling to lead it,” Gee’s email says. “Ohio State is well-positioned for the future. I love this university, and my relationship with it will...

An advocacy group says 18 Muslims have filed federal complaints against a Westerville-based logistics company, saying they were fired for praying at work. Exel Inc., a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL, is accused of denying requests to adjust break times to accommodate prayer or to allow employees to take unpaid prayer breaks, according to the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The council said it filed the complaints on behalf of the workers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday.

<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The chairman of the Ohio Republican Party says the state GOP will continue to stand behind U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, who has announced his support of gay marriage.</p> <p>Chairman Bob Bennett acknowledged Friday that there would be Republicans who will disagree with Portman's decision. But Bennett said he respects the senator's right to make up his own mind.</p>

<p>A fourth accuser is coming forward to claim he engaged in underage sex with former "Sesame Street" puppeteer Kevin Clash.</p> <p>On Monday, Florida-based attorney Jeff Herman filed his third lawsuit alleging that Clash, now 52, engaged in sex with minors. Herman also has filed suits on behalf of two of the previous three accusers.</p>

Sources close to the Jerry Sandusky case say that three men have come forward and told police that they were abused in the 1970s or 1980s by the convicted pedophile. They are the first men to allege abuse before the 1990s, and if found to be credible, would directly attack the 68-year-old's defense argument that a person doesn't become pedophile in his or her 50s. In the early 1970s, when one of the men says he was abused, Jerry Sandusky would have been in his late 20s. Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts of child sex abuse against...

BELLEFONTE – Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky lashed out Friday at former friends and neighbors whose complaints prompted prosecutors this week to seek his confinement inside his State College house. Sandusky's remarks to reporters came moments after a court heard testimony that several people had expressed concern over his frequent presence on his back deck, yards from a neighboring elementary school. "All of a sudden these people turn on me when they've been in my home with their kids, they've attended birthday parties here for my grandchildren, they've been on that deck and in that yard," he...

Yesterday, on the eve of Jerry Sandusky's latest court hearing, Courtney Brennan of Pittsburgh's WPXI-TV was taping a report in front of the Sanduskys' house. It starts off looking like your standard TV news story: An earnest Brennan ready to give an overview of neighbors' complaints to police about Ol' Jerry, the house framed in the background just so, when (expletives deleted).

Judge John M. Cleland heard five separate motions this morning from Jerry Sandusky’s defense team and the prosecution from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Sandusky’s attorneys asked that the Grand Jury testimony be released to them so they can plan their defense. Defense attorney Karl Rominger insisted that he would like the release of the testimony “as soon as possible.” Joe Amendola, Sandusky’s main attorney, also requested three modifications to Sandusky’s bail conditions: the allowance of communication and visitation with his grandchildren, visitation rights for family friends (1-2 hours per week), and the ability for Sandusky to travel with his legal...

I have an old photo of men I've been told were some Red Sox baseball players who were dining at a restaurant back in the late 1960's. There are 3 of them in the picture. It was likely 1968 to maybe as late as 1970. It was probably during Spring training because it was taken in central Florida. Does anyone here know how I can track down living members of the team to see if any of them can identify them? I have been told they may be Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Lonborg, and Tony Conigliaro, but when I look at...

Jerry Sandusky, accused of child sex abuse, will be in court soon asking a judge to modify the terms of his bail so he can see his grandchildren. Sandusky, 68, was charged in November with abusing 10 boys over 15 years, many of whom he met through his charity, The Second Mile. As part of a bail agreement that keeps him out of jail but on house arrest, Sandusky is not to have any contact with kids, including his grandchildren. His attorney, Joe Amendola, has said that family members are among those that brought accusations against the former Penn State...

The controversial Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas is at it again. Now, the church said it will picket the funeral of the legendary Joe Pa -- longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno who died on Sunday morning. Joe Paterno died on Sunday. The controversial Westboro Baptist Church tweet Sunday after the news that it planned to picket Paterno's funeral. Margie Phelps, wife of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps, sent out several tweets on Sunday after news of Paterno's death spread. The church, known for its controversial positions, suggested Paterno is going to hell. "Joe Paterno is dead....

A teenager says he was raped by Jerry Sandusky inside his office in Penn State University’s football building in 2004 — two years after the ex-football coach was said to have had his campus keys taken away and was banned from bringing children into the building, the boy’s lawyer told FoxNews.com. The now-19-year-old says Sandusky sodomized him when he was 12 years old and attending a summer camp program on the Penn State campus run by Second Mile, Sandusky’s charity organization. The accuser has initiated a civil suit against Sandusky, Second Mile and Penn State University. The Attorney General’s office...

BELLEFONTE — Jerry Sandusky’s attorney is insisting that the shower incident that Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he witnessed in 2002 actually happened in 2001, a discrepancy he said undermines McQueary’s credibility. Joe Amendola said Sandusky vividly recalls the incident, although he said it did not involve sexual activity. “Jerry is adamant that the time frame involved was really 2001, and probably, probably in February of 2001,” Amendola said. “We didn’t want to talk about that before the preliminary hearings for (Tim) Curley and for (Gary) Schultz because we wanted to make sure that Mike McQueary was pinned...