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Alecia Kitts, of Marietta, Ohio, was a tased and arrested by a police officer for not wearing a face maskThe incident happened at a middle school football game in Logan, Ohio, that Kitts and her family attendedKitts resisted arrest by the officer, who eventually deployed a taser on her Footage of the altercation was shared to social media on Wednesday  An Ohio woman at a middle school football game was tasered and arrested by a police officer for not wearing a face mask in the bleachers. Around 300 people attended a Marietta City Schools football game where Alecia Kitts, of...

The theme during the Harnett Central High School’s football game Friday was to dress patriotically for USA America night. Mike Collins' son Matthew was forced to remove his jersey at a school football game and it left him very humiliated and hurt.

An Orange County high school principal claimed that his school’s football team faced racist posters and chants on Friday during a game that was supposed to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Jeff Bishop, the principal of Santa Ana High School, told The Los Angeles Times that his school’s players faced insensitive signs that included, “Build the wall.”

(CNN)Gunfire erupted at an annual Thanksgiving Day football game in Louisville, Kentucky, leaving two dead and four others wounded, police said Thursday. The motive for the shooting is unclear. Developing story - more to come

NORMAN - A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium. "I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said. Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1. When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at...

Norman, Oklahoma (population 100,923), is as American heartland as it gets. So on October 1, 2005, when Joel Hinrichs III, a 21-year-old Colorado Springs, Colorado engineering student at the University of Oklahoma strapped explosives to his body and blew himself up outside the college stadium where 84,000 fans were watching a Saturday-night football game, thus earning the town the distinction as home to America's first suicide bomber, I was, well, curious. Within 24 hours of the event, three players in the unfolding story issued statements aimed at quashing rumors that the bombing was terrorist related. University President David Boren, in...