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Long-serving Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Vi Lyles, who faced calls to resign after urging compassion for the deranged vagrant accused of brutally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a city train last year, announced she will leave her post just six months after being re-elected. The five-term Democrat, 73, said in a press release that she would resign June 30 and would not be seeking another term next year when her term ends, but offered no concrete reason for her sudden and unexpected departure. “Serving as Charlotte’s mayor has been the honor of my life. I am proud of our...

The night American sprinter Noah Lyles won a bronze medal, he had a fever of around 102 degrees Fahrenheit, according to his coach Lance Brauman. It's what made that medal, in his last sprint at the Paris Games, all the more impressive to Brauman, who described the sprinter's condition and future Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. Lyles tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and finished third in Thursday's 200-meter final behind Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and American teammate Kenneth Bednarek.

<p>LYLES, Tenn. — Bill Goodreau thought he had found the retirement spot he was looking for — 40 acres in the country, peaceful, secluded, overgrown and with a natural spring.</p> <p>Today, Goodreau has realized his country getaway is all that and more: it's peaceful, secluded, and it's next door to a Superfund site.</p>