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In one of his latest social media outbursts, President Donald J. Trump pounded the table for legendary right-handed baseball pitcher Roger Clemens to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Clemens, one of the most dominant pitchers in MLB history, has long had the resume to have a place in Cooperstown. But complications from alleged anabolic steroid and HGH use in the infamous 2007 Mitchell Report have mostly tainted his legacy. Clemens was an 11-time All-Star, seven-time Cy Young winner, and two-time World Series champion across his 23 MLB seasons. And he also won the AL MVP award as a...

He’s Biden his time. Joe Biden is not expected to pick a running mate until at least Aug. 10. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had previously said he expected to name someone to the job by the first of the month.

Arkansas Baptist buys out Payless store, inspires town by Sara Davis, Arkansas Baptist News staff writer, posted Friday, December 13, 2019 (4 hours ago) ALMA, Ark. (BP) -- Carrie Jernigan recently took her kids shoe shopping for an upcoming family vacation when her daughter, Harper, brought a pair of Avenger shoes to her. Harper had noticed a friend from school had shoes that were too tight and had holes, and she asked her mom if they could buy the shoes for him. Carrie Jernigan (far right) appeared on the "Strahan and Sara" TV show to talk about how a routine...

W.P. Kinsella, the B.C.-based author of Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel that became the film Field of Dreams, has died at 81. His literary agency confirms the writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, B.C. The agency did not provide details about Kinsella's health. Kinsella suffered a head injury when he was in a car accident in 1997. Three years after the accident, he said he had no interest in writing fiction and was spending his days playing Scrabble on the internet.