Transgender wrestler wins his first matches while competing in girls state tournament
Mack Beggs, the transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, is halfway home to capturing the Class 6A state girls...
Scientists have taught bumblebees to play sports and score goals
How’s this for buzzworthy? Bees are not only very intelligent, they can be taught to play a sport that looks like a mashup of...
Judge sentences high school football player in assault case
An Idaho judge has sentenced a high school football player to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service after prosecutors said...
Brazil’s Carnival begins with parades, parties but no mayor
Revelers across Brazil began Carnival celebrations on Friday, taking to the streets to dance, drink beer and spirits, and blow off steam at a...
Dear Abby: The upside of the ‘man cave’
Reader responds to ‘garaged husbands’ letter Dear Abby: This is in response to “Another Husband in Oregon” (Sept. 3) who wondered about...
Petaluma artist Ane Carla Rovetta makes color from nature
From a cozy chicken coop in west Petaluma, Ane Carla Rovetta bridges the divide between art and science.Here, in a studio filled with vials,...
Border Patrol says ID check on arriving domestic flight was done with ‘consent’
Customs and Border Protection said Friday that an ID check of passengers conducted before they were allowed to disembark from a domestic flight was...
New spot for creative cocktails in Healdsburg
Sonoma County isn’t just known for its fabulous grapes – but also for its fabulous cider, and Sonoma Cider is one of the nation’s...
Copia reopens in downtown Napa
Recently purchased by the Culinary Institute of America, the campus held a grand reopening with cooking classes, a new gift shop and a reimagined...
Theme your Oscar party with these movie-inspired dishes
At first glance, the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture this year seem to offer little more than a faint whiff of the passion...
Sonoma High grad makes big splash on Adult Swim
Maxime Simonet is the Milanobet co-creator and one of the voices of ‘FishCenter Live,’ a web and TV show featuring real fish seahorsing around...
From ‘La La Land’ to ‘Dirty Dancing’: Movie dance scenes that stole the show
Oscar front-runner "La La Land" opens with a bang, or should we say a burst — of leaps and pirouettes, not to mention bicycles...
Petaluma High School grad Spencer Averick up for Oscar with ’13th’
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in December 1865. Or did it?A new film up for a Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards on...
Sonic looks to increase fiber connectivity in southern Petaluma
Petaluma is seeking to expand fiber-optic service to its South McDowell Boulevard business park, giving 258 businesses on the south side of town access...
Sales of single-family homes in Sonoma County during the week of Jan. 15
63 single-family homes were sold in Sonoma County during the week of Jan. 15, ranging in price from $110 thousand to around $2 million....
Wet weather stalls Sonoma County home sales
When Sonoma County real estate brokers talk about the dampening effect on January homes sales, they mean it literally.Existing single-family home sales here declined...
It’s official: Trump’s Pentagon orders military to use ‘ISIS’ to refer to Islamic State
ISIS is in, and ISIL is out.The military will now officially refer to the Islamic State as “ISIS,” short for Islamic State in Iraq...
Press corps protests White House briefing that excluded some media outlets
The group that represents journalists who cover the White House on Friday protested the exclusion of some news outlets from an on-the-record briefing...
Judge: Trump saying ‘traitor’ Bergdahl ‘should be shot’ does not taint his court case
A military judge on Friday rejected defense claims that U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl cannot get a fair trial after Donald Trump, when he...
In South Africa, a protest against foreigners turns violent. Why was it allowed to...
South African authorities are under fire for allowing an anti-immigrant “march of hatred” to go ahead in Pretoria Friday, just days after a series...
Police say Kim Jong Un's half brother was killed with a nerve agent. What...
The apparent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother this month is a bizarre, unfolding story that has sparked media frenzies...
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Mike McDaniel Surprised by Shaq Barrett’s Unretirement Plan
Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel was taken by surprise when he heard the news that linebacker Shaq Barrett wants to come out of retirement....
