When it comes to hockey hair, there is no argument. No one does it better than “The North Star State.” MORE: NHL contenders, pretenders | Kings, Ducks engage in epic brawl With the Minnesota state high school hockey tournament having taken place March 2-5, it’s time to once again look at the state’s best hockey hair, and there is one video that consistently does it better than you could ever expect....

Bayern come into the match in high spirits, with a sixth consecutive Bundesliga title already sealed. The Bavarians’ 6-2 destruction of Bayer Leverkusen in the DFB Cup semi-finals last Tuesday means the treble is still very much on – something the club achieved during Heynckes’ previous tenure at the club, in the 2012/13 season. James Rodriguez will be tasked with providing the ammunition for Robert Lewandowski against his parent club, Real Madrid, though Bayern are just shy of being at full-strength....

Of all the species that have ever lived, our single group of hominins now has the capacity to remake all of biology. But while our ability to read, write and even hack the genetic code of life has advanced dramatically over recent years, our public consciousness and oversight systems have not kept pace. As the great naturalist E.O. Wilson once said, “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology....

But it doesn’t mean we can’t still speculate as to what the field of 68 might have looked like. Here’s a list of projected fields of 68 based on specific metrics. It’s important to note, regular season champions were given automatic bids for conferences that didn’t get to play out their conference tournament.​ First Four teams (the four lowest-seeded at-large teams and the four lowest-seeded automatic bids) are in bold....

The Fitzsimons family in Cheshire, England, have a 16-year-old tabby cat called Frankie, who went missing from their home on May 19. The family searched the local area, with help from their neighbors, but Frankie wasn’t to be found. Days later, Rachel Fitzsimons was driving on the freeway when she saw a dead cat that looked just like Frankie. She and her husband John tried to get close enough to the cat to identify him as Frankie, but the cat was too badly injured for the couple to confirm if it was their pet cat....

Lex’s owner Jon Rollins told KTVI that Lex wanted to go outside and play in the gated yard, so he let the dog out. He then “went back to watch some TV and … about five minutes later, I got an alert on my watch saying that Lex had left the property,” Rollins told the outlet. Eli Rollins, Jon’s son, was also home when Lex escaped. “Since he’s a deaf dog, we can’t just go calling out for him....

Sofiya Perel, who suffered from dementia, lived at the Maria Joseph Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Trotwood. According to the media outlet WHIO, police call logs reveal that staff had been searching for Perel for two hours before they called for emergency assistance at 1.38 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The channel said a nurse at the secure unit told a 911 operator: “The alarm didn’t go off. We don’t know how she got out....

For five years Washington’s official line on Saddam Hussein has been simple and unwavering: he must go. That was the essence of a broad secret policy statement, known as a finding, drawn up at the end of the gulf war. ““There was an absolute consensus at the top levels of the U.S. government that we were to get rid of Saddam,’’ says one senior intelligence source. The finding authorized economic warfare, propaganda, support for anti-Saddam rebels–just about everything short of assassination....

Though Reeves, a Republican, did not mention Joe Biden by name, he referred to comments from one of the president-elect’s coronavirus advisers, who said earlier this week that a nationwide lockdown of four to six weeks could help bring the spread of the virus under control. “The fact is that we’re going to try to work with whomever the president is, but we’re not going to participate in a nationwide lockdown,” Reeves said during a virtual news conference....

Southaven Middle School in Southaven, Mississippi, said that offering the items was meant to help address the stress of trying to live up to the “ideal body shape,” but the suggestion surprised and upset some parents, WMC-TV reported. “There are girls who have a need for maybe bras or some other essential things that maybe, for whatever reason, they don’t have access to, and I absolutely love the fact that the school felt that maybe they could help with that....

CoxHealth CEO Steve Edwards said that his company had to bring in temporary cooling equipment to care for the deceased. As Missouri’s death count grows, it is also among the U.S. states with the highest case numbers as the highly transmittable Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to infect unvaccinated citizens. New guidance from the CDC recommends that people in areas with high transmission rates, such as Missouri, wear masks indoors in public places even when vaccinated....

The 20-count indictment against the 63-year-old state lawmaker said that she used seminars, media interviews and social media to promote a “stem cell shot” marketed as Regenerative Biologics, something she called an “amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for COVID-19 patients that is safe and natural.” She allegedly made $191,815 for giving the injections to people with tissue damage, kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Lyme disease, erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence....

“The Association has asked this Court to consider the constitutionality of a law that it believes infringes on the fundamental constitutional rights of ordinary New Yorkers,” the letter, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, reads. “Democrats have responded by threatening to pack the Court if it decides in favor of the Association. Americans cannot trust that their constitutional rights are secure if they know that Democrats will try to browbeat this Court into ruling against those rights....

With Trump gone and Democrats in control of both chambers, McConnell, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, faces the tough task of quelling the escalating GOP infighting to regain control of the Senate. And he knows that the path could lead him to a collision course with the former president and his loyal base. On Saturday evening, McConnell told Politico that he would not hesitate to intervene if Trump endorses candidates—such as his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, whose name has been mentioned for a potential North Carolina Senate run—that will endanger the party’s chances of recapturing a majority in the upper chamber....

During a Tuesday interview with the Utah Politics podcast, Romney said that Republicans were “spending massively” when they controlled the government. The moderate GOP senator also highlighted that members of his party are now frustrated that Democrats are ready to pass President Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package through the Senate budget reconciliation process, despite Republicans doing the same thing with key priorities when they controlled the House and Senate....

Rio reveals Man Utd’s teacher’s pet The pair worked together previously at Borussia Dortmund before Klopp left for Anfield and Mkhitaryan subsequently joined rivals Manchester United. After a difficult start to his career at Old Trafford the Armenia international is now flourishing and he says Klopp helped him through a tough time at the Bundesliga side. “I am thankful to Klopp. He worked on my personality and the psychological part,” he told the BBC....

A shock home loss to Ostersunds in the Europa League did not prevent the Gunners from progressing to the round of 16, but that result was followed by a 3-0 battering at the hands of Manchester City in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final. The Gunners have an immediate chance to get revenge on City, who visit the Emirates Stadium for a Premier League game on Thursday, with Arsenal claiming the match will be played despite heavy snow in London this week....

The National League features a few interesting early-season divisional tilts that could lay down early markers. The Cardinals look to even up their series with the Brewers after a tough 5-4 loss on opening day, while the Diamondbacks will call on Robbie Ray to attempt to right the ship after they allowed a record eight home runs to the Dodgers yesterday afternoon. The final game of the night features the new look Padres looking to start the season 2-0 versus the Giants with talented young arm Joey Luchhesi on the mound....

There’s no place like home, unless you’re the Diamondbacks, who have posted a 13-26 mark at Chase Field, including last night’s 8-0 lackluster loss to the Phillies. But tonight the odds are in Arizona’s favor to buck the trend as Zack Greinke (10-3, 3.61 ERA) is a -180 favorite against Jerad Eickhoff (5-9, 3.36) in the second of a three-game set. Arizona (36-43, -5.59 units of profit) had just just come off a 10-game road trip where they posted franchise best 7-3 record boosting them to a 23-17 road mark....

The chorus was assembled and prepared to sing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” when a recorded voice of a woman singing came over the loudspeakers. When the song ended, the 100 members were escorted off the field and, according to members of the chorus, “heckled with homophobic taunts.” MORE: Oral history of Roseanne Barr’s botched national anthem in San Diego Here is an excerpt from MLB’s statement: “The Department of Investigations has concluded that the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus has performed the Star-Spangled Banner multiple times before a Padres game; that Saturday’s regrettable situation was a product of human error; that the situation was exacerbated by the fact that the lead entertainment supervisor was involved in a car accident on Friday night and thus was unable to work on Saturday and handle his typical responsibilities; that employees involved in the matter were handling new duties with which they were insufficiently familiar; and that the employees involved had no malicious intentions and, in fact, universally relayed contrition for how the incident unfolded and the adverse impression that it created....