After the fight, Garcia vacated the title and decided to move back to down to 135 pounds to defend his WBC title on July 28 in a title unification bout vs. WBA champion Robert Easter Jr. If Garcia emerges victorious then he will pursue a Spence fight in December because of the high stakes it would bring, and the will to be the best. “I definitely do get excited for a fight against Errol Spence,” Garcia tells Sporting News....

James could be Man Utd’s Hazard Kessie, 20, is set to become the first Rossoneri signing under the new Chinese owners and will cost the San Siro club €28 million. The Atalanta midfielder is expected to sign a five-year contract worth €2.5m per year with Vincenzo Montella’s club. As well as attracting attention in Serie A, Kessie, who is an Ivory Coast international, had been linked with a move to Premier League giants Man United and Chelsea....

One day after his mother passed away, Miles threw the latest wrench into the SEC West race when No. 24 LSU edged No. 3 Ole Miss 10-7. “This is a quality team with men that believe they can,” Miles said afterward. “It’s not the coach, I can tell you that.” That’s hard to believe, almost as much as the following scenario: — LSU beats Alabama. — Alabama beats Mississippi State and Auburn....

Diego Costa slams China talk The attacker ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while away on international duty with Poland in October 2016. Expected recovery times range from six months to a year, but he resumed full training this month and head coach Maurizio Sarri has now included him in the squad for Saturday’s encounter with Bologna. Milik, 22, joined Napoli from Ajax ahead of the 2016-17 campaign for a transfer fee in excess of €30 million and quickly became a key figure at the Stadio San Paolo, netting seven goals from nine appearances in all competitions before suffering the injury....

Amy Rose moved from Henderson, Nevada, to Davis, California, with her husband, who’s a major in the Air Force, for him to pursue his Ph.D., she told KSNV. However, the couple cast absentee ballots in Nevada and shortly after the election, Rose said she found their current and former nine-digit zip codes on a list of 3,000 people the Trump campaign claimed fraudulently cast ballots. “We put two and two together and realized, ‘Yeah, Wow....

The seventh-seeded Raonic, who had never beaten the 17-time Grand Slam champion in six previous meetings, hit 21 aces and lost only 15 points on his serve to complete a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win to reach the semifinals of the Paris Masters on Friday. It was a must-win match for the big-serving Canadian, who kept alive his chances of qualifying for the ATP Finals after finding his best tennis at the right time, before Kei Nishikori sent him to the year-end tournament in London with a hard-fought win over David Ferrer in the final quarterfinal....

Ross said he expects Fitzpatrick to be on the field when the Patriots come to Miami on Sunday and that the rumors that Fitzpatrick has started a mutiny in the locker room are untrue. “I was somewhat surprised to hear that," Ross told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “I like Minkah a lot. But I understand and I know that (coach) Brian (Flores) and (general manager) Chris (Grier) had good conversations with him after that where they let him know that they believe in him and want him here....

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said the department is struggling as violent crime in the city has increased 20 percent compared to last year and around 40 percent from two years ago, reported KSTP. City leaders clashed over the proposals to bring in the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit, a move which would cost around $500,000, during a council meeting on Tuesday. “Resources are hemorrhaging. Our city is bleeding at this moment....

But Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich said Wednesday that MGM Park won’t be ready in time, according to the Sun Herald. MORE: The time an umpire moved bases into the outfield | Letterman’s minor league rooting interest “I toured the stadium and met with representatives of Yates Construction to get an update,” Gilich said. “I was told it would cost $380,000 extra to open June 6, provided the stadium could qualify for a temporary certificate of occupancy....

The loan program ran from April 3 to August 8. An analysis of it by the Associated Press published Sunday found that minority business owners—many of them just “hanging on” financially—had their applications and inquiries pushed back to the final few weeks of the program. The AP analyzed ZIP codes from PPP data and found loans were approved at twice the rate in areas with the largest proportions of white residents....

Gosar had previously deleted the controversial video, which shows him, using footage from the anime series Attack on Titan, slaughtering Ocasio-Cortez before turning the blade towards President Joe Biden, refusing to apologize but explaining that he had “self-censored” due to a sense of “compassion for those who generally felt offense.” However, Gosar’s position appeared to have changed quickly after the House voted largely along party lines to censure him on Wednesday....

The video, recorded by Teresa Potter, was captured outside a home in a residential neighborhood in Lake Tahoe, California on July 3. Solo Soccer Footage showed a rambunctious black bear kicking a soccer ball around a residential front yard with its nose before climbing up a tree. Once out of the tree, the bear crossed the street into another person’s yard to obtain the soccer ball and continue the solo game....

Fikile Cele said she was raised by an Indian woman who found her in a box outside a factory. “It may come as a surprise to many that I don’t speak Zulu. Neither do I understand my mother tongue,” Cele said. “My mother was 15 or 16 when she fell pregnant with me and ran away from her home in Johannesburg to Durban because she was afraid of her family at the time....

According to her TikTok post, Jailene Pequeño was starting to “freak out” after realizing her new dog had seemingly disappeared. A search of the house ensued with Pequeño increasingly puzzled as to where her beloved canine could possibly be. Then she remembered the hole in the bottom of her couch. Instructing her boyfriend to check the space on the off-chance her dog had found her way inside, he then stumbled upon the tiny pup enjoying a super cozy nap among the inner foam and springs....

Trondheim was also one of Europe’s most popular pilgrimage sites during the Middle Ages. Its large Gothic cathedral, Nidaros, is where the kings and queens of Norway are crowned. But this week’s unusual flurry of activity in the area had none of the joy of a royal coronation. Instead, its purpose was to act as a launching pad for the British rescue attempt of the Kursk, the Russian submarine which sank last Saturday....

The student, who was not identified, attended classes at her school for most of the week before testing positive for the virus, The Mississippi Free Press reported. Her health declined quickly after the diagnosis and reportedly passed away Saturday morning. The teenager was described as a perfect student whom every teacher loved, according to WLBT-TV. Smith County Schools, the school district she attended, announced August 10 that students and employees would be required to wear a mask after several people tested positive for the virus....

Carlos Allen, 33, was found guilty of selling fentanyl, trafficking fentanyl, possession of hydrocodone and possession of amphetamine, WJTV reported. He received 20 years for his conviction for selling fentanyl, 80 for trafficking fentanyl and 12 years for each possession charge. The sentences will be served consecutively, the report added. Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett mentioned during a press conference the six West Point cadets in Florida who overdosed on fentanyl earlier this month, saying fentanyl “is bad stuff....

Louie Bernard Revette, 38, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail after he pleaded guilty to one count of interference with housing rights and one count of using fire to commit a federal felony following an incident in Seminary on October 24, 2017. Revette, along with his co-conspirator Graham Williamson, built and burned a cross near the home of an African American child who lived in the predominantly black area of Seminary....

The hospital is asking the federal government to provide additional medical professionals to work in the garage’s field hospital, according to the hospital. UMMC does not have enough staff for the growing number of COVID-19 patients, and the current staff is pushed to its limits, the hospital said. Mississippi is one of the worst-hit states in the nation in the current wave of cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH)....

Hawley has been widely criticized for objecting to the certification of the November presidential election results, which saw President Joe Biden defeat former President Donald Trump. Hawley—along with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz—objected to the certification as tens of thousands of pro-Trump protesters descended on the Capitol. Hawley was pictured giving a raised fist salute to the demonstrators as he entered the building. Some of those protesters later stormed the building, forcing lawmakers to flee....