Firefighters from multiple fire departments battled heat and exhaustion after responding to a house fire that displaced a man and his wife on the Old May Road Thursday afternoon. Brown County Emergency Management Coordinator Darrell Johnston, who estimated the couple’s age as being in their 60s, said they have insurance on the home.
Seated in her office at the Brownwood Senior Citizens Center, program manager Angie Dees had scads of information to convey about the center’s activities. “Where do I start?” Dees said.
DENVER (AP) — Longtime Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog has been a calming influence in leading the team to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2001. He’s grown up with the “C” on his sweater, taking over the role at just 19 years, 286 days old. He’s learned all about leadership in the decade he’s been captain, most notably to be himself. While his voice carries a lot of weight, so does his work ethic. It’s a style that served another longtime captain of the team well in Joe Sakic. He’s the last Avalanche captain to bring home the Cup.
With the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year Coggin Elementary School (formerly Coggin Intermediate), will see many new changes. The campus will now house PK-6th grade students, and along with the new grade levels, a new campus Principal and Assistant Principal will be among the leadership there. Brownwood ISD has welcomed Mrs. Kali McLaughlin as the new Principal of the school.
CLEVELAND (AP) — After a slow start, Marcus Semien’s hitting his stride — and home runs. Semien homered twice and tied a Texas franchise record for hits in a doubleheader as the Rangers connected for four homers in a 6-3 win over Cleveland Guardians to earn a split on Tuesday night.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jordan Poole knocked down a buzzer-beater from almost midcourt when Stephen Curry made a point to catch his gaze, and that celebratory stare down told so much about the veteran guard’s pride for his young teammate.
The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events. Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo indicating the sanctions against Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and 15 other players. The memo went out a short time after the LIV Golf Invitational outside London began with a 48-player field. The decision includes the Presidents Cup. Monahan says even if players resigned their membership, they are not eligible as nonmembers to get sponsor exemptions to tournaments. The USGA already said players can still play the U.S. Open next week. LIV Golf is run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. It responded to the PGA Tour’s decision by calling it vindictive and divisive.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. Officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the announcement of a “pattern-or-practice” probe will be made later Thursday in Baton Rouge. The inquiry comes more than three years after white troopers were captured on long-withheld body-camera video beating, stunning and dragging Greene on a rural roadside near Monroe. No one has been charged in the case.
LONDON (AP) — Experts drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began. They say they need a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident. That request marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins. The WHO concluded last year that it was “extremely unlikely” that COVID-19 might have spilled into humans from a lab. In a report released Thursday, WHO’s expert group said “key pieces of data” are still missing to help scientists understand how the pandemic began.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that the Department of Justice’s investigation into the law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde won’t be criminal in nature.