Monday, July 22, 2019

Blockbusters and franchises rule the day, and that's not likely to change.        

Irishman Shane Lowry won the British Open by six shots in what has to be considered the greatest Irish victory since the tournament began in 1860.        

Family and friends gathered Friday at Utica's Church of Our Lady of Lourdes to remember Bianca Devins, who had recently graduated from high school.        

It's stranger than fiction: A baby girl in St. Louis was born on 7-Eleven Day at 7:11 p.m., weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces.        

A man climbed down the side of a 19-story building to escape a fire in Philadelphia. He made it to the ground safely, according to local media.        

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, USA TODAY spoke with NASA experts to explain the details in the famed flag photo on the moon.       

"His life is ruined," said the judge, who suspended Payne's prison time.        

Police in Brigham City, Utah, responded to multiple calls after people reported seeing a young boy apparently selling beer on the side of the road.        

Racism, socialism, fascism, concentration camp, xenophobia and bigot were the top searches on Merriam-Webster.com on Wednesday night.        

West Palm Beach, Florida officials are playing "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos," on loop overnight in an effort to ward homeless people away.        

A federal judge said prosecutors had concluded their investigations of possible campaign finance violations involving Michael Cohen.        

Paying with paper instead of plastic helped Kristy Epperson eliminate $20,000 in student loan and car loan debt in just one year.       

Former Auburn University assistant basketball coach Chuck Person has avoided prison in a bribery scandal that has touched some of the biggest schools in college basketball. Person was sentenced on Wednesday to 200 hours of community service during the two years the Probation Department will supervise him.

A Florida man allegedly cut off a man's penis months after catching him sleeping with his wife, the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office said.        

Sheryl Powell said a knife-wielding man chased her away from her campground, authorities didn't receive reports of suspicious people or activity.       

John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday.

A California gas company reports one of its employees died in an explosion Monday afternoon in Murietta, California.