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If you live in the New Jersey and New York area, brace yourself—giant venomous spiders could soon be flying your way. In January, the company New Jersey Pest Control cautioned the public that the Joro spiders native to East Asia have spread to the southeastern United States, and were expected to move north to the New Jersey area later in the year.

Trenton, N. J. — Democratic Rep. Andy Kim won New Jersey’s Senate primary Tuesday, putting him in strong position for the general election in the blue-leaning state, though the win comes a day after Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez filed to run as an independent amid his federal corruption trial. Kim, a three-term congressman who launched his campaign after charges against Menendez were announced last year, rose to the top in the state’s dominant political party over a relatively short period.

In April 2014, a tape was leaked of 80-year-old then-Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist comments to his 31-year-old mistress, V. Stiviano, an incident that ballooned into one of the biggest scandals in the NBA and changed the league forever. The recording incited a media frenzy—which led to Sterling selling the team and earning a lifetime ban from the NBA—and brought to light Sterling’s long and uncomfortable history of racial discrimination, pushing long overdue conversations about race and structural power in not only the NBA, but the world at large. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read more: The NBA’s Response to Donald Sterling’s Racism Got Everything Right Now, a decade later, this shocking story is still making waves in Clipped, a new six-episode mini series that revisits the scandal that rocked the NBA.

New York — James Kane has used a powerful magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, was recording last Friday as he pulled a slimy safe out of a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, famous as the location of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, and extracted bags of waterlogged, gunk-covered Benjamins from inside it. “Oh, that’s money,” Kane said in the video of the discovery.

By Ryan Sederquist, The Vail Daily Mikaela Shiffrin will finally get a chance to race a World Cup at home. Related Articles Skiing | Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announce their engagement Skiing | Mikaela Shiffrin named 2023 Colorado Sportswoman of the Year Skiing | Mikaela Shiffrin wins 1st race after six-week injury layoff to lock up World Cup slalom season title The 2024 Birds of Prey event in Beaver Creek will feature men’s and women’s World Cup races on back-to-back weekends, offering Alpine skiing’s all-time winningest athlete an opportunity to compete in her backyard. “I love racing at Beaver Creek.

Camp Hill, Pa. — A young black bear took a dive from a tree Tuesday, landing in a giant tarp held aloft by a group of wildlife, public safety and rescue officials who tranquilized it after it roamed into a suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. The bruin showed up around lunchtime in a residential area of Camp Hill, outside the capital of Harrisburg.