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Around the holidays, Government officals hope that those buying gifts plan to shop small.Congresmember James #. Clyburn (

Some residents of the Bronx building that partially collapsed were allowed to reenter their homes to retrieve belongings, but it won't last long.

A unique night at Ashley Ridge High School.A "ladies night" so-to-speak as a group of talented femlae wrestlers hit the mat in a historic first for Dorchester S

Major League Baseball legend Larry Doby, a World War II veteran who was the first African American to play in the American League, was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday.

2:00 AM UTC Anthony Castrovince WASHINGTON -- On what would have been his 100th birthday, Larry Doby finally got his due. Doby, the oft-overlooked baseball pioneer who integrated the American League with the 1947 Cleveland Indians and served his country during World War II, was posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony

"Yogi did not look like a baseball player. Yogi looked like he was put together with spare parts: short legs, long torso, big bulging shoulders that made him look like he didn't have a neck."

House Speaker Michael Johnson, Congressional Leaders, and Members of Congress will host a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony in honor of Major League Baseball player, civil rights activist, and World War II veteran, Larry Doby.

Name, image and likeness — a/k/a NIL — is the current rage in college athletics. In the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., those three words

So, here we are with the first of our Tuesday-only weekly editions.

The greatness of Yogi Berra is documented in the Oscar-contending film 'It Ain't Over,' directed by Sean Mullin and exec. produced by Lindsay Berra.