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Daniel McDonnell (28) pleaded guilty to threatening to kill or cause serious harm to a prison officer at Wheatfield Prison…

A man serving a life sentence for murder has received a two-year sentence after he threatened to slit a prison officer’s throat with a sharpened piece of ...

Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of San Diego Padres games beginning Wednesday after Diamond Sports missed a rights fees payment and let the grace period expire. Diamond Sports

Chris Sale had come so far and overcome so much, and for a fleeting moment it seemed like he truly had put his nightmarish three-year run of injuries behind him. And yet there he was Friday, sitting at a podium ruminating on yet another injury setback.

Diamond Sports Group has decided not to pay the Padres their latest rights fee, a monumental development that will revert the teams broadcasting rights to Major League Baseball and establish precedent for an uncertain, rapidly evolving landscape.

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Diamond Sports, which owns 19 networks under the Bally Sports banner, said in a statement Tuesday that it decided "not to provide additional funding to the San Diego RSN that would enable it to make the rights payment to the San Diego Padres during the grace period and will no longer be broadcasting Padres games after Tuesday." The Padres become the first team that MLB will take over production of its broadcasts. MLB set up a local media department during the offseason to prepare for a...

Now that the Padres' rights have returned to them, their games will be available direct-to-consumer. They'll also be on a linear feed.

The San Diego Padres become the first team to have the MLB take over production of broadcasts.

Major League Baseball will resume production and distribution of all San Diego Padres domestically distributed games beginning Wednesday, May 31 when they