With preseason contenders dropping like flies, Alabama and Georgia further separated themselves from the pack with convincing wins over top 15 teams.

Red Sox ace Chris Sale takes the mound in Washington with a chance to pitch Boston into the postseason. A win would ensure the Red Sox host Tuesday’s AL wild-card game — they own a tiebreaker with the Yankees after winning the season series 10-9 — but Boston is still assured at least a tiebreaker game Monday with a loss to the last-place Nationals. Aaron Judge and the Yankees are tied with Boston for the top AL wild card and can also clinch a spot by beating 100-win Tampa Bay.

Protesters in Palm Beach County rally for women’s reproductive rights

The COVID-19 news keeps getting worse in New Brunswick as the province announces four deaths in the past 24 hours and active cases soaring to a record 760. In addition to the four deaths, Public Health reported 140 new confirmed infections in its daily report, delivering the worst 24 hours since the pandemic began more than a year and a half ago. Two of the four COVID deaths occurred in Zone 3, the Fredericton and Upper River Valley region, involving a person in their 30s and one in their 70s. T

Valve said that they their decision was brought about by the continued rise of COVID-19 infection rates and the subsequent introduction of new restrictions in Bucharest, Romania, where TI10 is set to be held.

MIAMI (AP) — Miami Beach wants to turn down the volume in the city’s South Beach party neighborhood, citing increasingly raucous crowds, public drinking and growing violence, but efforts to curb the carousing have raised complaints about racism, classism and business practices along one of the nation’s most glamorous waterfronts. The 10-block stretch of Ocean Drive known for art deco hotels, restaurants and bars is sandwiched between two areas that cater to more affluent tourists. The tension ha