News for April 30, 2025

Ethnos360, a Christian missionary group, faces a new lawsuit accusing it of failing to protect a woman from sexual abuse when she was a child overseas.

Jeff Sperbeck, longtime agent and friend of John Elway, died after injuries from a golf cart accident in Southern California.

Roy Cooper, a legendary rodeo cowboy known as “The Super Looper,” died in a house fire at his home in Decatur, Texas.

Kevin Nazemi’s persistence as an 11-year-old helped him win a White House interview with President Bill Clinton, and the meeting shaped his life and lasting friendship with Dave Anderson.

The Kentucky Derby spotlights how a champion horse’s big heart, strong lungs, powerful legs, and careful training help create racing speed, even as Churchill Downs works to improve safety.

The Atlanta Falcons and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich were fined after a prank call to Shedeur Sanders during the NFL draft.

Joshua Curtis, a Massachusetts Army veteran and football coach, died after rescuing his son and niece from a rip current on a Florida beach.

Vietnamese Americans including Dzung Pham, Long Nguyen, and Tam Huu Do reflected on code-switching, family roots, and whether they feel “American enough” 50 years after the fall of Saigon.

Eleven Westhill High School students turned themselves in after Onondaga County prosecutors said they took part in a hazing stunt that may lead to criminal charges.

A woodpecker in Rockport, Massachusetts, has broken many car mirrors, but residents are mostly treating the strange damage with humor.

President Donald Trump backed Massapequa’s fight to keep its Native American school mascot after New York state moved to ban such names and threatened funding.