NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a release that the league was “deeply saddened” by Wirtz’s death. Wirtz took over the team in 2007 and the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
Emmett Till is the Black teenager from Chicago who was tortured and killed in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
The hazing scandal at Northwestern University has widened to include a volleyball player who has become the first female athlete to sue the university over allegations she was retaliated against for reporting mistreatment and a new lawsuit by former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates.
The coroner’ office says preliminary reports from an autopsy conducted Monday showed no evidence of trauma or foul play.
Tony Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records,” which he accomplished through more than 70 albums.
Northwestern has been added to a long list of American universities to face a scandal in athletics and may eventually join the trend of making large payouts following allegations of sexual abuse. A former Wildcats football player filed the first lawsuit against Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school’s leadership Tuesday, seeking damages stemming from a hazing scandal that cost the former…
The former player, identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, alleges Tuesday in Cook County Court in Chicago that Fitzgerald along with Northwestern University President Michael Schill and other leaders at the school enabled and concealed sexual misconduct and racial discrimination.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis delivered the court’s opinion, approved 5-2, saying that the constitution “does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public.”
Jackson is 81 and has remained active in civil rights in recent years despite health setbacks.
Fitzgerald was fired this week following hazing allegations in the program.
State police say the bus was traveling westbound along Interstate 70 in Madison County when it crashed into the semis just before 2 a.m.
Police say the death is not considered suspicious.
The statutes are considered sacred and are believed to carry the spirits of deceased male Mijikenda elders.