Day: May 4, 2023

Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao ordered to pay $5.1M for breach of contract

1:05 am May 4, 2023

Eight-time boxing champion Manny Pacquiao’s wallet will be significantly lighter. A jury issued a verdict in favor of Paradigm Sports Management in its case against Pacquiao in a case against Pacquiao. Paradigm said that the star boxer failed to disclose the representation agreement he had with TGB Promotions. The jury ruled 9-3 in favor of […]

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Pennsylvania man sentenced to death for 2007 double homicide

1:04 am May 4, 2023

A man has been sentenced to death again following a retrial for the slaying of two people in a suburban Philadelphia apartment more than a decade ago. Alfonso Sanchez, 41, was sentenced Wednesday by the same Bucks County jury that convicted him of first-degree murder Monday in the 2007 shooting deaths of 27-year-old Lisa Diaz […]

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Transgender women on hormones face higher risk of prostate cancer going undiagnosed: Study

12:16 am May 4, 2023

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week found that transgender women, or biological men, are at increased risk of prostate cancer going undiagnosed. “There’s a misperception, both by patients and clinicians, that because these are women — they identify as women, they look like women — you don’t necessarily think you […]

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Vermonters push for gender-neutral 5th grade sex ed: ‘person who produces sperm’

12:08 am May 4, 2023

Parents and community members who attended a school board meeting in Vermont’s largest district mostly supported a decision to use the gender-nonspecific terms “person who produces sperm” and “person who produces eggs” in a 5th grade health class rather than the words male or female. In the first school board meeting since a letter about […]

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Yankees GM Brian Cashman makes plea with fans after slow start: ‘Don’t give up on us’

12:03 am May 4, 2023

The defending AL East champion New York Yankees, after a 99-win season, sit at 16-15 and in last place in the division through their first 31 games, so naturally, it’s panic time in the Bronx. The Bronx Bombers have once again been hit by the injury bug: defending AL MVP and 62-home run hitter Aaron […]

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