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Guardians Announce Greg DiCenzo returns to lead 2026 RubberDucks Field Staff
(AKRON, OHIO) – The Cleveland Guardians announced their 2026 Player Development staff assignments, returning four members of the 2025 coaching staff to Akron. Greg DiCenzo returns for his third season as RubberDucks manager.
Returning to the staff alongside DiCenzo from 2025 will be Jordan Becker as a hitting coach, Michae ... (full story)
Assaults on prison staff have increased in Michigan. Union asks state for change
A union representing Michigan corrections officers is sounding alarms over an increase in violent assaults against prison staff, alleging the state is too often holding dangerous prisoners in lower-security settings not designed to house them.
In 2024, there were 71 assaults on employees at the four Michigan prisons that house t ... (full story)
State
Colorado funeral home owner faces sentencing for abusing 189 bodies
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes will be sentenced Friday on corpse abuse charges.
Jon Hallford owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs with his then-wife Carie. They pleaded gu ... (full story)
Security concerns and skepticism are bursting the bubble of Moltbook, the viral AI social forum
You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing.
Moltbook is a new “social network” built exclusively for AI agents to make posts and interact with each other, and humans a ... (full story)
Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing.
Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes autism spreading. Not even fou ... (full story)
Technology
AI startup offers law firms cost-saving assistance vetting small cases
Many law firms decline to take on civil claims with low monetary value, especially if they involve contingency fee arrangements due to high vetting and intake costs.
In fact, according to the legal artificial intelligence (AI) startup AlphaLit over 64% of calls to attorneys from potential plaintiffs are ignored, resulting in mo ... (full story)