The Oakland Raiders released veteran linebacker Brandon Marshall as the team started to reduce their roster from 90 players to 53. Cincinnati Bengals rookie running back Rodney Anderson is expected to miss the entire season after suffering another major knee injury. Kansas City businessman John Sherman reached an agreement with owner David Glass to purchase the Kansas City Royals. South Florida counties in line to receive a direct hit from Hurricane Dorian plan to open shelters beginning Sunday, county officials and Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. Serena Williams and Roger Federer each moved into the 2019 U.S. Open's round of 16 with victories Friday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. Hurricane Dorian became a major hurricane on Friday as government officials and residents in the United States and Bahamas continued to prepare for the potentially devastating storm. The 76th annual Venice Film Festival runs from Aug. 28-Sept. 7, 2019, in Venice, Italy, with Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel serving as jury president. Actor Peter Fonda, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Broadway legend Carol Channing are among the famous people who have died in 2019. Valerie Harper, the television and stage actor audiences came to love as Rhoda on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died Friday, her family announced. She was 80. A Texas medical examiner ruled that Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of opioids and alcohol. Rep. John Shimkus announced Friday he's not seeking re-election after more than two decades representing southeast Illinois as a Republican. United Airlines on Friday extended its grounding of Boeing 737 Max aircraft through December, days after it relocated its fleet of the jets to Arizona for long-term storage. An Australia resident received a reminder to always check their boots when they looked inside the footwear and spotted a snake. Bravo TV announced Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke will join Season 10 of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" on Friday. This makes Beauvais the first African-American in the "RHOBH" cast. A California city is warning residents to beware of wild pigs after one of the hogs chased a woman and she caught the encounter on video. Samuel Goldwyn Films released a clip from Morgan Spurlock's sequel "Super Size Me 2" on Friday. The film opens in select cities on Sept. 6. A wildfire just north of Salt Lake City destroyed three homes and forced the evacuation of at least 400 households hours after it sparked Friday morning, emergency officials said. A South Carolina man who made a stop for a sandwich while on a fishing trip ended up saving his hunger with a major lottery prize: $25,000 a year for life. Hulu's September entry in the horror anthology "Into the Dark" explores a Purity Retreat where girls face both demons and paternal pressure. A patient is 33 percent more likely to receive a prescription during a late-day doctor's appointment, or appointment with a doctor that is running late, than one earlier in the day, according to new research. Scientists have discovered ancient deposits in the Artà Cave on the island of Mallorca that suggest sea levels 3.5 to 4 million years ago were more than 50 feet higher than they are today. Military posts in Florida began preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian with evacuations of personnel and aircraft. The British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed for the United States on Friday, leading a four-vessel squadron to an operational testing exercise. Vertical Entertainment released a new trailer for "Miss Virginia" on Friday. "Orange is the New Black" Emmy winner Uzo Aduba stars in the true story of a mother's fight for education reform in D.C. In a report issued Friday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority downgraded the outlook for Australia's Great Barrier Reef from "poor" to "very poor." The availability of at-home colon cancer screenings decrease the rates of testing for the deadly disease. Wildlife officials in Washington state came to the rescue of a large elk stranded in an irrigation canal that it was unable to climb out from due to concrete lining. |
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