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LOVELAND — After years of playing above its weight, Pomona football is finally in the correct classification. Translation: Pomona is now ready to pad its pigskin tradition while re-emerging as a perennial state title contender. The Panthers, who long competed up in Class 5A above their numbers, moved down to 3A for the 2024-26 enrollment cycle and the effect has been immediate.

By BETH HARRIS LOS ANGELES (AP) — A nail-biter all night with a Hollywood ending. Game 1 of Yankees-Dodgers certainly delivered. Freddie Freeman hit the first game-ending grand slam in World Series history with two outs in the 10th inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in a drama-filled opener Friday. “Might be the greatest baseball moment I’ve ever witnessed, and I’ve witnessed some great ones,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts marveled. Hobbled by a badly sprained right ankle, Freeman homered on the first pitch he saw — a 92 mph inside fastball from Nestor Cortes — and raised his bat high before beginning his trot as the sellout crowd of 52,394 roared. “I cannot believe what just happened,” Roberts said.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. With Beyoncé as her warm-up act, Kamala Harris packed a Houston stadium Friday night with a late-campaign swing through a state where a win for her is unlikely, and wasn’t the point.

A different juvenile suspect is now charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy at Rotella Park, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a news release Friday. The DA’s office amended charges against the teenager who was initially arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after “new evidence… came to light after the filing decision was made,” officials said in a news release. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Homicide under investigation in Denver’s Civic Center neighborhood Crime and Public Safety | Man sentenced to prison in Pueblo West crash that killed child, two adults Crime and Public Safety | Teenager charged with murder in Rotella Park shooting Crime and Public Safety | Douglas County woman missing since 2019 was strangled, dismembered, sheriff says Crime and Public Safety | Family mourns Denver’s Seorin Kim as her infant daughter’s death remains unexplained That teenager is now charged with possession of a handgun by a juvenile, a misdemeanor. The new juvenile suspect is charged with first-degree murder, six counts of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and possession of a handgun by a juvenile. The DA’s office cannot release any other details about the case or suspects because they are juveniles, according to the release. Adams County sheriff’s deputies responded to the park at 1824 Coronado Pkwy.

PARKER — Meredith Barnhart has three state championship rings and a scholarship to Tennessee, but Lutheran’s insatiable slugging shortstop still insists on being best friends with her alarm. Barnhart gets up at 5:15 each morning to go work out before school. She’s determined to leave nothing to chance, and no opportunity on the table, despite already cementing her status as one of the best prep softball players in the nation. “There’s always more to do,” Barnhart said.

Dementia can be 'accelerated' by nighttime habit as groundbreaking study finds concerning link Irish StarPoor sleep is tied to faster brain aging, new study says. Here’s how it impacts people as young as 40 FortuneMRI indicates that poor sleep translates to poor brain health AuntMinnieBad sleep in your 40s can affect your brain later in life — here’s how New York Post Study links poor sleep to faster brain aging Good Morning America