Tony Gwynn, the Hall of Fame slugger whose career netted a lifetime batting average of .338 and some 3,141 hits over 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, lost his fight with cancer on Monday, ESPN reports.   According to ESPN, Gwynn 54—who won eight National League batting titles and played in both of the Padres’…

As the debate over minimum wage rages on, Starbucks has upped the ante, announcing a program that will help baristas earn online college degrees. According to the Associated Press, the Seattle-based coffee company will partner with Arizona State University in making the program available to 135,000 U.S. workers who work at least 20 hours a…

Seconds ticked off the clock and LeBron James sat at the end of the Miami Haet bench with his head in his hands. Reserve center Udonis Haslem had his arm draped around James’ shoulder, as it was clear the three-peat championship run was over. Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker spent the entire year…

Father’s Day weekend was unusually bloody in Chicago with a reported 27 people shot, two fatally, NBC Chicago reports. The string of shootings, which police have not confirmed are related, began Friday, and the last reported shooting was just after midnight Monday. That shooting involved a 17-year-old on the West Side who police say was…

Cops in Florida spotted a large passenger not wearing his seat belt, so they stopped the car he was riding in. The 5-foot-6-inch, 450-pound man told the officers that the seat belt didn’t fit around his large frame. Something seemed off to the officers, who called in the K-9 unit, and when the dogs were…

The NBA regime better hope they don’t have anything to hide because embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is reportedly hiring a private investigator to look for dirt on all them. According to the Associated Press, Sterling, who is suing the NBA for $1 billion after Sterling was heard making racist remarks to alleged…

A Florida bus driver who reportedly has a history of taunting children was arrested Tuesday for allegedly smacking a 9-year-old special-needs student in the face, according to the Pensacola News Journal. Pamela Hardy, 56, was “charged with child cruelty without great bodily harm” in the incident, which occurred April 29 and was recorded by cameras…

Stevie J, the pursed-lip producer who was arrested Monday for reportedly owing more than $1 million in child support, is home safe in the arms of his wife, Joseline Hernandez.  According to an exclusive interview granted to the Associated Press, the reality star is just happy to be home. “It feels great. I’m home with…

At the beginning of 2014, Jahi McMath’s family was fighting the court system and a hospital to get the 13-year-old, who had been declared brain-dead after suffering complications from tonsil surgery, moved to another facility that would still allow for her to be cared for. Now the Associated Press reports that on Friday the eighth-grader…

A montage of Native American faces appears on-screen; a calm voice breaks the silence. “Indomitable, unyielding, patriot, survivor,” the voice says. “Native Americans call themselves many things,” the narrator explains. “The one thing they don’t … ” The image freezes on the helmet of Washington, D.C.’s controversially named football team.  The anti-Redskins commercial aired during…