Bill Chappell
Stories
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Portland Trail Blazers fire their general manager after reports of a toxic workplace
Last month, the NBA team announced that it had hired a law firm to look into workplace complaints at a Blazers practice facility. Olshey just started his tenth season as the team's general manager.
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The 'Carolina Squat' is now illegal on North Carolina's roads
Police in the state are on the lookout for any "squatted" trucks or SUVs, which have an unusually high front end and a low rear end. The rakish look poses safety hazards, its critics say.
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Olympic diver and knitter Tom Daley launches his own online knitting shop
The British diving star was often seen knitting at the Tokyo Olympics, where he won a gold medal. He sold doggie jumpers for charity; now the purler's going pro with a shop that sells knitting kits.
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California has reported the first U.S. case of the omicron variant
A case in California marks omicron's arrival in the U.S. Cases have been found in more than 20 countries around the world, less than a week after the worrying new variant was first identified.
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A Ghislaine Maxwell accuser says she was recruited and abused when she was just 14
The female accuser, using the pseudonym Jane, is the first of four women who are expected to speak in court about their allegations of sexual abuse.
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The omicron variant was in Europe a week before South Africa reported it
The rapidly spreading variant was identified in retests of samples that were taken on Nov. 19 and 23 in the Netherlands, according to a Dutch health agency.
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Opening statements are set to begin in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
Prosecutors have sought to portray the once prominent socialite as the chief coordinator of a trafficking ring that victimized teenage girls to the benefit of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word 'squaw' from federal lands
"Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands," Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said as she formally declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term.
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A crowd-funded group lost an auction for a first edition of the U.S. Constitution
The crowd-funded group ConstitutionDAO narrowly lost out in the hotly anticipated auction. The group had hoped to buy the rare historical document so it could be displayed for the public.
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Frida Kahlo just shattered an auction record, ousting her husband
"Diego y yo" depicts Kahlo's husband, Diego Rivera, on her forehead. It fetched $34.9 million in a Sotheby's auction — shattering a record set by Rivera.
