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1 day ago in News, Sports & Outdoors
Volunteers prepare for Jonesboro’s first NICA race
Members of the Jonesboro Ridge Riders Mountain Bike Team, the Jonesboro Parks and Recreation Department and other volunteers prepared on Friday for the National Interscholastic Cycling Association Plains Divisional Race to be held this weekend.
1 day ago in Sports
MLB’s regular season enters its final 3 weeks. Here’s a look at the playoff picture and awards races
The 2025 season has produced a surprising show of parity through the first five months of the regular season. While most of the league's big spenders — teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Mets — are in good position to make the playoffs and do damage in October, they haven't been as dominant as many expected.
1 day ago in Entertainment, Music
This year’s song of the summer is a ballad, not a banger. Here’s what that says about us
For the past 14 weeks and counting, the top Billboard spot has been held by a love ballad: Alex Warren's "Ordinary." As Berklee College of Music professor and forensic musicologist Joe Bennett notes, the February release is "a fair bit slower than the mean average for the Hot 100, or for a historical song of the summer."