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Turner Sports and CBS Sports announce 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship commentator teams

Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals on CBS, 5th Consecutive Year as Lead Broadcast Team

CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their ninth year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. All 67 games from the 2019 NCAA Tournament will be televised across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday,…

North Carolina school defends slavery game

(WECT) A grandmother, who is African-American, is outraged after her granddaughter’s fourth grade school teacher led the class in a role-playing game that included shackles, plantations, severe punishment and simulated slaves running toward freedom. Denett, the grandmother, asked that we use only her first name because she fears retaliation toward her family or granddaughter. Denett’s granddaughter attends Codington Elementary School…

Monday Motivator – Cydni Mann and Lisa Amos

Two educators in Bowling Green joined the estimated over 1,000 new cases of cancer in 2018, but what their cancer didn’t predict is the hundreds of students and staff supporting them. One class is raising money for them and the American Cancer Society. In today’s Monday Motivator, we witness their impact. The students in the leadership class need your help…

Video shows deadly police shooting

(KARK/NBC News) Police in Little Rock, Arkansas have released video showing a deadly confrontation between a suspected car thief and one of their officers. Little Rock police say on February 22 Bradley Blackshire had been pulled over driving a stolen car. He at first stopped, but when Officer Charles Starks got out of his patrol car, police said Blackshire then…

Splashdown! SpaceX Dragon crew capsule returns

(NBC News) The SpaceX capsule that will soon carry astronauts to the International Space Station completed its first mission Friday. The Crew Dragon capsule undocked from the ISS early Friday morning, then splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean several hours later. “This is an amazing achievement in American history,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said from the space agency’s Johnson Space…

Barbie turns 60

(NBC News) Barbie is celebrating a major birthday. The iconic doll is turning 60 years old. Barbie made her debut in 1959, and she’s still a cover girl. Her legacy is currently highlighted in Pop Insider magazine. “She is huge influence on society and pop culture in general,” says Pop Insider’s Jackie Breyer. Barbie has donned a number of looks…

Grand jury indicts St. Louis woman on murder charge stemming from wreck

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Warren County grand jury Wednesday indicted a St. Louis, Mo. woman accused of traveling the wrong way on Interstate 65 in Bowling Green in December, subsequently crashing head-on into another vehicle and resulting in the death of the other driver. Cassandra Garrison, 30, is charged with murder in the Dec. 2 crash that killed Amy…