Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Trent Thornton went viral after an angry dugout outburst during the Cubs’ 9-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field on September 2, 2026. After manager Craig Counsell removed him with the bases loaded in the fifth inning, television cameras captured Thornton entering the dugout, violently throwing his glove into … Read more
Carla Jeffery was an actress and dancer best known for playing Bree in Disney Channel’s “Zombies” franchise. Jeffery died on September 1, 2026, at age 33. Her longtime manager, Carla Alexander of Alexanders Talent Management, announced her death the following day. No cause of death has been publicly disclosed. Jeffery began acting as a child … Read more
Thomas Christopher Ross is a 37-year-old Republican candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives who was arrested in September 2026 and charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute a controlled substance. Federal prosecutors allege Ross instructed his then-campaign manager to plant cocaine and an Adderall capsule in the purse or vehicle of Louise Curchin … Read more
Benjamin Azariah Southworth is a 40-year-old Los Angeles podcaster, writer and former Christian television host who was arrested on September 3, 2026, after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of threatening to kill President Donald Trump, cyberstalking and making harassing interstate telephone calls. Federal prosecutors accuse Southworth of using Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and … Read more
The 2026 U.S. Open has become the center of a debate over influencers, social-media creators and tennis etiquette after spectators filming content with bright lights disrupted matches at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The controversy coincided with the United States Tennis Association nearly doubling the number of credentialed creators at the tournament, from 54 in 2025 to … Read more
Three of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence services experienced overlapping outages on September 3, 2026, disrupting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex, Anthropic’s Claude and xAI’s Grok. The near-simultaneous failures prompted speculation that the companies had been hit by a shared cloud-provider problem or coordinated cyberattack, but later reporting indicates that at least some of the services suffered … Read more
A Halloween candy sold at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post has been recalled after it was discovered that the product contained milk that was not disclosed on its packaging. Crystal Temptations of North Arlington, New Jersey, announced the recall of its Halloween-themed Chocolatey Eyeballs on August 31, 2026. The U.S. Food and … Read more
Aryna Sabalenka, the world’s No. 1 women’s tennis player and two-time defending U.S. Open champion, became involved in a media controversy on September 2, 2026, after sharply rejecting a reporter’s suggestion that her week before the tournament had involved “parties and fun.” Sabalenka said the question wrongly implied that her brand appearances and social events … Read more
Ana Maria Henao Knezevic was a 40-year-old Colombian-born U.S. citizen and South Florida businesswoman who disappeared from her apartment in Madrid, Spain, on February 2, 2024. Federal investigators now say the evidence indicates she was murdered by her estranged husband, David Knezevich, during a contentious divorce. Authorities allege he drove from Serbia to Spain, entered … Read more
Alissa Lloyd is a 35-year-old former Moore Public Schools teacher and girls basketball coach in Oklahoma who was arrested after investigators accused her of tattooing two juvenile girls at her Norman home. Cleveland County prosecutors charged Lloyd with one misdemeanor count of unlawful tattooing. Investigators say video shows her tattooing one of the girls and … Read more
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