Mar. 16, 2025
Maybelle Blair.Photo: Tibrina Hobson/Getty
Maybelle Blair, who turned 94 on Saturday, launched afundraising pageraising money to open a center in Illinois honoring women and girls in baseball.
“We want to be able to have a league of our own again, to have a home of our own,” Blair said in an interview withGood Morning America. “This was my whole dream for years.”
Blair, who played pitcher for the Peoria Redwings in 1948 season, explained that her “dreams started to come true” after the release ofA League of Their Own, which starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty and Rosie O’Donnell.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A 32-year-old Iowa man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing 44-year-old Michael Williams, a judge announced Monday.
In November,Steven Vogel, a white man, was convicted of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse after beating and hanging Williams, a Black man, in 2020, then throwing his body in a ditch and setting it on fire days later.
During the trial, witnesses testified that Vogel told at least three people that he killed Williams out of jealousy, referencing a love triangle involving his girlfriend, theDes Moines Registerreports.
Mar. 16, 2025
Romany Malco.
Romany Malcois opening up about the “experience” of being present for the birth of his infant son.
Whileappearing virtuallyonJimmy Kimmel Live!Tuesday, the 52-year-old actor spoke about welcoming his first child, sonBrave, amid the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic.
“Witnessing the birth and now being the parent, I think actually having the child and looking into the child’s eyes, seeing how the child is dependant on us to make sure that it’s safe, I was just like, ‘Mom, I look at that now and realize I never really knew how much you got from me,’ " he jokingly added with a laugh.
Mar. 16, 2025
New moms understand just how hotly contended of a topicbreastfeedinghas become in recent years, and in the upcoming second season ofA Million Little Things, Delilah (Stephanie Szostak) gets a taste of what manymothers today experiencewhen it comes tobreastfeeding shaming.
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Maggie — who’s donning a pink wig after finding out at the end of season one that she was in remission frombreast cancer— goes on to explain that she won’t be able to breastfeed her future children because she’d undergone adouble mastectomy, but she’ll still be a “fantastic mother” thanks to Delilah’s example.
Mar. 16, 2025
Maggie’s mom Patricia (Melora Hardin) came to visit her in Boston on last week’s episode ofA Million Little Things— but Maggie (Allison Miller) soon suspected her mother may not exactly be there to spend time with her daughter.After Patricia revealed that she and Maggie’s dad planned to separate, Maggie saw her mom at a restaurant with a younger man (Jason Ritter). She stormed off without getting an explanation, assuming her recently separated mother had started dating the mystery man.