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Online court records show York was charged Friday with one count of aggravated assault and two counts of assault or assault and battery. The charges are all misdemeanors and are related to a July 18 incident. The online records do not provide any additional details about the allegations. They also did not list an attorney for York. MORE: Michigan’s alternate jersey | Northwestern suspends Mark | Coach Brady Hoke announced Sunday that York had been suspended indefinitely....

Shirkey’s comments were recorded in a video that was posted on YouTube after he met with members of the Hillsdale County Republican Party. The local GOP group later voted to censure him for not supporting former President Donald Trump enough and for failing to stand up to Governor Gretchen Whitmer with regard to the Second Amendment and COVID-19 restrictions. The conversation began as a meeting about his upcoming censure but turned attention to the Capitol riot....

Line: Oregon -13, Total: 58 Line movement: Bettors were happy to lay the Wynn’s opening spread of Ducks -10.5, and the number had been bet all the way up to -13.5 by Monday. Midweek, the line ranged from 12.5 to 13.5 around Las Vegas. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page . Trends that matter: The last time Oregon played an opponent the caliber of Michigan State early in the season was in 2011, when they lost to LSU as a 3-point favorite by a score of 40-27....

Big deal, right? They’ve been good enough to beat the Hoosiers since 1987. It doesn’t matter who the coach is. No. 17 Michigan escaped Bloomington with a 27-20 overtime victory against Indiana on Saturday, but heads into next week’s showdown at No. 3 Penn State with the same-old uncertainties under third-year coach Jim Harbaugh. MORE: Michigan State exposes Wolverines at worst time If this is the best Michigan (5-1, 2-1 Big Ten) can offer, however, then it won’t be good enough in the second half of the season....

NEWSWEEK: Sun and America Online, Microsoft’s biggest competitors, have now formally struck a partnership. Will the alliance provide an alternative to Windows and Microsoft applications? MCNEALY: Given a chance, we might be able to create an alternative. Right now there isn’t one. A definition of a monopolist is a company that is without market discipline that cannot be overcome through legal private intervention. That’s why the government gets involved. The Roman Empire eventually collapsed, but I don’t think we want to wait until everybody’s having eight dinners and big parties all day long instead of doing their job....

This year’s focus of the second International Conference is to urgently suggest that the region switch from fossil fuels to renewable resources despite the region’s dependence on the fuels for energy production. In an interview before this week’s conference, George Zittis, a scientist at the Cyprus Institute’s Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, said that the switch can’t happen overnight. “We need to completely decarbonize, even go negative, in greenhouse gas emissions,” Zittis said....

After the age of 50, women are more likely than men to complain about lack of sleep. That’s not because they’re kvetches. Women are generally more sensitive to the mood alterations caused by lack of sleep. In laboratory studies, older women’s estimates of their sleep quality were much more accurate than men’s. Certain sleep disorders are also more common in older women. These include sleep-disordered breathing, which is characterized by loud snoring....

Elneny was stretchered off after suffering an ankle injury, coming off a challenge with West Ham United skipper Mark Noble, in their 4-1 win at the Emirates on Sunday. After the game, Arsene Wenger disclosed that the Egypt international would need an x-ray examination and might not be available for the first leg of their Uefa Europa League semi-final tie against Atletico Madrid. “It’s an ankle problem that is very painful,” Wenger told club website....

According to Al Jazeera, the migrants said that they were “trapped” in the less than two-mile-wide zone, which is being called an “exclusion zone” by Poland. The report said the migrants were being transported back to the zone by Polish officials after they sought entry into Poland, and then detailed stories of migrants who alleged they were beaten back by Belarusian officials after they attempted to return east. “They hit us, my friend broke his nose, they took our money, they took our passports, they took everything,” a Syrian migrant identified only as Yousef told Al Jazeera....

According to the Detroit Free Press, it’s safe to say Cabrera won’t be ready for the start of spring training and is too soon to tell if the nine-time All-Star will be ready for opening vay. Cabrera underwent surgery last October to remove bone spurs from his right ankle and repair a stress fracture in his foot. “He’s in a partial weight-bearing stage, six weeks in a boot, which began just before Christmas,” Tigers head athletic trainer Kevin Rand said during a phone conversation from his home in Lakeland, Fla....

Even more than a recent stampede of negative headlines about Bloomberg—which include tales of sexual harassment lawsuits, insults about black people and women and criticism about allegedly racist stop-and-frisk police policies during his three terms in office—the farming remarks could prove devastating, observers say. The reason: They provide a powerful visual Trump can use to paint Bloomberg as a condescending coastal elitist to working-class swing voters in the heartland who might otherwise reject the incumbent....

“Everything has raced through my mind: Do we start basketball Dec. 1 with games? Do we just play a league schedule?” Brey asked on a teleconference with reporters on Wednesday. “I’m just speculating about that, but I think they’ll figure it out to have an NCAA Tournament. Because we can’t miss it again. Will it be April Madness instead of March Madness? Will it be May Madness if football is pushed back?...

Cleveland announced Tuesday it has placed the right-hander on the 10-day injured list with an upper back strain, and it sounds like he could spend two months on the shelf. Manager Terry Francona told reporters Clevinger has been instructed not to pick up a ball for six to eight weeks, so he’ll end up missing most of the first half of the season even in the best-case scenario. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN...

The Cubs infielder has worn eight different uniforms in two seasons, six of them just this year. But thanks to a six-year trek through the minor leagues before his first call-up and the constant of family to back him, Freeman has endured the constant flux and hopes he has found permanence in Chicago. MORE: Three takesways from Cubs’ Game 1 NLDS win On Aug. 31, Freeman and six of his Triple-A Iowa Cubs teammates decided to rent a 15-passenger van to ride together from a rainout in Memphis to their final stop of the season in Omaha....

Stroman’s love for Drizzy is so known it’s reached collectable company Topps, which noted Stroman’s musical taste on the back of a recent trading card. MORE: 10 greatest Blue Jays of all time | David Price jokes about passing random drug test 

De Villota was 33. Investigators found neither drugs nor signs of violence, and "everything points to a death by natural causes," Spanish police told The Associated Press. De Villota's manager alerted staff at the Hotel Sevilla Congresos. An autopsy will be carried out. MORE: De Villota news archive | Notable sports deaths De Villota was seriously injured last year in a crash during testing for the Marussia F1 team in England, losing her right eye and receiving other serious head injuries that kept her hospitalized for a month....

It is 11 years since the fourth seed from Russia won her only title at SW19 at the age of 17, but she is now just two victories from ending her long wait to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish for a second time. MORE: Unforgettable scenes from Wimbledon 2015 | Serena’s Wimbledon has finally begun Five-time major champion Sharapova endured yet more problems with her serve in an uncertain start and recovered from a second-set fightback from the 47th-ranked Vandeweghe to win 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-2 on Tuesday....

Making the transformation from being a public person in my own right to this amorphous role of First Lady has been incredibly challenging for me, but it has also been rewarding because it has helped me develop a more profound understanding of the real nature of power. I now understand that true power has very little to do with what’s on your résumé. It’s about being true to yourself and finding your own voice and path in the world....

The Guardians of the Galaxy star took to his account to wish his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, an early happy birthday as he gushed about her giving him “an amazing life” and “a gorgeous healthy daughter.” Criticism soon poured in from a number of internet users, who claimed the actor’s comment about 15-month-old daughter Lyla Maria was insensitive, given that Jack, the 9-year-old son he shares with ex-wife Anna Faris, was born with severe health issues....