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Fisher would not disclose why he suspended Henry, who was not expected to start. His loss is, however, a significant blow to the Seminoles’ quarterback depth. MORE: ACC predictions for 2016 season Starter Sean Maguire is already sidelined after undergoing foot surgery, leaving Deondre Francois — the expected starter Sept. 5 against Ole Miss — and J.J. Cosentino as the only two healthy scholarship players on the roster. Henry had been expected to redshirt this season, though Maguire’s injury put that plan into question....

The U.S. Department of Education sent Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran a letter last week advising that the bonuses included in the budget Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last month appear to fall outside federal guidelines. DeSantis had touted the raises as a bonus for reopening schools that had been shuttered at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “The Florida Department of Education has received the letter and is reviewing it,” Jason Mahon, a DeSantis spokesman, told Newsweek in an email....

Jo’Keria Graham was 17 years old and a student at Columbia High School. Her brother, Jaylen Brown, said her death “just happened out of nowhere.” “I mean, it started off like any other normal day. She asked my grandparents to bring something to eat. There weren’t really any signs,” Brown told news station WCJB. Columbia County students went back to school on Wednesday, but Graham had contracted the virus before school started....

The 16-year-old boy is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm after 2-year-old Brayden Howard was killed at a mobile home in Cocoa on the morning of December 14. According to the Cocoa Police Department, the teenager went to 1671 Owosso Street in the Sunrise Village mobile home community with several friends. The teens had brought at least two firearms to the home, where they stayed often. After interviewing the eyewitnesses, police said the teenager had been sleeping on an air mattress and woke to find the toddler handling a revolver that was lying on the mattress....

The Florida Emerson College/Nexstar Poll found that 55.7 percent of 385 likely Democratic voters prefer Biden’s health care plan to Sanders’ plan, which got 44.3 percent of support. The two Democratic candidates have vastly different views when it comes to how the health care system should operate in the U.S. Biden’s campaign website states his health care plan consists of building on the Affordable Care Act that was signed into law under former President Barack Obama....

The game is at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. on ESPN. Florida (8-3) is back in a New Year’s Day Six bowl for the third consecutive season. Dan Mullen is 2-0 in bowl games for the Gators, and the Gators bring the nation’s leading passer in quarterback Kyle Trask to the game. Oklahoma (8-2) missed the College Football Playoff this year, but the Sooners won seven straight games to close out the 2020 regular season....

Another video featuring shorter clips of four speakers at the same event, in which one suggests “they want to throw God’s wonderful breathing system out the door” and another asking them to go back to school and “get educated.” The woman begins her speech by saying: “You literally cannot mandate somebody to wear a mask knowing that that mask is killing people, it literally is killing people.” The Palm Beach County commissioners’ meeting was discussing a new mandate about wearing face masks, which after three hours of debates and residents’ remarks, passed with a unanimous vote....

The fan favorite, owner of practically every Penguins goaltending record from his 13 seasons with the franchise, makes his return to the Steel City Tuesday night for the first time as a member of the Golden Knights, and is expected to receive a hero’s welcome back from the PPG Paints Arena crowd. MIXER: Rangers’ reward for rebuild will come sooner as deadline sellers “I think it’s different from every game I’ve ever played,” Fleury told reporters Monday in Pittsburgh....

Pacquiao dominated Broner en route to a unanimous decision in front of a sold-out crowd of 13,025 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and a Showtime PPV audience, with the retired Mayweather seated ringside. Pacquiao called out the undefeated fighter, who beat him by unanimous decision in the 2015 megafight that shattered PPV records, but Mayweather refused to take the bait. For now, at least. MORE: Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year...

Mayweather’s unanimous decision over Andre Berto on Saturday generated almost 550,000 pay-per-view buys, sources told the Los Angeles Times. Yahoo Sports reported the number could be as low as 400,000 units. MORE: Best photos from Mayweather-Berto | The good, the bad and the dirty from the fight Either way, the fight drew the smallest views since Mayweather sold 325,000 units for his HBO pay-per-view fight against Carlos Baldomir in 2006....

Cuomo faced simultaneous accusations that his administration deliberately covered up thousands of nursing home deaths, which the New York attorney general also confirmed, saying fatalities may have increased under a state order mandating nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients. Ahead of the potential consequences for Cuomo, families of the 15,000 New Yorkers who died in nursing homes are demanding accountability, urging state lawmakers and the U.S. Justice Department to continue investigating the governor after his official exit on August 24....

The jury found Beer Belly’s Sports Bar guilty of overserving Joshua Delbosque, who in November 2017 killed 16-year-old Aujuni Tamay Anderson and her 59-year-old grandmother Tamra Kay Kindred, local news station KIII reported. Kindred was headed home after picking up Anderson from her job at a local pizza place when Delbosque, who was driving 91 miles per hour, blew a red light and struck them with his car, another local Corpus Christi news station, KRIS-TV, reported....

On Tuesday morning, Roselle Martinez wrote that she had “irresponsibly” forgotten the memento on a United Airlines flight to Hawaii with her husband, Jerome, and their two daughters, Taylor and Peyton, on June 20. However, she added, she had only realized her mistake when the family arrived at their hotel and Peyton asked her if she could buy the doll a “Hawaiian-themed” dress. The post had accrued 67 likes, 75 comments, and 264 shares as of Thursday afternoon....

The big cat is one of three that escaped from Hangzhou Safari Park last month. The zoo kept the incident secret for nearly three weeks, and only two leopards have been found so far. Shanghai news portal The Paper said Wednesday that the leopard sighting was captured on a CCTV camera inside the courtyard of a home in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province. In the video, the cat can be seen walking across the unroofed area of the property before lying down in a corner....

CityNews reported that Larry Morrow, who has Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, was found by his nephew Shane Morrow at the Glendale Care Centre in Toronto’s Swansea neighborhood. His hair was unkempt, his clothes were dirty, he had bruises on his arm, and a swastika had been drawn on his head in what appeared to be magic marker. “It was really horrifying,” Shane Morrow told CityNews. “When he had come out, it looked like stitches on the top of his head....

Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the disappearance of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, 22, whose remains were found near Spread Creek dispersed camping site in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park on September 19. Laundrie’s family members have said they had not seen him since September 14, nearly two weeks after he returned from a cross-country trip that the couple had undertaken. The FBI has ruled her death a homicide following an autopsy....

Fox13 reported that Virginia Hoffman’s Tudor home transformed into a full-size candy palace. “It’s all homemade, and it’s all been kind of ‘figure it out as you go,’” Hoffman told the outlet. Photos of the house were also published on Reddit by Hoffman’s daughter. Colorful candies lined the roof and were perched on the railings, while candy canes were mounted over the front door. A gingerbread man stands tall in the front lawn and vanilla wafers served as window shutters....

Oh, and that fan? He's not just any guy. That's MLB opening day legend Tuffy Rhodes, who famously hit three home runs on opening day.

Nothing personal against Jimmie Johnson, of course, but Johnson is the guy who won five championships from 2006-2010, and he has almost embraced the battle of himself against the “48 haters.” So with Johnson and Kenseth tied atop the Cup standings — with a 27-point edge on Jeff Gordon, 28 on Kevin Harvick and 36 on Kyle Busch — Kenseth has a chance to be the guy to continue in the footsteps of 2011 champion Tony Stewart and 2012 champion Brad Keselowski to break the Johnson dynasty....

Boesch first appeared on the reality show during its first season, which aired in 2000, where he finished in third place. At the time, the retired Navy SEAL was 72 years old, making Boesch the oldest person to compete on any season of the show. Steve Gonzalez, Director of Operations of SEAL Veterans Foundation in Virginia Beach told The Hollywood Reporter that Boesch was “surrounded by his family and passed away peacefully....