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MIAMI - An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend, leading gay rights advocates to say the teen is being unfairly targeted for a common high school romance because she's gay.

Members of the press photograph Xbox One following the Xbox One reveal event on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Redmond, Wash.

ESPN announcer Heather Cox interviews Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni during game one of the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at AT&T Center.

The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 mph.

The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.

The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.

They were among the elite of the elite, members of the FBI's paramilitary counterterrorism Hostage Rescue Team traveling the globe to respond to fast-developing criminal threats.

The two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast were part of the agency's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from an underground bunker.

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The game itself is moving to the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis this year, although Military Bowl officials are quick with a caveat: It's still the Washington region's bowl.

The Eastern League announced on Monday that Binghamton Mets outfielder Cory Vaughn had been named Player of the Week for May 13 through May 19.

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A former women's college basketball star and top WNBA draft pic made headlines this week after she revealed that her college coach told players not to come out about their sexuality because it would hurt their chances of being recruited and also make the school's program look bad, ESPN reports.

The tough one who never fails to go full-throttle, never backs away from an opponent, a challenge, an injury.

The scene is always the same. After every University of Kentucky basketball home game, the coach walks across the Rupp Arena court, puts on his headset and starts talking with Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will do things a bit differently with his young but talented Wildcats team this season.

Tied with five holes to play in Sunday's final round of the City Stroke Play tourney at Carey Park Golf Course, Tanner George found his stride.

Kenesaw's Lane Tibbs runs to the Class D 3,200-meter title during the state track and field meet Friday in Omaha.

Michael Gonzalez dives back into first base safely during UW-Whitewater's NCAA Division III Midwest Regional game with UW-Stevens Point Thursday night.

U.S. Coast Guard Academy First Class Cadet Joshua Surgeon, right, fights in the National Collegiate Boxing Association Championship finals April 6 at Foxwoods Resort and Casino.

The Auburn women's golf team had to overcome far more than the normal highs and lows of the sport to make the NCAA championships.