Owen Lavine

Owen Lavine

Behold This Backflipping, Taser-Fighting, Ballpark Crasher

Andy Lyons/GettyIt was the top of the 9th inning, the Cincinnati Reds were down by 3 to the Cleveland Guardians who were at bat—the last thing the Reds needed was a steal. The crowd, amply inebriated by the 3-2-1 ($3 beers, $2 hot dogs, $1 ice cream) Tuesday night promotion at the Great American Ball Park, jeered their team on.That’s when William Hendon ran onto the field.Hendon, wearing his Johnny Bench jersey, booked it for Reds outfielder Tyler Freeman for a high-five. Freeman, holding his composure, seemed to exchange a few words with Hendon, denying him a high-five, before Hendon ran off with two cops on his tail.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NBA Legend Jerry West Dies With Wife by His Side

Ben Queen/USA TODAY SportsJerry “Mr. Clutch” West, whose illustrious basketball career spanned six decades, died peacefully in his home on Monday at age 86, according to the Los Angeles Clippers.West was “the personification of basketball excellence and a friend to all who knew him,” the team wrote in a statement, adding that West’s wife Karen was by his side when he died.West grew up in Chelyan, West Virginia, the son of a coal miner and housewife and the second youngest of six children. He attended East Bank High School, where his basketball career would begin, and then later West Virginia University. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fetterman Rear Ends Driver — Sent to the Hospital Following Car Accident in Maryland

Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersSen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was knocked around and sent to the hospital on Sunday morning he rear ended another car while behind the wheel, reports said. Fetterman and his wife Gisele were traveling near Hancock, Maryland, when the car Fetterman was driving smashed into a Chevy Impala, according to Fox 29 Philadelphia. The couple was then transported to a hospital in West Virginia “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a statement from Fetterman’s office shared with the station.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Rescuers Fear Missing Celebrity Diet Guru Is Lost in Dangerous Cave on Greek Island

Brook Mitchell/Getty Images The search for British TV doctor Michael Mosley, who went missing Wednesday on the Greek Island of Symi, has reportedly been narrowed down to a cave ominously known by locals as “The Abyss.”Mosley’s wife, Clare Bailey, began ringing the alarm bells Wednesday evening after Mosley didn’t return at 7:30 p.m. from a walk he had departed on six hours prior.Authorities began searching for Mosley that evening, believing he may have fallen on his walk. “Nothing at this stage can be ruled out,” a police source told The Daily Mail, Thursday. Mosley was last seen on a Saint Nikolas Beach at 1:30 p.m., according to a user in a Symi Facebook group who posted a photo of him. Authorities and search parties scoured the coast but found no sign of him.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Smoke, Palestinian Flags and Protest Chants Fill the Air as Thousands Surround White House

Tom Brenner/ReutersPro-Palestinian protestors stretched a reportedly 2-mile long banner, dubbed the “People’s Red Line,” outside the White House on Saturday, as a part of a protest against the Biden Administration’s response to the war in Gaza.The protest, which brought out a reported 75,000 people, encircled the White House, according to the ANSWER coalition, one of the protest’s organizers.The banner, which lists every Palestinian killed since Oct. 7, is held by thousands of protestors, some of whom traveled for 16 hours by bus to D.C. to attend the protest. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tim Scott: Vote for Trump Because He’s Willing to ‘Lay Down’ for You

Sam Wolfe/ReutersSen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who is no stranger to sucking up to former President Donald Trump, made an interesting appeal to Americans in the defense of the convicted felon on Friday. “We need a president who is willing to lay down on behalf of the American people,” the South Carolina senator told Fox News. “And Donald Trump is that person.” Scott prefaced his remarks by attacking the validity of Trump’s conviction in New York, claiming that President Joe Biden—who has no jurisdiction over state courts—targeted Trump by “weaponizing the justice system.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

WHO Confirms First Fatal Case of Avian Flu A(H5N2)

Denis Balibouse/ReutersThe World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday that it recorded the first fatal case of avian influenza A(H5N2), a subtype of the virus, in Mexico.On April 17, a 59-year-old resident of the state of Mexico, had symptoms including fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea, nausea and general malaise, according to the WHO. The person then sought medical attention on April 24 at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and died the same day.Researchers conducted tests on the person’s body and detected the A(H5N2) virus on May 23, according to the WHO. Read more at The Daily Beast.

‘Friday the 13th’ and ‘Felicity’ Star Erich Anderson Dies After Cancer Battle

Gary Miller/Getty ImagesActor Erich Anderson, best known for his roles as Rob Dier in Friday the 13th and Dr. Edward Porter in Felicity, died at age 67 on Saturday morning after battling cancer.Anderson was remembered by his wife, Saxon Trainor, and brother, Michael O’Malley in an Instagram post for being “a smart and funny guy, a fantastic cook” and a successful actor.“He was a magnificent part of the world. I loved him. I wish you’d known him, there was no one like him,” Felicity co-star Eve Gordon wrote on Instagram. “After JJ and Matt on Felicity made us get divorced, I saw him less on set, but was always happy when we found each other in LA, we’d hang out and talk for hours. He was so smart.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Ex-Trump Lawyer Says It’s ‘Ridiculous’ to Claim Biden Was Behind Hush-Money Case

Brendan McDermid/ReutersFormer Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina says the MAGA narrative that President Joe Biden was somehow behind the prosecution of Donald Trump in the hush-money case is “ridiculous.”On a Saturday appearance on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show, PoliticsNation, Tacopina took shots at Trump allies in the GOP and Trump’s attorneys. “To say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard,” Tacopina told Sharpton. “We know that’s not the case, and even Trump’s lawyers know that’s not the case.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Michael Cohen Worries Trump Will Spill Secrets in Prison ‘for a Bag of Tuna’

Eduardo Munoz/ReutersMichael Cohen says he’s “afraid” for national security if Donald Trump goes to prison.In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, the former Trump fixer stressed that he was not worried for the former president or his “safety” but “for all of us and for the American people.”Cohen, who was sentenced to prison in 2018 for campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, said he believes the former president may seek revenge by spilling national secrets behind bars. Read more at The Daily Beast.