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The his-and-hers California federal prisons where a judge has agreed to send Lori Loughlin and her husband to serve their upcoming sentences in the college admissions scandal are hardly Alcatraz. Both are low-security slammers within two hours of their $9.5 million mansion in a gated community west of Los Angeles. If approved by the federal …

Lori Loughlin has been approved to serve her upcoming sentence at a federal prison in Victorville, Calif. — her first choice of slammers, according to new court docs. A judge has signed off on the “Full House” actress’ request to do her time at the facility, which is the federal lockup nearest to her home, …

There will be a 2020 Big Ten football season after all. The Big Ten announced Wednesday morning the return of its fall football season, reversing a previous decision to cancel the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s plan will include daily rapid testing and would begin play the weekend of Oct. 23-24, …

The Big Ten could return sooner than it ever anticipated. A little more than a month after postponing all fall sports and turning its attention to spring football, the Big Ten is expected to hold a vote in the next 72 hours on when and if the league will return to play, with Oct. 17 …

The Pennsylvania high school Jamain Stephens attended has issued a correction after initially saying the 20-year-old football player died from COVID-19 complications. In a Tuesday Facebook post, Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, where Stephens graduated from in 2017, said that “Jamain went to his eternal reward after suffering from complications of COVID-19.” On Wednesday, …

Legendary former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson died overnight at age 78, according to multiple reports. The first Black coach to lead his team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, Thompson coached Georgetown from 1972-99, compiling a 596-239 record. He was a pivotal figure in the formation and rise of the original Big East Conference. …

Former “Full House” TV star Lori Loughlin nearly broke down in tears Friday as she was sentenced to two months behind bars for admittedly conspiring to pay a half-million-dollar bribe to get her two daughters into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits. “I’ve made an awful decision,” the actress told the judge, …

Mossimo Giannulli, the husband of “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, has been sentenced to five months in jail for his role in bribing his daughters’ way into college. Boston federal Judge Nathan Gorton approved the terms of Giannulli’s plea deal during a Zoom conference Friday morning, saying it was “sufficient but not greater than necessary …

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are set to be sentenced Friday for their role in the widespread college-admissions scandal, bringing their made-for-TV saga to a close. The celebrity couple will appear via videoconference in Boston federal court, where US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton will decide whether to accept a plea deal the duo …

In her Wednesday DNC convention speech, Hillary Clinton implied that a “foreign adversary” could sway the U.S. elections, and suggested that an electoral college victory without a corresponding popular vote win would render the victor’s election illegitimate. “Vote for honest elections, so we, not a foreign adversary, choose our president,” Clinton implored viewers. “And don’t …