Marlins’ Sandy Alcantara unanimous choice for NL Cy Young Award

Miami’s Sandy Alcantara won the National League Cy Young Award unanimously on Wednesday night after posting a 2.28 ERA while pitching a major league-best 228 2/3 innings and six compete games. Alcantara received all 30 first-place votes, the 15th time the NL has had a unanimous winner. Atlanta’s Max Fried was second with 72 points, … Read more

With new ruling, Sandy Hook families win over $1.4 billion from Alex Jones

Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims an additional $473 million in punitive damages for defaming them, a judge in Connecticut ruled Thursday, bringing the total damages to nearly $1.5 billion. Last month, a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, awarded the families and an FBI agent implicated in … Read more

Alex Jones Damages For Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1.5 Billion After Latest Ruling – Deadline

3RD UPDATE: A judge in Connecticut on Thursday awarded the families the Sandy Hook shooting victims another $473 million in punitive damages to be paid by Inforwars founder Alex Jones. It comes after the jury awarded the families $965 million in compensatory damages after finding that Jones was liable for spreading lies about the 2012 … Read more

Daughter of Sandy Hook victim rails against Alex Jones in op-ed

The daughter of the slain principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School has penned an op-ed shedding light on the impact of Alex Jones’ perpetuation of conspiracy theories about the mass shooting. In a piece published by Newsweek, Erica Lafferty, the daughter of Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, recounted how it felt when conspiracy theorists like Jones began … Read more

Mother of Sandy Hook shooting victim Catherine Violet Hubbard starts animal sanctuary in her honor to help heal

NEWTOWN, Conn. — We are coming up on 10 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting left more than 25 people dead, nearly all of them children. CBS2’s Cindy Hsu recently met a mother of one of the children who loved animals. She’s using that love to heal her family and the community. Catherine … Read more

Alex Jones to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies

The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for spreading the myth that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history — never happened The $965 million verdict is the second big judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for spreading the myth that … Read more

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies

Jurors ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent, who said he turned their loss and trauma into years of torment by promoting the lie that the rampage was a hoax. The $965 million verdict is the second big … Read more

Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1bn over Sandy Hook hoax claims

A Connecticut jury has ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly $1bn in damages to people who said they have suffered as a result of the rightwing media figure’s claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Jones has falsely claimed for years that the 2012 school massacre, in which 20 children and six … Read more

DeSantis, who opposed Hurricane Sandy relief, now desperate for Biden’s aid as Ian ravages Florida

On his second day in Congress, Ron DeSantis voted against a federal relief package for New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but almost a decade later, the Florida governor’s response to Hurricane Ian hitting his home state is much different. DeSantis asked President Biden on Wednesday to approve a major … Read more