Residents and officials in North Carolina and Connecticut were on high alert following separate senseless attacks that resulted in at least seven people losing their lives. 

Two men have been indicted in Ohio on criminal charges after being accused of cheating last month during a Lake Erie fishing tournament by placing weights and fillets of other fish inside walleyes in a scheme to win prize money of more than $28,000 for landing the heaviest fish.

“Students graduating from high schools across the country today are less prepared for life, work, and even college. It is time for state education dollars to follow students, not systems, which would allow parents to remove their kids from failing government schools,” Laura Zorc, executive director of Building Education for Students Together, said.

The Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing new report which found that prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California had improperly used a jailhouse informant program in ways that routinely violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.

Both series resume Friday with the defending World Series champion Braves visiting the Phillies and the Padres hosting the Dodgers.