Photo: Sarah Stier/Getty Naomi Osaka admitted to having “nervous energy,” but had a “mindset change” leading to herfirst US Open victoryon Monday. At Flushing Meadows, the 23-year-old tennis star, who represents Japan, had a rough start to her match against Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic due to “nerves,” shetold reportersafter the match. Ultimately, she won in straight sets. “I’m always the type that gets nervous, especially in Slams, especially in first rounds,” Osaka said....

Thomas W. Aspseter.Photo: Monroe County Sheriff’s Office A Wisconsin man is charged with the ax murder of his grandmother’s husband and attempted murder of two others after allegedly breaking into the grandmother’s house and confronting the husband, who was angry to find the suspect there after buying him a bus ticket out of town three days earlier. Acriminal complaintfiled in Monroe County Circuit Court details the allegations and arrest leading to the charges against Thomas W....

It’s the college-application season when a lot of moms starting feeling weepy about their emptying nest.NotMichelle Obama.“That’s the rub of teenagers — they’re bumping up against the limits of where they are because they’re ready for the next thing,” the former first lady tells PEOPLE in an exclusive at-home interview for the cover story in the new issue.Mom toMalia, a 20-year-old Harvard sophomore, and high-school seniorSasha, 17, Obama adds: “That’s how I feel with my girls: if they are ready for college, then I want them to go and I’m happy for them....

Brittney Griner, star basketball player of the Phoenix Mercury, has been seen for the first time since news of her February arrest in Russia broke last week. The Russia Federal Customs Servicesaid in a statementon Saturday that the athlete – who, like many professional women’s basketball players, plays overseas in Russia during the WNBA offseason – had flown to Moscow from New York in February when a customs service dog at the Sheremetyevo International Airport indicated that drugs were possibly located inside her carry-on bag....

Jennifer Ortiz was 12-years-old when she had her first heart transplant. She was diagnosed with an enlarged heart after a trip to the emergency room with her mom while dealing with a long-lasting cough,Fox affiliate KDVRreported. Her first transplant only worked for a few years before she was recommended and approved for a second transplant in 2017. However, she is now in heart failure, KDVR reports. Her father, Danny Ortiz, told the outlet she was recently denied her third transplant from UCLA, which recommended she go on palliative care, an end-of-life treatment plan....

Photo: Courtesy of Robert Kopta and Gloria Smith More than three decades after she was reported missing, a Pennsylvania street preacher known as “The Sparrow” has been found living in an adult care home in Puerto Rico. According to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ross Township police announced this week that 83-year-old Patricia Kopta had been found after a decades-long search. Patricia’s husband had reported her missing in 1992, and her loved ones have not seen her since, perCBS News....

Jung Yoo-Jung.Photo:Busnan Police Busnan Police On Wednesday, police in the city of Busan arrested Jung Yoo-jung, 23, a police spokesman said,The Chosun Ilbo, the oldest daily newspaper in South Korea, reports. She was indicted on a murder charge Friday,The Korea Timesreports. Police have not publicly identified the victim of the brutal stabbing, a female, freelance tutor Jung allegedly found online, police said,The Korea Timesreports. Jung initially allegedly posed as the mother of a ninth grader who wanted her daughter to learn English from a private tutor, investigators said, according toThe Chosun Ilbo....

April Balascio always had suspicions about her dad Edward Wayne Edwards, a handyman and father of five whom she describes as both utterly charming and incredibly smart — as well as an abusive, compulsive liar with a terrible temper. She also says that wherever the family moved, dead bodies had a tendency to follow. In 2009, at age 40, Balascio began Googling cold cases and the towns she’d grown up in, finally discovering two teens who had been murdered at a venue her father had worked at....

The sole survivor of alightning strikethat killed three people near the White House earlier this month is speaking publicly for the first time about what happened. Amber Escudero-Kontostathis, 28, toldGood Morning Americathat on Aug. 4, she had been canvassing outside the White House for a nonprofit organization called Threshold Giving when it started to rain. She took shelter under a tree in Lafayette Square with three other people. “I don’t know why I survived,” Escudero-Kontostathis tearfully said during the interview....

A woman survived a Pennsylvania factory explosion that killed seven of her coworkers last week — and saidfalling into a vat of liquid chocolatemay have saved her life. On March 24, anexplosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. chocolate factorycaused the facility in West Reading to go up in flames. Borges, who was inside the building, said her arm was already burning when the floor collapsed beneath her and she fell into the chocolate below....

A woman, who was shot in the head during thehorrific mass shootingin Dayton, Ohio early Sunday morning, expressed one heartbreaking final wish on the phone with her boyfriend — to get home to her children. “She FaceTimed me and said ‘Babe, I just got shot in my head, I need to get to my kids,” Lee wrote on Sunday following the massacre. “Like that’s strong as f— to hold off to call me!...

Photo: LinkedIn A New York man has been charged with murder after authorities say he shot his girlfriend who was trying to end their “tumultuous” relationship, authorities say. Mark Small, 55, is accused of shooting 39-year-old Marivel Estevez in the Minneola luxury apartment they shared. He has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. According to anews releasefrom the Nassau County District Attorney, the shooting happened in July....

The Virginia woman who was fired after flipping the bird at PresidentDonald Trump‘s motorcade in 2017 has a new job title after winning a local election on Tuesday.According toCBS News, Juli Briskman, a Democrat, won a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors with 52.4 percent of the vote, beating eight-year Republican incumbent Suzanne Volpe.The victory marks Briskman’s first time in elected office.“It’s feeling fantastic, it’s feeling surreal,” Briskman toldThe Washington Postafter her win....