EAST ST. LOUIS: Loaded Flyers have high hopes of reaching state title game
Few, if any, high school football programs in Illinois can match the success of the East St. Louis Flyers during the past three years.

Rayder football hopes high
Summer ended Monday, Aug. 9 for thousands of high school football players across Michigan as three days of conditioning got under way. On Thursday, Aug. 12 they pulled on the shoulder pads and started playing some football.

FanHouse: Favors’ father hopes for chance to see son
AURORA, Colo. — It figured to be another routine computer search. Deborah Parker had been looking off and on for 14 years so there was no reason to think this wouldn’t be anything other than another fruitless endeavor.

Berne sets hopes high
If you are at all familiar with the drive from Decatur to Berne on U.S. 27, then the sight of it might shock you. It rises from the flatness like a rocket on a launch pad. A Swiss rocket, as it turns out – one of the rarer kind.

Carroll County has high hopes for HHC
Some people are hoping the Hoosier Heartland Corridor will bring growth to the southeast portion of Carroll County.

Missouri State sports marketing contract will raise hopes for big profits
Missouri State has entered into a new athletics marketing agreement that it hopes will be a financial winning formula.

Boxing Roundup: Holyfield hopes Tyson is punished
Evander Holyfield said he backed the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s move Tuesday to keep Mike Tyson under suspension and hoped the punishment Tyson ultimately receives would be good for boxing.

South Bend’s Buttigieg hopes to be next state treasurer
SOUTH BEND — When Pete Buttigieg bought his North Shore Drive home in February last year, some probably would have considered the century-old Colonial Revival a lost cause.

Utah man hopes for 11th hour execution reprieve
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Midnight in the firing squad chamber approaches for Ronnie Lee Gardner — a self-described “nasty little bugger” — whose childhood of neglect, drug-addiction and ever escalating crime led to double murder by age 24 and a quarter-century waiting for his own execution.