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One day in Peoria, Ariz., in the middle of mundane and relentless spring-training drills, Ty France decided to up the ante with one of the most confident and established players in Major League Baseball.

Less than six weeks after defense contractor and airplane-maker Boeing announced it would move its global headquarters out of downtown Chicago, leaders of another major corporation are set to leave the region.

Police reports state Navin Jones was ‘extremely malnourished with skeletal appearance’

PEORIA, Ariz. — The “if” was never considered. And the “when” is now.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Nothing illuminates the mad-scientist makeup of Padres pitcher Yu Darvish more than conversations happening a few lockers away at the team's spring-training complex.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Yu Darvish will be the Padres' starting pitcher on opening day for the second straight season.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Miles Mikolas has parlayed his three-year stay with Yomiuri in Nippon Professional Baseball into more than $49 million guaranteed. Merrill Kelly, Chris Flexen and Pierce Johnson, too, are among the arms who've breathed new life into their careers in either Japan or Korea.

WASHINGTON — Cheri Bustos is a former journalist, a fact made evident the second you meet her and start getting peppered with questions: Where are you from, how long have you been doing this, do you do a lot of these interviews, do you like doing them?

“I look at diversity in a much broader way … it’s not just racial or gender, but it’s geographical,” Illinois Democrat says.