The San Francisco Giants have hired former All-Star catcher Buster Posey as their president of baseball operations and fired Farhan Zaidi.

China is threatening “serious consequences” after the United States Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row.

The United States is denying Chinese claims that its military had driven away an American guided-missile destroyer from operating around disputed islands in the South China Sea.

Buster Posey has joined the San Francisco Giants ownership group less than a year after retiring.

ROANOKE, Va. - A record number of Roanoke city students are spending their summer back in the classroom. Some 3,700 students in Roanoke City Schools' Summer Enrichment Program, RCPS+, are broadening their horizons with new technology. "We want them to love learning and that's what our program is about," said Greg Johnson, who oversees RCPS+. He says the ultimate goal of the program is to prevent the summer slide, "We don't want them to regress at all from what they've learned. An out-of-this-world summer taking Star City students far beyond the four walls of the classroom.