ZURICH (AP) — Soccer competitions could start trials next year to test the use of extra substitutes to replace players with suspected head injuries.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Olympic BMX cycling hopeful Kai Sakakibara is in a medically-induced coma in Canberra Hospital after sustaining serious head injuries in a weekend racing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon: 34 US troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries from Iranian missile strike Jan. 8 on Iraqi air base.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury has awarded more than $23 million in damages to an autistic teenager who suffered severe head injuries when his school bus crashed into a...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — House members have voted down another effort to make helmets optional for people 21 and over riding on motorcycles in North Carolina, with concerns and costs of head injuries...

COCOA, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Highway Patrol says an 11-year-old boy was seriously injured when the golf cart he was driving overturned on a central Florida street.

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — The parents of a 19-year-old college freshman who died of head injuries in a fall suffered after a day of drinking are seeking to hold his roommate and other students liable.

Lafayette College lacrosse recruit McCrae Williams died on Sept. 11, 2017, two days after he fell in his dorm room and likely hit his head on the concrete.

DENVER (AP) — He's 27. An old 27. After seven surgeries, it's gotten to the point where Sam Stratton's knee and ankle take turns getting funky on him when the weather turns cold.

"I've been asked that question so many times by doctors and reporters: 'How many concussions have you had?'" Stratton said.

We ask anyway. Fifteen, he says. Maybe 20. When a bell's been rung that many times, the lines start to blur. Along with other things.

DENVER (AP) — He's 27. An old 27. After seven surgeries, it's gotten to the point where Sam Stratton's knee and ankle take turns getting funky on him when the weather turns cold.

"I've been asked that question so many times by doctors and reporters: 'How many concussions have you had?'" Stratton said.

We ask anyway. Fifteen, he says. Maybe 20. When a bell's been rung that many times, the lines start to blur. Along with other things.

GROTON, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's Fish and Game Department says a 71-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries from an encounter with a bear in her home.

The department says the bear somehow got inside the woman's home about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday in Groton, a rural community in the central part of the state. The woman, who uses a wheelchair, was hospitalized. Authorities haven't been able to talk to her yet.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the NHL concussion case has denied class-action status for the former players suing the league over head injuries.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson issued her 46-page order on Friday, the first significant victory for the league in a landmark lawsuit that was filed almost five years ago.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Coming soon to a soccer field near you — maybe: 22 girls wearing space-age headbands designed to protect them from concussions.

Stemming from a growing national interest in soccer, doctors and other experts are considering whether to recommend that girls who play soccer be required to wear some type of headgear to reduce concussions.

The concern has intensified as more athletes in all sports are diagnosed with head injuries. Soccer seems to be facing particular scrutiny now.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The Boulder County Coroner says the University of Colorado student whose body was pulled from the Boulder Creek in February had died from head injuries suffered in a fall.

The Daily Camera reports that 21-year-old Khalid Rafee was found facedown and not moving in the creek Feb. 9.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Researchers say former NHL player Jeff Parker suffered from a brain disease that has been linked with repeated head injuries in athletes.

The diagnosis comes from Boston University's CTE Center. Parker is at least the seventh pro hockey player diagnosed with the disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which led to a $1 billion settlement between the NFL and former players.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has denied a law firm's request to be added as an administrator of the NFL's estimated $1 billion concussion settlement.

U.S. District Judge Anita Brody rejected an attempt from the Locks Law Firm to join the process that compensates former players for head injuries they sustained during their careers. The firm had claimed that the process was going too slowly.

GREER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a contract worker at BMW's South Carolina factory was killed immediately from massive head injuries in the plant's paint shop.

Batesville Fire Chief Phill Jolley said there was no life saving measures that could be done for 45-year-old Bojan Sprah after the March 28 incident.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by an airplane taking off from ice in Alaska's Beaufort Sea during Navy exercises.

The civilian employee of the Navy's Arctic Submarine Laboratory is expected to recover.

Anchorage television station KTVA reports the man was at the base camp on March 20 for Ice Exercise 2018, also known as ICEX.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A former high school football player who says he's suffering the side effects of concussions is suing his coach and a Flint-area school district.

Destin Julian, who is 19 years old, says he still has seizures and struggles to pay attention, 2 ½ years after head injuries at Hamady High School.

CHICAGO (AP) — One of the nation's largest football equipment manufacturers is testing new helmet designs, as the Illinois company and its competitors try to create a safer helmet.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — The fear of long-term brain injury from concussions is contributing to a "Friday Night Flight," with participation in prep football declining in the past decade, according to a survey of suburban Chicago schools.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Stuttgart captain Christian Gentner is expected to make a full recovery after breaking his lower and lateral eye-socket, nose and upper-jaw in the side's Bundesliga win over Wolfsburg on Saturday.

Stuttgart says the 32-year-old Gentner will undergo surgery in the coming days.

MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres tweeted from hospital that he was OK after collapsing and losing consciousness from a clash of heads in a Spanish league game on Thursday.

"Thank you all for your concern and your messages of support," Torres wrote on Twitter. "It was just a scare. I hope to be back very soon."

Initial tests showed no signs of any serious spine or head injuries, but the former Spain forward will remain hospitalized as a precaution, Atletico said.

The NCAA and helmet maker Riddell are defendants in separate class-action lawsuits alleging they failed to protect football players from long-term head injuries and didn't educate them about the risks.

The lawsuits were filed Monday in federal courts in Indianapolis and San Francisco and seek damages for health care costs, lost wages and other personal injury damages. Riddell called the called the claims "meritless" and "sensationalized allegations."

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Katherine Snedaker says she has had 20 concussions, the first three decades ago from a car accident when she was 16. But it wasn't until her son suffered a series of concussions in the sixth grade, around 2008, that she felt compelled to learn all she could about head injuries to help him recover.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A state appeals court in Cleveland has ruled that the widow of a former Notre Dame football player can proceed with claims in a lawsuit that said her husband was disabled by and ultimately died from concussion-related head injuries suffered during his college career in the 1970s.

ROME (AP) — An Italian man has undergone surgery for head injuries after being punched and kicked in the head in a Rome subway car by two men he asked to stop smoking.

Rome city hall said Mayor Virginia Raggi went to the hospital Tuesday to visit Maurizio Di Francescantonio, 37, two days after he was attacked while riding on the subway with his mother.

Prosecutors are investigating the two men, who come from the Caserta area in southern Italy, for attempted murder.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills safety Aaron Williams was too excited to return to practice for the first time in nearly a month to worry about the potential long-term effects his latest head injury might have on his career.

"Honestly, it probably does have an effect on the future," Williams said at his locker Tuesday.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — More than 50 former professional wrestlers sued World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., saying the company is responsible for repeated head trauma including concussions they suffered in the ring that led to long-term neurological damage.

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Joseph "Road Warrior Animal" Laurinaitis and Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff are among the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Connecticut. The lawsuit also names WWE...