1. Villanova wins
national title

2. For the second time in three years, the top-seeded Villanova Wildcats are national champions in men's college basketball, knocking off the Michigan Wolverines in front of 67,831 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. It's the third title for Villanova in program history, with the other coming in Villanova, who was a heavy favorite, won all six of its NCAA tournament games by double digits. The Wildcats' recipe for success: Don't be shy about shooting the basketball, especially from deep. Villanova set records for the most three-pointers made in a single NCAA tournament and in a single season. A big reason for the Wildcats victory on Monday night was sixth man Donte DiVincenzo, who finished with 31 points, his career high and a record for a player coming off the bench in a national championship game. He was named Most Outstanding Player.

3. In Other News
The US military apparently has been working on plans to send dozens more troops to northern Syria, even though President Trump remarked last Thursday that the US would be coming out of Syria. A National Security Council meeting is set for today to discuss the plan for battling ISIS in Syria and the status of about 2,000 US troops there.
The mystery is deepening around last week's car crash on the Northern California coast that took the lives of at least five members in a family of eight. Police said preliminary information suggests the SUV may have been intentionally driven off the edge of a cliff. No skid marks or brake marks were found at the scene, on a remote stretch of highway. Investigators still aren't sure whether the family's three other children were in the SUV when it wrecked.
Fake weed is being blamed for at least two deaths and dozens of cases of bleeding in Illinois. When authorities say "fake weed," they are referring to synthetic cannabinoids sometimes called K2 or Spice. Fifty-six cases of severe bleeding, two of them fatal, have been linked to the substance. All the cases required hospitalization related to coughing up blood, blood in the urine, bloody nose, bleeding gums and other symptoms. Nine of those tested were positive for brodifacoum, or rat poison, the state health department said. Here's what's really scary: Health experts aren't sure whether the supply is tainted or if this is a new side effect of the drugs.