Lyndon Blake

This is just a tragic story.

A private plane carrying Biffle's family and two others crashed Thursday morning about 45 miles outside of Charlotte.

The crash happened just after 10 a.m.

while attempting to land shortly after the plane took off from the Statesville Regional Airport.

Longtime friend of Biffle, YouTuber Garrett Mitchell, said the Biffles were on their way to visit his family when the plane crashed.

Biffle's two children were 14 and 5.

He was known as both a racing champion and a humanitarian who dedicated his time to helping his community.

Biffle used his planes, helicopters, boats to take generators, chainsaws, water, all the essential supplies to the rural areas of North Carolina that were devastated last year from Hurricane Helene.

North Carolina State Congressman Richard Hudson mourned the loss on X, noting that Biffle will be remembered for his service to others as much as for his fearlessness on the track.

Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers have been indicted in a federal sports betting scheme.

Emmanuel Classe and Luis Ortiz were charged over the weekend for their alleged roles in manipulating pitch outcomes during games to benefit co-conspirators who placed bets on their performances.

Since the rise of legalized sports betting in the U.S., online sports books have begun offering highly specific, real-time proposition bets on baseball.

For example, whether the first pitch of a pitcher's outing will be a ball or a strike.

Prosecutors say Clase and Ortiz worked with fraudulent bettors to fix individual pitches

allegedly generating more than $400,000 in illicit winnings.

The two now face potential prison time, along with what's likely the end of their MLB careers.

Clause, who is slated to earn up to $38 million over the course of his contract with Cleveland, was reportedly paid just $12,000 for his role in the scheme.