Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his family have marked a milestone with the groundbreaking of a new domed stadium, set to open in 2029. The $2.6 billion project near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport faces funding challenges. Ohio's $600 million commitment is on hold due to a lawsuit over state budget provisions. Governor Mike DeWine remains optimistic about resolving the issue. The Haslam Sports Group is covering most costs. The stadium will feature a transparent roof and a new Dawg Pound section. The stadium could host major events, but hotel space is a concern for a Super Bowl according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

An Associated Press investigation finds that a business known for tough-love boarding schools for rebellious, rich teenagers has set its sights on a different demographic: adopted kids. Experts say adoptees account for an estimated 25-40% of those in residential treatment. What some call the “troubled teen industry,” a sprawling network of loosely regulated, for-profit residential treatment centers and boarding schools advertise to adoptive parents, promising to help adoptees heal, at a cost as high as $20,000 a month. Adoptees told AP they believe were in a shadow orphanage system where children end up institutionalized in oppressive, sometimes abusive facilities.

Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has taken an indefinite leave of absenceto enter a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction. Texas Tech says it is “committed to supporting Brendan through his recovery process and to ensure his long-term health and well-being.” Sorsby was one of the biggest names in this year’s transfer portal. He arrived from Cincinnati, which announced in February it would sue the quarterback for breaching his name, image and likeness contract. He began his college career at Indiana.

The Justice Department is pushing to dismiss a lawsuit blocking President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche cites a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as a security concern. Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate has given the National Trust for Historic Preservation until Monday to drop the suit. The group sued after the East Wing was demolished for the ballroom. Trump claims the project is privately funded, but public money is used for security upgrades. Some politicians, including Democrats, support the project, citing security needs.

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost all-white jury when they decided to sentence him to death. Using rap lyrics in court is not an uncommon practice. Researchers found that rap lyrics have featured in hundreds of court cases in more than 40 states over the past 50 years, but judges often exclude other forms of creative expression from being used as evidence. Experts say treating rap lyrics as diary entries minimizes their artistic value while playing on negative racial stereotypes to influence jurors. James Broadnax's execution is scheduled for April 30.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive. The court ruled Wednesday in the case of a former Army specialist, Winston Hencely. He was wounded in a 2016 explosion at Bagram Airfield that killed five people. Hencely sued after an Army investigation faulted the company’s failure to supervise an Afghan employee who built the vest on the job site inside the base. Wednesday's ruling reverses lower courts that found the company was immune because it was working during wartime for the federal government.

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court Wednesday that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court. The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a pipeline that has carried crude oil and natural gas liquids between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, since 1953. Enbridge argues the case affects U.S. and Canadian trade. The pipeline is at the center of a legal dispute in Wisconsin as well.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants. Alabama's acting attorney general announced the indictment on Tuesday. The center says it paid confidential informants in order to monitor threats of violence from extremist groups. The center's CEO Bryan Fair said the organization will vigorously defend against the charges. The Southern Poverty Law Center was created 55 years ago to support civil rights and expanded to label and track hate groups.