By BRIAN DULIK Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The Chicago White Sox clinched their first AL Central title since 2008 with a 7-2 win over the Cleveland Indians behind two home runs by Tim Anderson in the opener of a doubleheader spit. Cleveland won the second game 5-3. Chicago, a wild-card team last year, is
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police say they have arrested three “key suspects” over the abduction for ransom of 121 students from a school in the northern Kaduna state. Assailants had stormed the Bethel Baptist High School on July 5, seizing the students from their hostels. All but 21 of
Continue ReadingBURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) — The purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where the spooky happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” occurred has hit the market for the scary price of $1.2 million. Realtor Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty in its listing Thursday called the 14-room, 3,100-square-foot home on 8.5 acres in Burrillville
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find anyone a couple of weeks ago that didn’t think Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs were headed for their sixth consecutive AFC West championship this season. It would have been just as tough finding anyone who didn’t
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Police are looking for a man in Canada they say punched a nurse in the face multiple times, knocking her to the ground after she administered a Covid-19 vaccine to his wife without his permission. On Monday, around 9:15 a.m., a man walked into a Brunet Pharmacy in Sherbrooke, a city
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has overwhelming passed legislation to provide funding for Israel’s missile defense system. The bill approved Thursday would provide $1 billion for the Iron Dome system, which is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets fired into Israel. The vote was 420-9. Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Salesforce.com, Darden rise; Steelcase, Rite Aid fall.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Azerbaijan has filed a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Armenia of a “policy of ethnic cleansing” targeting Azerbaijanis. The case was lodged Thursday at the International Court of Justice. It comes a week after Armenia filed suit against Azerbaijan at the same
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A $242,700 federal grant recently awarded to Central Oregon Community College will provide funding over four years to alleviate child care costs for low-income students. The funds will also help launch the Bend-based Little Kits Early Learning & Child Care Center at Oregon State University-Cascades, a year-round program with an integrated teacher-training component.
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street continued to rebound on Thursday, shrugging off both the Federal Reserve’s intention to soon roll back its massive monetary stimulus, another uptick in weekly jobless claims and worries overthe Evergrande debt crisis in China. All three major stock indexes closed sharply higher for the second straight day as
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court overturned a federal judge’s sweeping order that required the city and county of Los Angeles to quickly find shelter for all homeless people living on downtown’s Skid Row. The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday found extensive error by U.S. District Court
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Adam Wainwright joined Hall of Famer Bob Gibson as the only St. Louis Cardinals’ pitchers with 2,000 strikeouts, fanning Milwaukee’s Luis Urías in the fourth inning. The 40-year-old right-hander became the ninth active pitcher with 2,000. Gibson got his 2,000th strikeout when Pittsburgh’s Roberto Clemente was called out on July 13, 1969.
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El aborto es uno de los temas que causa mayor tensión en Estados Unidos y el mundo. En mayo, el gobernador Greg Abbott firmó una ley del estado de Texas que prohíbe el aborto a partir de las seis semanas de embarazo. Hubo intentos para bloquearla; sin embargo, luego de que la
Continue ReadingBy ALEX HEIDER Click here for updates on this story COLLIERVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The Collierville Police Department is reporting multiple people have been shot at a Kroger on New Byhalia Road. A town spokesperson says victims are being taken to several nearby hospitals, but it is unclear how many people have been shot. NBC
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing. Some victims’ relatives begged Thursday for time to find a buyer who won’t put a new luxury high-rise at the side
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have opened training camp without stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Crosby is recovering from wrist surgery that will force him to miss the first few weeks of the season. Malkin likely won’t be back until late November at the earliest
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight. It’s the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers’ beatings of at least three Black men. A federal grand jury
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Colorado woman charged with killing her 11-year-old stepson will stand trial. Authorities allege that 38-year-old Letecia Stauch killed Gannon Stauch at their home in January 2020. His body was found in the Florida Panhandle about two months later. At a hearing earlier this month,
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — With a little over a week left in the season and his team tied for the worst record in the major leagues at 48-104, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo was given a one-year contract extension through 2022. The deal announced Thursday includes a club option for 2023, according to general manager Mike Hazen.
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four members of an alleged California militia group have pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice in the case of a federal guard fatally shot in Oakland last year. The men were followers of the “boogaloo” movement, a concept embraced by a loose network of gun enthusiasts and
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