NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have arrested one of four people wanted in the fatal shooting last month of a student’s grandmother outside a New Orleans high school graduation ceremony that was held at a local university. WVUE-TV reports 18-year-old Brandon Rock made his first court appearance Saturday. Jail records show he was arrested Friday
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ben Bender scored a deflected goal from outside the box in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time to spark Charlotte FC to a 2-0 victory over the New York Red Bulls. Bender, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft, scored his third goal for Charlotte (7-8-1) after taking
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly one-third of the players on the U.S. women’s hockey team competing in this week’s under-18 World Championships are training at programs outside their home states. The players flock to development programs including Shattuck-St. Mary’s in Minnesota or Selects Hockey Academy near Rochester, New York.
Continue Readingby Chiara Grimes Americans are facing grocery store price hikes at levels not seen since the inflation-soaked 1970s, with double-digit increases on everything from eggs to poultry, according to the latest Consumer Price Index from the Labor Department. Friday’s inflation report was a triple-whammy for consumers, with massive price hikes in food, shelter and energy
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Tenerife has held Girona to a 0-0 draw on the road in the first game of their promotion playoff to join Spain’s first division. The second leg will be played on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands next weekend. Almería and Valladolid have already earned automatic promotion as the top two finishers of
Continue ReadingGREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Dylan Campbell drove in the winning run with a two-out bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning and No. 9 overall seed Texas overcame a five-run deficit to beat No. 8 seed East Carolina 9-8 and stay alive in the Greenville Super Regional. The win by Texas (46-20) forces
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Competitive balance has defined the opening portion of this IndyCar season. Road America’s history suggests that trend will continue Sunday. The first seven IndyCar events of the year featured six different champions. The points lead has changed hands six times. Road America has featured
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Major League Baseball has taken its fair share of criticism for changes trying to get younger fans interested in the game, but there has been one this season that has generated rave reviews. MLB has expanded letting players being mic’d up and interviewed during games
Continue ReadingBLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Nick Biddison hit two of No. 4 overall seed Virginia Tech’s five home runs, including one to lead off the game, and the Hokies stayed alive in the Blacksburg Super Regional with a 14-8 victory over Oklahoma. The win by Virginia Tech (45-12) forces a winner-take-all game with Oklahoma (40-22) on
Continue ReadingSergio Gomez (CNN Español) — Un año más, junio se llena de conferencias y eventos de videojuegos en los que las principales compañías del sector anuncian los nuevos juegos que están preparando o las novedades que tienen sobre los mismos. A falta de la cancelada Electronic Entertainment Expo (conocida normalmente como E3), que era la
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Alexander Rossi won the pole for Sunday’s race at Road America as he tries to snap a 44-race victory drought at the track where he earned his last victory. Rossi’s last victory was at Road America in 2019. His last pole was also in
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business William Shatner — the 90-year-old actor, presenter, spoken word poet, author, and, more recently, the oldest person ever to travel to space — is showing no signs of slowing down. This fall, he plans to publish a book, called “Boldly Go,” which is billed as a sort of philosophical reflection
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Sarisohn and Emma Tucker, CNN Nine people were injured in Los Angeles Saturday morning after being struck by a driver who claimed someone had pointed a gun at him, causing him to swerve, police said. Los Angeles Police Department officials told CNN the driver hit the pedestrians after crashing into a Westlake sidewalk.
Continue ReadingGASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy has been charged in a shooting that wounded three people at a North Carolina mall. Gastonia Police Chief Travis Brittain says two men and a woman were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries after they were shot in the parking lot of the Eastridge Mall on
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The special primary for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat moved forward as planned Saturday following a tense legal fight over ballot access issues that had cast a shadow over the election. The legal drama was the latest twist in what has already been an extraordinary election,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Portugal visits Switzerland aiming to keep the lead of its Nations League group, but will have to do without Cristiano Ronaldo. Coach Fernando Santos says his decision to leave Ronaldo, João Moutinho and Rafael Guerreiro off his squad was not due to injury worries but rather “normal management.” Spain hosts the
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection method. In 25 similar filings with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday,
Continue ReadingBAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton says he has woken up in pain because this season’s Mercedes car has a tendency to bounce up and down at high speed. He and teammate George Russell are questioning whether new F1 rules force them to compromise their safety. Mercedes has been one of
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy and Nadia Kounang, CNN Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generated an immune response in children ages 6 months through 17 years that’s comparable to the response in adults, according to documents posted by the US Food and Drug Administration ahead of key meetings of its independent vaccine advisory group. The FDA’s
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sax has issued a statement saying that his 33-year-old son who had always dreamed of being a pilot was among five U.S. Marines killed during a training flight crash earlier this week in the California desert. Capt. John J. Sax was among the aircrew of
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