By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. The date will be marked in different ways around college football. Air Force plays at Navy and Army is hosting Western Kentucky. For the three service academies, the anniversary means something different. The players
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers’ season opener at Washington is a showdown between last year’s top rookies on offense and defense. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert moves into his second pro season under new coach Brandon Staley looking to build more chemistry with Keenan Allen and other
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Fox will air a Major League Soccer playoff game on Thanksgiving Day for the first time. The final day of the regular season is set for Nov. 7. The postseason starts on Nov. 20 and concludes with the MLS Cup title match on Dec. 11. All 13 postseason games will be
Continue ReadingBy David Ono and Lisa Bartley Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Two mothers in pain from one murder that’s torn apart families and cut short the life of a young woman who dreamed of graduating from college and running her own business. “I hope he remembers my daughter’s face
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police are investigating the shooting death of a 21-year-old man near the University of Kansas campus. The police department said officers found the body of Christian Willis, of Wichita, Wednesday evening after responding to a report of a possible shooting. Police said Thursday that no arrests have been made in
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story LONG BEACH, California (KABC) — An arrest has been made in the attack of a 12-year-old boy on a Long Beach city bus as he was on his way to visit his grandmother. After releasing surveillance pictures of the suspect, the Long Beach Police Department
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN It felt like Covid-19 was closing in around us during the five days in August this CNN crew spent in Carter County, Missouri. In Van Buren, the county’s biggest town, we were sitting next to a 16-year-old when she got a text that masks would be
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN It felt like Covid-19 was closing in around us during the five days in August this CNN crew spent in Carter County, Missouri. In Van Buren, the county’s biggest town, we were sitting next to a 16-year-old when she got a text that masks would be
Continue Reading By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Von Miller-Bradley Chubb reunion is still on for Sunday, but it sure is starting to feel like it could be delayed. Chubb is dealing with a sprained right ankle that isn’t coming along as quickly as hoped, putting his status for the game
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soaring home prices and rents are fueling real estate companies’ appetite for houses, adding unwelcome competition for many would-be homebuyers. Residential real estate bought by companies or institutions hit an all-time high of 67,943 properties in the second quarter. That’s according to Redfin, a Seattle-based
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By Amir Vera, Miguel Marquez and Bonney Kapp, CNN Vera Middleton wishes she had gotten the Covid-19 vaccine. The 66-year-old great-grandmother from Olive Hill, Kentucky, said she and her husband discussed the vaccine, but kept putting it off and ultimately decided against it. She couldn’t explain why. Middleton spoke with CNN on Wednesday as she
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Miguel Marquez and Bonney Kapp, CNN Vera Middleton wishes she had gotten the Covid-19 vaccine. The 66-year-old great-grandmother from Olive Hill, Kentucky, said she and her husband discussed the vaccine, but kept putting it off and ultimately decided against it. She couldn’t explain why. Middleton spoke with CNN on Wednesday as she
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to campaign for California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the final days of a recall campaign. Biden will join the Democratic governor in the Southern California city of Long Beach on Monday. Voting ends Tuesday. Biden is the latest in a string
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates were marginally higher this week as the recovering economy appeared stalled against the backdrop of a wave of new delta variant coronavirus cases. They remained under 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate for a 30-year mortgage edged up to 2.88% from 2.87% last week. The
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates were marginally higher this week as the recovering economy appeared stalled against the backdrop of a wave of new delta variant coronavirus cases. They remained under 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate for a 30-year mortgage edged up to 2.88% from 2.87% last week. The
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO and PAUL WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s new “anti-riot” law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as a way to quell violent protests is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. The decision Thursday by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee found the recently
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Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story EUREKA SPRINGS, North Carolina (WTVD) — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man who possibly shot someone and ran from police Wednesday night. The ordeal began in Eureka Springs when officers on routine patrol spotted a drug transaction and tried to pull
Continue Reading By BEN FOX Associated Press NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 when he ended the war in Afghanistan, but he has yet to do much about another: the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The White House says it intends to shutter the notorious prison
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