OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ottawa Senators forward Drake Batherson agreed to a six-year, $29.85 million contract Friday. The 23-year-old Batherson had 17 goals and 17 assists in 56 games last season. He has 23 goals and 30 assists in 99 career games with Ottawa over three seasons.
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Jennifer Hansler, CNN US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs manager David Ross and president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer missed the team’s 6-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates after they tested positive for COVID-19. Michael Hermosillo homered and drove in three runs, leading Chicago to its fourth consecutive win. Frank Schwindel also connected,
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Opponents of a sweeping Republican elections overhaul in Texas are suing Gov. Greg Abbott before he had even signed the changes into law. A broad coalition of voting rights attorneys, disability rights groups and faith-based organization filed lawsuits Friday over the far-reaching voting bill in
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Lawsuits were filed Friday challenging a mask mandate for students and staff in elementary schools in Kansas’ most populous county and another mandate requiring everyone 5 and older in a small rural county to mask. The suits, filed against officials in Johnson County in the Kansas
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By Geneva Sands, CNN US intelligence officials are anticipating foreign terrorist organizations will seek to exploit the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and “probably the US withdrawal from Afghanistan” in their messaging, according to a FBI, DHS, and NCTC joint intelligence bulletin obtained by CNN. The agencies also concluded that homegrown violent extremists are unlikely to
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Sifan Hassan ran the fifth-fastest women’s mile ever, clocking 4 minutes, 14.74 seconds at the Memorial Van Damme meeting. Hassan set off on pace to beat her own world record but could not maintain it at the end of a grueling season. She took gold in Tokyo over 5,000
Continue ReadingBy Steve Large Click here for updates on this story SUTTER COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A surge in Yuba and Sutter County covid cases has now left the Rideout Regional Medical Center at 142% capacity in its ICU. There are 25 COVID patients in the ICU. One of them is 42-year-old Sunny Pegany, a father
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — En América Latina al menos ocho paÃses han aprobado la marihuana con fines medicinales, y solo dos, Uruguay y México, han legalizado su consumo con fines recreativos. Esta es la situación de algunos paÃses en América Latina: Uruguay fue el primer paÃs del mundo en legalizar la marihuana recreativa.
Continue Reading MILFORD, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating after a Milford police officer fired at a fleeing car. No one was injured in the confrontation on Thursday in Milford. Patrol spokesman Cody Thomas said the officer approached a vehicle at a storage business early Thursday. Thomas says the car’s occupants were uncooperative and
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar De La Hoya’s return to the ring will have to wait after the fighter said he tested positive for COVID-19. The 48-year-old De La Hoya was scheduled to fight on Sept. 11 against former MMA fighter Vitor Belfort in a pay-per-view event from Staples Center in Los Angeles. It would
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with attempted murder after firing at Minneapolis police officers in the chaotic protests that followed George Floyd’s death has been acquitted of all charges against him. Jaleel Stallings argued self-defense during his July trial, testifying that he fired at the unmarked white van after
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business Bumble and the CEO of rival dating platform Match Group are creating relief funds for people affected by a Texas law that bans abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. And in doing so they kicked off a corporate reaction to the legislation that other companies, including Lyft
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business Bumble and the CEO of rival dating platform Match Group are creating relief funds for people affected by a Texas law that bans abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. And in doing so they kicked off a corporate reaction to the legislation that other companies, including Lyft
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CHATSWORTH, California (KCAL, KCBS) — As wildfires rage in Northern California, some local residents are seeing their homeowners insurance policies cancelled by insurers. The state’s insurance commissioner has put insurers on notice that they are not allowed to cancel policies in areas where there has
Continue Reading By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tyson Foods is offering paid sick leave for the first time to its front-line workers. It’s part of an agreement that secured union support for its mandate that all U.S. employees get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. The meatpacking giant said 75% of its 120,000
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19.  Ivermectin is approved in the U.S. to treat infections from tiny worms and other parasites in humans and some animals like cows and horses. But
Continue Reading FRANKLIN, Wis. (AP) — Police have killed a man outside a suburban Milwaukee Walmart after he allegedly kidnapped a man and led officers on a high-speed chase. The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and police in Franklin and Oak Creek issued a joint statement saying deputies and officers shot the man Friday morning. The statement said
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy, CNN A man was in critical condition after a shark attacked him, partially severing his leg, when he fell overboard while untangling fishing nets from a boat propeller in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said a medical helicopter transferred the 64-year-old man to a hospital early Friday morning after
Continue Reading GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group announced the retrieval of three dead workers’ bodies from the cross-border smuggling tunnels the Palestinian territory shares with Egypt. Friday’s statement gave no cause of death, but a day earlier the group accused Egypt of pumping poisonous gas into the tunnel. These accusations could
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