By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — When Brazil hosts Argentina in Sunday’s World Cup qualifier, it may not be fair to call it a rematch of the Copa America final from less than two months ago. Brazil is missing nine England-based players who did not travel because of Britain’s coronavirus restrictions.
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says an investigation team was sent to a July crash
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says an investigation team was sent to a July crash
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A parole officer who shot a suspect in a confrontation that saw the officer also injured has been cleared by a prosecutor of wrongdoing. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber issued a report clearing Officer Mike Brown in the Aug. 20 shooting in Council Bluffs. The
Continue Reading By SONNY FIGUEROA Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan officials say they’re trying to arrest a former anti-corruption prosecutor whose ouster led the U.S. to reduce cooperation with the Central American nation’s legal system. The arrest warrant for Juan Francisco Sandoval was confirmed by the spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. That came a day
Continue Reading By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor says he is dropping his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the first-degree murder case of death row inmate Shaun Bosse. O’Connor said Friday that he made the decision after a state appellate court ruled the high court’s decision in
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Continue Reading DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy. Their suit accuses the utility of not doing enough to warn people that its dam poses a deadly risk. Nine relatives from Eden, North Carolina, and LaPorte, Indiana, were floating down the
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Borowy Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WNEM) — Police are warning of scammers targeting elderly residents after a local officer stopped an envelope of cash from reaching an unknown person in New York. The daughter of an elderly resident contacted the Saginaw Township Police Department to report a
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz has beaten No. 3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in five sets at the U.S. Open to reach the fourth round of a major for the first time. Another 18-year-old also produced a big win when Leylah Fernandez of Canada upset defending champion
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the FBI to declassify documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The order Friday is a supportive gesture to victims’ families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. Still, the
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright in April, now faces an additional first-degree manslaughter charge. Days after the shooting on April 11, Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the 20-year-old’s death. But Minnesota Attorney General
Continue Reading VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites into orbit exploded in a fireball off the California coast. The Alpha rocket from the company Firefly Aerospace lifted off Thursday evening at Vandenberg Space Force Base. About two-and-a-half minutes into its flight it suffered what was termed an
Continue Reading VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites into orbit exploded in a fireball off the California coast. The Alpha rocket from the company Firefly Aerospace lifted off Thursday evening at Vandenberg Space Force Base. About two-and-a-half minutes into its flight it suffered what was termed an
Continue ReadingBy Liz Collin Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Ongoing supply chain and staffing issues are hitting some small restaurants hard. As more pandemic problems persist, one of the largest food suppliers has hit pause on some Minneapolis restaurants — meaning owners are forced to find their ingredients elsewhere. For 18
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La recuperación del empleo en Estados Unidos se topó con un obstáculo importante en agosto, cuando la economÃa del paÃs agregó muchos menos puestos de trabajo de lo esperado. Solo se agregaron 235.000 puestos de trabajo el mes pasado, muy por debajo de las expectativas de los economistas. En tiempos normales
Continue ReadingBy Marie Saavedra Click here for updates on this story MELROSE PARK, Illinois (WBBM) — Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez lost their lives in a violent, high-profile shooting back during Puerto Rican Parade celebrations in Humboldt Park back in June. But beyond that headline are two children left without their mother and father. Their surviving
Continue ReadingCésar López (CNN Español) — La boxeadora mexicana Jeanette ZacarÃas Zapata falleció después de permanecer en cuidados intensivos en Canadá por más de cinco dÃas. El promotor de la pelea, la agencia Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), que organizó el evento en Montreal, Canadá, el pasado 28 de agosto, confirmó la noticia: “Con un profundo pesar
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN One of two teachers at a Texas junior high school who died last week of Covid-19 was nervous about returning to school because of the Delta variant, her sister told CNN. Natalia Chansler, a 6th grade social studies teacher at Connally Junior High in Elm Mott, Texas, died of Covid-19 complications
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Ahmaud Arbery’s parents are praising the indictment of a former Georgia prosecutor. Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson is now charged with trying to help the men who chased and killed their 25-year-old son. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, told reporters Friday that the Johnson’s indictment is
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