By AVERY OSEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — MJ Melendez hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning and had a career-high six RBIs to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5. The rookie Melendez blasted it an estimated 406-feet to right field which bounced into the fountains
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RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) — Two teenagers were killed in a shooting in a Kansas City suburb Sunday afternoon. The shooting was reported shortly after noon Sunday in Raytown, Missouri. Raytown Police Corporal Jeffery Peterman said officers found two teenagers with gunshot wounds when they arrived. One victim died at the scene while the other died
Continue Reading LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) — India’s spinners put on a show in Florida to take all 10 wickets in an 88-run win over West Indies in the fifth and final Twenty20 cricket international. India leaves Miami with two wins in two matches and a 4-1 victory overall in the series. The first three matches were held
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Liudmila Samsonova hit 10 aces and won her second career WTA title by coming back to beat sixth-seeded Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the Citi Open. Samsonova is a 23-year-old Russian currently ranked 60th after needing to sit out part of the season, including Wimbledon,
Continue Reading MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) — After seeing a five-shot lead slip away in the final round, Ashleigh Buhai still managed to secure a first major title at the Women’s British Open. Buhai kept her composure to beat In Gee Chun — and the setting sun — in a playoff at Muirfield on Sunday for her first
Continue Reading By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Yu Chang and Yandy Diaz drew bases-loaded walks in a seven-run ninth inning to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 7-0. With the game scoreless in the ninth, former Tiger Isaac Parades hit a one-out single off Tigers closer Gregory Soto , then took
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Bryse Wilson pitched effectively into the sixth inning, Ke’Bryan Hayes homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates snapped Baltimore’s five-game winning streak with an 8-1 victory over the Orioles. The Pirates also ended their own nine-game skid at Camden Yards, improving to 2-11 at the ballpark. Wilson allowed
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By Abeer Salman, Andrew Carey and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza was holding on Monday after a weekend of hostilities left dozens of Palestinians dead. The truce, announced on Sunday evening by both sides, came about 50 hours after the escalation began, when Israel launched
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Dehydration is one of the biggest concerns during football camps in the summer, and the New York Giants saw its effects on new center Jon Feliciano. The 30-year-old veteran developed dehydration on the second day of practice and missed four days. The former Buffalo
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By Chuck Johnston Another wave of airline cancellations and delays is being felt across the United States on Sunday. According to the flight tracking website, FlightAware, there have been 912 flights canceled so far on Sunday. A total of 6,378 flights have been delayed across the United States. Chicago O’Hare saw the most cancellations and
Continue Reading ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won their fourth race of the year and head into the IMSA season finale in a winner-take-all fight for the sports car championship. The win moved Wayne Taylor Racing back atop the point standings. Albuquerque and Taylor hold a 19-point lead over Oliver Jarvis and
Continue Reading By Martin Goillandeau, CNN Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old British boy at the center of a long legal battle between his parents and doctors over the withdrawal of his treatment, died on Saturday, his mother, Hollie Dance, said. Archie died at 12:15 p.m. local time at Royal London Hospital, a few hours after doctors suspended the
Continue ReadingBy Theresa Waldrop and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Hundreds of Haitian and Cuban migrants using 16 different vessels were taken into custody after making landfall or reaching the US coast off Florida from Friday to Saturday, US Customs and Border Patrol said. In one dramatic incident, more than 330 migrants from Haiti were rescued after the
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Senate Democrats failed to realize their longstanding goal of lowering the price of insulin for the more than 150 million Americans with private health insurance. The party had pushed to include a measure in their climate and health care package that passed the chamber Sunday that would place a $35 cap
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Senate Democrats failed to realize their longstanding goal of lowering the price of insulin for the more than 150 million Americans with private health insurance. The party had pushed to include a measure in their climate and health care package that passed the chamber Sunday that would place a $35 cap
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Danquah Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A group of mothers in Nashville have been using a heartbreaking moment to invoke change. On Saturday, mothers joined at the Greenwood Cemetery. After more than five years of trying to visit her son’s grave, one member of a group called
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Montgomery, Miles Montgomery Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Parents of 24-year-old Allahnia Lenoir are begging for the public’s help finding her after she disappeared under suspicious circumstances from a Midtown Atlanta apartment on July 30. A vigil was held for Lenoir on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. at
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee rookie quarterback Malik Willis made a business decision when he found himself facing off against Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons in a live tackle drill at training camp. He went straight to the ground. “I was like, ‘No, this can’t be
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey still remembers the raw anger he felt after the 2009 climate bill bearing his name failed to advance in a Democrat-controlled Senate. “I was full of rage that the climate crisis was not going to be addressed,” he told CNN of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. “I just
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles manager Brandon Hyde has been ejected from Baltimore’s game against Pittsburgh. Hyde was tossed after he came out to talk to umpires about a replay review that awarded the Pirates a run in the seventh inning. Greg Allen initially was called out on a play at home, but the Pirates appeared
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