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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco is back in the starting lineup after being benched for two games in response to his handling of frustrating situations this season. Franco was second in the lineup for a game against the Kanas City Royals. After being sent home Thursday, the first of

LONDON (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty has been scratched from his scheduled start on Sunday because of hip tightness, manager Oliver Marmol said. Flaherty (4-5, 4.95 ERA) had been set to face the Chicago Cubs at London Stadium. He has made 15 starts this season. The 27-year-old Flaherty allowed 10 hits and

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor assault charge filed last October against Las Vegas Raiders’ wide receiver Davante Adams after he shoved a photographer to the ground as he left the field following a loss at Kansas City. The case filed in Kansas City municipal court was dismissed June

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (AP) — Jose Siri homered and drove in four runs, Zach Eflin won his ninth game, and the MLB-best Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 11-3. Siri had a three-run shot during the second, and put the Rays ahead 4-3 on an RBI single in

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says that one big turnout by Oakland Athletics fans doesn’t change “a decade worth of inaction,” as he defended earlier comments about the “reverse boycott” held in protest of the team’s proposed move to Las Vegas. Manfred claims he was taken out

PUXICO, Mo. (AP) — An invasive fish that is voracious predator capable of surviving out of water for days was recently caught in southeastern Missouri, causing worry that the hard-to-contain species will spread and become a problem. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a northern snakehead was caught last month in a drainage pool at

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays ace Shane McClanahan left Thursday night against the Kansas City Royals because of an apparent injury. Soon after reliever Kevin Kelly started warming up in the bullpen, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash and a trainer went to the mound with two outs in the fourth and the

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses. The U.S. Court of Appeals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman imprisoned for more than four decades for a murder she says she didn’t commit will get a court hearing that could lead to her release. The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that the Missouri attorney general’s office has agreed to an evidentiary hearing for 63-year-old Sandra Hemme.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco has been benched and will not play in Thursday and Friday’s games at least by Rays manager Kevin Cash for the way he has handled frustrating situations this year. Cash said there’s been probably multiple times that the way he has handled his frustrations have

A former FBI analyst has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for keeping classified documents at her home in North Kansas City, Missouri. Kendra Kingsbury pleaded guilty in October to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She was sentenced Wednesday to three years and 10 months in federal prison.

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — An eclectic crowd of thousands — podcasters, vendors, startups, seekers — swarmed a psychedelics conference in Denver this week to experience everything from a dimly lit hall packed with kaleidoscope art and a wide-ranging lineup of speakers from a former Republican governor to NFL star