BALTIMORE (AP) — Former major league pitcher Jerry Walker has died at age 85. Walker is the youngest player to start the All-Star Game. He was 20 when he took the mound representing the Baltimore Orioles in 1959. Walker pitched eight seasons in the major leagues for Baltimore, the Kansas City Athletics and Cleveland. He
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is celebrating members of Team USA as the athletes head off to Paris for the Summer Olympic Games. The airline organized a send-off Wednesday for archers, fencers and other U.S. athletes at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The airline had T-shirts and water bottles at the gate where archers, fencers,
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Jarren Duran and the rest of this year’s All-Stars drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6% from the 2023 game but the second lowest for the event. The American League’s 5-3 victory at Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday night saw an increase from the 7,006,000 viewers for the
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two women were seriously injured Wednesday in a crash on Highway 52 at Route C in Morgan County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states a 2012 GMC Terrain – driven by Charla Bacon, 62, of Jefferson City – was heading eastbound when it was turning
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has demanded the self-governed island of Taiwan pay for U.S. protection. He also dodged a question if he would defend the island from Beijing’s military action and accused the island of taking the semiconductor industry away from the United States. Trump made such remarks in
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — Thousands of Republican delegates have officially made Donald Trump their party’s presidential nominee just days after he survived an assassination attempt. The shooting hung over the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where prominent GOP officials and everyday citizens from around the country spoke to the party faithful. They made their case
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Robert man who was accused of murder last year has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Tyron Spence-Bey pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Pulaski County to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and illegal gun possession. He was previously charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and illegal gun possession. According to
Continue Reading Associated Press TANQUA, Brazil (AP) — Several tons of fish have died along one of the main rivers in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state after an alleged illegal dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant, environmental authorities and prosecutors said Wednesday. A preliminary analysis estimates that between 10 and 20 tons of fish
Continue Reading Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez was only 20 minutes away from being executed when the U.S. Supreme Court granted his request to stay his lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville. Tuesday’s decision by the Supreme Court to grant an 11th hour reprieve for Gutierrez, convicted of fatally
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The nearly complete fossilized remains of a stegosaurus fetched $44.6 million at auction Wednesday, Sotheby’s said. The buyer’s name was not disclosed. The fossil, dubbed “Apex,” is considered to be among the most complete ever found, according to the auction house. The price blew past a pre-sale estimate of $4 million
Continue Reading Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” including “general malaise” from the infection, the White House said. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden will fly to his home in Delaware, where he will “self-isolate and will continue to
Continue Reading CNN By Donald Judd and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House. Biden, 81, tested positive following his first event in Las Vegas, where he was expected to later speak at the UnidosUS annual conference. The president’s
Continue Reading Associated Press ASPEN, Colorado (AP) — Ukraine will find a way to deal with whatever comes if former President Donald Trump wins a second term, throwing into doubt vital U.S. support for its defense against Russia’s invading forces, Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday. In carefully framed comments to an audience of U.S. policymakers and journalists,
Continue Reading Associated Press The EPA’s internal watchdog will investigate why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors into the air over East Palestine until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment last year. The Associated Press reported on a whistleblower’s concerns this spring about the problems in the way the Environmental
Continue Reading Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under an opinion from the state attorney general. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued an opinion Wednesday that says a law passed earlier this year to immediately restore the voting rights of people who’ve finished serving their felony
Continue Reading AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX will use a powerful, souped-up capsule to shove the International Space Station out of orbit once time is up for the sprawling lab. NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday outlined the plan to burn the space station up on reentry. They’re aiming for January 2031 when the
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military’s pier to get humanitarian aid into Gaza is coming to an end after a series of problems. The pier was pulled from the Gaza shore on June 28 due to rough seas, and bad weather has prevented troops from reinstalling it. Now, it’s being dismantled and brought
Continue Reading Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The young man was pacing around the edges of the Donald Trump campaign rally, shouldering a big backpack and peering into the lens of a rangefinder toward the rooftops behind the stage where the former president would stand within the hour. His behavior was so odd, so unlike that
Continue Reading AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures after being targeted by conservative backlash. In a statement posted Tuesday to social media platform X, John Deere
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! The Emmy nominations are out, and “The Bear” and “Shōgun” led the pack with more than 20 each. Here’s a rundown on the nominees in all of the categories. The Emmy Awards will be presented September 15. Here’s what else you might have missed during
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