AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Nolan Gorman hit a two-run homer in a four-run second inning and the St. Louis Cardinals overcame two homers by Marcell Ozuna to beat the Atlanta Braves 9-5 and avoid being swept in a split doubleheader. The Braves won the first game 3-2 when Ozzie Albies hit a sacrifice
Continue ReadingAP Golf Writer TROON, Scotland (AP) — Billy Horschel leads a British Open that featured some of the hardest conditions players can remember. He shot a 69 in a steady rain and a wind that kept the world’s best players from reaching some greens on the back nine. Horschel has a one-shot lead over six
Continue ReadingHUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone while visiting their grandmother’s home in Tennessee. The county prosecutor, Frederick Agee, says he has seen security video that shows the older
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department says that two women and two children were found dead in their Brooklyn apartment. Police on Saturday say officers responded to a 911 call late Friday night reporting an assault. They say a 56-year-old woman was found dead with stab wounds. Her grandchildren, a 4-year-old boy
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Theodore Doyle, an 81-year-old retired manager with the former US Customs Service, was waking up in his hot and muggy northeast Houston apartment in a bed soaked in sweat. Doyle ultimately checked into a $98-a-night hotel room late Tuesday, after enduring a compounding crisis of extreme heat and no
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A 72-year-old Montana man shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked him while he was alone picking huckleberries, according to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The man was hospitalized after the encounter, which happened Thursday evening near Columbia Falls on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain. Government cybersecurity agencies across the globe and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz are warning businesses and individuals about new phishing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Colombian bishop who was mentioned in a book about priests and bishops who have allegedly committed acts of sexual abuse. The Vatican said in its daily news bulletin on Saturday that the pope approved the resignation of Bishop Óscar Augusto Múnera
Continue ReadingCNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, Israel has struck inside Yemen, following a deadly drone attack launched by Houthi rebels on Tel Aviv. Since the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel, the Houthis have been targeting shipping in the Red Sea in solidarity – they say – with Gaza.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Utah officials said Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out a drug that’s been used previously in executions in numerous states. Defense attorneys for Taberon Dave Honie, 49, had
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Police in South Africa arrested four people including two Mexican nationals after uncovering a multimillion-dollar drug manufacturing lab on a farm in the country’s north. The South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, commonly known as Hawks, raided the property in
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — As U.S. health officials investigate a fatal outbreak of listeria food poisoning, they’re advising people who are pregnant, elderly or have compromised immune systems to avoid eating sliced deli meat unless it’s recooked at home to be steaming hot. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t mandate a food
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A Florida woman’s brutal killing nearly 25 years ago may finally be solved after authorities arrested the suspect this week, according to the Sanford Police Department. Sherry Holtz, who was 50 at the time of her death, was found dead on December 4, 1999, a day after she was
Continue ReadingBy Thom Poole, Sophie Tanno, Eyad Kourdi, Adam Pourahmadi, Andrew Carey, Lauren Izso, Hira Humayun and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — At least six people were killed and scores more injured in Israeli airstrikes on a Yemeni port, Houthi rebels have said, a day after the Iran-backed group claimed a deadly attack on the Israeli
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, noting that more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw
Continue ReadingVIENNA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a plane trying to make an emergency landing at an airport in northeastern Ohio crashed, killing all three people aboard. The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that the twin-engine Beechcraft 60 went down near the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Ohio at about 6:45 p.m. Friday. The Ohio State Highway
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said that its fighters fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Saturday, targeting a kibbutz for the first time in nine months in retaliation for an Israeli drone strike earlier in the day that wounded several people including children. Also Saturday, the militant Palestinian group Hamas said
Continue ReadingA fire all but destroyed the historic church sanctuary at First Baptist Dallas, sending smoke billowing over the city but causing no deaths or injuries, Dallas firefighters said. The fire in the Texas Historic Landmark, a Victorian-style red brick church built in 1890, was reported about 6:30 p.m. Friday, and contained about three hours later,
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Police say a mail carrier was fatally shot while walking a route in Chicago. Investigators with the U.S. Postal Service are offering up to $250,000 for tips that solve the case. Octavia Redmond was shot shortly before noon Friday on Chicago’s South Side. The 48-year-old Redmond had delivered mail for more than
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Most of the athletes representing the Palestinian territories at the Paris Olympics were born somewhere else — Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Germany, Chile and the United States – yet they care deeply about the politics of their parents’ and grandparents’ homeland. They are eager to compete but hyper-aware their presence
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