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By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres acquired goalie Ben Bishop in a trade with the Dallas Stars in a salary cap-related paperwork move involving a veteran who is not expected to play again because of degenerative right knee injury.  The Sabres add the final year of Bishop’s contract,

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government said Friday that it will distribute $60 million among 12 states that have waterways that flow into the Mississippi River to help them control farm runoff and other pollution that contribute to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The money

By MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carlos Santana and MJ Melendez homered, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 7-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Santana hit a two-run homer to break a fifth-inning tie as the Royals won consecutive games for the first time since May 17-18. Bobby Witt Jr.

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Geico may have to pay $5.2 million to a woman who says she contracted a disease during sex in a car with a man insured by the company. A Missouri Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday upheld the award to a woman identified in court

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shane McClanahan pitched eight superb innings to win his fifth consecutive start and the Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals with a 2-1 victory. McClanahan  allowed one unearned run, two hits, walked one and struck out nine, The lefty,

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Colorado coach Tad Boyle, Wheaton coach Mike Schauer and Benedictine coach Ryan Moody have been appointed to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ board of directors. The terms of Northeastern coach Bill Coen, Trinity coach Pat Cunningham and Westmont coach John Moore expired. The board of directors provides strategic oversight

MONTREAL (AP) — Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is putting his NFL career on hold — again. The 31-year-old Canadian offensive lineman told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that he will begin a residency program at a Montreal-area hospital next month. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has been an unrestricted NFL free agent since March after finishing last season with the

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson’s farmhouse in Blandinsville, Illinois, didn’t have safe drinking water for nearly two months. Flood water poured into her well, turning the water a muddy brown and forcing Johnson, her

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis jail guard has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for allowing two detainees to beat another inmate in his cell. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 39-year-old Demeria Thomas was sentenced Tuesday after she pleaded guilty in February to depriving an inmate of his civil

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alek Manoah scattered six hits in six scoreless innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 7-0. Alejandro Kirk had four hits and scored a run for Toronto, and Bo Bichette reached base five times — including three walks. The Blue Jays

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Taylor Walls hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2. Walls sent a 2-2 pitch from Drew VerHagen into the right field seats. St. Louis loaded the bases with no outs

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills newly promoted special teams coordinator Matthew Smiley cites communication as being an issue contributing to how Buffalo squandered a lead in the final 13 seconds of regulation of an eventual overtime loss to Kansas City in an AFC divisional playoff game in January.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Jackson County Circuit judge has thrown out a $4 million verdict awarded to a transgender student in the Blue Springs School District who sued over being denied access to male bathrooms and locker rooms. KCUR reports Judge Cory Atkins ruled last month the student’s attorneys did not prove that

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bo Bichette hit one of three Toronto home runs and five Blue Jays pitchers combined on a two-hitter in an 8-0 win over the Kansas City Royals. Ross Stripling (2-1) earned the win as he allowed just one hit over five innings, matching his season