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CHICAGO (AP) — Nashville defender Walker Zimmerman was the only overage player selected Wednesday for the United States’ 25-man training camp roster ahead of its final pre-Olympic friendly, against Japan on June 11 at Kansas City, Kansas. The U.S. qualified for its first men’s Olympic soccer tournament since 2008 and will open against host France

By MIKE COOK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Simeon Woods Richardson earned his first win in eight starts, Jose Miranda knocked in two runs and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 . Minnesota, winners of six of their last seven games, got two hits apiece from Manuel Margot, Byron Buxton and Carlos

By GARY SCHATZ Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Nolan Arenado hit a two-run homer, Kyle Gibson pitched six sparkling innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1. Iván Herrera had three hits for St. Louis, which improved to 11-3 in its last 14 games. Gibson was charged with one run and two

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Southeastern Conference football coaches are bracing for the impact of a potential downsizing of rosters around the NCAA. The coaches convened Tuesday for the league’s spring meetings with potential roster issues among the questions on their minds following a settlement agreement involving the NCAA and

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — Police in Missouri say a woman went to a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other. A 9-year-old girl was found dead inside their car, parked outside the station.  A 2-year-old boy was found dead in a fountain outside a resort

MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating after the body of a newborn infant was found at a recreation area in northwest Missouri. The body of the newborn was found Saturday at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park in Maryville. Police Chief Mike Stolte said in a news release that a park employee found the remains while

By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Nick Lodolo came off the injured list to pitch 5 1/3 innings of one-run ball, Jeimer Candelario homered and the Cincinnati Reds won a season-high fourth straight game, 3-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals. Lodolo, who missed his last two starts while nursing a groin injury,

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joe Ryan pitched seven smooth innings for the Minnesota Twins, who got a two-run homer by Jose Miranda and a three-run shot from Trevor Larnach and hung on to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 in the opener of a four-game series. Ryan allowed one run

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Texas beat No. 16 seed Texas A&M 6-5 to win the Austin Super Regional and advance to the Women’s College World Series. The top-seeded Longhorns lost the opener Friday, then kept their season alive by rallying to beat the Aggies in extra innings Saturday. Florida, Duke, Alabama and Stanford

By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt homered twice and Sonny Gray tossed five scoreless innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 in game delayed more than 2 1/2 hours at the start by rain. St. Louis has won five in a row for the first

By BRUCE SCHREINER and JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages. The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — D’Auna Jennings led off the top of the ninth inning with a home run to end a scoreless pitching duel between Cassidy Curd and Missouri’s Laurin Krings and 10th-seeded Duke held on for a wild 4-3 victory over the seventh-seeded Tigers on Sunday in the finale of the best-of-three Columbia Super

By DÁNICA COTO and JIM SALTER Associated Press A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are going to be transported to Missouri this week. The couple and a Haitian man who led a religious organization were fatally shot by criminal gang members in Haiti’s capital. Davy

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Lowe drove in three runs with a pinch-hit triple during Tampa Bay’s four-run seventh inning, and the Rays stopped Kansas City’s eight-game win streak with a 4-1 victory over the Royals. The Rays had lost a season-high six straight. Kansas City’s Michael Wacha lost

BUTLER, Mo. (AP) — Six skydivers and a pilot are safe after parachuting out of a small plane before it crashed near a county airport in western Missouri. Officials say the plane is “a total loss.” According to the National Transportation Safety Board, preliminary information indicates the plane that crashed early Saturday afternoon was flying

By SUSIE RANTZ Associated Press Elizabeth Ball scored and the Kansas City Current remained one of two unbeatem teams in the National Women’s Soccer League with a 1-0 win over the Utah Royals at America First Field on Saturday night. The Current (7-0-4) finished the weekend in second place in the league behind Orlando. Ball

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Morris scored a goal for the second consecutive game and Stefan Frei had four saves to help the Seattle Sounders beat St. Louis City 2-1. Cristian Roldan, on the right side, played an entry that was redirected by St. Louis defender Kyle Hiebert into the net for an own goal

By JEFF LATZKE Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brendan Donovan had a two-run single, Lars Nootbaar added an RBI triple and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied in the eighth inning and then held off the Chicago Cubs for a 7-6 victory Saturday night. In front of their first sellout crowd since opening day, the

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Nelson Velázquez homered and had an RBI double in a three-run 11th inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 for their eighth straight win. Velázquez opened the 11th with his hit and scored on Adam Frazier’s run-scoring single off Richard