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Pirates rally for 4 runs in 9th inning, defeat Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Bryan Reynolds finally made it to San Francisco, and he delivered. Reynolds hit a go-ahead single against his former team during a four-run rally in the ninth inning that sent the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-4 win over the Giants on Monday night. Down 4-2, the Pirates...
Raiders beat rival Broncos in 1st game after Antonio Brown’s releaseVideo
OAKLAND, Calif. — The night started with Oakland Raiders fans derisively chanting at former disgruntled receiver Antonio Brown and ended with coach Jon Gruden celebrating a victory in the Black Hole. The saga that consumed the football world for days didn’t hamper the Raiders a bit. Derek Carr threw a...
Wil Lutz’s 58-yard field goal lifts Saints over Texans, 30-28Video
NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees and Wil Lutz supplied the accuracy and poise New Orleans needed to overcome another officiating gaffe and its defense’s late collapse. Lutz made a 58-yard field goal as time expired, and the Saints beat the Houston Texans 30-28 on Monday night in a game that...
Crash kills 3 men in Greene County
WAYNESBURG — Authorities say a crash over the weekend claimed the lives of three men in southwestern Pennsylvania. State police in Greene County say a vehicle traveling on Route 19 in Franklin Township went out of control on a curve, struck a guardrail and hit a tree before overturning. Three...
At rally, Trump paints bleak picture of Democratic controlVideo
HAVELOCK, N.C. — Trying to prove his political clout by pushing a Republican to victory in a special election, President Donald Trump used a North Carolina rally Monday to paint a bleak picture of a nation he claimed would be overrun with crime, poverty and immigrants if Democrats seize power...
Bengals encouraged by 1st game under new coach Zac TaylorVideo
CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton had a career day. The defense played far better than at any time last season. An opener that could have turned ugly became a point of optimism. The Bengals couldn’t pull off the upset in Seattle, but the way they played suggested this could be a...
Tennessee lawmaker Kerry Roberts calls for removal of higher educationVideo
NASHVILLE — A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says he supports getting rid of higher education because he argues it would cut off the “liberal breeding ground.” Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield called for eliminating higher education while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show...
Hero’s welcome for David Ortiz at Fenway Park
BOSTON — Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz had a chance to thank his adoring fans at Fenway Park exactly three months after he was shot in the back while in his native Dominican Republic. In his first public appearance since June 9, when he was seriously injured in a...
New-look Ravens off to record-setting start behind Lamar Jackson
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The defending AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens stand alone atop the division after a near-flawless performance that would suggest their offseason changes only made them better than last year. Newcomers Mark Ingram and Earl Thomas contributed heavily to Sunday’s 59-10 rout of the Miami Dolphins, as...
Browns appear overhyped, reckless in penalty-filled debutVideo
CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield was hurting following a shocking, stinging loss. The Tennessee Titans sacked him five times, chased him all over the field and knocked some of the defiance out of Cleveland’s brassy quarterback in Sunday’s opener. “I’ll be all right,” Mayfield said. It’s too early to know if...
Struggling West Virginia a ‘work in progress’
West Virginia coach Neal Brown calls his team a “work in progress,” one that isn’t progressing fast enough with a week left until the start of the Big 12 season. The blocking of the offensive line stinks. The running game is nonexistent, and the quarterback play has been inconsistent. Across-the-board...
Judiciary panel to set rules for impeachment investigation
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday to establish rules for hearings on impeachment, escalating the panel’s investigations of President Donald Trump even as many Democrats remain wary of the effort. The resolution is a technical step, and the panel would still have to introduce impeachment articles against...
Judge reinstates nationwide halt on Trump asylum policy plan
OAKLAND, Calif. — A U.S. judge in California on Monday reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration’s plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in Oakland that an injunction blocking the administration’s policy from taking effect should apply...
Analysis: Federer-Nadal-Djokovic rivalry remains compellingVideo
NEW YORK At some point, of course, Rafael Nadal and the rest of the Big Three will stop winning Grand Slam titles, someone younger will emerge and a shift at the top of tennis will happen. Just not yet. And while so much attention in the sport has been focused...
Juul warned over claims e-cigarette safer than smoking
WASHINGTON — Federal health authorities Monday blasted vaping company Juul for illegally pitching its electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products. The Food and Drug Administration also upped its scrutiny of a number of key aspects of...
9 Florida students hospitalized for eating ‘THC-laced candy’
COOPER CITY, Fla. — Authorities say nine students from a Florida charter school ate marijuana-infused candy and were hospitalized with stomach pains. News outlets report students between the ages of 10 and 11 from Renaissance Charter School at Cooper City were hospitalized Friday. News outlets say the students were expected...
Rescuers pull 4th and final crewman alive from cargo shipVideo
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship Monday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a Georgia port. All four were reported as being alert and...
‘Riverdale’ to receive award from gay rights education group
The cast and creators of “Riverdale” will receive an award from a gay rights education group for the show’s portrayal of LGBTQ relationships in a high school setting. The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network announced Monday that “Riverdale” will be honored with its Gamechanger Award. The group cited the...
Schools face backlash for not reporting threats to parents
RALEIGH, N.C. — When officials at a Catholic high school in South Carolina learned that a 16-year-old student made videos of himself firing a gun and using racial slurs, they alerted police, but not parents. After the videos made it into the news over the summer, the backlash came quickly....
Man dressed as Elmo accused of groping Times Square tourist
NEW YORK — A man dressed as the children’s character Elmo has been charged with groping a 14-year-old girl who posed for a photo with him in Times Square. The New York Post says the man, Inocente Andrade-Pacheco, has denied the allegations through his lawyer. The Post says the 54-year-old...
British Airways grounds nearly all flights as pilots strike
LONDON — British Airways says it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots’ 48-hour strike over pay. In a statement Monday, the airline said it had “no way of predicting how many (pilots) would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to...
Man streams chase before Minnesota police fatally shoot him
RICHFIELD, Minn. — Police near Minneapolis shot and killed a driver following a chase after he apparently emerged from his car holding a knife and refused their commands to drop it. The chase started late Saturday night in Edina and ended in Richfield with officers shooting the man, Brian J....
Rafael Nadal holds off rally, wins U.S. Open for 19th major titleVideo
NEW YORK — The 19th Grand Slam title that seemed so inevitable for Rafael Nadal during the first two-plus sets of the U.S. Open final suddenly seemed in doubt as Daniil Medvedev forced it to a fifth. What had all the makings of a crowning morphed into a real contest...
Georgia: Search on for 4 missing after cargo ship overturned
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Rescuers scoured the Georgia coast on Sunday for four missing crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire, but the efforts ran into trouble amid the flames and instability of the ship, the Coast Guard said. The Golden Ray cargo ship’s problems...
Sheriff: California woman found dead; husband arrestedVideo
SACRAMENTO — California authorities say they have found what they believe to be the remains of a missing woman. The Sacramento Bee reported that the discovery of El Dorado County woman Heather Gumina prompted a homicide investigation by the county sheriff’s office. #Breaking @ElDoradoSheriff arrests Anthony Gumina for the murder...
