Associated Press stories, Page 1172
Duquesne fails to close gap, loses to Merrimack
PITTSBURGH — Victor Dawson ran for 124 yards and two touchdowns, and Merrimack held off Duquesne, 28-21, on Saturday. Dawson scored on 9- and 18-yard runs as the Warriors (4-2, 2-0 Northeast Conference) scored 21 straight points to take a 28-14 lead late in the third quarter. The Dukes (1-5,...
Robert Morris football shut out by Gardner-Webb in Big South openerVideo
Bailey Fisher threw three touchdown passes, the Gardner-Webb defense allowed just 19 yards in the second half and the Runnin’ Bulldogs rolled past Robert Morris, 48-0, on Saturday in the Big South Conference opener for both teams. Gardner-Webb led 20-0 at halftime after Fisher ran for a touchdown and completed...
Oscar Gonzalez’s 15th-inning HR leads Guardians past Rays for AL wild-card sweepVideo
CLEVELAND — The Guardians have won with comebacks and walk-offs for months, turning an unexpected season more special by the day. Cleveland wasn’t supposed to be this good, this fast. Baseball’s youngest team certainly has grown up. Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke up the longest scoreless postseason game in history with...
Serial ‘jogger rapist’ to be released from Oregon prison
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon serial rapist is set to be released from prison in mid-December after serving nearly 36 years behind bars, almost all of his maximum sentence. Richard Gillmore, arrested in 1986 and called the “jogger rapist” because he staked out victims as he ran by their homes,...
Former Steelers CB Joe Haden enters Florida’s Hall of Fame, plans NFL retirementVideo
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Joe Haden has a formal NFL retirement date. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback and former Pittsburgh Steelers player told the Associated Press he is planning to sign a one-day contract with Cleveland on Oct. 30 so he can retire as a member of the team that drafted...
Roger Goodell: NFL to make ‘change or 2’ to concussion protocolVideo
LONDON — The NFL is prepared “to make a change or two” to its concussion protocol, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said at a fan forum in London on Saturday as the league faces questions about how the Miami Dolphins handled quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s recent injuries. Responding to a fan’s question...
Vegas showgirls describe shock of stabbings that left 2 dead
LAS VEGAS — Victims of a quick series of stabbings on the Las Vegas Strip described the shock and horror of the unexpected attack on a group of showgirls and others outside a casino that left two people dead and six injured. Police arrested Yoni Barrios, 32, after a short...
Documents: Florida migrant transport planning began in July
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida officials began planning to transport migrants to other states in July and told potential contractors their task would be to relocate them on a voluntary basis, according to state documents. The documents released Friday night to The Associated Press and other news organizations provide new...
North Korea launches missile toward sea after U.S. – South Korea drills
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean military said North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest in the country’s barrage of weapons tests in recent days. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the launch occurred early Sunday but gave...
‘Fake heiress’ released to house arrest, fights deportation
NEW YORK — Phony socialite and convicted swindler Anna Sorokin, whose scheme inspired a Netflix series, has been released from U.S. immigration custody to house arrest, immigration officials and her spokesperson said. Anna Sorokin is on home confinement in New York City, said her spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer. “Anna now has...
Vermont town employee quietly lowered fluoride in water for years
RICHMOND, Vt. — Residents of a small community in Vermont were blindsided last month by news that one official in their water department quietly lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago, giving rise to worries about their children’s dental health and transparent government — and highlighting the enduring misinformation around...
3 hurt in shooting outside Ohio high school football stadium
TOLEDO, Ohio — Police in Ohio said three people were wounded in a shooting outside a high school football game that sent people on the field and spectators in the stands running for cover. Police said the shots were fired behind the Whitmer High School stadium in Toledo at about...
Truck bomb hits bridge to Crimea, hurts Russian supply lines
KYIV, Ukraine — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an important supply artery for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine and hitting an unmistakable symbol of Russian power in the region. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the...
Trackhouse heads into 100th start in championship contention
CONCORD, N.C. — The first racing book Justin Marks ever read was called “The Unfair Advantage,” written during a one-year sabbatical by the late Mark Donohue about his boss Roger Penske. Marks grew up in admiration of Penske, Rick Hendrick and Joe Gibbs, the top owners in American motorsports. When...
NFL players union urges quick changes to concussion protocolVideo
NEW YORK — The NFL Players Association urged the league on Friday to implement changes to its concussion protocol in time to protect players in this weekend’s games. The players’ union wants to strengthen the protocol to avoid a repeat of what happened to Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in...
Texas officer fired after shooting hamburger-eating teenagerVideo
A Texas police officer who shot and wounded a teenager who had been sitting in his car eating a hamburger has been fired, police said. San Antonio Officer James Brennand was fired after shooting Erik Cantu, 17, on Oct. 2 in a fast food restaurant parking lot, police training commander...
Luis Castillo sharp, Mariners blank Jays in wild-card opener
TORONTO — Luis Castillo and Andres Munoz combined on a shutout, Cal Raleigh hit a two-run homer and the Seattle Mariners won in their first postseason game since 2001, beating the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-0, on Friday in their AL wild-card series opener. Eugenio Suarez had two hits and two...
Multiple explosions rock eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv
KYIV, Ukraine — A series of explosions rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions. There were no immediate reports of casualties The blasts came hours after Russia concentrated attacks in its increasingly...
NYC hospitals to pay $165M to women abused by gynecologist
NEW YORK — Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse and misconduct. Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian announced the agreement Friday. Last year, the two hospitals reached a settlement to...
Trump super PAC reserves millions in airtime in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump is finally opening his checkbook, reserving millions of dollars in airtime for ads to bolster his endorsed candidates in key midterm races just one month before Election Day. Trump’s newly-formed MAGA Inc. super PAC will begin airing ads Saturday in Nevada, Georgia and...
Nino Niederreiter scores in debut, Predators top Sharks in Prague
PRAGUE — The Nashville Predators’ new additions made a quick impact in the NHL’s first regular-season game. Nino Niederreiter scored his debut goal for Nashville, which beat the San Jose Sharks, 4-1, in the Czech capital on Friday night. Kiefer Sherwood, another newcomer, became the first player to score this...
Phillies score 6 in 9th inning, top Cardinals in Game 1 of wild-card seriesVideo
ST. LOUIS — Philadelphia scored six times in the ninth inning off the stingy St. Louis bullpen, highlighted by a bases-loaded single by Jean Segura, and the Phillies beat the NL Central champion Cardinals, 6-3, on Friday in the opening game of their National League wild-card series. The Cardinals, who...
NHL’s East ‘have nots’ hoping to start challenging the eliteVideo
Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin aren’t getting any younger, and New Jersey Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald isn’t shy about hoping that age finally catches up to the NHL Eastern Conference’s elite players. At the same time, Fitzgerald can appreciate it takes more than hope and age to level the...
Drought takes toll on U.S. cotton production
LUBBOCK, Texas — The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, like many others, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres of his bone-dry fields....
Stocks extend their losses on fears recession may be looming
NEW YORK — Good news on the economy remains bad news for Wall Street, and stocks are falling sharply Friday on worries a still-strong U.S jobs market may actually make a recession more likely. The S&P 500 was 3.1% lower in afternoon trading after the government said employers hired more...
