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Analysis: Bengals halt skid with confidence-building win over RaidersVideo
CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Bengals lost the first game after the bye week in each of the past five seasons. That provided a little extra motivation for Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders. The Bengals (6-4) did enough things right and wore down the slumping Raiders (5-5) in the...
Hedge fund Alden in hunt for another big newspaper chain
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. In a news release Monday, Alden said it sent Lee’s board a letter with the...
3 teens arrested in shooting at suburban Denver high school
AURORA, Colo. — Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora have arrested three teenagers in connection with the shooting of three students in a high school parking lot on Friday, a Colorado newspaper reported Monday. A television station quoted the city’s police chief as saying that gang involvement was suspected....
How covid shots for kids help prevent dangerous new variants
Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against covid-19 — not just to protect her but to help stop the coronavirus from spreading and spawning even more dangerous variants. “Love thy neighbor is something that we really do believe, and we want to be good community members...
A late afternoon slump leaves major indexes mostly lower
A choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended with stocks mostly lower Monday, as a late-afternoon burst of selling derailed the market from another all-time high. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% after having been up as much as 1% earlier in the day and on pace to eclipse the...
Police: Wisconsin parade-crash suspect was in a domestic disturbance
WAUKESHA, Wis. — The SUV driver who plowed into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring 48, was leaving the scene of a domestic dispute that had taken place just minutes earlier, Waukesha’s police chief said Monday. Police Chief Dan Thompson said that there...
Official: More than 90% of fed workers got shots by deadline
WASHINGTON — More than 90% of federal workers received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine by Monday’s deadline set by President Joe Biden. Biden announced in September that more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to undergo vaccination, with no with option to get regularly tested instead,...
Jin Young Ko delivers big finish at CME Group Tour Championship to win LPGA player of yearVideo
NAPLES, Fla. — The stakes were high and the odds would have seemed long to anyone but Jin Young Ko. Her only chance at LPGA Player of the Year was to win the CME Group Tour Championship. In her way was Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in the world....
Talor Gooch fights off challengers, wins RSM Classic for 1st PGA Tour titleVideo
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Talor Gooch was playing too well to get fazed by anything Sunday in the RSM Classic, and it paid off with his first PGA Tour title when he closed with a 6-under-par 64 for a three-shot victory at Sea Island. He was playing with two...
West Virginia tops Clemson for Huggins’ 904th career victoryVideo
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sean McNeil scored all 15 of his points in the final 10 minutes, 12 seconds and West Virginia rallied late in a 66-59 victory over Clemson on Sunday in the third-place game of the Charleston Classic — handing Mountaineers’ coach Bob Huggins his 904th career victory. The...
LeBron James draws blood on Isaiah Stewart’s face in Pistons-Lakers meleeVideo
DETROIT — LeBron James was ejected from the Los Angeles Lakers-Detroit Pistons game after drawing blood on Isaiah Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound on Sunday night. James’s left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart above the neck, sending him...
Olympic officials: Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai says she is safeVideo
BEIJING — Missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympic officials in a video call from Beijing that she was safe and well, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday after Peng reappeared in public at a youth tournament in Beijing, according to photos released by the organizer. The 30-minute call...
Bengals return from bye, beat Raiders to get back into AFC North raceVideo
LAS VEGAS — Joe Mixon rushed for 123 yards and scored two touchdowns, and the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the Las Vegas Raiders, 32-13, on Sunday. The well-rested Bengals (6-4) came out of their bye week and snapped a two-game skid to climb back into the AFC North race, while the...
5 dead, 40 injured after SUV speeds into Wisconsin Christmas parade
WAUKESHA, Wis. — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others. One video...
NFL Week 11 roundup: Texans snap 8-game skid, end Titans’ 6-game streakVideo
NASHVILLE — Tyrod Taylor ran for two touchdowns and threw for 107 yards and the Houston Texans snapped the NFL’s longest active skid by beating the Tennessee Titans 22-13 to end the league’s longest winning streak on a wet and rainy Sunday. The Texans (2-8) came in having lost eight...
‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic moved to North Carolina facility after cancer diagnosis
BUTNER, N.C. — The former Oklahoma zookeeper known as “Tiger King” Joe Exotic, a prominent figure in a Netflix documentary series, has been transferred to a medical facility in North Carolina for federal inmates after a cancer diagnosis, according to his attorney. Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage,...
Devonta Freeman’s late TD lifts Ravens over Bears with Lamar Jackson sidelinedVideo
CHICAGO — Tyler Huntley was on the way to the game Sunday when he got the message from Lamar Jackson. The Ravens’ star quarterback was too sick to play. Subbing for Jackson, Huntley led a winning drive capped by Devonta Freeman’s 3-yard run with 22 seconds remaining, and the Baltimore...
Nick Chubb saves day as Browns escape with win against LionsVideo
CLEVELAND — Nick Chubb caught a touchdown pass and ran for 130 yards as the Cleveland Browns held on to avoid a season-wrecking upset and keep Detroit winless with a sloppy 13-10 victory over the Lions on Sunday. Chubb returned to Cleveland’s lineup after a one-game absence because of covid-19....
About 80 thieves ransack department store near San Francisco
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said. Three people were arrested while the majority got away after...
Expect to pay more for Christmas trees, experts say
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. — Add Christmas trees to the list of items facing shortages and higher prices this year. Several factors are driving the trend, Newsday reported, including over-the-top sales last year during the first Christmas during the covid-19 pandemic and supply chain issues this year. Experts said tree buyers should...
‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ captures $44 million in theaters
Busting ghosts is still a fairly lucrative business after almost 40 years. Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, the latest attempt to revive “Ghostbusters” drew a sizable audience to theaters, while the awards darling “King Richard,” like most dramas in the pandemic era, is struggling. With a reverence for nostalgia and a...
AP Top 25: Ohio State jumps to No. 2 past Alabama, Cincinnati
Ohio State is No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, surging three spots Sunday past No. 3 Alabama and No. 4 Cincinnati in a close vote. Georgia is a unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank for the seventh consecutive week, but for...
Biden’s political standing fuels Democratic worry about 2024
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden. The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year’s campaign. But...
GOP embraces natural immunity as substitute for vaccines
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republicans fighting President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity. They contend that people who have recovered from the virus have enough immunity and antibodies to not need covid-19 vaccines, and the concept has been invoked by...
Rittenhouse acquittal tightens the political vise for Biden
WILMINGTON, Del. — A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Biden was already facing sliding poll numbers with an electorate worn down by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing inflation. Now, the president finds himself caught between outraged...
