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Peters Township native Alison Riske tabbed for U.S. Olympic tennis team
WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff and Jennifer Brady will lead a U.S. Olympic tennis team that will go to the Tokyo Games without any of the country’s two highest-ranked women or four top men, according to a roster obtained by The Associated Press. The list of players heading to Japan...
Rescue efforts resume after delay at Florida condo collapse site
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Rescue efforts at the site of a partially collapsed Florida condominium building resumed Thursday evening, about 15 hours after the work was halted out of concern about the stability of the remaining structure, the mayor said. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said he did not know why officials...
Picasso kept in Maine house closet for 50 years is sold
AMESBURY, Mass. — A mixed-media painting attributed to Pablo Picasso has been sold after spending 50 years in a closet in a house in Maine. John McInnis Auctioneers, based in Massachusetts, confirmed that the painting entitled “Le Tricorne” sold on Saturday, the Boston Globe reported. The 16 x 16 inch...
U.S. women’s hoops looks for 7th consecutive gold medal
Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird will try and become the first players ever to win five Olympic gold medals in basketball when the United States women’s team begins play at the Tokyo Games. The pair has been an integral part of the U.S. run of six consecutive golds at the...
Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting restrictions
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions in Arizona in a decision that could make it harder to challenge other voting limits put in place by Republican lawmakers following last year’s elections. The court, by a conservative-majority 6-3 vote, reversed a lower court ruling in deciding that...
McCarthy to GOP: Don’t let Pelosi name you to Jan. 6 riot panel
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has threatened to strip Republicans of committee assignments if they accept an appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to join the new select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a top House GOP aide said Thursday. The warning by McCarthy, R-Calif., underscores...
U.S. jobless claims fall to 364,000, a new pandemic low
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell again last week to the lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the job market and the broader economy are rebounding rapidly from the coronavirus recession. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped...
Road America eagerly awaits 1st Cup Series race since 1956
Road America owns a reputation as one of the nation’s foremost road courses yet hasn’t hosted NASCAR’s premier Cup Series since the 1950s. That changes on the Fourth of July in a coup for a Wisconsin track that bills itself as “America’s national park of speed” but until this year...
Tour de France organizers withdraw lawsuit against careless fan
CHATEAUROUX, France — Tour de France organizers have withdrawn their lawsuit against a spectator who caused a massive crash on the first stage. Organizers made the decision in a bid to defuse the situation after the careless spectator was placed in custody, race spokesperson Fabrice Tiano said on Thursday. Gendarmes...
Monument unveiled to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells
CHICAGO — A monument to journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was unveiled Wednesday in Chicago. Officially called The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument, the commemoration created by sculptor Richard Hunt was dedicated in the South Side neighborhood where Wells lived out her life. The...
Israel welcomes German leader as ally against antisemitism
JERUSALEM — Israel’s president warmly welcomed his German counterpart on Thursday, praising him as an ally in combatting antisemitism. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is set to meet with Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and is expected to reiterate Germany’s strong support for Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that...
Registered sex workers in Germany drop sharply in pandemic
BERLIN — The number of people registered as sex workers with German authorities declined sharply last year as coronavirus restrictions shut brothels for months, official data showed Thursday. Legislation in 2002 legalized and regulated prostitution in Germany, giving sex workers social benefits, and they are now obliged to register. But...
GOP congressman flouts mask rules on airline flight to Texas
WASHINGTON — A Texas congressman who has been an outspoken critic of covid-19 mask mandates went without a mask for at least a portion of a commercial airline flight Tuesday evening, an apparent violation of federal law. Republican Rep. Chip Roy flew from Washington back to his home district in...
WHO warns of delta variant virus surge in Europe
GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says a 10-week drop in covid-19 cases in the region has ended, and warned that a new wave could loom unless people “remain disciplined” and more people get vaccinated. Dr. Hans Kluge on Thursday cited a 10% increase in...
This Date in Sports History: July 1
1859 — Amherst defeats Williams, 73-32, in the first intercollegiate baseball game. The game is played by Massachusetts Rules, a wide-open form of the sport commonly known as roundball, and Amherst wins by reaching the pre-established score of 65 runs. Amherst exceeds 65-run limit during a 10-run 26th inning. 1903...
Heroic goal by Coleman, dominant effort from Vasilevskiy put Lightning up 2-0 in Stanley Cup FinalVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — Just when the Montreal Canadiens found another gear to show they can hang with the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final, Blake Coleman singlehandedly kept the series from being tied. Coleman scored a one-armed, diving buzzer-beater, and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy was the best...
GOP embraces Trump during visit to Texas, border wall
PHARR, Texas — Republican lawmakers traveled to Texas to cheer former President Donald Trump as he paid a visit to the southern border Wednesday and hammered the Biden administration for its immigration policies amid a decades-high spike in border crossings. Trump, who was joined by more than two dozen House...
Lawsuit: St. Louis officers killed innocent man in ‘no knock’ raid
A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses a St. Louis police SWAT team of killing an innocent man during a “no knock” raid at his home four years ago. The civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of the children of Don Clark Sr. It names the...
Mars’ Will Bednar throws 6 no-hit innings, Mississippi State blanks Vanderbilt for national title
OMAHA, Neb. — Mississippi State’s first national championship had been building since 1985, when “Thunder and Lightning” — Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro — were the stars on what’s known as the best team to not win a College World Series. The 2021 Bulldogs got the job done. Finally. Mars...
Wyoming man accused of torching toddler has bail set at $1M
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming man accused of burning a toddler with a butane torch, killing him and disposing of his body in an apartment complex dumpster in February has had his bail set at $1 million. The bail was set for Wyatt Dean Lamb, the boyfriend of the boy’s...
Trump Organization CFO surrenders ahead of expected charges
The Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to authorities early Thursday ahead of expected charges against him and former President Donald Trump’s company, according to multiple news outlets. Weisselberg was seen walking into the the courthouse in lower Manhattan around 6:20 a.m. with his lawyer. New York prosecutors...
Stanley Cup notes: Canadiens await Dominique Ducharme’s return
TAMPA, Fla. — When the Stanley Cup Final shifts to Montreal for Games 3 and 4, the Canadiens expect to have coach Dominique Ducharme back behind their bench. Ducharme was required by provincial protocol in Quebec to isolate for 14 days after testing positive for the coronavirus. That two-week period...
‘Horrified’ and ‘finally’; reaction varies on Cosby release
NEW YORK — Reaction to Wednesday’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling overturning Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, allowing him to be released from from prison: “Mr. Cosby should never have been prosecuted for these offenses. District attorneys can’t change it up simply because of their political motivation.” — Cosby appellate lawyer...
Revised vote count shows Adams ahead in New York City mayoral primary
NEW YORK — Revised vote counts in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary show Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams maintaining a thin lead, a day after a first attempt to report the results of a ranked choice voting analysis went disastrously wrong. The mayor’s race, part of the first city...
2 men who ran onto Super Bowl field given year of probation
TAMPA, Fla. — Two men who ran onto the field during the final quarter of Super Bowl LV in February pleaded no contest to trespassing and agreed to a year of probation. The two reached the deal Tuesday during a virtual hearing in Tampa, Fla. Under the terms of their...
