Associated Press stories, Page 1788
Airline bans Alaska state senator for violating mask rules
JUNEAU — Alaska Airlines has banned an Alaska state senator for refusing to follow mask requirements. “We have notified Senator Lora Reinbold that she is not permitted to fly with us for her continued refusal to comply with employee instruction regarding the current mask policy,” spokesman Tim Thompson told the...
Marc Leishman, Cameron Smith win Zurich Classic in a playoff
AVONDALE, La. — Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman outlasted Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel to win the Zurich Classic in a playoff that capped a tight and tense final round Sunday. Smith and Leishman won with a par on their second trip up the par-5 18th after Oosthuizen pushed his...
The famous and the flops: best and worst NFL 1st-round picks
The Associated Press looks at the best and worst first-round draft picks for each NFL team. The players were chosen by AP sports writers who regularly cover the 32 teams. AFC Baltimore Ravens Best: T Jonathan Ogden, UCLA, 1996 Selected with the team’s first-ever pick after the move from Cleveland,...
Prototype of 1st U.S. dollar coins auctioned for $840,000
A piece of copper that was struck by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1794 and was a prototype for the fledgling nation’s money was auctioned off for $840,000, considerably more than expected, an official said. Heritage auctions spokesman Eric Bradley said the “No Stars Flowing Hair Dollar” opened at...
Brad Keselowski claims 6th win at Talladega with overtime pass
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Brad Keselowski did it exactly right this time and finally got that last-lap victory, winning in overtime Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. Keselowski is the ninth driver to win through 10 NASCAR Cup races this season and avenged the embarrassing Team Penske gaffe in the season-opening Daytona 500...
Indonesia says 53 crew of lost sub are dead, wreckage foundVideo
BANYUWANGI, Indonesia — Indonesia’s military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the vessel’s wreckage on the ocean floor. The grim announcement comes a day after Indonesia said the submarine was...
Police seek attacker who kicked Chinese American man in headVideo
NEW YORK — A 61-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said. The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8 p.m. Friday....
Man City beats Tottenham 1-0 to win 4th straight League CupVideo
LONDON — A rare goal from Aymeric Laporte produced a familiar outcome: Manchester City winning the League Cup. For the fourth successive season, Pep Guardiola’s side triumphed in the final of English football’s second-tier competition on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham. With Tottenham proving hard to find a...
Central Michigan quarterback seriously injured in off campus shooting
CHICAGO — An off-campus shooting left two Central Michigan University students, including quarterback John Keller, hospitalized Sunday for gunshot wounds. Officers with the Isabella County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday to an apartment complex near the Mount Pleasant campus for reports of a shooting. A fight...
Dallas-area man suspected of killing mother, sisterVideo
ALLEN, Texas — A Dallas-area man has been arrested while awaiting an airline flight out of state and charged with capital murder in the deaths of his mother and sister, police said Sunday. Isil Borat, 51, and daughter Burcu Hezar, 17, were found knifed to death in their Allen, Texas,...
Coronavirus ‘swallowing’ people in India; crematoriums overwhelmedVideo
NEW DELHI — With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning. The...
Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao, ‘Nomadland’ take home Oscars
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. The “Nomadland” victory, while widely...
Death toll in fire at Iraqi covid-19 hospital surpasses 80
BAGHDAD — The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence. The flames, described by one witness as “volcanoes of fire,” swept...
Young adults’ relocations are reshaping political geography
Garima Vyas always wanted to live in a big city. She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. So Vyas picked another metropolis that’s increasingly become young people’s next-best option — Houston. Now 34, Vyas, a tech...
More action, less talk, distinguish Biden’s 100-day sprint
WASHINGTON — The card tucked in President Joe Biden’s right jacket pocket must weigh a ton. You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints and ever-so-slowly reads aloud the latest tally of covid-19 dead. Sometimes he’ll stumble on a digit — after...
Democrat Troy Carter wins New Orleans-based House seat
BATON ROUGE, La. — Democrat Troy Carter won Saturday’s special election for Louisiana’s vacant U.S. House seat, defeating his state Senate colleague and ending an acrimonious, intraparty clash. Carter easily defeated Karen Carter Peterson in the race for Louisiana’s only Democrat-held seat in Congress, handing a victory to the more...
Penske’s NASCAR drivers aim to avoid Daytona repeat at TalladegaVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Roger Penske doesn’t want a repeat of the Daytona 500, when teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski took each other out racing for the win on the final lap. The owner of Team Penske convened his drivers for a Zoom session ahead of Sunday’s Geico 500 at...
Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel pairing surges to Zurich Classic 3rd-round leadVideo
AVONDALE, La. — Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen got away with an unremarkable first 11 holes Saturday at the Zurich Classic before lifting his team atop the leaderboard with a finishing flourish. Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel birdied six of their final eight holes at a windy TPC Louisiana to...
Jeb Burton break drought, wins 1st Xfinity Series race at TalladegaVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala. — The rain came at a good time for Jeb Burton, helping him end a years-long personal winless stretch that had left him at times doubting his future in racing. Burton got his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory Saturday when heavy rain halted the action with 23 laps...
UEFA president Ceferin details crushing the Super League rebellionVideo
LONDON — A moment that prepared Aleksander Ceferin for the stresses and tensions running European football came three decades ago, in a far graver moment for the continent. The law graduate was relaxing at his family home in Slovenia on June 25, 1991, sitting on the terrace with his parents,...
Real Madrid president: Super League clubs ‘can’t leave’ planVideo
MADRID — Real Madrid’s president insists all 12 clubs that signed up for the ill-fated Super League are bound by contract to launching the controversial breakaway of Europe’s elite soccer teams. In an interview with Spanish sports daily AS on Saturday, Madrid president Florentino Pérez said the clubs can’t back...
With OK from experts, some states resume use of J&J covid vaccine
NEW YORK — With a green light from federal health officials, many states resumed use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on Saturday. Among the venues where it was being deployed: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Among the other states ordering or recommending a resumption, along with Indiana, were...
Embattled producer Scott Rudin resigns from Broadway League
NEW YORK — Film and theater producer Scott Rudin is resigning from the powerful Broadway League as he faces allegations of decades of abusive and violent behavior. “I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough,” Rudin, whose credits include “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Book of Mormon” and a...
1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours
Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets. And...
Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide
WILMINGTON, Del. — The United States is formally recognizing that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide” as President Joe Biden used that precise word that the White House has avoided for decades for fear...
