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In the Pits: Everyone chasing Harvick, Hamlin as playoffs beginVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR’s pandemic-plagued season finally has reached the playoffs, with 16 drivers chasing the Cup championship starting Sunday in South Carolina. It brings the series full circle back to Darlington Raceway, where NASCAR resumed its season in May after a 10-week pause for the pandemic. The stock car...
Marlins get former Pirates outfielder Starling Marte in trade with D-backsVideo
PHOENIX — Miami acquired outfielder Starling Marte in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday, giving the Marlins a versatile hitter and defender as they try to make a surprising push for the playoffs. The Diamondbacks received pitchers Caleb Smith, Humberto Mejia and a player to be named. The...
Tiz the Law looms as Kentucky Derby favoriteVideo
The yellow school buses are on reserve. Jack Knowlton and his merry band from Sackatoga Stable are back at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 17 years. This time with a horse everyone knows. Tiz the Law is 4-0 this year, winning by a combined 16 1/2 lengths....
This date in sports history: Sept. 1Video
1906 — The Philadelphia Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-1, in 24 innings. Jack Coombs of the Athletics and Joe Harris of the Red Sox pitched all 24 innings. Coombs struck out 18. 1930 — Wes Ferrell of Cleveland beat the St. Louis Browns, 9-5, for his 13th straight...
Buffalo protester pushed by police out of hospital, looking ahead
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 75-year-old protester who had been hospitalized with a severe head injury as a result of being shoved by police and falling backward plans to press on with his grassroots activism. “My life is headed in a new direction,” Martin Gugino said in an interview with USA...
St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey, charged after waving guns, appear in courtVideo
ST. LOUIS — The attorney for a white St. Louis couple charged for waving guns during a racial injustice protest outside their home said Monday that they’re anxious to prove “with absolute certainty” that they did not commit a crime. One week after Mark and Patricia McCloskey spoke on video...
Philadelphia says homeless encampments must clear by Sept. 9
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia officials on Monday set a Sept. 9 deadline for people to leave a homeless encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and a smaller encampment outside the headquarters of the city’s housing agency. Mayor Jim Kenney said officials have negotiated with organizers and others in the encampments for...
Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver packages by drone
NEW YORK — Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones. Amazon said that the approval is an “important step,” but added that it is still testing and...
Liberty University announces investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure
RICHMOND, Va. — Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure as president, a wide-ranging inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the evangelical school’s board announced Monday. In a statement, the board said it had retained an outside firm to investigate “all...
Ohio couple, twin teenage children found dead in their home
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — A couple and their twin teenage children were found dead in their home after authorities were asked to conduct a welfare check at the residence in a Cleveland suburb, authorities said. Shaker Heights police went to the home around 2:20 p.m. Sunday and soon found Regina...
House to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over mail delays
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for documents on disruptions in mail delivery operations that are now central to questions over the agency’s ability to handle the onslaught of mail-in ballots expected for the November election. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the committee chair,...
‘Antifa hunter’ gets 3 years for online racist threats
A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Fla., pleaded guilty in April to using social media...
Americans divided over armed civilians who flock to protestsVideo
BOISE, Idaho — The scenes have become commonplace in 2020: People gathered at state Capitols with semiautomatic long guns strapped across their chests. A couple near St. Louis emerging from their mansion brandishing firearms as Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched by the house. Men roaming the streets with rifles during...
John Oliver: Name sewage plant for me, I’ll give to charity
Comedian John Oliver upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to name its sewage treatment plant after him. Mayor Mark Boughton said last week that Danbury was going to rename the facility the...
Appeals court keeps Michael Flynn case alive, won’t order dismissal
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington declined Monday to order the dismissal of the Michael Flynn prosecution, permitting a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department’s request to dismiss its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser. The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and...
Frank Lloyd Wright home in Phoenix sells for $7.25 million
PHOENIX — A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Phoenix has sold more than $7 million. The Arizona Republic reported Monday that the David and Gladys Wright House sold for $7.25 million. The group of buyers include businessman Jim Benson and architect Bing Hu, who apprenticed at Wright’s Taliesin West school...
Chef and writer J. Kenji López-Alt cooks up a kid’s book
NEW YORK — Pipo is a young girl in a new book for kids who insists that pizza is the best food on Earth. Prompted by her mom to prove it, Pipo goes across her neighborhood testing alternatives: tagine, red beans and rice, bibimbap and dumplings. Her new conclusion: Pizza...
India says China’s military made moves near disputed border
SRINAGAR, India — India said Monday its soldiers thwarted “provocative” movements by China’s military near a disputed border in the Ladakh region months into the rival nations’ deadliest standoff in decades. China’s military said it was taking “necessary actions in response,” without giving details. Local military commanders from the two...
Coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown dead at 78
WASHINGTON — John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died. He was 78 His death was announced in a family statement released by Georgetown on...
Police: Most arrested during Kenosha protests not from city
KENOSHA, Wis. — Most of the people arrested in demonstrations against police brutality since the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha were not city residents, according to police. Of the 175 people arrested during protests in Kenosha since Blake was shot in the back Aug. 23, leaving the 29-year-old Black...
In aftermath of Hurricane Laura, residents worry about help
LAKE CHARLES, La. — In a matter of hours last week, Hurricane Laura tore through the tire shop Layla Winbush’s family started just under a year ago, reducing most of it to rubble and scattering hundreds of tires across the lot. The storm also damaged her home, which now reeks...
Oregon state police returning to Portland following deadly shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. — State Police will return to Portland to help local authorities after the fatal shooting of a man following clashes between President Donald Trump supporters and counter-protesters that led to an argument between the president and the mayor over who was to blame for the violence. Protesters were...
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terror charges, say police
Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country’s 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday. A well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, Rusesabagina had been living...
NYPD to adopt guidelines for disciplining officer misconduct
NEW YORK — When the New York Police Department fired an officer last year for putting Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, the officer’s union argued that there was little, if any, precedent within the department’s internal disciplinary system for such a penalty. Now, the nation’s largest police department is...
Kentucky Derby, Louisville prepare for weekend without fans
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The fastest two minutes in sports will also be the quietest in Kentucky Derby history. Churchill Downs scrapped plans earlier this month for 23,000 physically distanced, masked fans to attend Saturday’s rescheduled Tripled Crown race because of the rise in coronavirus cases. It will be the first...
