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Dustin Johnson wins Travelers Championship; Peters Twp. native Todd faltersVideo
CROMWELL, Conn. — Dustin Johnson won the Travelers Championship on Sunday to end a long drought and extend his career-long season victory streak to 13. Johnson, who entered the day two shots behind the leader, Peters Township native Brendon Todd, closed with a 3-under-par 67 for a one-stroke victory over...
Suspect in killing at Louisville protest in custody
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man during a Louisville protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor had taken part in demonstrations but was disruptive and had been asked by other protesters to leave, authorities and protesters said Sunday. The man, identified by...
Starbucks latest to say it will pause social media ads
Starbucks is the latest company to say it will pause social media ads after a campaign led by civil rights organizations called for an ad boycott of Facebook, saying it doesn’t do enough to stop racist and violent content. Starbucks said Sunday that its actions were not part of the...
New knotholes: Good MLB views, if fans know where to lookVideo
BOSTON — Tucked under the center-field seats at Fenway Park, down some stairs from Lansdowne Street in an area previously used as the visiting team’s batting cage, is a sports bar that is preparing to reopen from the coronavirus shutdown. Largely windowless and decorated with sepia photographs hung on dark...
Worldwide cornoavirus death toll exceeds 500,000
ROME — The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones Sunday — 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases — and hit another high mark for daily new infections as governments that attempted reopenings continued to backtrack and warn that worse news could be yet to come. “Covid-19 has taken a...
Fracking pioneer Chesapeake files for bankruptcy protection
NEW YORK — Chesapeake Energy, a shale drilling pioneer that helped to turn the United States into a global energy powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Oklahoma City-based company said Sunday that it was a necessary decision given its debt. Its debt load is currently nearing $9 billion. It...
Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove rebel emblem from flagVideo
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi’s House and Senate voted in succession Sunday...
Arkansas governor says he will encourage, not require, masksVideo
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that he will encourage people to wear face masks in public to slow the spread of coronavirus but indicated that he doesn’t plan to enact a statewide requirement. “We’re not going to pass a mandate that is unenforceable,” Hutchinson said on...
Munhall grad, longtime NFL coach Joe Bugel diesVideo
Former Washington Redskins assistant coach Joe Bugel, a Munhall High School grad regarded as one of the top offensive line coaches in NFL history, died. He was 80. Bugel died Sunday, according to a statement from the team, which did not disclose a cause of death. Bugel was the architect...
Businesses weigh reopening — or closing again — as cases rise
It’s not the reopening businesses were hoping for. After months of shutdown, restaurants, stores and even amusement parks announced their reopening with fanfare. But now that states like Texas and Arizona are seeing alarming surges in reported cases of covid-19, businesses large and small must decide whether to keep their...
Trump tweets video with ‘white power’ chant, then deletes it
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. He later deleted the tweet and the White House said the president had not heard “the one statement” on the video. The video...
California’s alleged Golden State Killer set to plead guilty
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer is expected to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer. The deal will spare Joseph James DeAngelo...
Summer may decide fate of lead shots in virus vaccine race
People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a covid-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works — and maybe offer a reality check. Already British and Chinese researchers are chasing the coronavirus...
Rolling Stones threaten to sue Trump over using their songs
LONDON (AP) — The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones said in a statement Sunday that their legal team is working with music rights organization BMI to stop use of their material in Trump’s...
Trump’s attacks seen undercutting confidence in 2020 vote
WASHINGTON — It was a startling declaration about one of the pillars of American democracy, all the more so given its source. The president of the United States last week publicly predicted without evidence that the 2020 presidential election would be “the most corrupt election in the history of our...
Yankees, Gerrit Cole to face defending champs in DC on MLB’s opening day
NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole could make his New York Yankees debut in a tasty opening-day treat for fans, facing Juan Soto and World Series champion Washington Nationals at Nationals Park. The Yankees and Nationals are set to meet when the virus-delayed season begins next month, a person familiar with...
Man fires shots at business center in northern California
RED BLUFF, Calif — Authorities shot a man who drove into a distribution center Saturday south of Red Bluff and started shooting at people, local media reported. The shooting by a man with “AR-type weapon” started about 3:30 p.m. at the Walmart distribution center, emergency dispatchers told the Record-Searchlight newspaper....
Mississippi takes step toward dropping rebel image from flag
JACKSON, Miss. — Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into cheers and applause Saturday as lawmakers took a big step toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice. “The eyes of...
Man City will give Premier League champ Liverpool guard of honorVideo
Manchester City will form a guard of honor for new English Premier League champion Liverpool when they meet next Thursday, City manager Pep Guardiola said. Liverpool took the title City have owned for the last two years this week. When English soccer resumed this month, Liverpool’s trip to Etihad Stadium...
Late scratch: Kevin Harvick knocks off Pocono from winless listVideo
LONG POND — Kevin Harvick hit pause on that victory swirl of scorched rubber and billows of smoke at Pocono Raceway. Sure, Harvick needed to save the engine for a repeat run in the same Ford and a shot at a weekend sweep in a Cup Series twin bill. He...
Alabama officer fired over post of protester in rifle scope
HOOVER, Ala. — An Alabama police chief says one of his officers has been fired after posting a photo on social media that depicted a protester in the crosshairs of a rifle scope. Former Officer Ryan Snow was fired Friday, Hoover police Chief Nick Derzis said. The officer posted the...
Thousands gather in Denver to protest Elijah McClain’s death
DENVER — Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside a suburban Denver police building Saturday to call for justice in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold by police last year. McClain’s death last August has prompted a handful of small protests over the last 10...
Peters Township native Brendon Todd matches Johnson’s 61 to take lead at TravelersVideo
CROMWELL, Conn. — Brendon Todd and Dustin Johnson each shot career-low 61s at the Travelers Championship on Saturday, leaving Todd with a two-stroke lead over the 2016 U.S. Open champion. The 34-year-old Peters Township native, playing a couple holes behind Johnson, had a chance at the tournament’s second 60 of...
Former NFL, college coach Phil Krueger dies at 90; Bucs’ 1st GMVideo
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Phil Krueger, who helped build a dominant defense as an assistant for 1967 national champion Southern California and later became part of the first coaching staff in Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ history, has died. He was 90. Krueger died Monday at his home, his family said. Skilled...
Man charged in bridge shooting fired with handgun, AR-15
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A Kansas City-area man charged with randomly shooting into traffic last month on a bridge that connects Kansas and Missouri fired 15 rounds from a handgun before retrieving an AR-15-style rifle from his car and shooting at least 23 more rounds, according to court records. A criminal...
