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Packers get the calls, Mason Crosby hits late FG to beat LionsVideo
GREEN BAY, Wis. — It took Mason Crosby 13 seasons to perform his first Lambeau Leap. The 35-year-old kicker nailed a 23-yard field goal as time expired and jumped into the crowd with a boost from long snapper Hunter Bradley after he finished off a rally for the Green Bay...
Stephen Strasburg strikes out 12; Nationals top Cardinals in Game 3Video
WASHINGTON — More than 100 pitches in, Stephen Strasburg was adamant he wasn’t quite ready to leave the latest superb start by a Nationals pitcher against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Championship Series — a win that put Washington on the verge of the city’s first World Series...
No. 16 Michigan starts tough closing stretch at No. 7 Penn State
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan linebacker Josh Uche recalls being excited when he saw the second half of this season’s schedule. The 16th-ranked Wolverines (5-1, 3-1 Big Ten) kick off a tough closing stretch of games at No. 7 Penn State (6-0, 3-0) on Saturday night. They host No. 8...
Baffling Browns reach bye at ‘crossroads’ after home lossVideo
BEREA, Ohio — Jarvis Landry jumped up and down on the sideline, flapping his arms while madly urging Browns coach Freddie Kitchens to throw his red challenge flag. Kitchens finally did. For naught. Nothing is going Cleveland’s way. Picked prematurely to be a Super Bowl contender, the Browns reached their...
Porsche SUV plunges onto train tracks, burns; 2 teens dieVideo
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. — A Porsche SUV plummeted off an overpass onto train tracks below, where it burst into flames, killing two teenagers and sending a third to a hospital with serious injuries. The Porsche fell from Route 304 in Pearl River, N.Y., on Sunday afternoon after a crash involving...
Ravens secondary gets thinner with loss of DeShon ElliottVideo
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Injuries in the defensive backfield just keep coming for the Baltimore Ravens, who likely will play without safety DeShon Elliott the rest of the season. Coach John Harbaugh said Monday that Elliott suffered a serious knee injury in Sunday’s 23-17 victory over the Bengals. It occurred...
Room at the bottom: Bengals only 0-6 team in NFLVideo
CINCINNATI — Linebacker Preston Brown grew up in Cincinnati watching the team then known as the “Bungles” lurch from one horrible season to another. “I grew up seeing 2-14 teams,” Brown said. “And it’s something I never wanted to be a part of.” He’s getting closer by the week. The...
U.S. gymnast Simone Biles is face of 2020 Olympics after record world medal haulVideo
STUTTGART, Germany — Next stop Tokyo for Simone Biles. With Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps both retired since the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the U.S. gymnast will be the face of the games for much of the world. In gymnastics, no one else comes close. Biles won five...
Ryan Blaney nips Ryan Newman in photo finish at TalladegaVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Ryan Blaney beat Ryan Newman in a door-to-door race to the finish line to win Monday at Talladega Superspeedway and advance to the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Blaney’s first win of the season came as he was desperately trying to remain in title contention. The playoff...
Giant pumpkin weighing nearly 1 ton sets California record
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Northern California pumpkin hobbyist has won first place at the 46th annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off, setting a record for the largest in California. Leonardo Urena of Napa won $15,000 Monday when his pumpkin logged 2,175 pounds. Weigh-off spokesman Timothy Beeman says...
Texas officer charged with murder, resigns after shooting black womanVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force. Aaron Dean, 34, was booked...
Yankees plan to go all relievers in ALCS Game 4 vs. AstrosVideo
NEW YORK — The Yankees and Astros plan all-bullpen games from the start in Game 4 of the AL Championship Series in a sign of the times. With the best-of-seven series tied 1-1, New York’s Luis Severino starts Game 3 on Tuesday against Gerrit Cole. Masahiro Tanaka began the opener...
Kevin Smith crafts his ‘real big cinematic gravestone’Video
LOS ANGELES — Twenty-five years after “Clerks,” Kevin Smith says he’s crafted his “real big cinematic gravestone.” The 49-year-old writer-director-actor said a major heart attack in February 2018 prompted him to rewrite his script for “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” to make a more personal statement about fatherhood and aging...
Ex-National Security Council official Fiona Hill testifying to CongressVideo
WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill, a former top National Security Council expert on Russia, was testifying to Congress behind closed doors Monday, the latest former Trump administration official to be subpoenaed as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Hill wouldn’t comment as she arrived on Capitol Hill,...
Trump orders Turkey sanctions; U.S. scrambles for Syria exitVideo
WASHINGTON — Targeting Turkey’s economy, President Donald Trump announced sanctions Monday aimed at restraining the Turks’ assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria — an assault Turkey began after Trump announced he was moving U.S. troops out of the way. Meanwhile, the Americans were scrambling for Syria’s exits, a...
Jayme Closs: 1 year after abduction, I’m feeling stronger
BARRON, Wis. — The Wisconsin girl whose parents were fatally shot before she was kidnapped and held captive for 88 days before escaping from her abductor said she’s feeling stronger every day and is thankful for the kindness and concern expressed to her from people all over the country in...
Firefighters finishing containment of California wildfiresVideo
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters are dousing remaining smoldering areas from a destructive wildfire that raged along the northern edge of Los Angeles last week. The Los Angeles Fire Department says containment of the approximately 12-square-mile fire is at 43% Monday. Updated assessments lowered the number of destroyed structures to 17...
Construction platform fails, leaving worker dangling in air
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Authorities say two workers on a construction platform in New Jersey were rescued after it failed and left one worker briefly dangling by his safety rope in midair. No injuries were reported Monday morning. The platform holding the workers was about six floors up when it...
Dangerous search on for 1 missing after New Orleans hotel collapse
Rescue workers and search dogs moved gingerly through a dangerously unstable, partially collapsed hotel in New Orleans on Monday in a risky search for the only person still missing after the structure partially collapsed . Two people are known to have died in the Saturday disaster and more than 20...
Texas officer faces questions after killing woman at home
FORT WORTH, Texas — A white police officer who fatally shot a 28-year-old black woman inside her Texas home was set to be interviewed by investigators Monday as questions and outrage grow over the shooting. The Fort Worth Police Department said officers responded about 2:25 a.m. Saturday after a neighbor...
Landscaper killed when mower slides into Pa. creek, overturns
Authorities say the co-owner of a landscaping company died when his mower slid into a creek and overturned while he was working at a retirement community in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Cornwall police say 66-year-old Ralph Schreiber was cutting grass with a zero-turn mower when the accident occurred Saturday at the...
White House: Trump to watch violent parody, ‘condemns it’
WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday President Donald Trump “strongly condemns” a graphically violent parody video that depicts a likeness of him shooting and stabbing his opponents and members of the news media. The parody was shown at a meeting of Trump supporters at his Miami resort. Journalists covering...
Economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM — The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” Banerjee and Duflo are both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and have authored several books together, while Kremer is at Harvard...
China’s trade with U.S. shrinks again in September
BEIJING — China’s trade with the United States fell by double digits again in September amid a tariff war that threatens to tip the global economy into recession. Exports to the United States, China’s biggest foreign market, fell 21.9% to $36.5 billion, a deterioration from August’s 16% decline, customs data...
Japan looks for missing as typhoon kills as many as 48Video
HOYASU, Japan — Rescue crews in Japan dug through mudslides and searched near swollen rivers Monday as they looked for those missing from a typhoon that left as many as 48 people dead and caused serious damage in central and northern Japan. Typhoon Hagibis unleashed torrents of rain and strong...
