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Man streams chase before Minnesota police fatally shoot him
RICHFIELD, Minn. — Police near Minneapolis shot and killed a driver following a chase after he apparently emerged from his car holding a knife and refused their commands to drop it. The chase started late Saturday night in Edina and ended in Richfield with officers shooting the man, Brian J....
Hospital closings hit hard on the edge of the Rust Belt
WHEELING, W.Va. — Carrie Jones is looking for work for the first time in two decades. She’s even more worried about what will happen to her psychiatric patients. “Where are they going to go?” Jones said. “We’re honestly like their family.” Jones is among nearly 1,100 employees being laid off...
Antonio Brown a Patriot, but unavailable for opener vs. Steelers
The NFL season already is so unpredictable that Antonio Brown is a New England Patriot. No, he won’t suit up Sunday night when the Patriots host Brown’s former team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, from whom he forced a trade to Oakland in the offseason. He might be on the New England...
NFL inactives: Adrian Peterson a healthy scratch in Redskins’ opener
Adrian Peterson entered Sunday a single yard shy of becoming the fifth running back in NFL history to top 1,000 yards rushing in season openers. Washington coach Jay Gruden, however, made the four-time All-Pro and 2012 NFL MVP a heathy scratch Sunday for the Redskins’ opener at Philadelphia. That left...
Tom Hanks unveils his Mister Rogers at Toronto festivalVideo
NEW YORK — Ever since it was first announced, the idea of Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers has seemed like dream casting, a match as snug as a warm zip-up sweater. “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” starring Hanks as the host of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood,” premiered Saturday night at...
UK worries Brexit could bring ‘chlorinated chicken’ from U.S.
NEW YORK — Could Brexit bring America’s “chlorinated chicken” to the United Kingdom? The European Union has long refused to import poultry from the United States that is routinely rinsed with chemical washes to kill germs. But the United Kingdom’s planned exit from the EU is putting the practice back...
Air Force disputes Alaska crew favored Trump Scottish hotel
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Military officials are disputing a report that claims a joint Air Force and Alaska Air National Guard unit on a routine mission to Kuwait went miles out of their way to spend the night at a resort in Scotland owned by President Donald Trump. Politico first reported...
Joe Burrow’s 4 TD passes lead LSU to wild win over Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Burrow passed for 471 yards and four touchdowns, including a 61-yarder to Justin Jefferson with 2 minutes, 27 seconds left, and No. 6 LSU pulled out a wild 45-38 victory over No. 9 Texas on Saturday night. The biggest nonconference game in Austin since No. 1...
Browns join fray in wide-open AFC North
BALTIMORE — Picking the order of finish in the AFC North is as a difficult as getting a grip on a wet, bouncing football. The division features two new coaches, a pair of gritty second-year quarterbacks, a traditional powerhouse on the rebound, and an unlikely contender that hasn’t reached the...
Penn State uses big 3rd quarter to pull away from Buffalo
UNIVERSITY PARK — Sean Clifford turned in an all-around performance in another lopsided win for Penn State. Clifford threw for 280 yards and four touchdowns and ran 11 times for 51 to lead the No. 15 Nittany Lions back from a halftime deficit to beat Buffalo, 45-13, on Saturday night....
Dorian topples crane, knocks out power in eastern Canada
TORONTO — Dorian arrived on Canada’s Atlantic coast Saturday with heavy rain and powerful winds, toppling a construction crane in Halifax and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people a day after the storm wreaked havoc on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Residents of Nova Scotia braced for heavy...
Cardinals hammer Brault, rout Pirates to maintain cushion in NL CentralVideo
PITTSBURGH — Marcell Ozuna knew he found something in the first inning. He battled for eight pitches before getting ahold of a fastball, only to see it fly right to Pirates left fielder Bryan Reynolds. The next time up, Ozuna put it all together. He hit a three-run homer to...
Trump calls off secret meeting with Taliban, Afghan leaders
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Saturday he canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing this week in Kabul that killed 11 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group. Trump has been under pressure...
Jefferson Hills family of Patriots’ Chase Winovich has torn loyalties
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — There will be torn loyalties Sunday among members of the Winovich family of Jefferson Hills. Tried-and-true fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Winoviches, apparently, have adapted to the premise that 24-year-old Chase Winovich, a rookie linebacker, will be playing for the rival New England Patriots when the...
Jaguars looking for better performance this year vs. ChiefsVideo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville’s 2018 season began to unravel in Kansas City. After a 3-1 start that included a victory against New England, the Jaguars were more than confident walking into Arrowhead Stadium last October. There was pregame trash talk, subtle predictions and a belief in Jacksonville’s locker room it...
Bianca Andreescu upsets Serena Williams in U.S. Open final
NEW YORK — Bianca Andreescu displayed the same brand of big-serving, big-hitting, in-your-face tennis that Serena Williams usually does. And now the 19-year-old from Canada is a Grand Slam champion, earning her first such title while preventing Williams from collecting a record-tying 24th. Andreescu took charge early in the U.S....
No. 7 Michigan escapes Army’s upset bid with double-OT win
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan is off to a wobbly start this season, and Army almost took advantage. Jake Moody made a 43-yard field goal, and the seventh-ranked Wolverines forced and recovered a fumble to hold on for a 24-21 double-overtime win over the Black Knights on Saturday. The Wolverines...
Mountaineers bumble their way to blowout loss at Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri coach Barry Odom showed up this week displaying little black-and-yellow cards he handed out to his team that read simply: “Takeaways = Victory.” The Tigers didn’t have enough of them in a stunning loss to Wyoming last weekend. They had plenty Saturday in a 38-7 blowout...
Falcons’ Julio Jones agrees to 3-year, $66 million extensionVideo
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — One day before the season opener, Atlanta Falcons receiver Julio Jones got his long-awaited contract extension Saturday, agreeing to a three-year, $66 million deal. The extension is nearly fully guaranteed when he signs. It locks in Jones through the 2023 season and removes a potentially major...
3 Germans die in separate incidents climbing Austrian Alps
Three German men have died in separate accidents while hiking in the Austrian Alps, authorities said Saturday. A 60-year-old man who fell while roped to two other climbers near Nassereith in western Austria died Friday, Austria’s APA news agency reported. The man, the three-man team’s lead climber, suffered fatal injuries...
Stranded North Carolinians take stock of Dorian’s damage
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Skies cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, leaving behind a muddy trail of destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian, which still was expected to unleash powerful winds in New England and Nova Scotia. Dorian’s worst damage in the U.S. appeared to be on...
Russia and Ukraine trade prisoners, each fly 35 to freedom
MOSCOW — Russia and Ukraine conducted a major prisoner exchange that freed 35 people detained in each country and flew them to the other, a deal that could help advance Russia-Ukraine relations and end five years of fighting in Ukraine’s east. The trade involved some of the highest-profile prisoners caught...
NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim
WASHINGTON — Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump’s statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama. They say NOAA’s action risks the credibility of the nation’s weather and science agency...
Singer says opera’s Placido Domingo harassed her, grabbed her breast
The glittering production was a high point of the Washington Opera’s 1999-2000 season: Jules Massenet’s “Le Cid,” about a legendary Spanish conqueror, starring a tenor legendary in his own right — Placido Domingo, then the company’s artistic director. The opera, also being filmed for broadcast on public television, was unquestionably...
South Carolina, Kansas GOP scrap 2020 presidential preference votes
Republican leaders in South Carolina and Kansas have voted to scrap their presidential nominating contests in 2020, while party officials Nevada were deciding whether to follow suit as the GOP erects more hurdles for the long shots challenging President Donald Trump. Canceling primaries, caucuses and other voting is not an...
