Associated Press stories, Page 2518
Divisive telescope to restart building next week in Hawaii
HONOLULU — Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii’s tallest mountain will desecrate land sacred to some Native Hawaiians. State officials announced Wednesday that the road to the top of Mauna Kea...
Candidate: Woman reporter needs chaperone to cover him
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — and now he’s trying to raise campaign money based on that because he says the “liberal media” are attacking...
Colorado settles suit by transgender inmate who alleged rape
DENVER — Colorado reached a $170,000 settlement with a transgender woman who sued the state and alleged being raped, assaulted and harassed while held in a men’s prison, state officials said Wednesday. Officials said the agreement does not force broad policy changes for transgender inmates in Colorado’s prisons, but the...
New holding center for migrant children opens in Texas
CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas — A former oilfield worker camp off a dirt road in rural Texas has become the U.S. government’s newest holding center for detaining migrant children after they leave Border Patrol stations, where complaints of overcrowding and filthy conditions have sparked a worldwide outcry. Inside the wire fence...
Kawhi Leonard, Paul George officially join LA Clippers
LAS VEGAS — Paul George and Kawhi Leonard officially are with the Los Angeles Clippers, moves that bring both of them back to their native Southern California. It might not be forever. Both can become free agents in only two years. The Clippers completed their blockbuster trade with the Oklahoma...
Oops! MLB All-Star scoreboard has rough night in Cleveland
CLEVELAND — The only errors on the scoreboard at the All-Star Game were by the scoreboard. At least one player noticed — and wasn’t too pleased. The giant board at Progressive Field was filled with mistakes Tuesday night, including a couple of misspelled names, a wrong picture and a pair...
Novak Djokovic faces tricky Roberto Bautista Agut at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England — Novak Djokovic has to look back only a few months to remind himself he shouldn’t underestimate his next opponent at Wimbledon. The top-ranked Serb will face Roberto Bautista Agut, a player who beat him in both of their meetings in 2019 — on hard courts in Doha...
Trade deadline, NL Central race, home run pace highlights MLB 2nd half
CHICAGO — Francisco Lindor and the Cleveland Indians, looking up at Nelson Cruz and the surprising Minnesota Twins. Matt Chapman and the Oakland Athletics, trying to run down Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros. Max Scherzer and the Washington Nationals, chasing Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves. Baseball ramps...
West Virginia picked 8th in Big 12 preseason football poll; Oklahoma favorite
IRVING, Texas — Oklahoma is the favorite to win another Big 12 football title, according to the conference’s preseason media poll released Wednesday. West Virginia, under new coach Neal Brown, was picked eighth, ahead of only Kansas State and Kansas. The Sooners have won the league the last four years...
Wimbledon gets Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal semifinal
WIMBLEDON, England — All these years later, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet again at Wimbledon for the 40th installment of their terrific rivalry — and first at the All England Club since their memorable 2008 final. “Such a long time,” Nadal said. They moved on to the semifinal...
Ticker-tape parade celebrates U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup title
NEW YORK — Adoring fans packed New York City’s Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday amid a blizzard of confetti to praise the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s national soccer team as athletic leaders on the field and as advocates for pay equity off it. Crowds chanted “USA! USA!”, and workers sounded...
Driver rescued after truck goes down Squirrel Hill hillside
Authorities say a driver was rescued after a tri-axle dump truck rolled over and went down a hillside in Pittsburgh. Officials in Allegheny County said the truck was carrying a load of asphalt at the time of the accident shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood....
Trump directs government to revamp care for kidney disease
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the government to revamp the nation’s care for kidney disease so that more people whose kidneys fail have a chance at early transplants and home dialysis. Trump said his order was intended to increase the supply of donated kidneys, make...
Pa. principal who wore blackface to take sabbatical, be teacher
GLEN ROCK — A Pennsylvania school principal who wore blackface to a staff meeting last year is taking a one-year sabbatical and will return as a teacher. The York Dispatch reports that minutes from a June 20 school board meeting indicate that Friendship Elementary School principal Lisa Boyer’s yearlong leave...
Pennsylvania approves revamped effort to auction mini-casino licenses
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will try again to award licenses for five more mini-casinos, part of an aggressive gambling expansion authorized in 2017 by a cash-hungry state government. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday approved a motion to restart auctions Sept. 4, under orders by a provision slipped into a...
Spanish judge rules 43-year-old man is son of Julio Iglesias
MADRID — A judge in Spain has found there is sufficient evidence to establish that a 43-year-old man is the biological son of Julio Iglesias even though the singer refused to have a DNA test. The judge, in fact, cited Iglesias’ refusal to submit to genetic testing as part of...
Police: Woman throws snake at driver in carjacking
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Police say a woman stole a vehicle after throwing a snake at the driver, then crashed through barricades set up for a pole-vaulting exhibition in South Carolina. In a statement, Greenville Police identified the suspect as 29-year-old Hilmary Moreno-Berrios. They she was hurt in Friday’s crash and...
Scientists say rising seas will break flooding records
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Federal scientists predict 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding this year because of rising sea levels and an abnormal El Nino weather system. A report released Wednesday by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that...
British ambassador to U.S. quits days after leaked cables on Trump
LONDON — Britain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a “special relationship.” The resignation of Kim Darroch came a day after Trump lashed out at him on Twitter describing him as...
Perot roiled football-crazed Texas with ‘No Pass, No Play’
AUSTIN, Texas — Part of late billionaire H. Ross Perot’s legacy is a clear-cut rule about Texas high school sports: If a student can’t pass class, they can’t play. The law, with its catchy “No Pass, No Play” nickname, has been in place since 1984. When first signed by Gov....
Sturgeon, America’s forgotten dinosaurs, show signs of life
CHARLES CITY, Va. — Sturgeon were America’s vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation’s rivers until mankind’s craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction. More than a century later, some populations of the massive bottom feeding fish are showing signs of recovery in the dark corners...
Refugee women find relief in Greek soccer
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Many of the players at Hestia FC weren’t allowed to play — or even watch — soccer matches in their home countries. In Greece, they make up the country’s first women’s refugee team and hail from 14 countries including Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Eritrea and Ethiopia....
Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88
LAKEVILLE, Conn. — Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in theater, television and movies and win an Emmy in his 60s for his comedy turn on TV’s “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died. He was 88. Torn died Tuesday afternoon at...
Top pick Jack Hughes skates at New Jersey Devils camp
NEWARK, N.J. — Top draft pick Jack Hughes was a little disappointed on his first night with the New Jersey Devils at their development camp for young players. Sitting around a TV with Joey Anderson, fellow USA Hockey National Team Development Program teammate and Devils’ draft pick Patrick Moynihan and...
49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo goes to QB summer school before campVideo
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jimmy Garoppolo is going to summer school before starting training camp with the San Francisco 49ers. Garoppolo is spending part of his down time between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp July 27 working in Southern California with quarterback guru Tom House....
