Associated Press stories, Page 2531
Hoping for clarity, NCAA adjusts transfer waiver guidelines
After fresh concerns about the handling of athletes switching schools, the NCAA approved several adjustments Wednesday to the guidelines used to determine when waivers can be granted to transfers seeking immediate eligibility to play. The adjustments approved by the Division I council will require schools requesting a waiver for an...
Graves of U.S. WWII servicemen found on remote Pacific island
A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. A team working on the remote Pacific atoll of...
Apple buys more self-driving car technology in latest deal
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple has bought a struggling self-driving car startup as the iPhone maker continues to explore the potential market for robotic vehicles, despite recently curtailing its work on the technology. The Cupertino, California, company confirmed its acquisition of Drive.ai Wednesday without disclosing the price. A recent filing with...
Trump calls out World Cup player Megan Rapinoe for comments about White House visit
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called out U.S. women’s national team co-captain Megan Rapinoe after a months-old video was posted on social media in which she used profanity when she said she wasn’t going to the White House if the team wins the Women’s World Cup. “Megan should never disrespect...
UConn rejoins Big East for hoops, other sports; not football
STORRS, Conn. — UConn is heading back to the Big East. The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees on Wednesday accepted an invitation to move its basketball and most other athletic teams from the American Athletic Conference. University President Susan Herbst signed a contract with the Big East that includes...
Chaos erupts in Pennsylvania Senate over welfare bill
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate devolved into partisan shouting, name-calling and bare-knuckled procedural tactics over a bill to end a decades-old program that offers $200 a month to people deemed unable to work. The bill ultimately passed the GOP-controlled chamber, 26-24, with two Republicans siding with Democrats against it. The...
Goalie Roberto Luongo retires after 19 seasons
SUNRISE, Fla. — Roberto Luongo wanted to keep playing and keep chasing an elusive Stanley Cup, largely because he believes the Florida Panthers are finally in position to be a playoff contender. His body wanted otherwise. And Luongo ultimately listened. The most popular player in Panthers history announced his retirement...
Supreme Court strikes down Tennessee liquor sales law
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Tennessee law that makes it hard for outsiders to break into the state’s liquor sales market. The court voted 7-2 in ruling that a state requirement that someone live in Tennessee for two years to be eligible for a license...
ACLU objects to nicotine’s addition on school drug test list
FAIRBURY, Neb. — A southeast Nebraska school district’s decision to add nicotine to random drug tests given to students involved in extracurricular activities has drawn criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska. A letter from ACLU legal director Amy Miller to the Fairbury Public Schools district said that...
Malaysia detains 4 Indian travelers, seizes drugs, 5,255 turtles
SEPANG, Malaysia — Malaysia authorities have arrested four Indians and seized more than 14 kilograms of drugs and over 5,000 turtles from their luggage at the Kuala Lumpur airport. Senior customs official Zulkurnain Mohamed Yusof said Wednesday that agents found a total 5,255 red-ear slider baby turtles kept in small...
Facebook to help French police identify hate speech suspects
PARIS — Facebook is agreeing to help French police identify hate speech suspects, in what the French government is celebrating as a global first. France’s digital affairs minister, Cedric O, said that Facebook will provide authorities “IP addresses to help identify authors of hateful content.” Speaking on broadcaster France-Info, he...
Prince William says he’d be ‘absolutely fine’ with gay child
LONDON — Britain’s Prince William says it would be “absolutely fine” if one of his children came out as gay though he’d worry about how the public response. William made the comment on Wednesday while visiting a London nonprofit group that works with young LGBT people who are homeless or...
2 men charged with stealing truck they were test driving
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Authorities say two men held an employee at a Missouri car dealership at gunpoint and stole a truck they were test driving. Police say the theft ended when the suspects crashed the pickup truck. Garrett Eagle, 20, and David Edens, 43, are charged with first-degree robbery in...
Grim border drowning underlines peril facing many migrants
MEXICO CITY — The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final...
Kremlin confirms Trump to meet with Putin at G-20
MOSCOW — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of an international summit in Japan. Trump has said he plans to meet with Putin during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, and Putin has welcomed a meeting, saying he’s...
Investigators probe cause of Wisconsin fire that killed 6
PICKEREL, Wis. — State and local investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that killed six people, including four children, in a small northern Wisconsin town. Authorities say the fire early Tuesday in a multifamily home in the unincorporated community of Pickerel killed a 34-year-old woman,...
Eric Trump says he was spit on at Chicago cocktail lounge
CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said the U.S. Secret Service took an employee of a Chicago cocktail lounge into custody after she spit on him. Eric Trump told Breitbart News in a telephone interview that it was “purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional...
A year after newsroom attack, journalists embraced by city
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Standing ovations. A surge in subscriptions. Hugs from random readers. At a time when journalists are being vilified as “the enemy of the people,” staff members at the Capital Gazette newspaper are feeling the embrace of a grateful community, one year after a gunman went on a...
2 workers, gunman dead at California Ford dealership
MORGAN HILL, Calif. — A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said. Police called to the Ford Store Morgan Hill found a man shot dead of an apparently self-inflicted wound...
‘True Justice’ explores life of lawyer who defends death row inmatesVideo
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson rarely slows down, friends and family say. It seems he’s always looking over details on death penalty cases from his Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. If he’s not speaking on the criminalization of black men, Stevenson is researching another historical site connected to an episode...
Astros pitcher Gerrit Cole gets better of Pirates in 1st meeting since trade
HOUSTON — Houston’s Gerrit Cole tried not to think too much about what it would be like to face his former team leading up to Tuesday night’s meeting with the Pittsburgh Pirates. After turning in a solid performance to lead the Astros to a 5-1 win over the Pirates he...
Vanderbilt rocks Michigan, forces winner-take-all Game 3 of College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. — Kumar Rocker struck out 11 while pitching 6 1/3 innings of three-hit ball, and Vanderbilt got to Michigan’s shaky bullpen in a 4-1 win in Game 2 of the College World Series finals Tuesday night. The Commodores (58-12) forced a winner-take-all Game 3 on Wednesday night at...
Robert Mueller agrees to testify publicly before 2 House panels next month
WASHINGTON — Democrats said Tuesday evening that Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly July 17 before the House Judiciary and intelligence committees after both panels issued subpoenas to him. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a joint statement that the...
Assembly eyes open primaries, end to straight ticket voting
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania voters would be able to vote in primaries even if they aren’t Democrats or Republicans and have easier absentee ballot deadlines under election law changes being considered by the Legislature. The Senate on Tuesday voted 42 to 8 on Tuesday for a bill that would let unaffiliated...
State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale to run for U.S. House, Democrats say
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is telling fellow Democrats that he’s going to run for Congress in a Harrisburg-area district that’s in Republican hands, two Democratic Party figures told The Associated Press on Tuesday. DePasquale told them and others that he is planning to announce his candidacy in...
