Associated Press stories, Page 2562
Helmetless shift by Boston’s Torey Krug could go down in hockey lore
BOSTON — Torey Krug worried afterward his pregnant wife would not really like him flying down the ice and delivering a bone-jarring hit without a helmet on. There wasn’t anything he could do about it. Krug provided a signature moment of the Boston Bruins’ 4-2 victory against the St. Louis...
1 dead, 130 injured as tornadoes rip through Ohio and IndianaVideo
BROOKVILLE, Ohio — A swarm of tornadoes so tightly packed that one may have crossed the path carved by another tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school year early for some students because of damage to buildings. One person was killed and...
Naomi Osaka avoids French Open upset; Simona Halep wins, too
PARIS — Naomi Osaka’s body language made her plight plain. For all she’s already accomplished, the internal pressure stemming from aiming to do even more was ruining her debut as the No. 1 seed at a Grand Slam tournament. Fed up with her poor play in a first-round match at...
50th annual World Series of Poker opens in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — The annual World Series of Poker opened Tuesday in Las Vegas with dozens of scheduled card tournaments and a special event to celebrate the 50th run of a series known for minting millionaires each year. The seven-week poker festival is expected to again draw tens of thousands...
Planned Parenthood: Missouri’s last abortion clinic may shut
ST. LOUIS — Missouri’s only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, Planned Parenthood officials said Tuesday. Planned Parenthood officials said in a teleconference that the current license for the St. Louis facility expires Friday. If...
GOP counters Gov. Tom Wolf’s capital plan with drilling, not taxes
HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate are preparing an alternative to Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal for a multibillion-dollar capital plan, funding it by allowing more natural gas drilling in state-owned forests rather than by taxing natural gas production. A sponsor, Sen. Pat Stefano of Fayette County, said Tuesday he...
Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis has book coming this summer
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has a book coming out this summer, but he warns that it will not be a “tell-all” about President Donald Trump. “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” will be published July 16, Random House announced Tuesday. Co-written with Bing West, the book will be...
Emails show ex-Cardinal McCarrick, Wuerl others flouted 2008 restrictions
VATICAN CITY — Email correspondence shows disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was placed under Vatican travel restrictions in 2008 for sleeping with seminarians, but regularly flouted those rules with the apparent knowledge of Vatican officials under Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. The email excerpts, released Tuesday by a former aide,...
Disaster aid bill blocked in House by GOP conservative Thomas MassieVideo
WASHINGTON — A second conservative Republican on Tuesday blocked another attempt to pass a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill, delaying again a top priority for some of President Trump’s most loyal allies on Capitol Hill. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said that if Democratic leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
‘Guardian angel’ pigeon gets driver out of speeding ticket
Police in western Germany say divine intervention saved a speeding driver from getting a ticket, after a pigeon photobombed a traffic enforcement camera at just the right moment. Perhaps inspired by this week’s Ascension Day national Christian holiday, Viersen police said “the Holy Ghost must have had a plan” to...
Phillies OF Odubel Herrera arrested in domestic case, put on leave
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera has been placed on administrative leave by Major League Baseball following his arrest in a domestic violence case at an Atlantic City casino. The commissioner’s office put Herrera on leave Tuesday, a day after his arrest on an assault charge at...
Sports Illustrated magazine sold for $110 million
NEW YORK — Sports Illustrated magazine has been sold for $110 million to a company that specializes in managing fashion, entertainment and sports brands, including marketing rights to Shaquille O’Neal and Muhammad Ali. The seller, Meredith Corp., will continue running the print edition and the website SI.com for at least...
Chicago officer recorded asking teen for sex is fired
CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer who allegedly asked a 17-year-old girl for sex in return for getting her mother’s impounded car released by the city has been fired. The Chicago Tribune reports that the city’s police board agreed with Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s recommendation to fire Officer Darius Alexander in...
Michigan State chooses Stony Brook president as next leader
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., a medical researcher who has led Stony Brook University in New York for nearly a decade, was named Tuesday as the next president of Michigan State University in the wake of the most extensive sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Stanley was...
MacKenzie Bezos pledges half her fortune to charity
NEW YORK — MacKenzie Bezos, who finalized her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year, is pledging to give away half her fortune to charity. The novelist said Tuesday that she signed The Giving Pledge, a campaign to get the ultra-wealthy to pledge at least half...
Court details woman’s spending spree: $20M at Harrods, $38K on chocolates
LONDON — Court documents reveal that a woman suspected by British authorities of having ill-gotten wealth spent $760,000 in one day at upmarket department store Harrods and once forked out $38,000 on chocolates. Zamira Hajiyeva is the first person subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order, which allows British authorities to...
Supreme Court declines to review Pennsylvania policy supporting transgender students
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a Pennsylvania school district’s policy letting transgender students use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identities. Without comment, the court declined to review an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit that upheld the...
Raiders agree to 1-year deal with troubled guard Richie Incognito
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders agreed Tuesday to a one-year deal with troubled guard Richie Incognito. Incognito’s agent, Ken Sarnoff, tweeted confirmation of the deal , congratulating his client for his return to the NFL after sitting out last season in retirement. The 35-year-old Incognito has played 11 years...
Supreme Court upholds Indiana abortion law on fetal remains
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is upholding an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains. But the justices are staying out of the debate over a broader, blocked provision that would prevent a woman in Indiana from having an...
Heat forces South Carolina bridge to close for several hours
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — The extreme heat that’s been scorching the Deep South prompted the closure of a swinging bridge to a South Carolina beach town for several hours. The state Department of Transportation says the heat caused the steel in the Ben Sawyer Bridge to Sullivans Island to expand,...
3 people die in Pennsylvania ATV wrecks over holiday weekend
ALLENTOWN — Three people died in accidents involving all-terrain vehicles over the Memorial Day weekend in Pennsylvania. A 45-year-old North Wales man died early Monday when his ATV overturned on a road in Foster Township, Luzerne County. On Sunday, a 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old man died in Triumph Township,...
Report: Pennsylvania must do more to help Chesapeake Bay
NORFOLK, Va. — A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is once again lambasting Pennsylvania for not doing enough to protect the nation’s largest estuary. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation released a report Tuesday that says Pennsylvania’s plan to reduce pollution is “woefully inadequate.” States are tasked with keeping...
City Hall for sale? Scranton might sell municipal building
SCRANTON— Everyone complains that City Hall is for sale but it might soon be the case in a Pennsylvania city. City Hall in Scranton needs a renovation, and the mayor’s administration is considering putting the 130-year-old structure up for sale rather than footing the nearly $11 million bill to fix...
Thousands of kindergartners unvaccinated without waivers
COLUMBUS, Ohio — States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but schoolchildren using such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse at all for lacking...
Normandy tries to keep alive ‘infinite gratitude’ for D-Day
SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — At 10 years old, Henri-Jean Renaud watched U.S. paratroopers landing through the window of his Normandy home in the early hours of D-Day. Like other French who lived through the war, he’s trying to pass on to younger generations the gratitude he feels. With fewer veterans and...
