Associated Press stories, Page 546
Shooting at splash pad in Detroit suburb injures 8, including 2 children
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — Eight people were injured after a shooter opened fire at a splash pad in a Detroit suburb where families gathered to escape the summer heat Saturday, authorities said. Law enforcement tracked a suspect to a home, where the person died by suicide. At least two of...
DeChambeau a one-man show at Pinehurst No. 2 and leads US Open by 3Video
PINEHURST, N.C. — Bryson DeChambeau ducked outside the ropes to a private area in the woods, flat on his back as trainers worked on hips that felt too tight. Moments later, he unleashed a swing that sent his drive 347 yards, leaving a wedge to set up birdie and another...
Collin Morikawa thought a 66 would give him a shot at the US Open. Then came Bryson DeChambeauVideo
PINEHURST, N.C. — Collin Morikawa woke up Saturday nine shots off the lead and figuring he would have to get back to even par to have any chance of winning the U.S. Open. He did his part, shooting a bogey-free 66. What Morikawa wasn’t counting on was big Bryson DeChambeau...
Celtics take season’s worth of lessons into Game 5 of NBA Finals vs. Mavericks
BOSTON — The Celtics picked the most inopportune time to play their worst game of the season. Boston’s 122-84 Game 4 loss to Dallas had all kinds of superlatives, and none of them were good. It ended the Celtics’ 10-game playoff win streak. It was the Celtics’ lowest-scoring output of...
NASCAR’s Cup Series comes to Iowa, but it’s not same track drivers remember
NEWTON, Iowa — Christopher Bell likes that the NASCAR Cup Series will be at Iowa Speedway for the first time. Heading into Sunday’s race, the .875-mile track isn’t quite the one he remembers. Bell has seven top-five finishes in nine starts at the track in NASCAR’s other series, including two...
Former Stanley Cup champion Vladimir Tarasenko playing key role for Florida
EDMONTON, Alberta — Minutes after winning Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final to move to the verge of a second championship in six years, Vladimir Tarasenko had no interest in revisiting the events that occurred on the ice. “The game is over,” he said. “There is no need to...
U.K. royals unite on palace balcony, with Kate back at her 1st public event since cancer diagnosis
LONDON — Britain put on a display of birthday pageantry Saturday for King Charles III, a military parade that marked the Princess of Wales ’ first appearance at a public event since her cancer diagnosis early this year. The annual event was also a show of stability by the monarchy...
U.S. supports ‘a just and lasting peace’ for Ukraine, Harris tells Zelenskyy at Swiss summit
OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday pledged America’s full support in backing Ukraine and global efforts to achieve “a just and lasting peace” in the face of Russia’s invasion, representing the United States at an international gathering on the war and meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to...
Biden goes straight from G7 to Hollywood fundraiser, balancing geopolitics with his reelection bid
LOS ANGELES — After flying through the night across nine time zones, from southern Italy to Southern California, President Joe Biden is shifting his focus from Russia’s challenge of Western unity to raking in big money for his reelection campaign at a Hollywood fundraiser featuring George Clooney and Julia Roberts....
Trump’s Michigan trip will include stops at a Black church and a gathering of far-right activists
DETROIT — Donald Trump will use back-to-back stops Saturday to court Black voters and a conservative group that has been accused of attracting white supremacists as the Republican presidential candidate works to stitch together a coalition of historically divergent interests in battleground Michigan. Trump is scheduled to host an afternoon...
Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian leaders on Saturday ousted Frantz Elbé, the beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police, following months of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to protect officers under assault by gangs. Former Haitian police chief Normil Rameau, who also was dismissed from the post nearly four years ago...
U.S. military targets Houthi radar sites in Yemen after a merchant sailor goes missing
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites operated by Yemen’s Houthi rebels after one merchant sailor went missing and the vessel he was on caught fire in the latest Houthi strike on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor, authorities said...
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a U.S. diplomat aboard
HELSINKI — The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later. The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when...
Police in Maine cancel shelter-in-place order after explosions and fire are reported
AUBURN, Maine — Police in Maine have canceled a shelter-in-place order in the city of Auburn after reporting that an armed person was in an area where a series of explosions and a house fire erupted early Saturday. The Auburn Police Department said on Facebook that the situation had been...
Rookie WR Keon Coleman playfully embraces Buffalo while showing serious side
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Wide-eyed, engaging and athletic, Bills rookie receiver Keon Coleman has much to offer, be it tips on when to land the best deals for winter coats to using his lean 6-foot-4 frame and long muscular arms to snatch balls thrown over his head or behind him....
Doncic scores 29, Mavericks roll past the Celtics 122-84 to avoid a sweep in the NBA FinalsVideo
DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 25 of his 29 points in the first half, Kyrie Irving added 21 points and the Dallas Mavericks emphatically extended their season on Friday night, fending off elimination by beating the Boston Celtics, 122-84, in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The Mavs’ stars were...
Gerrit Cole strikes out 10 in Triple-A rehab start and could return to Yankees next weekVideo
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Yankees ace Gerrit Cole struck out 10 in a Triple-A game Friday night, potentially the final step before he returns from an elbow injury and joins New York’s rotation for the first time this season. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner allowed just two hits and...
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole fans 10 for Scranton-Wilkes Barre in 3rd rehab start
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Gerrit Cole struck out 10 in 4⅓ innings for Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre on Friday night, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner’s third rehab start and the latest step toward returning to the New York Yankees’ rotation. The 33-year-old right-hander allowed a double in the first inning...
Crews rescue 30 people trapped upside down high on Oregon amusement park ride
PORTLAND, Ore. — Emergency crews in Oregon rescued 30 people Friday after they were stuck for about half an hour dangling upside down high on a ride at a century-old amusement park. Portland Fire and Rescue said on the social platform X that firefighters worked with engineers at Oaks Park...
Ludvig Aberg takes 1-shot lead into weekend at Pinehurst in U.S. Open debut
PINEHURST, N.C. — Ludvig Aberg and his machine-like game are proving to be a perfect fit for Pinehurst No. 2. The Swedish star methodically worked his way to a 1-under-par 69 on Friday and a one-shot lead going into the weekend of his U.S. Open debut. Aberg wasn’t flawless —...
MLB umpire Pat Hoberg appealing discipline after sports betting investigation
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball plans to discipline umpire Pat Hoberg after an investigation into a potential violation of sports gambling policies. In a statement Friday, the commissioner’s office said Hoberg has decided to appeal the penalty. MLB did not disclose the nature of the violation or the extent...
Woods misses the cut, extends majors run of over-par rounds in US Open at Pinehurst No. 2Video
PINEHURST, N.C. — Tiger Woods was unable to find the right mix of quality shots and timely breaks at Pinehurst No. 2 to extend his first U.S. Open appearance in four years into the weekend. He’s heading home. And he’s uncertain if he’ll be back. The three-time U.S. Open champion...
Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge. “It is sadly predictable that...
Scheffler goes without a birdie for a 74 and narrowly avoids an early exit from US OpenVideo
PINEHURST, N.C. — Scottie Scheffler chose iron off the tee for position Friday in the U.S. Open and sent it well right of the fairway toward trouble, whether that was a bunker or the dusty dunes or the native plants dotting the landscape. “What are you DOING?” he said to...
Atlanta’s former Coca-Cola museum demolished for parking lot
ATLANTA — Once a shrine to the world’s most popular soft drink, the building that housed the original World of Coca-Cola is going flat at the hands of Georgia’s state government. Crews continued Friday to demolish the onetime temple of fizz in downtown Atlanta near the state capitol, with plans...
