Associated Press stories, Page 998
Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archivesVideo
PITTSBURGH — Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized — and unrealized — for more than 20 years. Frances Pace Barnes, the pioneering music publisher’s daughter who remembers how he could turn a hum into a song,...
Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment
AUSTIN, Texas — Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon, who in the 1980s helped launch the Farm Aid benefit concerts, is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural...
Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible
JERUSALEM — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s...
World Baseball Classic interest keeps growing despite injury risks
MIAMI — Shohei Ohtani’s strikeout of Mike Trout, Trea Turner’s go-ahead, eighth-inning grand slam against Venezuela, Japan’s walk-off semifinal win and Mexico’s comeback from a four-run deficit against Puerto Rico will be replayed over and over. Edwin Díaz’s season-ending knee injury and Jose Altuve’s broken finger will be discussed all...
Wall Street quiet ahead of Fed rate hike decision
Wall Street quietly drifted between small gains and losses early Wednesday ahead of a closely-watched decision by the Federal Reserve on whether to raise interest rates in the midst of a global banking crisis. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials inched less than 0.1% higher, while futures for the S&P...
Springsteen, Kaling, Louis-Dreyfus among 22 honored by Biden
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals — and then stole the show himself with a quip about seeking reelection. Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and Gladys Knight were among...
Trump’s potential indictment caps decades of legal scrutiny
NEW YORK — For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated countless legal investigations without ever facing criminal charges. That record may soon come to an end. Trump could be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury as soon as this week, potentially charged with falsifying business records connected to...
Virginia man gets 4 years for attacking police at Jan. 6 Capitol riot
A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Geoffrey Sills of Mechanicsville, Va., was convicted of assault with a...
Ex-officer sentenced in abuse of teenagers in Bucks County drug program
DOYLESTOWN — A former suburban Philadelphia police officer has been sentenced to decades in prison on convictions of sexual abuse of several teenage boys while he was working with a youth drug prevention program decades ago. Bucks County Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. on Tuesday sentenced 54-year-old James Carey to 24...
March Madness allows Tennessee to showcase SEC’s rugged styleVideo
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Rick Barnes once took a team to watch a rugby match in Australia and loved what he saw. Despite what Florida Atlantic coach Dusty May says, that sport isn’t the Tennessee coach’s guide for the rugged style his Volunteers bring to the basketball court. “I...
Deputies: Suspended Alabama player drove 141 mph to evade traffic stopVideo
BONIFAY, Fla. — Suspended Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell drove over 141 mph while trying to evade deputies before his arrest on drug charges in the Florida Panhandle last week, authorities said. Mitchell and another man, who was a passenger in Mitchell’s car, were arrested Wednesday and charged with...
TikTok updates rules; CEO on charm offensive for U.S. hearing
LONDON — TikTok went on a counteroffensive Tuesday amid increasing Western pressure over cybersecurity and misinformation concerns, rolling out updated rules and standards for content as its CEO warned against a possible U.S. ban on the Chinese-owned video sharing app. CEO Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to appear Thursday before...
MLB plans to announce rules tweaks on pitch clock before Opening DayVideo
MIAMI — MLB’s new pitch clock is going to undergo some timing adjustments before it is turned on for games that count. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred called the changes “significant” but also described them as “clarifications” based on input from players. The alterations are likely to be announced Wednesday, eight...
Spring brings more wind, rain and snow to soaked CaliforniaVideo
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A strong late-season Pacific storm brought damaging wind and more rain and snow to saturated California on Tuesday as the first full day of spring showed little change from the state’s extraordinary winter. The storm focused most of its energy on central and southern parts of...
‘Don’t Say Gay’ lawmaker pleads guilty to covid relief fraud
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” pleaded guilty Tuesday to committing $150,000 in covid-19 relief fraud. Joseph Harding, a 35-year-old Republican, pleaded guilty in Gainesville federal court to wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements in connection with...
Stocks rise for first 2-day rally since banking crisis beganVideo
NEW YORK — Stocks rallied Tuesday, led by the banks most beaten down by the industry’s crisis, and some of Wall Street’s fear washed out on hopes the U.S. government will offer more help if needed. The S&P 500 jumped 1.3% to lock in its first back-to-back gain since Silicon...
College basketball staffs specialize to meet roster, NIL demandsVideo
Kelvin Sampson has been around college basketball long enough to remember when preseason practices started in October after a true offseason, teams remained largely intact for multiple seasons and players weren’t permitted to pursue endorsement deals. It might as well be a different planet now. The way Houston’s coach sees...
Oklahoma court OKs abortion to preserve mother’s life
OKLAHOMA CITY — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state’s near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abortion when pregnancy risks their health, not just in a medical emergency. It was a narrow win for abortion rights advocates since the...
Keselowski finally seeing results from long rebuild at RFKVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One of the best things to happen to rebranded RFK Racing came exactly one year ago when NASCAR found an illegal part on Brad Keselowski’s car. The illegal modification was found after just the fifth race of Keselowski’s first season as part owner of the once-proud organization...
Residents sue Louisiana parish to halt polluting plants
Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations. The lawsuit names St. James Parish as the defendant and says the parish council approved the construction of...
Last Match Play, last chance for Kuchar at Tiger’s recordVideo
AUSTIN, Texas — Matt Kuchar has a chance to break at least one record belonging to Tiger Woods, and the Dell Technologies Match Play will be his last chance. That’s because this is the last edition of the Match Play. And for starters, Kuchar feels lucky just to be part...
Superbug fungus cases rose dramatically during pandemic
NEW YORK — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study. The covid-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in the...
Video shows Irvo Otieno pinned to floor before his deathVideo
DINWIDDIE, Va. — A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video of the incident earlier this month shows. The footage obtained Tuesday, which...
Fox, Dominion face off over airing of false election claimsVideo
WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News and a voting machine company that claims the conservative network defamed it by amplifying baseless allegations of fraud following the 2020 presidential election faced off in a courtroom Tuesday during a key hearing over whether journalists have a responsibility to be cautious with explosive and...
Willis Reed, leader on Knicks’ 2 title teams, dies at 80
NEW YORK — Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80. Reed’s death...
