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Results 1 to 30‘Sing Sing’ actor exonerated of murder after nearly 24 years in prison
2024-09-30, 19:56NEW YORK (AP) — After serving nearly 24 years in prison before being granted clemency and starring in last year’s movie “ Sing Sing,” Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has officially been exonerated of a murder prosecutors now say he didn’t commit. A Manhattan judge on Monday vacated the 48-year-old’s...
Judge in Alaska sets aside critical habitat designation for threatened bearded, ringed seals
2024-09-30, 19:56ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency’s action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason last week found the National Marine Fisheries Service did not...
Injured Real Madrid goalie Courtois to miss Champions League game
2024-09-30, 19:56MADRID (AP) — Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois will miss Real Madrid’s match at Lille in the Champions League on...
Judge upholds conviction against movie armorer in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on New Mexico ...
2024-09-30, 19:56SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) —...
Struggling F1 team Alpine will pull the plug on Renault as its engine provider
2024-09-30, 19:56Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine confirmed it will no longer use its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine said in a statement on Monday that its F1 engine factory at Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris would become an engineering center called Hypertech Alpine, starting from the end of this...
After the death of Johnny Gaudreau, the Blue Jackets look for better days and better hockey
2024-09-30, 19:56Columbus Blue Jackets Last season: 25-48-9, last in the Metropolitan Division. COACH: Dean Evason (147-77-27 in four-plus seasons with the Minnesota Wild), hired July 23. SEASON OPENER: Oct. 15 at Florida. DEPARTURES: F Alexandre Texier, F Patrik Laine, F Alexander Nylander, D Adam Clendening, coach...
Mental mistakes and Rodgers’ cadence become hot topics for Jets’ offense after awful performance
2024-09-30, 19:56New York Jets fans had a bad case of déja vu watching the offense struggle mightily. And it wasn’t even Zach Wilson’s fault. He was on the other sideline. One game after Aaron Rodgers was in total control of an offense that moved up and down the field at will against New England, the...
The San Francisco Giants have hired ex-catcher Buster Posey as President of Baseball Operations and ...
2024-09-30, 19:56SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The...
Braves host Mets in doubleheader to determine last two NL playoff teams
2024-09-30, 19:56ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves hosted the New York Mets in a doubleheader Monday to decide the final two National League wild-card spots, a day after the scheduled end of the regular season. The unusual twin bill was required after two games between...
Book Review: Louise Erdrich writes about love and loss in North Dakota in ’The Mighty Red’
2024-09-30, 19:56Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich (“The Night Watchman,” 2021) returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.” Set in the author’s native North Dakota, the title refers to the river that serves as a metaphor for life in the Red River Valley. It also carries a secret central...
Reaction to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo
2024-09-30, 19:56Reaction to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who died Monday from brain cancer. He was 58. ___ “I am deeply saddened to hear about Dikembe’s passing. He was a defensive force on the court who changed the way the game of basketball is played. But more importantly, Dikembe truly...
Appeal delays $600 million class action settlement payments in fiery Ohio derailment
2024-09-30, 19:56Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has been filed, lawyers in the case said Monday. Many residents of East Palestine,...
Gavin Creel, Tony Award winner and musical Broadway veteran, dies at 48
2024-09-30, 19:56NEW YORK (AP) — Gavin Creel, a Broadway veteran who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!” and nominations for “Hair” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” died Monday of a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 48....
Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Martin Scorsese and more stars pay tribute to Kris Kristofferson
2024-09-30, 19:56NEW YORK (AP) — Reaction to the death of Kris Kristofferson. The singer-songwriter and actor died Saturday at his home in Hawaii surrounded by family at age 88. ___ “The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something special.” — Barbra Streisand,...
Book Review: ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ is fan service for readers of Gladwell’s 2000 book
2024-09-30, 19:56It’s been nearly 25 years since Malcolm Gladwell published “The Tipping Point,” and it’s still easy to catch it being read on airplanes, displayed prominently on executives’ bookshelves or hear its jargon slipped into conversations. It’s no surprise that a sequel...
A Black man says a trucking company fired him because he couldn’t cut off his dreadlocks
2024-09-30, 19:56A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have dubbed hair discrimination. Drew Harvey, 26, of Crete, Illinois, accused Des...
The Penguins hope they’ve given stars Crosby and Malkin the help they need to return ...
2024-09-30, 19:56Pittsburgh Penguins Last season: 38-32-12, missed playoffs for a second straight year. COACH: Mike Sullivan (375-219-77 over 12 seasons with 2 teams, 2 Stanley Cup titles). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 9 vs. the New York Rangers. DEPARTURES: F Jeff Carter, F Reilly Smith, C Jansen Harkins, D Pierre-Olivier...
FIFA bans Cameroon soccer great Samuel Eto’o from national team games for 6 months
2024-09-30, 19:56ZURICH (AP) — Cameroon soccer great Samuel Eto’o was banned by FIFA on Monday from attending any national team games for six months. Eto’o, who has been president of the Cameroon soccer federation since 2021, faced two charges...
Josh Heupel’s Vols have stingy D to complement that dazzling offense
2024-09-30, 19:56Josh Heupel made his coaching reputation as a guru running offenses so fast that defenders were left gasping for air, unable to substitute fresh players. Through three seasons, that was enough to get Tennessee back in the AP Top 25 rankings. Now his Volunteers are much more balanced, with a stingy,...
PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day, Monday, September 30, 2024
2024-09-30, 19:56This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors. Source...
2 ex-officers did not testify at their trial in Tyre Nichols’ death. 1 still could
2024-09-30, 19:56MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for two former Memphis officers rested their cases Monday without calling them to testify in their own defense against charges that they violated Tyre Nichols’ civil rights in a beating that proved fatal following a 2023 traffic stop. The third former on trial could...
Biden says Olympians represented ‘the very best of America’
2024-09-30, 19:56WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the U.S. the “greatest sports nation in the history of the world,” President Joe Biden welcomed U.S. Olympians and Paralympians at the White House on Monday to...
Movie armorer’s conviction upheld in fatal ‘Rust’ set shooting by Alec Baldwin
2024-09-30, 19:56SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Monday upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armorer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.” Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed asked a court to dismiss her...
WNBA teams allowed to protect up to six players for upcoming expansion draft for Golden State
2024-09-30, 19:56NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA will have its first expansion draft in 16 years in December as the Golden State Valkyries start to fill out their roster. The Valkyries will begin play next season. The league sent out guidelines to teams in a memo that was obtained by The Associated Press. Teams will be...
Steelers’ promising start hits a speedbump in a mistake-filled loss at Indianapolis
2024-09-30, 19:56PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin insists the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t rely on a “rabbit’s foot” to help them out when things get tight. “We come out of those circumstances because of what we do, not some mystical thing,” Tomlin said last week. And what the Steelers do when things are going...
Book Review: ‘The Last Dream,’ short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films
2024-09-30, 19:56The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings. The stories and essays were gathered together by Almodóvar’s longtime assistant, including many pieces he said...
Giants name former catcher Buster Posey new President of Baseball Operations, replacing Farhan Zaidi
2024-09-30, 19:56SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants have named former catcher Buster Posey their new President of Baseball Operations and fired Farhan Zaidi. Chairman Greg Johnson made the announcement Monday after the Giants finished 80-82 in...
Suspect in shooting of 2 Jewish men in Los Angeles last year gets 29 years ...
2024-09-30, 19:56LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man charged with shooting and wounding two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles last year was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison, federal prosecutors said. The February 2023 shootings raised fears among the city’s Jewish community after officials said...
NHTSA: Cruise to pay $1.5M penalty after failing to fully report crash involving pedestrian
2024-09-30, 19:56General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle division will pay a $1.5 million penalty after the unit failed to fully report a crash involving a pedestrian, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday. The crash on Oct. 2, 2023 prompted Cruise to suspend driverless operations...
Lime may get a lift from Lyft’s DC departure
2024-09-30, 18:46Lyft’s decision to cease operations of its shared e-scooters and e-bikes in D.C. as of Tuesday will mean more rides for its main competitor, Lime, which already claims record ridership in the D.C. market. “Riders have been choosing Lime e-scooters and e-bikes more and more the last...
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