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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Travis Bazzana hit a two-run home run, Dallas Macias singled in a pair and No. 15 national seed Oregon State defeated UC Irvine 5-3 on Saturday night at the Corvallis Regional. UC Irvine (44-13) will play Tulane (36-25) in an elimination game on Sunday. Oregon State (44-14) will play the winner

By JACK DURA Associated Press Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine tabulators based on unfounded conspiracy theories stemming from the 2020 presidential election. The three counties, each with fewer

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run over six solid innings, and Jason Heyward and Will Smith had RBI doubles in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night. Kiké Hernández also drove in a run for the Dodgers, who have won

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denis Bouanga scored a goal for the second consecutive game, Hugo Lloris finished with two saves and Los Angeles FC beat FC Dallas 1-0 Saturday night to extends its win streak to five consecutive games. LAFC (9-4-3) has outscored its opponents 9-0 during since a 3-1 loss to the San Jose

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Scattered elsewhere, students sat at laptop computers and got reading help from online tutors. For the third graders at Mount Vernon

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Aaron Judge homered for the third time in two games in San Francisco and the New York Yankees beat the Giants 7-3 on Saturday night. Judge followed up his two-homer performance Friday night in his first game at the stadium where he rooted for the

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire burning Saturday in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said. The Corral Fire began burning Saturday near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in

By CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — J.P. Crawford hit a grand slam, Bryce Miller struck out nine in six innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-0 on Saturday. Miller (5-5) allowed just three hits for the Mariners, who lead the AL West on June 1 for the first time

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities have closed the state’s entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an “unprecedented” outbreak of shellfish poisoning that has sickened at least 20 people. They’ve also closed parts of the Oregon coast to harvesting razor clams, bay clams and oysters. “We’ve had a paralytic shellfish poisoning event in Oregon

By BILL TROCCHI Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Miguel Andujar went 4 for 5 with a homer, four RBIs and three runs scored and the Oakland Athletics snapped Chris Sale’s seven-start winning streak with an 11-9 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday. Brent Rooker also homered and drove in four runs for Oakland. His

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Jakob Christian hit a two-run home run in the first inning and San Diego held off Fresno State at the end beating the Bulldogs 7-5 in the Santa Barbara Regional of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Late, however, the Bulldogs threatened when with one out in the bottom of the

By AVERY OSEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ha-Seong Kim hit a go-ahead three-run double, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Kyle Higashioka homered and the San Diego Padres beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Saturday. Randy Vásquez (1-3) started after Joe Musgrove was scratched hours before the first pitch with right elbow inflammation

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Three-time defending SailGP champion Tom Slingsby of Team Australia rebounded from two poor performances to win the third fleet race and stay in contention in the inaugural ROCKWOOL Canada Sail Grand Prix Halifax on Saturday. The Aussies are sixth overall in the 10-boat fleet of

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Darryl Strawberry stood on the Citi Field grass as his No. 18 was being retired and addressed the New York Mets fans he had jilted 34 years earlier. “I mean this from the bottom of my heart, I’m so sorry for ever leaving you guys,”

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kelly Maxwell delivered the breakout pitching performance Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso had been waiting for. Maxwell threw a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts as the three-time defending national champion Sooners beat UCLA 1-0 on Saturday to reach the Women’s College World Series semifinals. Maxwell has been

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The San Diego Padres placed left-handers Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove on the 15-day injured list Saturday. The 37-year-old Darvish (4-3) has a strained left groin. He left after three innings Wednesday against Miami, staying in San Diego to receive treatment. Musgrove (3-4) was set to start Saturday at Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The San Diego Padres placed left-handers Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove on the 15-day injured list Saturday. The 37-year-old Darvish (4-3) has a strained left groin. He left after three innings Wednesday against Miami, staying in San Diego to receive treatment. Musgrove (3-4) was set to start Saturday at Kansas

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans have opted to wait until 2025 to use the last of the three first-round draft choices they received from the Los Angeles Lakers as part of the 2019 Anthony Davis trade, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

The Associated Press Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing for live events in the United States. Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, California, said in a regulatory filing Friday that on May 27 “a criminal threat actor” offered to sell Ticketmaster data on the dark web. Other

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son was in federal court, prepared to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses. The culmination of a sprawling investigation, the deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors was going to spare him a politically explosive trial in the middle of his father’s reelection campaign