HOUSTON (AP) — The largest broadcaster of regional sports networks across the country will continue to televise games for more than a dozen NBA teams and nine NHL teams through the 2024-2025 season even as it moves through bankruptcy proceedings, according to court filings on Friday. Diamond Sports Group, which broadcasts the Bally-branded regional sports
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s electoral institute has voted to give the governing Morena party and its allies about 73% of seats in the lower house of Congress, even though the coalition won only about 60% of the votes in the June 2 elections. The ruling Friday would give the governing party the two-thirds majority
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — King County prosecutors have filed charges against a man they say forced his way into a vehicle occupied by a beloved 80-year-old Seattle dog walker, pushed her out and ran over her before going to a park and stabbing her dog to death. Forty-eight-year-old Jahmed Kamal Haynes was charged Friday
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla.; Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Pat Ryan, D-N.Y.; retired Lt. Gen.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has decided it won’t fast-track appeals of results in two lawsuits initiated by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper challenging new laws that eroded his power to choose members of several boards and commissions. The state Supreme Court denied on Friday the requests from Republican legislative leaders
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom has withdrawn from the race for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House after finishing third in this week’s primary. The Republican backed by former President Donald Trump announced her decision Friday. The move leaves second-place finisher Republican Nick Begich as the main challenger
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state’s first execution in more than 13 years. South Carolina was once one of the busiest states for executions, but for years had had trouble obtaining lethal injection
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — An attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, authorities said. Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9:30 p.m. to an unknown attacker having wounded several people indiscriminately with a knife on a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A union official said West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees’ health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel. The Greenbrier Council of Labor Unions chair Peter Bostic said “the delinquencies are factual, tangible and documented,” putting workers’ coverage at risk
Continue ReadingOULU, Finland (AP) — Performers at this year’s Air Guitar World Championships in Finland tuned up Friday for the air guitar world’s version of the Olympics, featuring dedicated competitors like “Shred Lasso” and “Guitarantula.” This year’s championships began Wednesday with Airientation in Oulu, Finland. The Dark Horses Qualifications followed on Thursday, culminating with the World
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl has been sentenced to life in prison. Rashad Trice acknowledged that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing in July 2023 as part of a dispute with the girl’s mother, his former girlfriend. A
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury swiftly acquitted three security guards of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the death of a man who was held to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014, a case that was closed without charges years ago but reopened by state prosecutors. The jury of eight women and
Continue ReadingONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — Fire has destroyed the wooden grandstands at a historic Southern California baseball field that appeared in “A League of Their Own” and other movies. Firefighters responded at 11:25 p.m. Thursday to a report of a fire at Jay Littleton Ball Park in the city of Ontario, about 35 miles (56 kilometers)
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge says he won’t force state election officials to tell voters that a proposed antidiscrimination amendment to the state’s constitution would protect abortion rights. Friday’s decision from state Supreme Court Judge David A. Weinstein comes in lawsuit over the language voters will see on ballots explaining
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has brought home the bodies of 28 Shiite pilgrims who died in a bus crash in Iran this week while heading to Iraq for a pilgrimage. A Pakistani military aircraft on Friday also flew home 23 pilgrims who were injured in the accident on Tuesday night in the central
Continue ReadingIt might feel like the presidential election is still a long way off. It’s not. Election Day on Nov. 5 is less than two months away, and major dates, events and political developments will make it fly by. The first mail ballots of the general election were sent out Wednesday, the day after the first
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee says more cooperation among county officials would improve conditions in Fulton County’s jail. They’re also calling on the city of Atlanta to hand over its former jail to the county to house prisoners. The committee was formed last year to examine conditions in the jail after
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship. The coalition filed suit Friday to halt the program launched by President Joe Biden in June, saying in court filings that
Continue ReadingBOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two freight trains have collided and derailed in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two crew members. The Boulder Police Department says the crash happened north of Boulder Community Hospital. Area roads were closed for several hours while officials conducted an investigation and fuel cleanups but have all since
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was charged with manslaughter with a firearm, launching a rarely seen criminal case against a Florida law officer after a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman was killed after answering his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward the ground. Former Okaloosa
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