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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Garrett Navarra and Griffin Lockwood-Powell homered, Jordan Patty gave up one run in 7 2/3 innings, and Central Michigan beat Michigan 8-2 in a South Bend Regional elimination game on Saturday. Patty (9-2) gave up a solo home run to Michigan’s Tito Flores in the first inning and kept the…

The Hendrick Motorsports train rolls into Sonoma Raceway on a three-race winning streak that pushed it past Petty Enterprises as NASCAR’s winningest organization. Think the juggernaut will be stopped Sunday at NASCAR’s first visit to California in nearly two years? It’s going to be tough. Sure, Martin Truex Jr. is the two-time defending race winner…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wes Clarke hit his nation-leading 23rd home run of the season and South Carolina opened the Columbia Regional with a 4-3 victory over Virginia on Friday. Clarke homered in the first to break a tie with Florida State’s Mat Nelson for the NCAA lead. South Carolina (34-21) was held to two…

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of a North Carolina man who posted an anonymous threat on social media to lynch a Muslim-American political candidate from Virginia. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Joseph Cecil Vandevere’s argument that a threatening tweet he directed at former state…

Printers have gotten more feature-filled and affordable over the past few years, as the once-massive all-in-one units (print, copy and scan) have become more and more compact while delivering higher quality prints. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

BRUSSELS (AP) — Injury-depleted Belgium was held to a 1-1 draw by Greece on Thursday in a friendly ahead of the European Championship, a disappointing result for the Belgians against a team which has not qualified for the tournament. Belgium went into the game without Kevin de Bruyne after he suffered facial injuries playing for…

When the French Open’s third round gets underway Friday, there will be four men from the United States on the schedule — the largest contingent from the country to get that far in Paris in 25 years. “It beats all of us losing and getting on flights home,” said one member of the quartet, Stevie…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Gilbert, who decided to stick with “Jeopardy!” after Alex Trebek’s death, faced the wrenching question once again as production for next season neared. This time it would mean adjusting to the quiz show’s yet-to-be-named host, as opposed to the succession of celebrities who have been filling in since Trebek succumbed…

Re: “Biden, GOP senator to meet as infrastructure deadline looms” [June 1, Nation & World Politics]: The need for political wisdom is necessary. The biblical King Solomon’s perverse but effective verdict to resolving dual claims of maternity was to cleave the baby — knowing the real mother would relinquish her claim. The infrastructure bill should…

Washington Supreme Court makes right ruling about free-press access. Bona fide members of the news media are trained, and follow professional standards and ethics. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

MacKenzie Scott stormed the philanthropy world last year with $5.7 billion in unrestricted donations to hundreds of charities. The seven- and eight-figure gifts were the largest many had ever received. At the time, few people understood the multiplier effect those gifts would have or how truly wide a net she was casting. The many tentacles…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia police department has reinstated an officer fired in 2019 over Facebook posts saying among other things that refugees should “starve to death.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that officer Christian Fenico was reinstated with full back pay after an arbitrator in a grievance filed with the police union ruled Fenico’s social…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school’s hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted. Walter Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, said in emails to university leaders that…

Kyle Lewis was removed from Monday’s game with discomfort in the knee after trying to make a difficult leaping catch and landing awkwardly in the eighth inning Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors looked ahead to U.S. jobs data for reassurance the biggest global economy is improving following the previous month’s big hiring miss. Benchmarks in Shanghai and Tokyo declined while Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. U.S. markets, which ended May with a gain amid inflation fears,…

BOSTON (AP) — Casey Cizikas scored on a breakaway with 14:48 gone in the first overtime and Semyon Varlamov returned to the net to make 39 saves, leading the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Monday night and knotting their second-round playoff series at one game apiece. Cizikas picked…

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Todd Frazier hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in a two-run first inning, St. Louis prospect Matthew Liberatore pitched one-run ball for five innings and manager Mike Scioscia’s U.S. team beat Nicaragua 7-1 Monday night in the first game of its second chance to qualify for the Olympics. Liberatore, a…