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California bookie pleads guilty to running illegal gambling business used by ex-Ohtani interpreter 08/09/2024 06:42pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty Friday to running an illegal gambling business. Mathew Bowyer, 49, entered the plea in federal court in Santa Ana. He also pleaded g Like Noah Lyles, Olympians with COVID are competing in Paris. Restrictions are a thing of the past 08/09/2024 06:42pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Many hoped the Paris Olympics would be the post-COVID Games. Instead they seem to be the ���who cares about COVID��� Games. Noah Lyles won a bronze with the virus in front of tens of thousands of spectators, and dozens of other athletes at the Games have tested positive. But organizer Judge enters not guilty plea for escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while on the run 08/09/2024 06:37pm • LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) ��� An Idaho judge has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of an escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while he was on the lam for 36 hours. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if Skylar Meade, 32, is convicted of the murder charge in connection wi Red Sox SS Trevor Story could return to lineup soon after having April shoulder surgery 08/09/2024 06:28pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Boston Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story is getting close to a return to the lineup after having what was expected to be season-ending shoulder surgery. Story injured his shoulder trying to make a diving stop on a ball off the bat of the Los Angeles Angels��� Mike Trout in Anaheim on Ap Twins shelve Joe Ryan indefinitely with shoulder strain, as rotation takes hit for stretch run 08/09/2024 06:28pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The Minnesota Twins placed starting pitcher Joe Ryan on the 15-day injured list on Friday with a significantly strained muscle in his throwing shoulder, an ill-timed setback entering a critical homestand against two division rivals and primary competitors for postseason spots. R U.S. Track has dramatic night in 4x100 relay, Khelif gets her gold 08/09/2024 06:11pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It was a dramatic Friday night for the United States in track and field at the Paris Olympics, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won gold after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Sha���Carri Richardson got her first gold medal while a U.S. men���s relay team fumbled a Olympic boxing Latest: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wins gold after misinformed scrutiny over her sex 08/09/2024 05:56pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal at Paris Olympics after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China in a unanimous decision (5:0) from all five judges, who scored the bout in her favor for all three rounds at Roland Garros. The contro Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinians flee parts of south Gaza as Israel launches a new assault 08/09/2024 05:43pm • Palestinians are fleeing large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza where the Israeli military began a new assault after ordering another mass evacuation. Gaza���s second-largest city, Khan Younis, suffered widespread destruction during air and ground operations earlier in the year. The enclav Israeli troops launch a new assault into Gaza's Khan Younis as mediators push for cease-fire talks 08/09/2024 05:36pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli troops launched a new assault Friday into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, targeting Hamas fighters who the military claims still operate there despite repeated offensives, as American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators renewed their push for Israel and H Japan's b-girl Ami wins Olympic breaking's first gold medal 08/09/2024 05:26pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Japan's b-girl Ami won gold at the Olympics ' first breaking event by spinning, flipping and toprocking past a field of 16 dancers Friday in a high-energy competition that may not return for future Games. Ami, legally named Ami Yuasa, won all three rounds in a battle against b-girl Ni Richmond up next as NASCAR returns from its Olympic break for final 4 races of regular season 08/09/2024 05:26pm • Firmly on the playoff bubble, Chris Buescher can take solace in the fact that this upcoming part of the schedule was so good to him last year. Not that he's taking anything for granted. ���Three of the next four races we're heading into we were able to win last year,��� Buescher said. ���That's a pr Wall Street ends a wild and scary week almost exactly where it began. More tests loom next week 08/09/2024 05:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� After a manic week that began with Japanese stocks falling to their worst loss since 1987's Black Monday, only for U.S. stocks to soar later to their best day since 2022, slight gains on Friday carried Wall Street almost exactly back to where it began the week. The S&P 500 ros Prompted by mass shooting, 72-hour wait period and other new gun laws go into effect in Maine 08/09/2024 05:07pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� With eleventh hour guidance from the state, Maine gun retailers on Friday began requiring a three-day wait period for gun purchases under one of the new safety laws adopted following the state���s deadliest mass shooting. Maine joined a dozen other states with similar laws, Olivia Reeves wins the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years 08/09/2024 05:05pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn't work. It didn't matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years at the Paris Games on Friday. ���Feeling the weight of this compe Vikings trade Andrew Booth Jr. to Cowboys for Nahshon Wright in low-level swap of cornerbacks 08/09/2024 04:48pm • OXNARD, Calif. (AP) ��� The Minnesota Vikings traded Andrew Booth Jr. to the Dallas Cowboys for Nahshon Wright on Friday in a low-level swap of cornerbacks who might be at risk of getting cut by the end of training camp. Booth was a second-round pick by the Vikings out of Clemson in 2022 but had min