Search

3 Tufts men’s lacrosse players remain hospitalized with rare muscle injury 09/23/2024 05:55pm • BOSTON (AP) — Three Tufts University men’s lacrosse players remained hospitalized with a rare muscle injury Monday after participating in a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout earlier this month, according to a university spokesperson. The players became ill in the days following a Sept. 16 Cowboys are on edge after consecutive home losses with slow starts, big deficits 09/23/2024 05:49pm • FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Star quarterback Dak Prescott said the Dallas Cowboys have to be more professional and focused. Cornerback Jourdan Lewis sprinkled in a few expletives while trying to explain his belief that the team was falling woefully short with attention to detail. A third consecutive home Packers' defense takes another step forward with eight-sack effort against Titans 09/23/2024 05:28pm • Intercepting passes isn’t the only way the Green Bay Packers' defense bothers opposing quarterbacks. When the Packers aren’t picking off throws, sometimes it’s because they’re making sure quarterbacks can't even pass the ball. Green Bay (2-1) sacked Will Levis eight times Sunday in a 30-14 v Winless Titans remain confident they can turn season around despite 0-3 start 09/23/2024 05:05pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The winless Tennessee Titans remain confident they have a team capable of winning the Super Bowl. On paper. The Titans are 0-3 in a league where only six teams since 1979 have made the playoffs after starting 0-3 and only one since 2000. None won a Super Bowl. First-year c The Ravens' struggles in the fourth quarter nearly cost them another game 09/23/2024 05:04pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has been telling his teammates they need to do a better job of putting opponents away and finishing games. Jackson, the reigning NFL MVP, will need to have that same conversation again this week as Baltimore prepares to host Buffalo on S Browns' 'new' offense for QB Deshaun Watson lacking imagination, identity and consistency 09/23/2024 04:49pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns switched coordinators during the offseason to rebuild their offense so it better suited quarterback Deshaun Watson. After three games, there are no detectable signs of progress. In fact, Cleveland's offense lacks imagination, an identity or any real consistency, unless Man pleads guilty to Michigan killing that stoked anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric 09/23/2024 04:47pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Mexican national who is in the U.S. illegally pleaded guilty Monday to killing his girlfriend and dumping her body along a Michigan freeway. Brandon Ortiz Vite, 25, entered the plea in a Grand Rapids, Michigan, courtroom and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31. He fac Thousands flee southern Lebanon in search of safety and shelter 09/23/2024 04:34pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of families from southern Lebanon packed cars and minivans with suitcases, mattresses, blankets and carpets and jammed the highway heading north toward Beirut on Monday to flee the deadliest Israeli bombardment since 2006. Some 100,000 people living near the border had alre Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define — or predict 09/23/2024 04:33pm • Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah is firing rockets and drones deep into northern Israel, setting buildings and cars alight. But no one is calling it a war — not yet. Israe A state senator has thwarted a GOP effort to lock down all of Nebraska's electoral votes for Trump 09/23/2024 04:03pm • A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska's electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move. GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska's five electoral v A look at some of the longtime employees at the Oakland Coliseum 09/23/2024 03:56pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In his tiny office at the Coliseum, longtime visiting clubhouse manager Mikey Thalblum pulls out a $5 check from Charles Finley dated March 20, 1980. Thalblum was just a baseball-loving boy then, having begun with the Oakland Athletics at spring training in 1980 as a sixth-g A win in Cleveland gives the Giants some hope with longtime nemesis Dallas on deck Thursday 09/23/2024 03:41pm • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants get a chance to celebrate their first victory of the season. The Giants (1-2) got it Sunday with a 21-15 win on the road in Cleveland despite fumbling the opening kickoff and being down 7-0 after 11 seconds. It was their second solid game in a row a The Fed sees its inflation fight as a success. Will the public eventually agree? 09/23/2024 03:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it's all but conquered inflation after three long years. The public at large? Not so much. Consumer surveys, including one released Friday by The Associat A UN expert says Russian convicts sent to war in Ukraine commit crimes when they return 09/23/2024 03:37pm • GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed human rights expert on Monday decried violence in Russia by former convicts whose sentences are commuted to fight in Ukraine who then return home to commit crimes including rape and murder. Mariana Katzarova, who is monitoring rights in Prsident Vladimir Putin's Russia Hundreds sue over alleged sexual abuse in Illinois youth detention centers 09/23/2024 03:34pm • CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 men and women were sexually abused as children while in custody at juvenile detention centers in Illinois, according to lawsuits filed Monday, the latest in a string of complaints alleging decades of systemic child sex abuse. Three lawsuits filed Monday detail abuse fr