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Justin Allgaier wins NASCAR Xfinity Series race, pulling away from the pack in overtime at Michigan 08/17/2024 07:33pm • BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) ��� Justin Allgaier raced to his second Xfinity Series victory of the year and 25th overall, pulling away from the pack in an overtime finish on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway. Allgaier broke a 10th-place tie with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tommy Houston for victories i Walz touts Nebraska roots in visit to his home state where there's a battle over one electoral vote 08/17/2024 06:17pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Tim Walz touted his Nebraska roots Saturday in his first trip back to his home state since becoming the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and drew sharp contrasts between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Playing to the crowd, Walz noted his love of Nebraska football and joked Chechen warlord invites Musk to Russia after he's filmed driving machine-gun mounted Cybertruck 08/17/2024 03:52pm • Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia on Saturday after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company's Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun. In a clip posted on Kadyrov���s Telegram channel, the self-styled strongman was seen taking the stainless steel-clad NASCAR's Austin Dillon goes to Michigan with no regrets for wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamilin 08/17/2024 03:04pm • BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) ��� Austin Dillon has no regrets over his aggressive actions that triggered last-lap wrecks for Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin before Dillon went on to win at Richmond Raceway and had NASCAR later revoke his automatic spot in the playoffs. ���You don't hate the player,��� Dillon s Dozens line up to give up firearms for gift cards in Rockville 08/17/2024 02:18pm • Gift cards for guns? That's how the Rockville Police Department gathered unwanted firearms in their third annual gun buyback event at Red Gate Park in Maryland on Saturday morning. Cars started lining up an hour before the event kicked off. When officers started receiving the guns, no one got out 6-year-old girl killed in dance class in northwest England is mourned at private funeral 08/17/2024 01:03pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The youngest of three girls killed when a teen went on a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was mourned Saturday in a private funeral. Bebe King, 6, was the second of the girls laid to rest from the July 29 killings in Southport that sparked more than a week of nat Maurice Williams, writer and lead singer of ���Stay,��� dead at 86 08/17/2024 09:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of music's great one-shot acts with the classic ballad "Stay," has died. He was 86. Williams died Aug. 6, according to an announcement from the North Carolina Music Hall of Fa Russian missile sparks blaze in Ukraine as Kyiv's troops push into Russia's Kursk region 08/17/2024 09:41am • Russia kept up its assault on Ukraine Saturday even as Ukrainian forces pushed into Russia���s Kursk border region. A Russian missile sparked a blaze in the city of Sumy that injured two people and also damaged cars and nearby buildings, said Ukraine���s State Emergency Service. It said that the hit 'Shoot me up with a big one': A timeline of the last days of Matthew Perry 08/17/2024 12:01am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The arrest of five people in the overdose death of Matthew Perry has revealed key details about the final days of the ���Friends��� star, most of them spent in the throes of an addiction to the surgical anesthetic ketamine. Perry would die at age 54 on Oct. 28 after telling his NHRA Nationals Qualifying 08/16/2024 09:15pm • Friday at Brainerd International Raceway Brainerd, Minn. First Two Rounds Qualifying Top Fuel 1. Steve Torrence, 3.688 seconds, 335.32 mph; 2. Tony Stewart, 3.688, 332.18; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.703, 335.40; 4. Shawn Langdon, 3.705, 330.07; 5. Jasmine Salinas, 3.714, 334.90; 6. Brittany Force, 3.720, Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping class 08/16/2024 08:09pm • MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) ��� Flerentin ���Flex��� Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, ���you do the same thing every day,��� said Jean-Baptiste, who was absent 30 days his first year. ���That gets very frustrating.��� Then h Former DC employee convicted of manslaughter in fatal shooting of 13-year-old boy 08/16/2024 08:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A former Washington, D.C., city employee was found guilty of manslaughter Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy that sparked public uproar in the nation's capital. Jurors found Jason Lewis, 42, not guilty of second-degree murder, but convicted him of manslau New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting 08/16/2024 07:26pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills that aims to crack down on smash-and-grab robberies and property crimes, making it easier to go after repeat shoplifters and auto thieves and increase penalties for those running professional r 9 injured after multicar crash during rush hour on I-270 in Clarksburg 08/16/2024 07:17pm • Nine people were hurt after a multicar crash on Interstate 270 in Clarksburg, Maryland, during rush hour Friday, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. All traffic was stopped on the highway around 5:30 p.m. and I-270 reopened about an hour later, according to WTOP Traffic re What is 'price gouging' and why is VP Harris proposing to ban it? 08/16/2024 06:49pm • With inflation and high grocery prices still frustrating many voters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday proposed a ban on ���price gouging��� by food suppliers and grocery stores, as part of a broader agenda aimed at lowering the cost of housing, medicine, and food. It's an attempt to tackle a