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Pep Boys NHRA Nationals Pairings 09/16/2023 06:44pm • Saturday At Maple Grove Raceway Mohnton, Pa. Sunday's Pairings Top Fuel -- 1. Justin Ashley, 3.687 seconds, 335.57 mph vs. 16. Scott Farley, 4.137, 284.51; 2. Brittany Force, 3.689, 336.57 vs. 15. Jacob Opatrny, 3.972, 282.84; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.696, 331.45 vs. 14.Josh Hart, 3.798, 327.90; 4. Steve 1 dead in Fairfax Co. I-495 tractor-trailer crash 09/16/2023 05:27pm • An Alexandria, Virginia, man is dead after his car collided with a tractor-trailer on I-495 Tuesday, according to Virginia State Police. At 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police said they responded to a two-vehicle crash near exit 174 on I-495 in Fairfax County in which a tractor-trailer suddenly slowed The auto workers strike will drive up car prices, but not right away — unless consumers panic 09/16/2023 04:06pm • DALLAS (AP) — Car shoppers are heading for a new round of sticker shock if the strike by the United Auto Workers doesn’t end soon, particularly for popular vehicles that are already in short supply. The number of vehicles on dealer lots will shrink the longer the walkout goes on. Dealers are lik A look at notable impeachments in US history, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 09/16/2023 03:32pm • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial— in which he was acquitted Saturday on corruption allegations — is among several such proceedings that have occurred in U.S. history. Impeachment is a political proceeding, not a court one. Typically in a U.S. legislative body, it is the H Supply problems and insurance issues make popular weight-loss drugs hard to get 09/16/2023 03:00pm • When she prescribes the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, Dr. Angela Fitch sends patients on a quest she likens to “The Hunger Games." They will have to call drugstores over several days to find one with the properly sized first dose. Then they'll do that again for their second dose, and probabl Anchorage scrambles to find enough housing for the homeless before the Alaska winter sets in 09/16/2023 02:27pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson gained national attention this summer when he proposed buying one-way airfare out of Alaska's largest city for anyone without housing who wanted to leave before winter. Now, with the first snow just weeks away, those free tickets are nowhere in 3 arrested after attempting fraudulent $21K purchase from Tysons' Louis Vuitton store 09/16/2023 02:15pm • Three New Yorkers were arrested Thursday after allegedly attempting to use a stolen credit card for a $21,000 Louis Vuitton store purchase at the Tysons Corner Center mall, according to a news release from Fairfax County police. According to police, store employees contacted the mall's Tysons Urb Verstappen's winning run in F1 is in doubt after qualifying 11th in Singapore with Sainz on pole 09/16/2023 01:58pm • SINGAPORE (AP) — Max Verstappen's historic run of 10 Formula One wins in a row looks set to end after he qualified down in 11th place on Saturday for the Singapore Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz Jr. took pole for the race for Ferrari on Sunday ahead of George Russell of Mercedes and the second Ferrari o Italian air force aircraft crashes during an acrobatic exercise. A girl on the ground was killed 09/16/2023 01:38pm • MILAN (AP) — An aircraft of the Italian acrobatic air team the Frecce Tricolori crashed on Saturday during a practice run outside the northern city of Turin, killing a child on the ground, Italian media reported. The plane or parts of the plane reportedly struck a car carrying a family, killing a Dozens of Syrians are among the missing in catastrophic floods in Libya, a war monitor says 09/16/2023 11:11am • BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian dentist, a confectioner who made mouthwatering Arabic sweets, a carpenter. Syrians from all walks of life had left their war-torn country for the Libyan city of Derna over the past years, looking for work and better opportunities. Now, dozens of them are missing and feared UAW strike exposes tensions between Biden's goals of tackling climate change and supporting unions 09/16/2023 10:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of President Joe Biden 's top goals — fighting climate change and expanding the middle class by supporting unions — are colliding in the key battleground state of Michigan as the United Auto Workers go on strike against the country's biggest car companies. The strike invo Louisiana governor candidates face off in debate highlighting abortion ban and police brutality 09/16/2023 01:21am • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, the early GOP front runner in the state’s governor race, attended his first major-televised gubernatorial debate Friday evening, opening the door to political attacks from a crowded room of candidates. With Louisiana’s election ju What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out 09/16/2023 12:14am • When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride. Milton Barnes used to oversee packed subway stations in Washington, D.C., a far cry fr Justin Allgaier wins Xfinity Series playoff opener at Bristol to advance to next round 09/15/2023 10:09pm • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Justin Allgaier earned a spot in the second round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win Friday night in the opening race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was Allgaier's second career victory at Bristol — the first was in 2010 — and salvaged an otherwise crummy night for Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers, a new tactic to squeeze companies for better pay 09/15/2023 08:55pm • DETROIT (AP) — Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday to pressure Detroit’s three automakers into raising wages in an era of big profits and as the industry begins a costly transition from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles. By striking simultaneously at Gene