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Austin Hill survives wild restart to win Xfinity Series race at Pocono 07/22/2023 08:14pm • LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Austin Hill survived a wild restart in the final overtime laps at Pocono Raceway and earned his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season on Saturday. Hill won the season opener at Daytona and added two more early season wins at Las Vegas and Phoenix, but hadn’t won over Josef Newgarden continues IndyCar oval dominance with win at Iowa Speedway 07/22/2023 06:12pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Josef Newgarden understands what comes with the success he has had on the ovals in the IndyCar Series. And he knows what everyone thinks when he shows up at Iowa Speedway. “There’s a pressure that’s on us when we show up here, and that’s the assumption,” Newgarden sai Thanks to DQ, Chase Elliott tries to defend NASCAR win at Pocono earned without leading a lap 07/22/2023 05:29pm • LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Chase Elliott had just landed from the plane ride back from Pocono when texts started coming in from friends congratulating him on his latest NASCAR victory. Hold up. What victory? “No, we ran third,” Elliott said he replied. Finished third, yes — but won the Pocono rac Fargo officer killed in ambush remembered as 'brave young man' 07/22/2023 05:20pm • Jake Wallin was once a small boy who sought comfort in the arms of family, terrified of fireworks that lit up the sky. On Saturday, the Fargo police officer was remembered for growing up to be a military veteran and dedicated officer whose “final act of valor” was staring down the face of a man Train derailment in northern Montana spills freight, but hazmat car safe 07/22/2023 04:55pm • HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but caused no injuries. The accident comes less than a month after a railroad bridge collapse in southern Montana sent tanks cars with oil products plunging Man convicted in stray-bullet killing of Puerto Rican Olympian's mom in her Connecticut home 07/22/2023 04:21pm • A Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the stray-bullet killing of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico. A jury found Franklin Robinson, 40, guilty Friday in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi. The 56-year-old was in her sewing and crafts room in Waterbury Like father, like son? Kyle Busch maps out plan for young son to succeed him in NASCAR 07/22/2023 02:17pm • LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Brexton Busch was just a preschooler when dad tossed him in the air in victory lane at Pocono. Kyle Busch is ready to toss Brexton the keys — OK, fine, NASCAR vehicles don’t use keys — to his truck at Kyle Busch Motorsports and have his son replace him behind the wheel. Michigan man charged with murder and other crimes in case involving ex-girlfriend and her toddler 07/22/2023 01:42pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder by Michigan’s attorney general. Attorney General Dana Nessel charged Rashad Trice, 26, on Friday with 20 counts, including one count each of first-deg Power wins pole position for both races of IndyCar doubleheader at Iowa Speedway 07/22/2023 01:13pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Will Power put together two fast laps Saturday to win both pole positions for this weekend's IndyCar Series doubleheader at Iowa Speedway. The lineups for the series' lone doubleheader were determined by individual lap speeds — the first lap determined the lineup for Saturday The National Zoo’s favorite panda mama is old enough to rent a car 07/22/2023 01:10pm • D.C.’s favorite black and white bears are celebrating their matriarch's birthday. Mei Xiang turned 25 years old Saturday, in what is likely her last birthday in the nation’s capital. Hundreds of panda fans gathered around Mei’s habitat as she toyed with her baby blue fruitsicle cake, occasi Austin Peay State freshman football player dies in single-car crash 07/22/2023 01:09pm • CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A freshman football player at Austin Peay State University died Friday night in a single-car crash near the school’s campus in Clarksville, Tennessee, officials said. Jeremiah Collins, 18, was driving too fast while exiting Briley Parkway West at Clarksville and his pic Hamilton ends Verstappen's string of pole positions in Hungarian GP qualifying 07/22/2023 12:30pm • After taking pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton sat on the grid’s No. 1 bollard as he waited for a rarely beaten Max Verstappen to climb out of his Red Bull. Hamilton watched and savored every second, because It’s been a long time coming. Hamil 'You could not find a bigger champion for Warrenton': Community mourns death of Great Harvest owner Pablo Teodoro 07/22/2023 10:59am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Warrenton community is mourning the loss of Pablo Teodoro, owner of Main Street's Great Harvest Bread Company and a well-known co Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian motorist after alleged car-ramming attack in West Bank 07/22/2023 09:42am • SEBASTIA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces on Saturday shot and killed a Palestinian in disputed circumstances in the northern part of the occupied West Bank — the latest in an ongoing surge of violence that has gripped the region. The Israeli army said in a statement that two Palestinian men tri He came face to face with an alleged serial killer. 12 years later, his tip helped crack the case 07/22/2023 08:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — In the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller provided detectives with a description of the person he believed to be the killer. More crucially, Schaller to