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Scott Dixon ready to defend title at Honda Indy Toronto, his ‘home’ race where he has won 4 times 07/14/2023 06:17pm • TORONTO (AP) — This just feels like home to Scott Dixon. The 42-year-old driver from New Zealand often jokes that as the only IndyCar race in a Commonwealth country, the Honda Indy Toronto is essentially in his backyard. He has won four times on the street course around Exhibition Place, including Woman arrested on drug charges in death of Robert De Niro's grandson, official says 07/14/2023 05:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A 20-year-old woman has been arrested on federal narcotics charges and is accused of selling the drugs that led to the death of actor Robert De Niro’s 19-year-old grandson, a law enforcement official said Friday. The woman, Sofia Haley Marks, appeared in Manhattan federal court o Police searching for woman who vanished after reporting child on side of Alabama interstate 07/14/2023 05:33pm • HOOVER, Ala (AP) — Police in Alabama searched Friday for a 25-year-old woman who vanished after telling a family member that she was stopping to check on a child she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway. Hoover police say Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell called 911 Thursday nigh 5 leaving cemetery after funeral wounded by gunfire from another vehicle, Maryland police say 07/14/2023 05:24pm • BLADENSBURG, Md. (AP) — Five people leaving a cemetery after a funeral were shot and wounded Friday by someone firing into their car from a second vehicle in a Maryland suburb of the nation's capital, police said. No arrests were immediately made, and the five victims were all taken to area hospit More are participating in the lottery as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots soar 07/14/2023 05:10pm • AMBLER, Pa. (AP) — Brenda Sepulveda stopped Friday at a suburban Philadelphia convenience store to buy lottery tickets as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots soared to some of their heftiest in the history of the games. “I think that people are drawn to this kind of lottery because we all h Powerball fever sweeps DC area as the jackpot grows to $875 million 07/14/2023 04:47pm • The Powerball Jackpot for Saturday’s drawing will be historically massive, so much so that people around the D.C. area are trying their luck. There was no winner in Wednesday’s $750 million drawing. Now, the jackpot has soared to an estimated $875 million for Saturday night’s upcoming drawi 2 suspects in the fatal shooting of rapper Young Dolph in Memphis to stand trial in March 07/14/2023 03:41pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge on Friday set a trial date for two men charged in the killing of rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a bakery in Memphis, Tennessee. Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith are scheduled to stand trial March 11 in the fatal shooting of the Memphis-born rapper, Shelby Tennessee fined more than $8 million for over 200 infractions in football program 07/14/2023 02:14pm • KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NCAA fined Tennessee more than $8 million on Friday and issued a scathing report outlining more than 200 infractions during the three-year tenure of former football coach Jeremy Pruitt. The Volunteers escaped a postseason ban. The sprawling report over 80 pages long sai A man killed by Iowa police after a homicide and carjacking had a ‘hit list,’ authorities say 07/14/2023 01:55pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Omaha say they found a “hit list” at the home of a Nebraska man suspected of a homicide and carjacking before being fatally shot by police in western Iowa over the weekend. Investigators said they found two guns in the stolen car driven by Matthew Briggs, 41. When A list of mass killings in the United States since January 07/14/2023 12:22pm • The latest mass killing in the United States happened on July 4 in Shreveport, Louisiana, at an annual Independence Day block party just before midnight. It's believed that multiple males exchanged gunfire, leaving at least four people dead and at least seven others injured, the local police chief s Putin says he offered Wagner mercenaries the option to stay as a single unit 07/14/2023 11:30am • Russian President Vladimir Putin said he offered the Wagner private military company the option of continuing to serve as a single unit under their same commander after their short-lived rebellion, while some of the mercenaries were shown Friday in Belarus, possibly heralding the group's relocation China executes kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing 1 07/14/2023 04:44am • BEIJING (AP) — A court in central China said on Friday a Chinese kindergarten teacher who had poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed. A notice posted outside the No. 1 Intermediate Court in the Henan province city of Jiaozuo said Wang Yun’s sentence had been carried out on For a group of Ukrainian women, painting is a form of therapy to help them cope with loss 07/14/2023 03:21am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a sunlit art studio in Kyiv filled with easels and canvases, Iryna Farion puts the finishing touches on an oil painting with a predominantly dark color palette in shades of blue and brown. The artwork depicts two intertwined trees held together by their roots, as though in Rioter who hurled bow like a spear at police during Jan. 6 attack gets more than 7 years in prison 07/13/2023 10:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A professional butcher whose bloody, wild-eyed face became one of the most memorable images of the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison for hurling a bow like a spear at police and attacking several other officers. Kyle Fitzsimons, 39, of M Las Vegas police officer's brother testifies against him, says they rehearsed for $73k casino heist 07/13/2023 10:26pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — At first, Josiah Rogers said he thought his older brother, a Las Vegas police officer, was joking when he brought up the idea of robbing a casino. But then the conversation took a turn, and soon they were putting a plan together for a heist in November 2021, he said. Rogers reveal