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Preece wins pole at Martinsville; Elliott starts 24th 04/15/2023 07:35pm • MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Ryan Preece put his No. 41 Ford on the pole for Sunday’s Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, capping a strong day of qualifying for Stewart-Haas Racing. All four SHR cars qualified in the top seven on Saturday. Daniel Suarez and Preece’s teammate, Aric Almirola, Walgreens employee claims self-defense in shooting of pregnant woman 04/15/2023 07:31pm • A woman who was seven months pregnant was shot by a Walgreens employee in Nashville, Tennessee, this week after he suspected she had stolen cosmetics from the store's pharmacy, police said. Now, she and her newborn baby remain hospitalized after undergoing an emergency C-section. A Walgreens te Police: 4 migrants among 6 killed in highway crash in Greece 04/15/2023 07:30pm • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Four migrants and a suspected trafficker, all from Syria, died Saturday and six were others injured when their car collided head-on with another as it sped the wrong way on a major highway in Greece near the Turkish border, police said. The driver of the other car, a 46 Over and out: Germany switches off its last nuclear plants 04/15/2023 06:45pm • BERLIN (AP) — “Nuclear power, no thanks!” What was once a slogan found on the bumper of many a German car became a reality Saturday, as the country shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants in line with a long-planned transition toward renewable energy. The shutdown of Emsland, Neckar Freight train engines, cars derail and catch fire in Maine 04/15/2023 06:28pm • Several cars on a freight train derailed and caught fire early Saturday in rural Maine, officials and the train operator said. Three workers were hurt, but their injuries were said not to be life-threatening. The Maine Forest Service said in a statement that three locomotive engines and six cars Elliott makes return at Martinsville after breaking leg 04/15/2023 06:26pm • MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Chase Elliott makes his return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway with one thing on his mind: Winning. And that approach won’t change the rest of the season. Elliott has missed the last six Cup Series races after breaking his leg during a freak snowboarding Kirkwood picks up 1st IndyCar pole with Long Beach run 04/15/2023 05:27pm • LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Kirkwood won the first pole of his IndyCar career on Saturday with a flying fast lap around the downtown streets of Long Beach — giving the series three different pole winners through the first three races of the season. The Andretti Autosport crew erupted in celeb Boston remembers deadly marathon bombing 10 years later 04/15/2023 04:52pm • BOSTON (AP) — With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites near the finish line and laying wreaths US dollar scarcity threatens Bolivia's 'economic miracle' 04/15/2023 09:34am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Sofia Andrade, a lawyer, chose over the past month to withdraw all her dollar savings from the bank as the US currency became scarce on the streets of Bolivia. “I prefer to have them at home,” she said. “I fear they won’t let me withdraw them later.” Like her, man Florida floods: Businesses, residents begin cleaning up mess 04/14/2023 09:50pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Workers at one of Fort Lauderdale’s landmark restaurants spent Friday tearing out carpeting and original hardwood floors, both ruined when 8 inches (0.25 meters) of water poured inside two days earlier. Old Heidelberg was among numerous businesses and residences a In China, Lula seeks help to build back Brazilian industry 04/14/2023 09:38pm • BEIJING (AP) — The trip by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Beijing has made clear he is counting on China to help reinvigorate the South American nation's ailing industrial sector — particularly by picking up the slack of exiting U.S. companies. After Lula met Friday with Chin Wet winter gives way to colorful 'Superbloom' in US West 04/14/2023 09:30pm • The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple and yellow look like paint swatches from space. From the mist-shrouded San Francisco Bay Area to the Mexican border and across the deserts of Arizona, there Former NBA star Shawn Kemp charged in parking lot shooting 04/14/2023 08:21pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state charged former NBA star Shawn Kemp on Friday with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cellphone, saying that in a text message just before the shooting, Kemp wrote, “I’m about to shoot this (expletive).” Kemp 'Maisel' costumes enhance storytelling with boldness, color 04/14/2023 06:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In the cavernous Brooklyn warehouse where “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was filmed there are towers of pillbox hats, double-stacked racks of dresses and coats in rainbow order, and vision boards teeming with fabric swatches. At an October set visit during the shooting of the come McLaren's start in IndyCar a boost for slumping F1 team 04/14/2023 06:55pm • LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Zak Brown, dressed in the papaya colors of McLaren Racing, made his first appearance at an IndyCar race this season and started Friday by unveiling a special livery series for the Indianapolis 500. Then the head of McLaren's multi-series global motorsports program hustle