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Could a future big league ballplayer be staying with your family this summer? 05/03/2024 08:13am • This summer, lots of us will check out youth baseball near where we live, but there's a special opportunity for fans to connect with up-and-coming ballplayers. Every summer, fans flock to historic Fireman's Field, a few blocks from the tiny downtown in Purcellville, Virginia, to watch the Pur Nylander and Woll help Maple Leafs beat Bruins 2-1 to force Game 7 05/03/2024 01:26am • TORONTO (AP) — William Nylander scored twice, Joseph Woll made 22 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night to force a seventh game in the first-round Eastern Conference series. “We battled and competed,” said Nylander, who sat the first three games of the Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call on plan to buy affair story 05/02/2024 09:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president. A visibly irritated Trump leaned forward a Do Ice Baths Work for Recovery? 05/02/2024 08:00pm • You've probably seen athletes or other fitness trendsetters on social media taking an ice bath or tried one yourself to reap the benefits of the potential health benefits, including faster recovery, increased metabolism and reduced stress. "People want to try (an ice bath) usually for three reasons: College Admitted Student Days: What to Know 05/02/2024 08:00pm • Each spring, colleges hold admitted student days exclusively for accepted students. It's a chance for them and their families to ask questions of faculty, meet current students and future classmates, learn about programs and see what life on campus is like. Admitted student days usually are held bef Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi leaves Thursday's game with right groin tightness 05/02/2024 06:28pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas right-hander Nathan Eovaldi left Thursday's 6-0 win over Washington with right groin tightness and will get an MRI on Friday. Eovaldi threw a 94 mph fastball to Luis Garcia Jr. for strike one after issuing a one-out walk to Nick Senzel while holding a 3-0 lead. Eovald Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say 05/02/2024 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. On American campuses A $5,000 check won by Billie Jean King 50 years ago helped create Women's Sports Foundation 05/02/2024 04:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Jean King’s $5,000 check sure went a long way for women’s sports. King used the money from a sportswoman of the year award to launch the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974. Since then, the foundation has invested more than $100 million to help girls and women gain oppor Kentucky Derby: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the 150th running of the race 05/02/2024 04:34pm • The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this year, extending its run as America's longest continuously held sporting event. Twenty horses stampeding 1 1/4 miles around Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May is considered 2 of the most exciting minutes in sports. There will be some 150,000 fans Senators want limits on the government's use of facial recognition technology for airport screening 05/02/2024 03:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is pushing for restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration, saying they are concerned about travelers' privacy and civil liberties. In a letter on Thursday, the group of 14 lawmakers called Pennsylvania man convicted of kidnapping a woman, driving her to a Nevada desert and suffocating her 05/02/2024 01:46pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who authorities say killed his girlfriend in a Nevada desert has been convicted. A jury in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Wednesday found John Matthew Chapman, 44, guilty of one count of kidnapping resulting in death, court records show. He faces life in priso North Carolina bill ordering sheriffs to help immigration agents closer to law with Senate vote 05/02/2024 12:59pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sheriffs would be required to temporarily hold inmates in jail that federal immigration agents believe are in the country illegally under a bill passed by the North Carolina Senate on Thursday. But unlike two previous versions of the bill successfully shot down by Democratic G More than 16K pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled for potential E. coli contamination 05/02/2024 12:42pm • Via USDA(NEW YORK) -- A meat processor has recalled approximately 16,234 pounds of raw ground beef products processed in its Pennsylvania facility that may be contaminated with E. coli.The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the recall Wednesday with Cargill Vegas retaliation on Stars forward Seguin costly as defending champion Knights now trail in series 05/02/2024 09:44am • DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin was briefly down on the ice with a bloody nose and a bit dazed after taking a shot to the face from Alex Pietrangelo. That big backhanded swing from Pietrangelo while the two were together against the board was certainly retaliation for the Vegas Gol Things to do in the DC area: AAPI Heritage Month events, Adams Morgan PorchFest … and more! 05/02/2024 07:49am • All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. You won't want to miss WTOP's guide on the many Asian festivals that are expected over the course of the month of May. From the NVA Thai Stre