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Rookie star Corbin Carroll hits 1st grand slam, Diamondbacks pound Tigers 11-6 06/09/2023 10:32pm • DETROIT (AP) — Arizona rookie Corbin Carroll hit his first grand slam in a seven-run seventh inning for his second homer of the night and the Arizona Diamondbacks handed the Detroit Tigers their seventh straight loss, 11-6 on Friday. Carroll also doubled in the ninth. On Wednesday night in a 6-2 v 'What are we leaving for future generations?': Maryland city is mandating composting 06/09/2023 08:23pm • Taking out the trash is getting more complicated for some folks in Maryland. Mandatory organics composting is on the way to the city of Laurel, according to an ordinance approved by the mayor and city council last month. The city says Laurel will be the first municipality to make composting a req Data Doctors: Tips for trying ChatGPT 06/09/2023 06:58pm • Q: I keep hearing about how incredible ChatGPT is, but what can it do for nontechnical people? A: The world of artificial intelligence is exploding and one of the first generally accessible AI tools, ChatGPT, is open for public use. Getting Started You’ll start by signing up for a free accou Trump case assigned to judge who faced criticism over her ruling in his favor in Mar-a-Lago search 06/09/2023 04:19pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The historic federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump has been assigned to a judge he appointed who faced blistering criticism over her decision to grant his request for an independent arbiter to review documents obtained during an FBI search of his F In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves 06/09/2023 04:04pm • DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — The April Facebook post hardly seemed like national news at the time for Deptford Little League president Don Bozzuffi. He’d lost patience when two umpires resigned in the wake of persistent spectator abuse. So he wrote an updated code of conduct. It specified: Any spectato In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves 06/09/2023 04:03pm • DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Back in Mudville, when mighty Casey took an unheeded pitch for a strike, there went up a muffled roar: “`Kill him! Kill the umpire!' shouted someone on the stand." Even in 1888, well before pitch clocks, $17 beers and instant replay, a common thread for the fans in basebal Va. congressman calls for 'sensible gun control' during Gun Violence National Awareness Month 06/09/2023 02:48pm • Faith leaders, activists and elected officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, took part in a community conversation Friday about how to reduce gun violence. The discussion was hosted by U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey McKay, and state Sen. Jennifer DC's air quality continues improving, region shifts to Code Yellow 06/09/2023 01:45pm • The air quality in the D.C. region improved to Code Yellow Friday morning following days of an unhealthy atmosphere due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Yet, it still remains unhealthy for some groups. Here's what you need to know. Changing to Code Yellow In a statement, the Metropolitan Washingt Young black bear wanders Washington D.C. neighborhood, sparking a frenzy before being captured 06/09/2023 01:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A young black bear gave residents of a quiet northeast Washington neighborhood a start Friday morning when they woke to find a furry interloper wandering backyards and sniffing around garbage cans. Pictures of the bear and its capture touched off a frenzy on social media. It also LPGA Tour left out of LIV Golf deal but some women would listen if offer made to them 06/09/2023 12:50pm • GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — Greg Norman tantalized the best women golfers in the world with a big-bucks flicker of hope that, they too — possibly anyone from a former world No. 1 like Nelly Korda to Stanford phenom Rose Zhang — could eventually revel in the spoils offered by Saudi-backed LIV Golf. N Berlusconi readmitted to Italian hospital for planned medical checks 06/09/2023 11:01am • MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was readmitted to a Milan hospital Friday for planned medical checks related to his chronic leukemia, his doctors said in a statement. Berlusconi's doctors, Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri, said the tests being conducted at San Raffaele Hos Fairfax Co. could have the nation's first neurodiversity specialist for a K-12 public school 06/09/2023 08:09am • It took a while for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia to hire for its new neurodiversity specialist position, according to Nina Thomas, the school system's coordinator of professional learning and cultural responsiveness. But when Kristen Haynor was selected for what she characterized as Nuggets' Christian Braun seeking NBA title a year after winning NCAA championship 06/09/2023 07:43am • DENVER (AP) — Denver Nuggets rookie Christian Braun is showing that the NBA Finals is not too big of a stage for him. The 21st pick in the draft last summer, Braun has made the most of his minutes off the bench, sinking 10 of 12 shots, grabbing a half dozen rebounds and collecting four steals aga To restore reefs dying in warming seas, UAE turns to coral nurseries 06/09/2023 03:59am • ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — On a boat off the coast of an island near Abu Dhabi, marine scientist Hamad al-Jailani feels the corals, picked from the reef nursery and packed in a box of seawater, and studies them carefully, making sure they haven’t lost their color. The corals were on Rays sweep Twins 4-2 to extend win streak to 6 games, now 46-19 on the season 06/09/2023 01:11am • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Minnesota starter Bailey Ober retired all nine batters he faced through three innings against the MLB-best Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday. Then the umpires had him wash his hands after a foreign-substance inspection before taking the mound in the fourth. Before the inning w