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Dallas Stars in 0-3 hole vs. Vegas, Benn suspended 2 games after captain-on-captain hit 05/24/2023 06:16pm • DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn was suspended two games by the NHL on Wednesday after an ugly hit on Vegas captain Mark Stone in a Game 3 loss that left Dallas on the brink of being swept out of the Western Conference Final. Benn will miss the must-win Game 4 for the Stars on Thursda After years of controversy, national bio-defense lab opens in Kansas 05/24/2023 05:35pm • MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — After more than a decade of controversy and delays, the nation's most secure biosecurity laboratory for research on potentially deadly animal and plant diseases has opened in Manhattan, Kansas. Although a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday, researchers at the $1.25 49ers QB Trey Lance happy in San Francisco despite uncertain status 05/24/2023 05:34pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Trey Lance has no desire for a fresh start even though his path to becoming the franchise quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers has many roadblocks. After the Niners traded three first-round picks to draft him third overall in 2021, Lance has started only four games af Best and worst travel times around the DC area this Memorial Day weekend 05/24/2023 05:21pm • Thousands of D.C.-area residents will be setting out to enjoy the blue sky and green wilderness this Memorial Day weekend, but first they just might be seeing red on the roads. Nationwide, an estimated 42.3 million Americans are expected to travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day week Semien homers, Pérez throws 7 strong innings, Smith picks up 100th save as Rangers top Pirates 3-2 05/24/2023 05:18pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Texas Rangers reliever Will Smith popped into Bruce Bochy's office on Tuesday night and told his manager he was growing antsy for a chance to get back to work following an unexpected week off. Not that Smith was complaining. Texas' offense has been so hot of late, there'd been li Buffalo Sabres re-sign captain Kyle Okposo to 1-year, $2.5M contract 05/24/2023 05:11pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The young, retooled Buffalo Sabres can rely on Kyle Okposo’s veteran presence for at least one more season after the team captain signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract on Wednesday. The 35-year-old’s re-signing was anticipated after both the player and team expressed mu ACC backs plan to offer increased payouts to schools for postseason success 05/24/2023 05:00pm • The Atlantic Coast Conference is moving forward allowing schools to earn more money generated from their own postseason performances, a move coming as the league tries to find ways to close a growing financial gap with two power-conference peers. The ACC announced Wednesday that its board of directo Volcano rumbles near Mexico City, coating towns with ash, disrupting flights 05/24/2023 05:00pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Towering a couple of hours from one of the world's largest cities, the Popocatepetl volcano has been coating nearby towns with ash and disrupting flights at Mexico City's airport, the busiest in Latin America. Hundreds of explosions have spit lava from the snow-tipped peak of t In Panama, legal rights given to sea turtles, boosting the 'rights of nature' movement 05/24/2023 04:41pm • ARMILA, Panama (AP) — On a Panamanian beach long after dark, a group of undergraduate students dug into the sand to excavate a sea turtle nest, their lamps casting a soft red glow as they studied eggs, inventoried the success of the hatch and checked for any surviving hatchlings stuck at the botto Ja Morant is 'fine,' taking a social media break, police say after welfare check due to cryptic post 05/24/2023 03:56pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee conducted a welfare check Wednesday on suspended Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant and say “he is fine” after cryptic messages appeared on his Instagram account and were later deleted. The post from earlier Wednesday included messages and pictures sayi Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton likely broke laws, Republican investigation finds 05/24/2023 03:48pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Republican-led investigation on Wednesday accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP's conservative stars in What's on DeSantis' agenda? A look at the laws he passed as Florida governor, from abortion to guns 05/24/2023 03:26pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — From the death penalty to gender identity to abortion, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has cemented himself as a conservative standard-bearer in the lead-up to his 2024 presidential announcement. With the help of GOP supermajorities in the statehouse, the Republican has been abl Where's Diggs? Von Miller not concerned by Bills receiver skipping voluntary practices 05/24/2023 02:48pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Von Miller isn’t the least bit concerned about Buffalo Bills teammate Stefon Diggs missing voluntary spring practices. Nor is the veteran pass rusher reading anything into the cryptic messages the receiver posted on his social media accounts this offseason. Miller is fa Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/24/2023 02:47pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Tennis player Mikael Ymer disqualified for outburst during match in Lyon 05/24/2023 02:47pm • LYON, France (AP) — Swedish tennis player Mikael Ymer was disqualified after slamming his racket into the umpire's chair during a match at the Lyon Open on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Ymer was upset that the umpire refused to check a line call in the 11th game of the first set of his second-round m