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Jared Jones strikes out 10 to win major league debut, leading Pirates over Marlins 9-3 03/30/2024 08:07pm • MIAMI (AP) — Jared Jones struck out 10 over 5 2/3 innings to win his major league debut and lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Miami Marlins 9-3 on Saturday. A 22-year-old right-hander taken by Pittsburgh with the 44th pick in the 2020 amateur draft, Jones allowed three runs, three hits and two Johnson, Reese lead defending champion LSU past UCLA 78-69 to reach Elite Eight 03/30/2024 06:16pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Angel Reese says LSU's players are embracing the role of "good villains” as they make a run toward repeating as national champions. Flau’jae Johnson had 24 points and 12 rebounds and Reese put up her 26th double-double of the season Saturday as LSU (31-5) beat UCLA 78-69 in Youngkin 'boggled' Caps, Wizards deal 'from the beginning,' Va. Sen. Lucas tells WTOP 03/30/2024 09:00am • Now that the push to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards teams to Virginia's Alexandria area has been nixed — with owner Ted Leonsis calling himself political "collateral damage" in the deal — state Sen. L. Louise Lucas is putting the blame squarely on Gov. Glenn Youngkin's shoulders. Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say 03/30/2024 07:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high. Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago. And they're mostly heading higher still. Consider a 2-l Nets tie NBA record with 18 3-pointers in a half, beat Bulls 125-108 03/29/2024 11:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Schroder and Mikal Bridges each made seven 3-pointers, and the Brooklyn Nets tied an NBA record by making 18 3s in the second half of their 125-108 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night. Cam Thomas scored 28 points and Schroder added 27 for the Nets, who made 25 3s Alabama and Clemson are known for their football prowess. They face off for a spot in the Final Four 03/29/2024 08:43pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alabama and Clemson facing off on a Saturday? Sounds like a matchup that ought to be happening on a football field in the fall, or perhaps in January with a national title at stake. Now, they're clashing during March Madness for a first-ever spot in the Final Four. The fourth-se Illinois' Elite Eight run led by Terrence Shannon Jr., who faces rape charge, isn't talking to media 03/29/2024 06:41pm • BOSTON (AP) — Illinois’ season could have ended up a lot different. The Illini opened the season thriving behind Terrence Shannon Jr., who established himself as one of the premier scorers in the nation. And then they were thrust into uncertainty in December when Shannon was charged with rape or Baltimore bridge collapse: Who will pay for the destroyed bridge, harmed businesses and lost lives? 03/29/2024 04:43pm • The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland is a multi-layered tragedy: For the families and friends of those killed or presumed dead, it's a profound and personal loss. For businesses that rely on the Port of Baltimore, it's an economic nightmare. And for the federal courts, it will Tyla, South Africa's amapiano angel, manifests stardom in debut album 03/29/2024 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Tyla grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, practicing acceptance speeches in the mirror, envisioning herself on the grandest award stages. But as she found out, a dream is one thing — reality is another. “I was not prepared at all,” laughed Tyla, who won the inaugural Africa Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87 03/29/2024 04:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change 03/29/2024 01:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve shows price pressures easing gradually 03/29/2024 11:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slipped last month in a sign that price pressures continue to ease. The government reported Friday that prices rose 0.3% from January to February, decelerating from a 0.4% increase the previous month in a poten Seattle scores 3 goals in 3rd period to pull away for 4-2 win over Anaheim 03/29/2024 02:13am • SEATTLE (AP) — Tye Kartye scored the go-ahead goal with 6:57 left in the third period and the Seattle Kraken rallied to beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 on Thursday night to sweep a two-game set. Jaden Schwartz, Andre Burakovsky and Matty Beniers all had power-play goals for the Kraken, who overcame a 2 Republican-passed bill removes role of Democratic governor if Senate vacancy occurs in Kentucky 03/28/2024 08:17pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation cal Can You Refinance a Mortgage in Forbearance? 03/28/2024 08:00pm • If you want to refinance your mortgage but you're enrolled in a forbearance program, you will first need to end the forbearance and then meet certain conditions. Refinancing involves paying off your original loan and taking out a new loan with new terms. If you can reduce your interest rate or lengt