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MLB errors are on track to set a record low for the 3rd year in row 09/29/2023 07:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Make no mistake, errors are becoming increasingly rare in the major leagues. There were just 2,459 errors entering the final weekend of the regular season, on track to finish as the fewest in a non-shortened year since 1960 — when there were just 16 teams. The per-game average of Browns' top-rated defense faces toughest test so far with matchup against QB Lamar Jackson, Ravens 09/29/2023 06:20pm • BALTIM0RE (2-1) at CLEVELAND (2-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, CBS FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Browns by 2 1/2. SERIES RECORD: Ravens lead 35-13. LAST MEETING: Browns beat Ravens 13-3 on Dec. 22, 2022, in Cleveland. LAST WEEK: Ravens lost 19-16 to Colts in OT; Browns beat Tennessee 27-3. AGAINST THE SPREA Sergio Ramos scores own goal to gift Barcelona 1-0 win over Sevilla in Spanish league 09/29/2023 06:06pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — So long the scourge of Barcelona, Sergio Ramos unwittingly came to its aid on Friday. The former Real Madrid defender scored an own goal that handed Barcelona a 1-0 win over Sevilla and sent the Catalan club back to the top of the Spanish league. The veteran center back in Business Highlights: Autoworker strike spreads; Effects of looming government shutdown explained 09/29/2023 05:05pm • ___ United Auto Workers strikes spread as 7,000 more workers at two plants join the picket line DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union expanded its strikes against Detroit automakers, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan. The move announced Friday is suppo Looming shutdown rattles families who rely on Head Start program for disadvantaged children 09/29/2023 02:21pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As Monette Ferguson braces for the looming government shutdown to strip funding from her Head Start program for disadvantaged children in Connecticut, she harkens back to a decade ago when another congressional budget fight forced her to close preschools. This time aroun Europe's Big 3 of McIlroy, Rahm and Hovland back up their heavyweight status at the Ryder Cup 09/29/2023 02:18pm • GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Viktor Hovland got the party started by chipping in on his opening hole in the morning and then sunk a decisive putt on 18 in the afternoon. Jon Rahm made long putts and chips all day long during his two trips around Marco Simone and produced eagles on two of the Review: 'Once' filmmaker John Carney delivers new music flick 'Flora and Son' on Apple TV+ 09/29/2023 01:58pm • He wrote and directed such beloved movies as "Once" (2007), "Begin Again" (2013) and "Sing Street" (2016). Now, one of our most accessible auteur filmmakers, John Carney, delivers his latest music flick "Flora and Son," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before making its streaming Leipzig parts ways with a key executive linked with Bayern Munich a day before playing Bayern 09/29/2023 01:34pm • LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig parted ways with its top sports executive Max Eberl on Friday citing a “failure to commit to the club” amid speculation linking him with Bayern Munich. The decision came a day before Leipzig plays Bayern in the Bundesliga. Leipzig said Eberl had been “relieved Suspect in killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur held without bail 09/29/2023 01:32pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The man accused of killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last week and committing a rape and arson days earlier will be held without bail pending trial in those cases, a judge ruled Friday. Jason Billingsley, who is charged with first-degree murder in LaPere’s death, w Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/29/2023 01:20pm • 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 No. 12 Alabama's defense holding its own while offense struggles. Mississippi State the next foe 09/29/2023 12:26pm • One fact has been lost amid all the handwringing about Alabama’s offense: The defense is pretty good. Led by linebacker Dallas Turner and cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry, the 12th-ranked Crimson Tide's defense has put the clamps on two straight opponents since a loss to No. 3 Texas where the team lo Southeast DC landlord to pay $2M for endangering tenants 09/29/2023 11:43am • The owners and manager of subsidized apartment complexes in Ward 8 will pay $2 million in penalties and restitution, including rent credits, for breaking D.C. law and endangering hundreds of tenants. Residents in the Atlantic Terrace and Southern Hills apartment complexes in Southeast were faced 804,000 long-term borrowers are having their student loans forgiven before payments resume this fall 09/29/2023 09:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Karin Engstrom thought she’d be paying off her federal student loans for the rest of her life. The 82-year-old was shocked when she logged on to check her balance ahead of payments resuming in October and found that more than $175,000 in debt had been erased. She's one of 804, Dutch hospital official says questions were raised over alleged gunman's mental state 09/29/2023 09:41am • ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A medical student accused of killing three people in shootings at an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch city of Rotterdam had been told to undergo a psychological evaluation to establish whether he was mentally fit to become a doctor, a hospital official said Frida DC-area credit unions planning shutdown relief programs for government workers 09/29/2023 09:40am • There are roughly 370,000 federal government employees in the D.C. region, many of whom will go without a paycheck if the federal government shuts down. Even with back pay likely when the shutdown ends, that could mean weeks of financial hardship. Many of those employees also bank with credit uni