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Willie Mays, the Giants��� electrifying ���Say Hey Kid,��� dies at 93 06/19/2024 09:31am • Willie Mays, the electrifying ���Say Hey Kid��� whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball���s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays' family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night he had died earlier in the afterno Today in History: June 19, Senate approves Civil Rights Act of 1964 06/19/2024 12:10am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 19, the 171st day of 2024. There are 195 days left in the year. This is Juneteenth. Today���s Highlight in History: On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster. On this date: For the endangered Nashville crayfish, its rebound is both good and bad news 06/19/2024 12:04am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Dale McGinnity has been turning over rocks in Mill Creek to study the endangered Nashville crayfish for a decade. He hopes to learn whether this little crustacean that makes its home mainly in the urbanized area around its namesake city is being harmed by all the developmen Willie Mays, Giants��� electrifying ���Say Hey Kid,��� has died at 93 06/18/2024 10:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Willie Mays, the electrifying ���Say Hey Kid��� whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball���s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays��� family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night he had died ea California man charged with killing gay college student takes the stand 06/18/2024 08:43pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A California man charged with killing a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an alleged hate crime six years ago testified Tuesday about how the two men connected on social media and went to a park. It was the last time the victim was seen. Samuel Woodward, 26, took t Connor Hults halts North Carolina comeback bid to help Seminoles advance with 9-5 win at CWS 06/18/2024 06:58pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Connor Hults felt a whole lot better walking off the mound at the end of the game Tuesday than he did three days earlier. Hults pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout relief to thwart North Carolina's comeback bid, and Jaxson West and Max Williams hit back-to-back homers in the ninth Missouri attorney general says not so fast on freeing woman jailed for 43 years in 1980 killing 06/18/2024 06:05pm • Missouri top prosecutor asked a court Tuesday to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a 1980 killing that her attorneys allege was committed by a now-discredited police officer. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey also said his office will ask the state appeals court to review a j Justin Timberlake arrested: What you need to know about the pop star 06/18/2024 03:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York���s Long Island. He was released and his next court date is scheduled for July 26, according to the Suffolk County district attorney���s office. Timberlake and his representatives h Turmoil rocks New Jersey's Democratic political bosses just in time for an election 06/18/2024 03:31pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� Being a political boss in New Jersey ain't what it used to be. Monday's indictment on racketeering charges of Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III by state Attorney General Matt Platkin caps a series of blows to influential figures in the state's dominant political Israel's Netanyahu blames Biden for withholding weapons. US officials say that's not the whole story 06/18/2024 03:28pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday claimed the United States is withholding weapons and implied this was slowing Israel's offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where fighting has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians. Presid Retail sales rise a meager 0.1% in May from April as still high inflation curbs spending 06/18/2024 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Consumers barely increased spending in May from April as still high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates curbed spending. Retail sales rose 0.1% in May, below the pace that economists projected, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And April sales wer Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds 06/18/2024 08:19am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday ��� but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. ���I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was for more than $300,000,��� said Williams, 38, a Fair Biofuel groups envision ethanol-powered jets. But fueling the effort has not been easy 06/18/2024 01:02am • MENOKEN, N.D. (AP) ��� Some day, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet (10.6 kilometers) over Dan McLean���s North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest. It���s a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see a When colleges close, students are left scrambling. Some never go back to school 06/18/2024 12:20am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Katherine Anderson trekked from Texas to Philadelphia last year for a college program she couldn���t find anywhere else, combining the music business, entrepreneurship and technology. Two weeks ago, she received the startling news the university would be shutting down within da Paul Skenes wins his fourth straight decision and leads Pirates over Reds 4-1 06/17/2024 10:57pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Rookie Paul Skenes pitched one-run ball over six innings to win his fourth straight decision and lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 4-1 on Monday night. Skenes (4-0) allowed six hits in six innings with seven strikeouts and one walk, lowering his ERA to 2.29. Th