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Esteury Ruiz homers and the A’s beat the Cardinals 6-3 to avoid a sweep 04/17/2024 07:18pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Esteury Ruiz homered for the second time in three games since being recalled from Triple-A, and the Oakland Athletics beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. Ruiz drove in two runs, scored twice and stole a base. He has homered twice in sev DC and federal officials say this initiative is helping take violent offenders off the streets 04/17/2024 06:27pm • Two years after the creation of "Project Safe Neighborhoods," an attempt to crack down on gun-related crimes in D.C., authorities say they've sent 127 firearms cases to federal court. "Targets of these cases have an average of six prior felony arrests. More than half of them were previously arres Starling Marte's HR keys surging Mets to sweep of Pirates with 9-1 victory 04/17/2024 05:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Starling Marte hit his 150th career homer Wednesday, powering the New York Mets to a 9-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates and a sweep of a three-game series. Marte, who spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Pirates, hit the milestone two-run homer off the railing beyo Some criminals are using dating app Tinder to purchase guns, ATF says 04/17/2024 05:46pm • Federal officials are learning that guns are being trafficked using social media platforms, including an app where you would more likely find a date than a Glock. A new report on firearms trafficking from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms released earlier this month found that armed off Tip leads to arrest in cold case killing of off-duty DC police officer in Baltimore 04/17/2024 05:06pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer in 2017. The officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., was shot to death while sitting in a parked car with a woman he had been dating, according An NPR editor who wrote a critical essay on company has resigned after being suspended 04/17/2024 03:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A National Public Radio editor who wrote an essay criticizing his employer for promoting liberal views resigned on Wednesday, attacking NPR's new CEO on the way out. Uri Berliner, a senior editor on NPR's business desk, posted his resignation letter on X, formerly Twitter, a day Owner of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse asks cargo owners to help cover salvage costs 04/17/2024 12:48pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The owner of the massive container ship Dali, which caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, has initiated a process requiring owners of the cargo on board to cover some of the salvage costs. The ship’s owner, Singapore-based Grace Ocea Imprisoned drug-diluting pharmacist to be moved to halfway house soon, victims' lawyer says 04/17/2024 12:40pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City-area pharmacist who has been incarcerated for more than two decades in a profit-boosting scheme to dilute tens of thousands of prescriptions for seriously ill patients is being moved to a halfway house this summer, an attorney for the victims said Tuesd Alabama lawmakers advance bills to ensure Joe Biden is on the state's ballot 04/17/2024 12:03pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state's November ballot, mirroring accommodations made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump. Legislative committees in the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate Ford recalls over 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick cars due to loss of drive power risk 04/17/2024 11:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to a battery detection issue that can result in loss of drive power, increasing crash risks. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the body and power train c Copenhagen fights the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old landmark 04/17/2024 10:02am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish firefighters toiled Wednesday to extinguish the last pockets of a fire that gutted Copenhagen’s 400-year-old stock exchange building the previous day, as owners of the structure looked ahead to rebuilding the iconic landmark. Tuesday’s blaze, which destroyed h Noah Eagle picked by NBC as play-by-play voice for basketball at the Paris Olympics 04/17/2024 10:00am • Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer. He's going to his first. NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Eagle will be the play-by-play voice for USA Basketball's men's games, women's games and the medal rounds at this summer's Paris Olympics. The men's roster was announced Wednesday Earth Day: How a senator's idea more than 50 years ago got people fighting for their planet 04/17/2024 09:30am • Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms. Here are answer Lynn earns his first win in second stint with Cards, who beat A's before season-low crowd of 3,296 04/17/2024 01:14am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Lance Lynn earned his first win for the St. Louis Cardinals in seven years, a 3-2 victory over the Athletics on Tuesday night before a season-low crowd of 3,296 at the Oakland Coliseum. Lynn (1-0) allowed two runs — one earned — and five hits in seven innings, lowering h Mets rally in 7th and score the go-ahead run on a balk for a 3-1 victory over the Pirates 04/17/2024 12:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Hernandez balked home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, Jeff McNeil added an RBI double and the New York Mets beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 on Tuesday night. Joey Wendle came off the bench and delivered a tying double for the Mets, who have won nine of 12 following an