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Oregon seeks $27M for dam repair it says resulted in mass death of Pacific lamprey fish 10/06/2023 09:31pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials are seeking more than $27 million in damages over dam repairs they say killed more than half a million Pacific lamprey fish in what they've described as one of the largest damages claims for illegal killing of wildlife in state history. In a claim filed in Do Indonesia denies its fires are causing blankets of haze in neighboring Malaysia 10/06/2023 09:00pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia denied Friday that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands were causing the haze in Malaysia, after the neighboring government sent a letter complaining about the air quality and asking for both countries to work together to deal with the blazes. For Clayton Kershaw overcomes shoulder injury to will himself into another Dodgers postseason 10/06/2023 08:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw has never been one for making excuses. Whether it's his health or velocity, both of which have taken hits in recent years, he would rather gut out whatever is going on in silence. “He’s a survivor, he’s a competitor,” Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Robe Neck hold used on Elijah McClain emerges as focal point in officers' trial over his 2019 death 10/06/2023 07:33pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A neck hold that Denver-area police used on Elijah McClain prior to the Black man's 2019 death lasted only seconds but has emerged as a focal point in the first criminal trial against officers and paramedics charged in his death. Defense attorneys for the first two officers Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle as governments scramble for answers 10/06/2023 07:16pm • BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle. Pregnant women and men carryi New law could help cut wait times in Maryland's hospitals 10/06/2023 07:01pm • Maryland's emergency rooms have the longest wait times in the nation. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the average wait time in Maryland emergency rooms is three hours and 48 minutes. A new law that went into effect this month is aimed at chipping away at those long Packers' Bakhtiari won't play again this season as he prepares for 5th knee surgery 10/06/2023 06:40pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari’s season is over. He hopes his NFL career isn't. He's set to undergo his fifth knee surgery to give himself a chance at playing again, Bakhtiari said Friday when he spoke with reporters for nearly 40 minutes in the team’ Why the NFL cares about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce 10/06/2023 06:25pm • Eager as the National Football League has been to cater to the recent public fixation with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it’s certainly not taking any credit for creating the outsized storyline that has emerged around the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “Not orchestrated by Morocco begins providing cash to families whose homes were destroyed by earthquake 10/06/2023 06:12pm • AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Four weeks after an earthquake knocked down much of his neighborhood, Rachid Alachoun now eagerly awaits client calls from the garage where he works on damaged appliances. The 40-year-old plumber has sporadically found jobs throughout Amizmiz, a town of 14,000 people near t Trump's New York civil fraud trial rolls on after an appeals judge declines to halt it 10/06/2023 05:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial will roll ahead next week after the former president lost a bid Friday to halt the proceedings while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of Trump Tower and other marquee properties. An appeals court judge rebuffed Trump’s push to pa Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, a rising political star, crosses partisan school choice divide 10/06/2023 05:41pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In the partisan politics of education funding, the school choice movement has pressed states for decades to send taxpayer money to private and religious schools and long had to concentrate its efforts on states where a Republican governor was an ally. That suddenly changed o Jets cornerback D.J. Reed will sit out against the Broncos with a concussion 10/06/2023 05:27pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets cornerback D.J. Reed will be sidelined against the Denver Broncos on Sunday as he continues to recover from a concussion. Coach Robert Saleh announced Friday that Reed still had not cleared the NFL's concussion protocol, leaving the Jets without one of their It's the final day of a massive health care strike over pay and staff shortages. No deal is in sight 10/06/2023 05:27pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. The three-day strike carried out in multiple states is se Doctor who treated Morgan State shooting victim is gunshot survivor himself 10/06/2023 03:07pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — When Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Sakran was notified about a shooting with multiple victims on the campus of Morgan State University earlier this week, he relied on a unique combination of training and personal experience. Sakran decided to work in medicine after be Security questions swirl at the Wisconsin Capitol after armed man sought governor twice in one day 10/06/2023 02:34pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Capitol building is one of the most open in the country, which made it easy for a man to walk inside with a loaded handgun this week in search of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The man was arrested for illegally openly carrying a weapon, but after posting bail, he re