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Erin weakens to post-tropical cyclone, moving out to sea as it batters East Coast with wind, waves 08/22/2025 05:15pm • RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out to sea. The storm was forecast to cause possible coastal flooding into the weekend along the Ea Jury hears opening statements in trial of Florida matriarch charged in her ex-son-in-law's death 08/22/2025 05:09pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — More than a decade after a hired hit man shot her former son-in-law in the head in his Tallahassee garage, 75-year-old Donna Adelson is now on trial for helping orchestrate the 2014 murder of Daniel Markel, the Florida State University law professor who at the time of his Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84 08/22/2025 04:48pm • Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes Friday at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick. He won th Gabriel understudy Dante Moore is expected to take the reins as No. 7 Oregon's starting QB 08/22/2025 03:09pm • At least during coach Dan Lanning's era, Oregon's quarterbacks have been seasoned upperclassmen with loads of experience. Bo Nix played a pair of seasons with the Ducks after transferring from Auburn and Dillon Gabriel helmed the team after two years at Oklahoma. Now it's Dante Moore's turn, but hi Sports on TV for Aug. 23 - 24 08/22/2025 01:50pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Aug. 23 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL: Sydney at West Coast 10 p.m. FS2 — AFL: St. Kilda at Greater Western Sydney 1 a.m. (Sunday) FS2 — AFL: Fremantle at Western AUTO RACING 9 a.m. FS1 — Indy Apply safety rules to more trains carrying flammable cargo, lawmakers urge 08/22/2025 01:21pm • When a BNSF freight train carrying six cars of liquefied petroleum gas derailed near Manuelito, New Mexico, in 2024, the resulting fire shut down more than 100 miles of an interstate highway. The train carried enough flammable material to send a column of fire and black smoke high into the thin, dry 5 bodies are exhumed from shallow graves in Kenya near a doomsday cult site 08/22/2025 08:35am • KILIFI, Kenya (AP) — Five bodies were exhumed from shallow graves in coastal Kenya, at a site near where more than 400 bodies of followers of a doomsday cult were recovered two years ago. Government pathologist Dr. Richard Njoroge on Thursday said 10 human body parts were also recovered, scattered Gunmen kill 5 police officers in southeastern Iran 08/22/2025 08:09am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunmen on Friday killed five police officers in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, state media reported. The officers were patrolling in two police cars when they were attacked on the road near the city of Iranshahr, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south Food Network's 'Great Food Truck Race' finalist Bao Bei opens Rockville restaurant  08/22/2025 05:15am • Bao Bei, a Taiwanese street food concept and finalist on Food Network’s "The Great Food Truck Race" with celebrity chef and judge Tyler Florence, is opening its first restaurant in Rockville, Maryland. Bao Bei is opening the 1,900-square-foot restaurant on Aug. 27 at Federal Realty’s Montrose Major earthquake rocks the South Atlantic Ocean far off the coast of Argentina 08/22/2025 02:00am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A major, preliminary magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean late Thursday, the United States Geological Survey reported. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there was no longer a threat of a tsunami after an earlier adv China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets 08/22/2025 12:26am • TALATAN, China (AP) — Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world's largest solar farm when completed high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 square kilometers (235 square miles), which is the size of Chicago. China has been installing solar panels far f 6 people are found dead at a Colorado dairy. Authorities suspect an accident involving gas exposure 08/21/2025 11:27pm • An apparent accident at a dairy in a rural farming community in Colorado involving exposure to gas killed six people, including a high school student, authorities said Thursday. Investigators are looking into what kind of gases may have played a role in the deaths Wednesday at Prospect Valley Dairy Contreras HR, Burleson's 2 RBIs power the Cardinals to a 7-4 win over the Rays 08/21/2025 10:49pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Willson Contreras homered, Alec Burleson's two-run single highlighted a five-run second inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 on Thursday night. Sonny Gray (12-6) allowed three runs on six hits in five innings, with six strikeouts and a walk for the win. Inspectors find numerous decomposing bodies behind hidden door at Colorado funeral home 08/21/2025 09:17pm • DENVER (AP) — State inspectors in Colorado found about 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door in a funeral home owned by a county coroner, who told them he may have given fake ashes to next of kin who sought cremations, authorities disclosed Thursday. The bodies were discovered in a room behi A landslide buries homes outside Guinea's capital, killing 11 and injuring 10 08/21/2025 09:05pm • CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Heavy rains caused a landslide that struck homes in a rural community in Guinea, killing at least 11 people, authorities said Thursday. Another 10 people were seriously injured and the death toll was expected to rise. The landslide occurred Wednesday night in Maneah, a rura