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Counsell's return to Milwaukee includes thank-you message and chorus of boos 05/27/2024 07:41pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Craig Counsell���s first game at American Family Field since the Chicago Cubs hired him away from Milwaukee included a warm scoreboard message and multiple rounds of hearty boos. A brief pregame video showcased some highlights from Counsell���s tenure as a player and manager with 81-year-old arrested after police say he terrorized a California neighborhood with a slingshot 05/27/2024 06:54pm • AZUSA, Calif. (AP) ��� An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives ���learned that during the course of 9-10 years, dozens of citizens were being victim Papua New Guinea says Friday's landslide buried more than 2,000 people and formally asks for help 05/27/2024 04:39pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday's landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of 6 Friday's preholiday travel breaks the record for the most airline travelers screened at US airports 05/27/2024 04:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A record was broken ahead of the Memorial Day weekend for the number of airline travelers screened at U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration said Saturday. More than 2.9 million travelers were screened at U.S. airports on Friday, surpassing a previous record set l Trevino wins grant from MLB Players Trust for charity that teaches art to those with special needs 05/27/2024 03:37pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� When Jose Trevino took a teen leadership class taught by Sherri Davis in high school the New York Yankees catcher couldn���t have imagined the long-lasting impact it would have. ���It changed my life,��� Trevino told The Associated Press. ���She taught me a ton of lessons in high sc US company rejects Mexico's criticism, buy-out offer, says president's projects hurt the environment 05/27/2024 03:32pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� An American quarry company on Monday rejected the Mexican president's campaign of criticisms and closures, as well as his offer to buy its property on the Caribbean coast. In July, President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador offered to buy the American company���s Caribbean coast p Suspect identified in stabbings at a Massachusetts theater and a McDonald���s 05/27/2024 02:44pm • BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts man will be arraigned Tuesday on multiple charges including assault with the intent to murder after six people, including four girls at a movie theater, were stabbed in separate attacks, officials said. Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark, a town on Martha's Vine Man accused of starting wildfire in national wildlife preserve near Arizona-California border 05/27/2024 12:45pm • YUMA, Ariz. (AP) ��� A Yuma man has been arrested for allegedly starting a wildfire in a national wildlife preserve in southwest Arizona near the California border, according to authorities. Yuma County Sheriff���s officials said 47-year-old Jason Bradley Martin remains jailed on suspicion of arson, Mother pushes 2-year-old girl to safety just before fatal crash at Michigan drag race 05/27/2024 11:13am • OCEANA COUNTY, Mich. (AP) ��� Police say a Michigan woman was killed when an out-of-control vehicle slammed into her during a drag-racing event, but she was able to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety in the seconds before the crash. The crash happened Sunday at Silver Lake State Park Sand Dunes Chasing cheese wheels or lugging sacks of wool, UK competitors embrace quirky extreme races 05/27/2024 10:48am • LONDON (AP) ��� Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain���s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers chased 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheels of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper�� 'Truly a man for others': A DC-area father remembers his son's legacy as a Navy SEAL 05/27/2024 08:35am • Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen was more than a military man for his father. Retired Navy Rear Adm. Edward Kristensen described his son to WTOP as "truly a man for others." "He would do anything to help anyone, friend, foe, whatever," Edward said. adding that his son had "a sense of humor that was u As Atlantic hurricane season begins, Florida community foundations prepare permanent disaster funds 05/27/2024 08:24am • After the collapse of a condominium tower in North Miami in June 2021, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey realized her organization needed to overhaul how it responded to disasters. As CEO of the Miami Foundation, the city���s primary community foundation, Fishman Lipsey got to work coalescing support for vict Poland rolls out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus 05/27/2024 06:40am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Defense officials in NATO member Poland on Monday presented a plan to strengthen anti-drone surveillance and on-ground military defense through a system of fortifications and barriers along about 700 kilometers (430 miles) of its eastern border with Russia and Russian ally Be In one North Carolina county, it's 'growth, growth, growth.' But will Biden reap the benefit? 05/27/2024 03:08am • SILER CITY, N.C. (AP) ��� At the epicenter of President Joe Biden���s promised economic boom, a slow tractor can still halt traffic. Just 81,000 people live in rural Chatham County, North Carolina. There are 1,076 farms. The old mill now houses a dance studio, a grocer and a steakhouse. For work, ma Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don't. A growing movement wants that to change 05/27/2024 02:16am • FAR WESTERN UKRAINE (AP) ��� Precious few choices are available to Alexander, a 26-year-old Russian soldier, since his capture: Clothes, meals and the hours of his day are rigidly accounted for in the camp for prisoners of war. But Ukraine allows Alexander to call home to his family in Kursk, a Russ