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Cue the duck boats: Boston salutes Celtics' record 18th NBA championship with parade 06/21/2024 05:21pm • BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics entered the season vowing to turn recent playoff heartbreaks into happiness. Eight months later, they toasted the franchise’s 18th championship in what has become the signature Boston celebration, joined Friday by a huge crowd for a duck boat parade to mark the 13th IOC approves Oklahoma City to host Olympic softball, canoe slalom during the 2028 Los Angeles Games 06/21/2024 05:16pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Los Angeles Olympics appear to be heading to Oklahoma — about 1,300 miles east of the host city. In an effort to maximize existing facilities and keep costs down, Los Angeles organizers have proposed that softball and canoe slalom be held in Oklahoma’s capital city dur Long a Republican state, Louisiana is redder than ever under new governor 06/21/2024 05:03pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years. Bu Capital murder charges filed against 2 Venezuelan men in the death of a 12-year-old girl in Houston 06/21/2024 04:59pm • Prosecutors filed capital murder charges Friday against two men suspected of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek after she disappeared during a walk to a convenience store. The charging documents filed in Harris County, Texas, court do not list attorneys who could spea Former mayor of South Dakota town pleads not guilty in triple homicide case 06/21/2024 04:56pm • CENTERVILLE, S.D. (AP) — A former law officer who once served as a tiny South Dakota town’s mayor pleaded not guilty Thursday in a three-person killing. Jay Ostrem, 64, pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree El aterrador mensaje de las redes sociales sobre el sol y la protección solar 06/21/2024 04:19pm • (CNN) -- Mientras nuestro planeta soporta lo que puede ser el año más caluroso jamás registrado, los influencers de las redes sociales están difundiendo mensajes sobre el sol y la protección solar que no solo son falsos, sino peligrosos, según los expertos."Deja de usar protector solar", dice USA Cycling announces road race team for Paris that will try to end 40-year Olympic medal drought 06/21/2024 04:10pm • Magnus Sheffield and Matteo Jorgenson will join Brandon McNulty on the U.S. cycling team for the Paris Olympics, giving the American contingent perhaps its best chance in four decades to win a road race medal. McNulty had already qualified for the team by winning the national time trial championship 2 teens dead after fiery 3-car crash on I-270 in Montgomery County 06/21/2024 03:58pm • Two teens were killed in a fiery, three-car crash on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Friday morning and police are now searching for the driver of a BMW who they said fled the scene. The two teens have been identified as 17-year-old Luis Isaac Bran, of Gaithersburg, Maryl Israel bombardea campamentos de palestinos al norte de Rafah; reportan 25 muertos 06/21/2024 02:56pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Franja de Gaza — Las fuerzas israelíes bombardearon el viernes campamentos de tiendas de campaña para palestinos desplazados al norte de Rafah, matando al menos a 25 personas e hiriendo a otras 50, según el Ministerio de Salud de Gaza y personal de emergencia. Se trata del má Iowa trucker whose body was found in field died of hypothermia after taking meth, autopsy finds 06/21/2024 02:53pm • SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa truck driver who vanished last fall and whose body was found in a farm field this spring died of hypothermia related to acute methamphetamine intoxication, an autopsy found. State medical examiner Dr. Kelly Kruse ruled that 53-year-old David Schultz’s death was an a Pennsylvania couple drowns in Florida rip current while on vacation with their 6 children 06/21/2024 02:16pm • HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Pennsylvania couple vacationing in Florida with their six children drowned after they were caught in a rip current while swimming, authorities said. Brian Warter, 51, and 48-year-old Erica Wishard, and two of their mostly teenage children were caught in the current Whale-watching excursions off Rio de Janeiro's coast begin captivating tourists 06/21/2024 01:49pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Famous for its beaches and vibrant parties in the Southern Hemisphere's summer, Rio de Janeiro now has an attraction for winter: humpback whales. The tourism agency of Niteroi, Rio's sister city across the Guanabara Bay, on Thursday launched a whale-watching program that ena Workers sue Disney claiming they were fraudulently induced to move to Florida from California 06/21/2024 01:12pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney workers are suing their employer, claiming they were fraudulently induced to move from California to Florida to work in a new office campus only to have those plans later scrapped amid a fight between the entertainment giant and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In July 2021, New coffee center in Northern California aims to give a jolt to research and education 06/21/2024 01:02pm • DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — A college in Northern California is now home to a center devoted to educating students and closely studying one of the most consumed beverages in the world known for powering people through their day — coffee. The University of California, Davis, launched its Coffee Center i Kansas governor signs bills enabling effort to entice Chiefs and Royals with new stadiums 06/21/2024 12:59pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' governor signed legislation Friday enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Royals away from neighboring Missouri by helping the teams pay for new stadiums. Gov. Laura Kelly's action came three days after the Repu