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Today in Sports - Week Ahead, April 19 - April 25 04/18/2024 10:00am • April 23 1903 ��� The New York Highlanders, later renamed Yankees, win their first game as a major league team, 7-2 over the Washington Senators. 1939 ��� Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR. 1946 ��� Ed Head of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitches a no-hitter against the Boston Braves 5-0 at Ebbets A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023 04/18/2024 10:00am • TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) ��� Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blockin Beltway in the dark: More than 300 streetlights out along the busy highway 04/18/2024 08:15am • In early April, a WTOP staffer noticed an unusual number of streetlights were out along the Capital Beltway in Maryland, with more than 60 spotted between Interstate 95 and the exit to Connecticut Avenue. This left large sections of the interstate where streetlights exist, in the dark. Was it A strong earthquake in Japan leaves 9 people with minor injuries. But there was no tsunami danger 04/18/2024 06:00am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan left nine people with minor injuries and caused damage such as burst water pipes and small landslides, authorities said Thursday. But there was no danger of a tsunami. The magnitude 6.6 temblor late Wednesday was centered just off the Frustrated farmers are rebelling against EU rules. The far right is stoking the flames 04/18/2024 05:40am • ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) ��� Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a newborn Blonde d'Aquitaine calf, the latest addition to his herd of over 300 dairy cattle. Little could be more idyllic. Little, says Ubels, could be more under threat. As Europe seek Tsunami alert after a volcano in Indonesia has several big eruptions and thousands are told to leave 04/17/2024 10:44pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area. The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in CSX profit drops 10% despite railroad delivering 3% more freight in first quarter 04/17/2024 07:02pm • CSX dealt with weather challenges and the closure of the Baltimore port as the railroad saw its first-quarter profit slip 10%, but it still managed to keep most of its customers happy with reliable service. The Jacksonville, Florida-based railroad said Wednesday that it earned $893 million, or 46 ce Republican AGs attack Biden's EPA for pursuing environmental discrimination cases 04/17/2024 06:11pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration���s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of ���racial engineering.������ Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 22 other GOP officials asked the EPA Tuesday to stop using civil rights law Vermont farms are still recovering from flooding as they enter the growing season 04/17/2024 06:09pm • BERLIN, Vt. (AP) ��� Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from last July's catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year's growing season. Dog River Farm, in Berlin, Vermont, lost nearly all its produce crops in the July flooding. The farm removed truckloads Southern California city council gives a key approval for Disneyland expansion plan 04/17/2024 06:07pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from ���Frozen��� or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of ���Zootopia��� under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council. Disney would spend at least Air National Guard changes in Alaska could affect national security, civilian rescues, staffers say 04/17/2024 05:19pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Kristin Paniptchuk���s water broke on Christmas Eve at her home in the western Alaska Inupiat village of Shaktoolik, and then she began to bleed profusely. The local clinic in the tiny village of 200 people on the Bering Sea couldn���t stop the bleeding or the contractions Man sentenced to 47 years to life for kidnapping 9-year-old girl from upstate New York park 04/17/2024 05:00pm • BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in September from a camp Despite security risks, plans to open Paris Olympics on River Seine remain unchanged and on track 04/17/2024 04:20pm • PARIS (AP) ��� As the countdown clock to the Paris Olympics passed the 100-day mark, the question of holding the opening ceremony on the Seine River loomed large over the milestone celebrations on Wednesday. Organizers have planned a parade of about 10,500 athletes through the heart of the French ca Florida's Bob Graham dead at 87: A leader who looked beyond politics, served ordinary folks 04/17/2024 03:30pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A leader like Bob Graham would be a unicorn in the hyper-partisan politics of today. The former Florida governor and U.S. senator wasn't a slick, slogan-spouting politician. He didn't have an us-against-them mentality. Sometimes, he even came across as more of a kind-heart Britain's contentious plan to send some migrants to Rwanda hits a hurdle in Parliament 04/17/2024 03:29pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A law that will enable Britain to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda suffered a setback on Wednesday after Parliament's upper chamber pressed its attempt to amend the contentious legislation. The House of Lords inserted amendments into the Safety of Rwanda Bill, sen