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Fierceness rolls to Florida Derby win at Gulfstream, looking very much like Kentucky Derby favorite 03/30/2024 07:12pm • HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Fierceness rolled to a dominant win in the Florida Derby on Saturday, almost certainly setting himself up as the favorite for the Kentucky Derby. He went wire-to-wire on the lead, steadily opening up the margin until the field got to the turn toward home at Gulfstr Vanessa Carlton helps Capitals' John Carlson celebrate reaching milestone of 1,000 NHL games 03/30/2024 07:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson has reached the milestone of 1,000 NHL games, and pop singer Vanessa Carlton lent her voice to be part of the celebration. Carlton remixed her hit song ���A Thousand Miles��� with Carlson-themed lyrics as part of a collaboration between It's a Tobacco Road showdown in Big D between Duke and N.C. State for a spot in the Final Four 03/30/2024 06:54pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Duke coach Jon Scheyer reached out to North Carolina State's Kevin Keatts after the Wolfpack had won five games in as many days in the Athletic Coast Conference Tournament, including a win over the Blue Devils in the middle of that run. ���I was just so impressed,��� Scheyer said Sat NASCAR-Xfinity ToyotaCare 250 Results 03/30/2024 05:50pm • Saturday At Richmond Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: 0.75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 250 laps, 52 points. 2. (10) Aric Almirola, Toyota, 250, 55. 3. (27) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 250, 0. 4. (6) Corey Heim, Toyota, 250, 0. 5. (8) Jesse Love, Chevrolet, 250, 32. 3 officers shot in Reno, Nevada, area; suspect dead after traffic stop escalated into standoff 03/30/2024 05:48pm • SPARKS, Nev. (AP) ��� Three law enforcement officers in Northern Nevada were shot and wounded Friday, after a traffic stop in the Reno area quickly escalated into an hourslong standoff that included several shootouts between officers and the suspect, police said. Chris Crawforth, the police chief in In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change 03/30/2024 04:36pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit West Sumatra in early March, marking one of the latest deadly natural disasters in Indonesia. Laurel River wins $12 million Dubai World Cup by record 8 1/2 lengths 03/30/2024 02:49pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Laurel River rallied to win the $12 million Dubai World Cup by a record-setting 8 1/2 lengths on Saturday at Meydan Racecourse. Breaking from the far outside post in the field of 12, Laurel River and jockey Tadhg O���Shea surged into the lead at the midway point Third employee of weekly newspaper in Kansas sues over police raid that sparked a firestorm 03/30/2024 02:22pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) ��� An office manager at a weekly newspaper in Kansas is the latest employee to sue over a police raid last year that sparked a firestorm. Cheri Bentz alleges in the suit filed Friday in federal court that she was unlawfully detained and interrogated, and had her cellphone seized. Hendrick Motorsports teammates Byron, Larson say Richmond Raceway challenges their confidence 03/30/2024 01:59pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� William Byron already has a pair of victories just six races into the NASCAR Cup Series season, and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson has one, too. Neither comes to Richmond Raceway brimming with confidence. ���It���s just one of those places we go to that we just don Cambridge continues Boat Race dominance with double victory over Oxford 03/30/2024 01:40pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Cambridge extended its dominant run in the annual Boat Race with victories in the men���s and women���s events on a polluted River Thames on Saturday. The men claimed a fifth trophy in six years ��� to lead 87-81 overall in the race between storied universities Oxford and Cambridge w NCAA Women's Div. II Basketball Tournament Glance 03/30/2024 10:00am • All Times EDT First Round Friday, March 15 Atlantic Region At campus sites Gannon 73, West Virginia St. 53 Lock Haven 74, California (Pa.) 60 Fairmont St. 72, West Chester 68 Fayetteville St. 72, Indiana (Pa.) 63 Central Region Southern Nazarene 70, Henderson St. 61 Harding 82, Pittsburg St. 74, OT A man suspected of holding 4 hostages for hours in a Dutch nightclub has been arrested 03/30/2024 09:41am • EDE, Netherlands (AP) ��� Dutch police detained a man Saturday after he left a nightclub where four people had been held hostage for hours, bringing a peaceful end to a tense standoff. ���We are exceptionally happy that it ended this way. That the victims came out safely and that we were able to arr 17 reported hurt after river cruise ship hits a concrete passageway on the Danube in Austria 03/30/2024 07:08am • Seventeen passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria, the apa news agency reported Saturday. Eleven of the injured were taken to hospitals. The ship with 142 passengers aboard, most of them from Germany, temporarily lost Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events 03/30/2024 04:24am • VERSAILLES, France (AP) ��� Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer's Paris Games. Temporary facilities including grandstands are bein Stephen Curry returns home, scores 23 points to lead Warriors past Hornets 115-97 03/30/2024 01:13am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Stephen Curry scored 23 points with four 3-pointers in his annual homecoming game and the Golden State Warriors beat the Charlotte Hornets 115-97 on Friday night for their third straight win. Curry, who grew up here and starred at nearby Davidson College before entering the