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4 killed, 4 hurt in multiple vehicle crash in suburban Seattle 03/19/2024 07:50pm • RENTON, Wash. (AP) ��� Four people were killed and four others were hurt in a multiple vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in suburban Seattle, fire officials said. Firefighters were sent to a crash involving four vehicles in Renton at about 12:45 p.m., Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority spokesperson P As electric vehicle sales slow, US relaxes plans for stricter auto emissions standards for a while 03/19/2024 07:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed tailpipe limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards set out by the Environmental Protection Agency. The changes come as sales of zero-tailp A teen weighing 70 pounds turned up at a hospital badly injured. Four family members are charged 03/19/2024 07:01pm • ZEARING, Iowa (AP) ��� Four members of a rural Iowa family are accused of abducting and abusing an 18-year-old relative who had been handcuffed to a bed and beaten so badly that he had brain bleeding and multiple broken ribs, and who was so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms) NCAA Women's Div. II Basketball Tournament Glance 03/19/2024 06:45pm • 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 Major League Baseball announces each team's starting pitcher for opening day 03/19/2024 06:13pm • It didn���t have the drama of the NCAA Tournament bracket release of two days earlier, but MLB held its own unveiling Tuesday by announcing the starting pitching matchups for all season openers. At least half the teams already had announced their opening day starters. ���To be able to be told by you New York moves to update its fracking ban to include liquid carbon-dioxide as well as water 03/19/2024 05:26pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� Natural gas drilling companies would be banned in New York from using an extraction method that involves injecting large amounts of liquified carbon dioxide deep underground under a bill moving through the state legislature. The measure would immediately block a Texas company IOC excludes Russian and Belarusian athletes from taking part in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony 03/19/2024 04:09pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said Tuesday. The opening ceremony on July 26 will see thousands of athletes travel on boats down the River Seine for several miles (kilom Why the arrival of spring could mean higher gas prices 03/19/2024 03:18pm • Experts say gas prices normally go up this time of year as Americans are using more fuel to travel for spring break and summer travel season looms. "We typically see prices tend to triple up anywhere by as much as 10 to 15 cents," said Ragina Ali, AAA manager of public and government affairs S Minnesota court rules pharmacist discriminated against woman in denying emergency contraception 03/19/2024 03:17pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a pharmacist who refused to provide emergency contraceptives to a customer because of his personal beliefs engaged in discrimination. The three-judge panel ruled Monday that pharmacist George Badeaux engaged in business discrimin AUTO RACING: NASCAR heads to Texas, Indy debuts all-star event and F1 heads Down Under 03/19/2024 02:12pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix Site: Austin, Texas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 10 a.m., and qualifying, 11:30 a.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Circuit of the Americas Race distance: 68 laps, 231.88 miles. Last year: Tyler Reddick won after starting s DC���s iconic cherry blossoms are enjoying the cooler temperatures 03/19/2024 02:08pm • Last week���s unseasonably warm weather helped D.C.���s cherry blossoms reach peak bloom ahead of schedule, the second-earliest peak bloom on record. Now, a burst of cooler temperatures will also help the famous flowers to last longer. ���This really is absolutely the ideal conditions you would a BP oil refinery in Indiana resumes normal operations weeks after power outage, temporary shutdown 03/19/2024 12:59pm • WHITING, Ind. (AP) ��� BP���s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana has resumed normal operations more than six weeks after a power outage prompted the energy giant to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers. BP spokesperson Christina Audisho said Tuesday that ���the Whiting Ref Q&A: Author Rebecca Serle shares what's behind her 'magical realism' and new book 'Expiration Dates' 03/19/2024 11:57am • In Rebecca Serle's new book ���Expiration Dates: A Novel,��� the protagonist, Daphne, knows when her relationships will end. A slip of paper always shows up with a name and a number for how long they will date. We meet Daphne on her way to a blind date with Jake ��� whose paper doesn't have a number Police confirm a blanket found during search for missing Wisconsin boy belongs to the 3-year-old 03/19/2024 10:58am • TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) ��� Wisconsin police searching for a 3-year-old boy who vanished last month said they have confirmed that a blanket found during their ongoing search belongs to the missing youngster. The red and white plaid blanket belonging to Elijah Vue was found ���earlier in this investiga US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes 03/19/2024 10:25am • Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn't hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the