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American Hockey League mandates cut-resistant neckwear for players, officials 08/23/2024 05:13pm • SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The American Hockey League announced Friday that cut-resistant neck protection is mandatory for every player and on-ice official across all 32 teams beginning this season. AHL President and CEO Scott Howson said the league’s Board of Governors had unanimously approved t Judge declines to dismiss murder case against Karen Read after July mistrial 08/23/2024 04:58pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A judge ruled that Karen Read can be retried for murder and leaving the crime scene in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, dismissing arguments that jurors told lawyers after the mistrial that they had unanimously agreed she wasn’t guilty on the two charges. Re Little League World Series championship weekend features Texas-Florida rematch and Venezuela-Taiwan 08/23/2024 04:50pm • SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — After Teraj Alexander guided his Florida team to a berth in the Little League World Series semifinals, he was asked about a rematch on Saturday with Texas, the only team to defeat the Southeast region representative. “Time for revenge,” Teraj said. Maybe — but Prosecutor says ex-sheriff's deputy charged with manslaughter in shooting of an airman at his home 08/23/2024 04:40pm • FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was charged with manslaughter with a firearm, launching a rarely seen criminal case against a Florida law officer after a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman was killed after answering his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward What polling shows about Americans' views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 08/23/2024 04:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent polls show that Republicans are more likely than Democrats to have a favorable opinion of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his presidential campaign on Friday and gave his support to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. During a speech made in Arizona, Kennedy How US Park Police transform traffic flow during morning, evening rush hours 08/23/2024 04:05pm • Around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, a U.S. Park Police officer with the motorcycle unit arrived at the intersection near Virginia Avenue and the Thompson Boat Center. He briefly rode away to close off a nearby on-ramp to the southbound lanes of Rock Creek Parkway. Then, he placed a large “Do Not Ent Nebraska is the latest state to add abortion to November ballots. What would the measures do? 08/23/2024 03:37pm • Competing abortion measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska after election officials on Friday confirmed each side had turned in enough signatures. The move makes Nebraska the first state to carry competing abortion amendments on the same ballot since t Crystal Palace sells Joachim Andersen to Fulham and Jordan Ayew to Leicester 08/23/2024 03:10pm • LONDON (AP) — Denmark defender Joachim Andersen joined Fulham for a second spell after leaving Premier League rival Crystal Palace on Friday. The center back was on loan at Fulham in the 2020-21 season and established himself as a fans' favorite. Andersen has now moved to Craven Cottage on a perma Sri Lanka hanging on in first test after Jamie Smith's century leaves England in command 08/23/2024 02:48pm • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Sri Lanka was battling to stay alive in the first test against England following another top-order collapse after wicketkeeper Jamie Smith's maiden century put the hosts in command at Old Trafford on Friday. Smith's 111 helped England to 358 all out and a first-innings l Bears' Coleman released from hospital 'in good spirits' after scary injury, Chicago coach says 08/23/2024 02:33pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Bears cornerback Douglas Coleman III was released from a Kansas City hospital and returned to Chicago on Friday after he was injured while making a tackle during a preseason game against the Chiefs. “He was walking around,” Bears coach Matt Eberflus told Chicago radio station WS Google agreed to pay millions for California news. Journalists call it a bad deal 08/23/2024 02:26pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Google will soon give California millions of dollars to help pay for local journalism jobs in a first-in-the-nation deal, but journalists and other media industry experts are calling it a disappointing agreement that mostly benefits the tech giant. The agreement, which w After millions lose access to internet subsidy, FCC moves to fill connectivity gaps 08/23/2024 02:00pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing program that helps libraries and schools provide WiFi hotspots to students and patrons. J Floridians balk at DeSantis administration plan to build golf courses at state parks 08/23/2024 01:54pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The golf course is not a threatened species in the Sunshine State — but the Florida scrub-jay is. And advocates are warning that life for the small blue and gray birds and many other imperiled species could get much harder if Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration follows t 2 freight trains collided in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring 2 crew 08/23/2024 01:36pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two freight trains collided and derailed in Boulder, Colorado, on Thursday night, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two crew members, according to police. The Boulder Police Department said on the social platform X that the crash happened north of Boulder Communi A top Delta executive is leaving weeks after the airline's slow response to tech outage 08/23/2024 01:22pm • Delta Air Lines said Friday that its chief operating officer will leave the company next week after a little more than a year in the airline business to take another job. The departure of Michael Spanos comes a few weeks after Delta canceled thousands of flights during a botched recovery from a glob