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Leiter Jr. gets win in ALCS Game 4 for Yankees after being added to roster for injured Hamilton 10/19/2024 02:14am • CLEVELAND (AP) — Mark Leiter Jr. didn't get the chance to ease into the postseason. Hours after being added to New York's roster to replace injured Ian Hamilton, the right-hander got thrown into his biggest game with the Yankees. Acquired in July to help the AL East champions in October, Leiter pi Elijah Gilliam helps Fresno State rally for 24-21 victory over Nevada 10/19/2024 01:56am • RENO, Nev. (AP) — Elijah Gilliam had two touchdown runs and turned a screen pass into a long gain on the go-ahead drive as Fresno State rallied for a 24-21 victory over Nevada in a see-saw Mountain West Conference matchup on Friday night. Mikey Keene threw a screen pass that Gilliam turned into a Mets' season continues with 12-6 win over Dodgers 10/19/2024 12:06am • NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso golfed an early three-run homer and the New York Mets hammered an ineffective Jack Flaherty, extending the National League Championship Series with a 12-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 on Friday. Starling Marte had three doubles, four hits and three RBI Black male teachers are a rarity in preschools. This pioneering program wants to change that 10/19/2024 12:06am • BALTIMORE (AP) — Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, was unsure of what he wanted to do with his life. Not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined Wisconsin voters consider constitutional amendment barring noncitizens from voting 10/19/2024 12:04am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Voters in swing state Wisconsin will have another choice to make after casting their ballots for president in November — whether to explicitly bar foreign nationals from voting. At the bottom of the ballot is a statewide referendum authored by Republican legislators asking Washington state AG and ex-sheriff face off in governor's race 10/19/2024 12:02am • SEATTLE (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, a two-term sheriff known for helping to hunt down a prolific serial killer, is trying to become Washington’s first GOP governor in 40 years. But he faces a difficult hurdle in the Democratic stronghold against longtime Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Crews halt fast-moving brush fire that burned 2 Oakland homes, forced 500 evacuations 10/18/2024 11:34pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds burned two homes Friday and damaged several others in a hillside neighborhood in the city of Oakland, where hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate before more than 100 firefighters stopped the progress of the flames, authorities said Middle East latest: Hezbollah says its war with Israel is entering a new phase 10/18/2024 10:14pm • Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Friday it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli troops, as the region reckons with the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza. Hamas acknowledged Sinwar’s death and described him as a martyr Taylor Pendrith avoids biggest wind and stays in front in Las Vegas with a long day ahead 10/18/2024 10:10pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Taylor Pendrith was spared wind so strong it caused a four-hour delay and battered the field Friday in the Shriners Hospital Open. The Canadian only had to play six holes and stayed in the lead before the second round was halted by darkness. Pendrith, who had a 10-under 61 on Thur The Latest: Trump and Harris are campaigning for votes in pivotal Michigan 10/18/2024 09:39pm • With the Nov. 5 election fast approaching, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are setting their sights on the key battleground state of Michigan on Friday. The vice president began her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, northwest of Detroit. The Major League Soccer playoffs in flux, Inter Miami on the brink of history heading into Decision Day 10/18/2024 07:51pm • While teams are fighting to improve their playoff position on Decision Day, Inter Miami will be attempting to make Major League Soccer history. The Lionel Messi -led squad has the opportunity to secure the league's all-time points record on Saturday against the New England Revolution. The Revolutio Saints searching for remedies as they try to avoid their worst skid since 2005 10/18/2024 07:15pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Decades have passed since New Orleans Saints home games were associated with vast expanses of empty seats in a gloomy Superdome, interspersed with humiliated fans wearing brown paper bags over their heads. At the rate things are going, those days could return sooner than later. Spelman College president takes 'personal leave of absence' 10/18/2024 06:45pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Spelman College President Dr. Helene D. Gayle is taking a personal leave of absence, the nation's top-rated historically Black college announced Friday. Spelman College did not give a reason for Gayle's leave, but said in a statement it is “effective immediately." Rosalind “Rozâ Parts of Maryland and Virginia reach peak fall foliage conditions 10/18/2024 06:45pm • Fall is the best time of the year for some of us. Western parts of Virginia and Maryland are already awash in vibrant colors, but the states' forestry officials said this year, with a hotter than average summer, it's been particularly difficult to predict the color change in foliage. "We really t UN expands arms embargo on Haiti to all types of arms and ammunition 10/18/2024 06:24pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang violence and criminal activities in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The resolution a