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Healthy, OF Grady Sizemore returns to Cleveland 06/02/2014 06:55pm • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) -- Grady Sizemore glanced out toward center field, where he roamed for nearly eight seasons and where he chased down drives in the gap and had more than a few run-ins with the padded wall.On Monday, Sizemore's long, painful return to the majors brought him In The Pits: Selfies can't fix attendance woes 06/02/2014 06:29pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Kyle Larson lingered near his car waiting for the race to begin at Dover International Speedway when British television presenter Cherry Healey joined him on the concrete. Kneeling next to a rear tire, Healey snapped a selfie with NASCAR's newe Yoga, gym sales tax likely to go forward in DC 06/02/2014 01:19pm • BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson says he doesn't expect the council to scale back or undo a proposal to apply sales taxes to yoga classes and gym memberships.Mendelson said Monday that the tax increase is part of a package of reforms that will r Man pushing shopping cart full of meat is arrested 06/02/2014 11:30am • SEATTLE (AP) -- Police say the sight of a man pushing a shopping cart full of meat down a south Seattle street in the middle of the night drew an officer's attention.Under questioning, the man said he was taking the cart full of steak and ribs to a friend's house.When a second officer checked with a Study: Streaming video makes green sense 06/02/2014 04:02am • WASHINGTON -- Streaming video lets you watch what you want, whenever you want it, with just a few clicks of a remote. But an expert says it's the green way to go as well. Alan Neuhauser, with US News and World Report, counts up the ways streaming causes less pollution than old-fashioned DVDs a Music industry optimistic about Apple-Beats deal 06/02/2014 04:00am • CHRIS TALBOTT AP Music Writer When Cortez Bryant decided to negotiate a headphones marketing deal for his clients Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj a few years ago, he turned down more money from other more established companies to sign with Beats By Dre for a simple reason."There was a bunch of history the Flip says he expects Love in Minnesota next year 06/01/2014 11:00pm • JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Basketball Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- During a weekend trip to Boston, All-Star forward Kevin Love has been taking pictures with fans and seeing the sights, leading Celtics fans to speculate that he's going to follow in the footsteps of Kevin Garnett as the next Minnesota star to FDA taking another look at mercury in seafood 06/01/2014 09:38pm • MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is updating its advice for pregnant women on the appropriate levels of mercury in seafood. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says the agency won't require mercury labels on seafood packages.In a wide-ranging intervi Elias pitches 3-hitter, Mariners top Tigers 4-0 06/01/2014 08:33pm • CURTIS CRABTREE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- Mariners rookie Roenis Elias has flashed signs of brilliance in the first two months of his major league career.A strong fastball. A big, bending curveball that can buckle hitters at the knees.Against the Detroit Tigers on Sunday, Elias put the entire Car Report: A luxury KIA? Yes, really 06/01/2014 05:41pm • WASHINGTON -- The latest full-size luxury sedan is large and brimming with technology and is built by KIA. Yes, I said KIA, and the all-new 2015 K900, a flagship sedan, is a very luxurious and large rear-wheel drive sedan with a powerful V8 and plenty of space to pamper five people. A good Highlights from AP interview with FDA's Hamburg 06/01/2014 11:16am • The Associated Press Highlights of The Associated Press interview Friday with Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration:PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSEHamburg downplayed suggestions that the agency might remove a heavily criticized painkiller from the market if a harder-to-abuse ve Americans and their cars: A love affair on fumes? 06/01/2014 04:02am • ADAM GELLER AP National Writer The couple in the convertible sail down a pristine freeway, the pavement theirs alone. At the wheel, he smiles in suit and tie, while she leans closer, every blonde hair in place, her face a portrait of mobile bliss."To whirl along with all the joy your car has to offe Security matrix prevents another Tiananmen 05/31/2014 11:34pm • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- When visiting friends in China's capital, environmental activist Wu Lihong must slip away from his rural home before sunrise, before the police officers watching his home awaken. He rides a bus to an adjacent province and jumps aboard a train just Are the L.A. Clippers really worth $2 billion? 05/31/2014 04:20pm • JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Basketball Writer A high-profile NBA franchise in a major media market was suddenly available. A handful of power brokers from the technology, entertainment and venture capital fields were lining up for a chance to join the party.And all the while the clock was ticking on the bidd Spain to unveil $8.6 billion stimulus package 05/31/2014 10:40am • MADRID (AP) -- Spain's prime minister says his government will unveil a stimulus package worth 6.3 billion euros ($8.6 billion) to boost competitiveness.In another sign that the country is emerging from five years of economic hardship, Mariano Rajoy said his plan "aims to mobilize" 2.7 billion euros