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A year after tragedy and Kentucky Derby banishment, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. is back with Catalytic 05/01/2024 06:43pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Saffie Joseph Jr. embraces this year���s hectic preparation for the milestone 150th Kentucky Derby a little more than usual because he didn���t know if such a moment would happen again after last spring���s tragic events here. Losing two horses after racing just days apar A list of mass killings in the United States this year 05/01/2024 06:26pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Monday, April 29, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where four officers were fatally shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The officers were killed when a task force made up of officers from different agencies arrived in the reside South Carolina Senate takes up ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors 05/01/2024 05:16pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina's Senate is debating a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors with just days left in a 2024 session where they have largely avoided social hot-button issues. The bill, passed by the state House in January during the General Assembly's opening days, Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke have a running joke about ���Wildcat,��� their Flannery O���Connor movie 05/01/2024 04:45pm • Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke have a running joke about their Flannery O���Connor movie. ���Wildcat,��� which Ethan directed and Maya stars in as O���Connor, was made with complete sincerity. It���s a deeply creative investigation into the Southern Catholic novelist and short story writer Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77 05/01/2024 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as ���The New York Trilogy��� and ���4 3 2 1,��� has died at age 77. Auster's death was confirmed by his wife and fellow author, Siri Hustvedt, who said that CalHOPE Courage Award winners Nelsen, Amey overcome mental health struggles to shine in their sports 05/01/2024 02:55pm • Cameron Nelsen never asked for help, she just didn't yet have it in her, unable to fully grasp the dangerous path her life had taken in the midst of an eating disorder and mental-health crisis stemming from a series of physical challenges that began at a young age. Her parents sensed something was w Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout 05/01/2024 02:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form ��� a financial aid application that's supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through. � Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families 05/01/2024 01:47pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Residents and visitors are required under state law to use bathrooms and chan Sentencing postponed for Minnesota man who regrets joining Islamic State group 05/01/2024 12:47pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse for joining a ���death cult��� and has been cooperating with federal authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces after his sentencing hearing set for Wednesday St. Louis school district will pay families to drive kids to school amid bus driver shortage 05/01/2024 11:44am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� St. Louis' school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers. ���We are excited to announce a new set of programs aimed at addressing the current challenges in transportation services,��� Toyin A No criminal charges after 4 newborn bodies found in a freezer 05/01/2024 11:21am • BOSTON (AP) ��� A prosecutor in Massachusetts won't seek criminal charges against anyone, two years after four newborns were found in a freezer in a South Boston apartment. The bodies of the two boys and two girls, likely born many years ago, were found in shoe boxes wrapped in tinfoil in November Retired U.S. soccer star Carli Lloyd announces she and her husband are expecting baby in October 05/01/2024 10:52am • Retired U.S. women's soccer star Carli Lloyd and her husband are expecting their first child in October. The 41-year-old Lloyd announced her pregnancy on Instagram on Wednesday. She has been married to Brian Hollins for seven years and indicated in her social media post that she had gone through fer Yum: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2024 07:07am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $314 million. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company said it had net income of $1.10 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.15 per share. The results d Accused teen linked to Sydney bishop's stabbing applies for release from custody 05/01/2024 06:42am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� A 15-year-old boy who claimed to be a friend of a teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop applied Wednesday to be released from custody on bail on a charge of planning a terrorist attack. The 15-year-old is one of six teens, ages 14 to 17, who were charged in a Sydney court last wee Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey to step down from F1 team 05/01/2024 06:28am • MILTON KEYNES, England (AP) ��� Adrian Newey, the designer who was a pivotal figure in Red Bull's dominance of Formula One, will step down early next year, the team said Wednesday. The 65-year-old Newey will end his near two-decade career with Red Bull in the ���first quarter of 2025." ���For almos