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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 07/17/2023 02:15pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Golf has long been about making connections. That won't change in an LIV-PGA Tour world 07/17/2023 02:14pm • Kerry Bowie's daughters have dreams. Big ones. His 15-year-old wants to go to law school, maybe dabble in politics. His 12-year-old plans to be a business magnate. And while their schedules are jammed with everything from piano and violin lessons to soccer and volleyball tournaments, at some point t Georgia mass shooting suspect is killed during intense search and 3 officers are wounded, police say 07/17/2023 10:34am • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Officers on Sunday shot and killed a man wanted in four weekend killings near Atlanta during an exchange of gunfire, with a sheriff's deputy and two police officers wounded while trying to take the suspect into custody, authorities said. Officials said Andre Longmore was shot d McIlroy wins Scottish Open for confidence boost going to British 07/16/2023 09:16pm • GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — Rory McIlroy birdied the last two holes in whipping wind Sunday for a 2-under 68 to win the Genesis Scottish Open, his first victory on Scottish soil, and take a load of confidence into the final major of the year. McIlroy birdied the par-3 17th from 4 feet to tie Robert M Stephen Curry closes with eagle, wins American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament 07/16/2023 08:49pm • STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Stephen Curry made an 18-foot putt for eagle on the final hole to win the American Century Championship on Sunday, his first title in the celebrity tournament. Curry, the Golden State Warriors star who made a hole-in-one on Saturday, topped it with his closing eagle on the p Steve Stricker wins his 3rd PGA Tour Champions major of year with dominant weekend at Firestone 07/16/2023 07:06pm • AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Steve Stricker won his third PGA Tour Champions major of the year, capping off a dominant weekend at Firestone with a 4-under 66 on Sunday for a three-shot victory in the Kaulig Companies Championship. Stricker was five shots off the lead after a second-round 73, but closed with Phoenix to host 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, with US Olympians vs select team format expected 07/15/2023 10:59pm • The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game is headed to Phoenix, setting up as a home game for Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi and a sendoff to the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Saturday that the event would be hosted by the Phoenix Mercury. “Since I’ve be US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track 07/15/2023 09:59pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers extended their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people with heat-related illnesses. “Near record temperatur Lundgaard takes pole position at Honda Indy Toronto; IndyCar season leader Palou 15th 07/15/2023 05:52pm • TORONTO (AP) — Christian Lundgaard mastered driving in the rain when he was growing up in Denmark. He’ll have to put that to the test at the Honda Indy Toronto. Lundgaard took the pole on a wet street course at Toronto’s Exhibition Place on Saturday, finishing 0.3223 seconds ahead of Scott McL Vegas could break heat record as tens of millions across US endure scorching temperatures 07/14/2023 11:57pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air. But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate — at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater. Meanwhile, emergency room doc The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer’s most online movie showdown 07/14/2023 01:08pm • The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” all started with a date: July 21. It’s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded pict Swedish police authorize protest by man who plans to burn Torah, Bible outside Israeli Embassy 07/14/2023 09:41am • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Stockholm police on Friday said they have authorized a protest this weekend by a man who has stated that he wants to burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm. Israeli officials called on the Swedish government to stop the protest, which is scheduled to Vermont braces for more rain in wake of historic flooding 07/13/2023 10:40pm • Vermont prepared for the next round of storms — and possibly a tornado — as people took advantage of calm weather Thursday to clean up from historic flooding that damaged thousands of homes, businesses and roads, and left some residents stranded. As floodwaters receded, the good news was that One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California 07/13/2023 10:38pm • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — More than a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Thursday as a blistering heat wave that's been baking the nation spread further into California, forcing residents to seek out air conditioning or find other ways to stay cool in tri Meteorologists say Earth sizzled to a global heat record in June and July has been getting hotter 07/13/2023 02:52pm • An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree (0.13 degrees Celsius), with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursda