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Coventry returns to the Premier League after hard-fought draw at Blackburn 04/17/2026 05:19pm • BLACKBURN, England (AP) ��� Coventry City clinched a return to the Premier League for the first time since 2001 after drawing at Blackburn Rovers 1-1 in the Championship on Friday. Frank Lampard���s men were second best for much of the game but one point was enough to secure a historic return to the Tentative contract deal holds off strike by New York City apartment building workers 04/17/2026 05:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Union leaders representing thousands of New York City apartment house doorpersons, superintendents and other workers said Friday that they had reached a tentative contract agreement with building owners, averting a strike at the homes of an estimated 1.5 million people. The deal c Lens comes from 2-0 down to beat Toulouse and keep alive Ligue 1 title hopes 04/17/2026 05:09pm • LENS, France (AP) ��� Lens allowed two goals in the first 13 minutes and bounced back in a superb second half to beat Toulouse 3-2 on Friday and keep alive slim hopes of a first Ligue 1 title since 1998. It was helped by the 17th minute red card for Toulouse midfielder Yan Ghobo. Lens has matched re Oil prices drop 9% and Wall Street rallies to a record after Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz 04/17/2026 05:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record Friday after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is open again for commercial tankers carrying crude from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. The S&P 500 leape Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are breaking up and phasing out their podcast 04/17/2026 05:01pm • Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are splitting up. The sports power couple announced Friday that they are ending their 10-year relationship and phasing out their popular podcast, ���A Touch More.��� They dropped the news together on the podcast. ���I hope you all know we put a lot of thought and care into NHL playoffs arrive with the West stacked with contenders like Colorado, Dallas and Vegas 04/17/2026 04:52pm • Jake Oettinger wants it this way. Or, at least, the starting goaltender for Dallas is embracing it. The path through the Central Division to the Western Conference Final for his team and the Minnesota Wild is just about as treacherous as it gets. The Stars and Wild had the third- and seventh-most po Wholesale Cash Prices 04/17/2026 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Wholesale cash prices Friday Thu Fri Foods Broilers - Patients and dental community mourn Dr. Cerina Fairfax, killed by Virginia's ex-lieutenant governor 04/17/2026 04:45pm • Patients and colleagues are remembering Dr. Cerina Fairfax as a devoted mother, a caring dentist and the rock at the center of her family, after police say she was killed by her estranged husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Police found both dead in their home in the Washington, D.C., NBA playoffs, not awards, drive Pistons star Cade Cunningham after last year's 1st-round exit 04/17/2026 04:39pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The NBA playoffs, not awards, drive Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham to chase greatness. A year after Cunningham had a first-round exit in his postseason debut, the point guard is motivated to lead the three-time championship franchise to success it hasn't experienced in nearly Grains mostly lower, livestock lower 04/17/2026 04:30pm • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade. May. corn was off 0.25 cent at $4.48 a bushel. May. wheat fell by 7.75 cents at $5.90 a bushel. May. oats lost 14.75 cents at $3.29 a bushel. May. soybeans gained 3 cents at $11.66 a bushel. Beef was lower and pork Takeaways from AP-Grist reporting on federal support for rural renewable energy 04/17/2026 04:28pm • Farming in America can be a tough business, and for some producers, finding more affordable energy can make the difference between profit and loss. But getting federal support to help them do that with renewables has become much more difficult since Donald Trump's return to the White House. Trump ha 1 million bees make for bumper-to-buzzer traffic on a Tennessee highway ramp 04/17/2026 04:23pm • KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Travelers on an East Tennessee interstate were forced to brake for workers ��� and drones, perhaps even a queen ��� when a truck carrying about 1 million bees crashed Friday. The swarm shut down an exit of Interstate 40 in Knoxville, said Mark Nagi, Tennessee Department of Some American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules 04/17/2026 04:22pm • Over the past few years, Kentucky sheep farmer Daniel Bell has been expanding his flock, and that meant he needed to build a new barn. His land is far from the power lines he would need to heat it, so he figured rooftop solar would be ideal. To help pay for it, he wanted to apply for a renewable-ene Hingham Savings: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 04/17/2026 04:21pm • HINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� HINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS) on Friday reported net income of $2.9 million in its first quarter. The bank, based in Hingham, Massachusetts, said it had earnings of $1.29 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $4.79 per How major US stock indexes fared Friday 4/17/2026 04/17/2026 04:17pm • Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record. The S&P 500 leaped 1.2% Friday after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is open again for commercial tankers carrying crude. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped as many as 1,10