Associated Press stories, Page 1139
No. 13 Penn State’s secondary draws attention of No. 2 Ohio State
STATE COLLEGE — Ryan Day spends the 48 hours before a game drawing up contingency plans. Ohio State’s coach wants his team to be ready for anything. “We say sometimes you’re chasing ghosts, but I’ve been in games before where we didn’t chase those ghosts and we didn’t have answers...
Lamar Jackson shines, Ravens beat Brady, struggling BucsVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — Lamar Jackson threw for 238 yards and two second-half touchdowns to lead the Baltimore Ravens to a come-from-behind 27-22 victory over Tom Brady and the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night. The Bucs (3-5) lost for the fifth time in six games following a 2-0 start,...
8 found dead after house fire in Tulsa area; homicide feared
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police said. The fire was reported about 4 p.m. Thursday in a quiet residential area of Broken Arrow, 13 miles southeast of Tulsa. Broken Arrow police said...
WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years
GENEVA — The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report Thursday by the World Health Organization. The U.N. health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by tuberculosis in 2021,...
Reports: Bengals star WR Ja’Marr Chase out weeks with hip injuryVideo
Cincinnati Bengals star wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase could miss several games with a hip injury, a person familiar with his condition told the Associated Press on Thursday. Chase has been bothered by the hip for several weeks. It’s possible he could wind up on injured reserve, but that hasn’t been...
Phillies’ World Series run leads wild run of Philly successVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Miles Teller, fresh off hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the season premiere, had just hit Cabo San Lucas to vacation and celebrate his wife Keleigh’s 30th birthday. Faster than Maverick could reach Mach 10, Teller had a change of plans: The Philadelphia Phillies — the team he grew...
Arizona Coyotes ready to party at The MullettVideo
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Mullett will have a party in the front and the back Friday night. By far the NHL’s smallest venue, Mullett Arena takes its first spin in the national spotlight when the Arizona Coyotes host the Winnipeg Jets. It should be a rockin’ — howlin’? — good...
Stock indexes end mixed as Facebook parent company slumpsVideo
Wall Street delivered another mixed finish for stocks Thursday, as disappointing quarterly results from several big tech companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%, with about 44% of stocks within the benchmark index losing ground. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 1.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial...
Lawmakers send Gov. Wolf large package of energy tax credits
HARRISBURG — State lawmakers have voted for an array of tax credits, including a massive incentive designed to help Pennsylvania land one of the hydrogen energy hubs being funded with federal subsidies. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s spokeswoman said Thursday that he was reviewing the legislation that passed shortly before the...
Protester glues his head to ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ paintingVideo
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” with glue and liquid on Thursday but one of the world’s most iconic paintings was not damaged in the latest of such publicity-seeking stunts. A video posted on Twitter showed one man pouring a can...
Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin
WASHINGTON — Election Day is 12 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun. More than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year around the Nov. 8 elections. The legal challenges, largely by Republicans, target rules for mail-in voting, early...
Reports: Chiefs get WR Kadarius Toney from Giants for 2 draft picksVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs acquired New York Giants wide receiver Kadarius Toney on Thursday for a pair of picks in next year’s draft, a person familiar with the terms of the trade told the Associated Press. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the...
Economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6%Video
WASHINGTON — The economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September, snapping two straight quarters of contraction and overcoming high inflation and interest rates just as voting begins in midterm elections in which the economy’s health has emerged as a paramount issue. Thursday’s better-than-expected estimate from the...
Biden top aide Ron Klain admonished for violating Hatch Act
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s chief of staff violated the law by retweeting a political message on his government Twitter account, and a warning letter was sent to him, according to a memo from the Office of Special Counsel. Top aide Ron Klain “got it wrong this time” and will...
Arrest in office burglary at Katie Hobbs’ campaign HQ in Arizona
PHOENIX — Phoenix police have made an arrest in connection with a burglary at the campaign headquarters for Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor. An officer saw a news story with surveillance photos of the suspect and recognized him as the man arrested for a burglary at another office...
U.S. mortgage rates top 7% for the first time in 2 decades
WASHINGTON — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate topped 7% for the first time in more than two decades this week, a result of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes intended to tame inflation not seen in some 40 years. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on...
Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, ousts top executives
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company’s general counsel, two people familiar with the deal said Thursday night. The people wouldn’t say if all the paperwork for the deal, originally valued at $44 billion, had been signed or if the...
Antisemitism decried 4 years after Tree of Life attack
PITTSBURGH — In what has become an annual ritual, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community Thursday honored the memory of the 11 Jews who were murdered on this date in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. For many community leaders, their grief is mixed with dismay over the continued and growing incidents...
Russia’s Putin rules out using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he insisted are doomed to fail. Speaking at a conference of international foreign...
Italy’s fascist past under scrutiny a century after putsch
MILAN — Italy’s failure to come to terms with its fascist past has become evident as it prepares to mark the 100th anniversary Friday of the March on Rome that brought totalitarian dictator Benito Mussolini to power, a milestone that coincides with the country’s first postwar government led by a...
Crisis-stricken Cuba torn between ally Russia, neighbor U.S.
HAVANA — When Hurricane Ian tore through western Cuba in late September, causing an island-wide blackout, it left the government grappling with a deepening energy crisis and simmering discontent among Cubans. It also once again thrust the Caribbean island into the middle of an escalating tug-of-war between its seaside neighbor,...
Battle of the Alps? Water woes loom amid climate change
BRIG, Switzerland — A battle is brewing around Europe’s rooftop over the planet’s most precious resource. The crystal-clear waters issuing from the Alps could become increasingly contested as the effects of climate change and glacier melt become more apparent. Italy wants them for crop irrigation in the spring and summer....
Auto prices finally begin to creep down from inflated highs
DETROIT — All summer long, Aleen Hudson kept looking for a new minivan or SUV for her growing passenger shuttle service. She had a good credit rating and enough cash for a down payment. Yet dealerships in the Detroit area didn’t have any suitable vehicles. Or they’d demand she pay...
In Pa. governor’s race, faith surfaces in contrasting ways
In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested of battleground states, both gubernatorial candidates bring up religion. But in starkly different ways. Republican Doug Mastriano’s campaign has several hallmarks of Christian nationalism, which fuses Christian and political imagery, words and rituals and promotes a...
No. 7 TCU plays at struggling WVU after 4 wins vs. ranked foes
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The challenge this week for Max Duggan and No. 7 TCU is to find the same motivation and passion to play on the road at stumbling West Virginia as the Horned Frogs did against ranked opponents in their four previous games. The Mountaineers (3-4, 1-3 Big 12)...
