Associated Press stories, Page 2003
Knicks bring Tom Thibodeau back to New York as new coach
NEW YORK — Tom Thibodeau is back in New York as the Knicks’ new coach. The former NBA Coach of the Year was hired Thursday, returning to the team he helped lead to the NBA Finals as an assistant. “I know what New York is like when the Knicks are...
Trade-deadline players aim to provide boost in NHL’s restart
Vincent Trocheck was part of a wave of NHL players moved at the February trade deadline, jumping right into the lineup a day later for a learn-on-the-fly introduction to his new Carolina Hurricanes team. Hardly an easy task. “Obviously coming from a different team, you’re going to have a little...
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after covid-19 battleVideo
ATLANTA — Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from coronavirus. He was 74. Dan Calabrese, who authored a post on Cain’s website announcing the death, told...
MLB hitters slow out of the box to start 60-game season
NEW YORK — Two-time defending NL batting champion Christian Yelich has a long way to go if he wants a three-peat. The Milwaukee Brewers star is 1 for 28 to start the season, an .037 average that’s worst among qualified hitters. Not by much. Houston’s George Springer is batting .048,...
Key witness in Red Bull heir hit-and-run case dies in road accident
BANGKOK — Police in Thailand said Thursday that a witness whose testimony was important in having hit-and-run charges dropped against a heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune has died in a traffic accident. The accident in the northern province of Chiang Mai occurred late Wednesday night, just days...
Magnitude 4.2 earthquake shakes Los Angeles, but no damage
LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook the Los Angeles region before dawn Thursday but no significant damage was reported. The 4:29 a.m. jolt was centered in the northern San Fernando Valley and occurred at a depth of 5.5 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A magnitude 3.3 aftershock...
Police: Florida couple jailed for refusing to quarantine
MIAMI — Two residents of the Florida Keys have been jailed for failing to quarantine after testing positive for the new coronavirus. Jose Interian, 24, and Yohana Gonzalez, 26, are facing charges of violating isolation rules for a quarantine and violating emergency management disaster preparedness rules, according to jail records....
Trump floats November election delay – but he can’t do that
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is for the first time floating a “delay” to the Nov. 3 presidential election, as he makes unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud. The dates of presidential elections — the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every fourth year...
Red panda born in Berlin as part of global breeding program
BERLIN — A rare red panda has been born at a Berlin zoo, only a few months after its parents were brought to the German capital from India, the zoo said in a statement Thursday. The little cub was first discovered on June 6 in its mother’s cave at the...
Fast-moving Pa. building fire kills roughly 42,000 chickens
MARTIC — A fast-moving fire roared through a building at a southern Pennsylvania site, killing about 42,000 chickens and causing nearly $2 million dollars in damages, authorities said. No humans injuries were reported in the fire in Martic Township, which was reported around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The building was one...
1.4 million seek jobless aid as virus keeps forcing layoffs
WASHINGTON — More than 1.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, further evidence of the devastation the coronavirus outbreak has unleashed on the U.S. economy. The continuing wave of job cuts is occurring against the backdrop of a spike in virus cases that has led many states...
U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% rate last quarterVideo
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy shrank at a dizzying 33% annual rate in the April-June quarter — by far the worst quarterly plunge ever — when the viral outbreak shut down businesses, throwing tens of millions out of work and sending unemployment surging to 14.7%, the government said Thursday. The...
Record surge in daily shipping volumes for UPS in 2Q
A boom in online shopping during the pandemic pushed revenue higher at United Parcel Service Inc., which reported a $1.77 billion profit for the second quarter. UPS said Thursday that shipping volume jumped 23% to more than 21 million packages a day. Crucially, shipments from businesses to U.S. consumers soared...
NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient lifeVideo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of...
1.4 million seek jobless aid as virus keeps forcing layoffs
WASHINGTON — More than 1.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, further evidence of the devastation the coronavirus outbreak has unleashed on the U.S. economy. The continuing wave of job cuts is occurring against the backdrop of a spike in virus cases that has led many states...
Officials eye sedative given before death of Elijah McClain
Colorado health officials have opened an investigation into the use of a sedative given to a Black man by paramedics during a police stop in suburban Denver before his death last year. The inquiry is the latest in a series of new reviews of the case of Elijah McClain that...
Texas passes grim milestone of 6,100 covid-19 deathsVideo
AUSTIN — Texas passed a grim milestone of more than 6,100 deaths caused by the coronavirus, with 313 newly-reported fatalities Wednesday. The stark figures pushed Texas’ death total to 6,190 since the state recorded its first covid-19 death in early March. Death tolls escalated rapidly in recent weeks as the...
4 Big Tech CEOs tell Congress they don’t stifle competitionVideo
WASHINGTON — The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google fended off accusations Wednesday that their companies stifle competition, under intense questioning from lawmakers who have been i nvestigating Big Tech’s market dominance for the past year. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, in his first appearance before Congress, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar...
MLB doubleheaders could get shortened to 7-inning gamesVideo
NEW YORK — Ernie Banks famously said, “Let’s play two.” Baseball players just might not want to play nine innings twice in one day during this pandemic-delayed season. While Cleveland swept the Chicago White Sox in the first doubleheader of the season Tuesday, union head Tony Clark called deputy commissioner...
Mexico’s Gaby Lopez is 1st LPGA player to test positive for covid-19Video
Gaby Lopez of Mexico is the first LPGA Tour player to test positive for the coronavirus as the tour returns this week in Ohio for the first time in more than five months. Lopez, who won the first LPGA event of the year in January, withdrew from LPGA Drive On...
Top-ranked Ash Barty withdraws from U.S. OpenVideo
SYDNEY — No. 1-ranked Ash Barty said she has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because she is not comfortable with traveling during the coronavirus pandemic. Barty is the biggest name yet to opt out of the Aug. 31-Sept. 13 Grand Slam tournament in New York because of the global health...
John McNamara, manager of ill-fated ’86 Red Sox, dies at 88Video
BOSTON — John McNamara, who managed the Boston Red Sox to within one strike of a World Series victory in 1986 before an unprecedented collapse on the field extended the team’s championship drought into the new millennium, died. He was 88. McNamara died Tuesday at his home in Tennessee, his...
Malik B, founding member of The Roots, has died at 47
LOS ANGELES — Malik B, a rapper and founding member of The Roots, has died. He was 47. The group announced the death of the Philadelphia-born emcee in a social media post Wednesday. The cause of death was not released. Malik B, whose real name is Malik Abdul Basit, was...
Koepka says knee is improving as he prepares to defend WGC title in MemphisVideo
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brooks Koepka loves TPC Southwind, and he is hoping for the same boost he got here a year ago when he won the first World Golf Championship. Last year, Koepka only felt a bit ill. This year, the man who won three times last year, including a...
Dodgers’ Kelly suspended 8 games for buzzing, mocking AstrosVideo
HOUSTON — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly was suspended for eight games by MLB on Wednesday, a day after throwing a fastball near the head of Houston’s Alex Bregman and taunting Astros star Carlos Correa. Benches cleared after Kelly’s actions during the sixth inning of Los Angeles’ 5-2 win...
