By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Colin Kaepernick is getting his first chance to work out for an NFL team since last playing in the league in 2016 when he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. Two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that…
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A Valencia man accused of striking and injuring three girls on a sidewalk near Taft Elementary School in Santa Ana and who allegedly had incendiary devices in his vehicle was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of attempted murder. Jason Carlos Guzman, 26, is facing nearly two dozen felony counts, including attempted premeditated murder, assault with…
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By Marc Levy | Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top election official said Wednesday that the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a statewide recount, dragging the outcome into June as the candidates fight in court. The state’s acting secretary of…
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When Aaron Boone sat down for his pregame press conference on Wednesday, the Yankees still had not released their starting lineup for the day. This came on the heels of DJ LeMahieu abruptly getting scratched from the lineup on Tuesday and Giancarlo Stanton leaving mid-game with a lower leg malady. Boone was asked about Stanton,…
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Cal women’s and former U.S. Olympic women’s swimming team head coach Teri McKeever, the most successful female coach in the sport’s history, has been placed on administrative leave after more than 20 current or former Golden Bears athletes alleged they were bullied or verbally abused by the coach, the Southern California News Group has learned.…
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The Ravens’ secondary is still under construction this offseason, but the pieces — maybe the last of them — are at least in place. With cornerback Kyle Fuller agreeing to a one-year deal, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday that he feels “really good about that group back there — I mean, really good about…
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Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra preempted his initial pregame comments ahead of Wednesday night’s NBA playoff game against the Boston Celtics to reflect on Tuesday’s school shootings in Uvalde, Texas. “Before I start,” Spoelstra said from the interview podium, “I would like to just say something. Obviously, it was just tragic news yesterday. I left…
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Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro was ruled out for a second consecutive game of the Eastern Conference finals two hours before the start of Wednesday night’s Game 5 of the best-of-seven series against the Boston Celtics at FTX Arena. Herro suffered the injury in Saturday’s Game 3 victory at TD Garden and then sat out…
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By Acacia Coronado | Associated Press UVALDE, Texas — A news conference about the shooting at a Texas elementary school broke into shouting Wednesday as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke blamed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for inaction ahead of the latest in a long string of mass shootings in the state. As the Republican governor…
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WASHINGTON — When he learned of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, just before the Dodgers’ game Tuesday night, Manager Dave Roberts said “it buckled me” and left him with “a heavy heart” a day later. It also motivated him to speak passionately about the need to address the epidemic of mass shootings that seems…
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