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Cook runs for 2 TDs, Burden scores before leaving with illness as No. 9 Mizzou blanks Buffalo 38-0
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Most of the talk about Missouri in the offseason centered around quarterback Brady Cook and All-American wide receiver Luther Burden III, and the way the ninth-ranked Tigers' high-octane offense could put them in the College Football Playoff mix. It's been...
Tyler O'Neill homers twice and Red Sox send White Sox to 111th loss with 7-5 win
BOSTON (AP) — Tyler O’Neill homered twice for the Boston Red Sox in a 7-5 win Saturday night that sent the Chicago White Sox to their 111th loss. Chicago wasted Andrew Vaughn’s two-run homer in the first, trailed 7-2 by the fifth and lost its 19th consecutive series. ...
Karen Read says in interview that murder case left her in 'purgatory'
BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read's months-long murder case left her in “purgatory" and ”stressed every day,” she said in an interview set to air Friday night. Read, 44, is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead...
A hitman serving life in prison gets more time for killing ‘Whitey’ Bulger
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Prosecutors said Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock attached to a belt to...
Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season
Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022. Zhang agreed to a five-year contract starting...
Boston College faces Duquesne, hopes to build on big win over Florida State
Duquesne (0-1) at Boston College (1-0), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ACCN) Series record: First meeting. WHAT’S AT STAKE? After beating No. 10 Florida State in the first game under Bill O’Brien, Boston College returns to Chestnut Hill for the new...
No. 9 Missouri out to showcase its refreshed run game with Buffalo on deck
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The hole left in the Missouri backfield after last season was a mere 5 feet, 9 inches tall, yet it seemed so much bigger than that, given the way Cody Schrader performed during his final season with the Tigers. First-team All-American. Doak Walker Award...
Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that required Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is appealing a ruling upholding a requirement that all participating facilities abide by a state antidiscrimination law. ...
Jesse Winker hits a grand slam and Mets beat Red Sox 8-3 for 7th straight win
NEW YORK (AP) — Jesse Winker hit his fifth career grand slam, Phil Maton wriggled out of an eighth-inning jam and the surging New York Mets matched a season high by winning their seventh straight game, 8-3 over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. “It feels good, but there’s...
Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot is set to go to auction
DALLAS (AP) — Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded will go up for auction later this month. Experts say the find isn't necessarily surprising even over 60 years after the...
