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Skaggs family 'shocked' over possible Angels link to death

ARLINGTON, Texas - The family of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs says it was startled to learn that a club employee "may" be part of the investigation into the 27-year-old's death from an acci...

Aug 30, 2019

Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing

SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015. Jose Inez Garcia-Z...

Aug 30, 2019

After US Open win, Federer bristles at idea he chose timing

NEW YORK - There was no slow start to this U.S. Open outing for Roger Federer, who bristled at the suggestion that he might have played a role in some favourable scheduling. After dropping the opening...

Aug 30, 2019

Appeals court reinstates lawsuit in SC church shooting case

RICHMOND, Va. - A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a Charleston church was reinstated Friday by...

Aug 30, 2019

MSNBC's O'Donnell retracts Trump story

NEW YORK - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday retracted his story about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump's finances and apologized for reporting it - just as Trump's lawyer demande...

Aug 30, 2019

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends once-promising presidential bid

WASHINGTON - Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability but inste...

Aug 30, 2019

Alfred Jackson, half-brother of late rock star Prince, dies

MINNEAPOLIS - A half-brother of the late rock superstar Prince has died, leaving five Prince siblings to share in the musician's fortune. An attorney for Alfred Jackson, Asa Weston, said Friday that t...

Aug 30, 2019

Minnesota man charged with crashing van into bus shelter

MINNEAPOLIS - A prosecutor has filed charges against an 83-year-old man who crashed his van into a Minneapolis bus shelter and injured five people. George Reeves Jensen of Champlin is charged with cri...

Aug 30, 2019

Condemned Tennessee inmate will be spared execution

NASHVILLE - A Tennessee inmate is leaving death row eight months before what would have been his execution date, after a judge approved an agreement Friday to convert his death sentence to life in pri...

Aug 30, 2019

Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary

SZEGED, Hungary - Placido Domingo received a warm reception Wednesday at a concert in Hungary to inaugurate a new soccer stadium for a Catholic diocese, the second of the opera star's European engagem...

Aug 30, 2019