| Cubs' Wada has no-hitter through 6 innings Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:08 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Tsuyoshi Wada of the Chicago Cubs has not allowed a hit through six innings against the Baltimore Orioles. |
| True freshman Brad Kaaya wins Miami QB job Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Brad Kaaya arrived on Miami's campus in May. Barely three months later, the true freshman is already the Hurricanes' starting quarterback. |
| Bengals' Mike Brown treated for 'minor' problem Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — Bengals owner Mike Brown was treated on Sunday for what the team called a "minor medical situation" and was expected to return to Cincinnati later in the day. |
| Hundreds at St. Louis festival promoting peace Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in St. Louis' largest park for a festival encouraging peace over violence — an event that took on new resonance after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.
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| British Ebola victim flown home as Congo finds new outbreak Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT  By Josephus Olu-Mammah and Kylie MacLellan FREETOWN/LONDON (Reuters) - A British medical worker was flown home from West Africa on Sunday after becoming the first Briton infected in the world's worst Ebola epidemic, as a separate new outbreak of the disease was detected in Democratic Republic of Congo. A specially adapted Royal Air Force cargo plane picked up the male healthcare worker in Sierra Leone on Sunday after Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond authorized his repatriation for treatment. The U.K. Department of Health said the patient - whose identity has not been disclosed - was "not currently seriously unwell". The man will be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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| Bishop: Slain US journalist Foley opened our eyes Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:01 PM PDT  ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Slain U.S. journalist James Foley was living his faith by bringing images to the world of people suffering from war and oppressive regimes, a Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday at a Mass in his honor.
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| Rebels parade captured soldiers as Kiev marks independence day Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:01 PM PDT  Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine paraded dozens of captured soldiers before a jeering crowd on Sunday in mockery of Independence Day celebrations in the capital. Ukraine's pro-Western government had sought to boost morale with an upbeat military parade to mark the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Speaking to a crowd of thousands in the iconic Independence Square, known locally as the Maidan, President Petro Poroshenko decried Russian "aggression" and said he was "convinced that the battle for Ukraine, for independence, will be our success".
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| South Carolina's Spurrier ready for kickoff Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:00 PM PDT  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Steve Spurrier's done with talking season. He's ready to see No. 9 South Carolina live up to the high expectations its dealt with since finishing a third-straight 11-win season a year ago.
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| The latest on damaging earthquake in California Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:59 PM PDT  NAPA, Calif. (AP) — This is what Associated Press reporters on the scene are learning following the largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years:
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| Official: British Ebola patient to be evacuated Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:54 PM PDT  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The first British citizen confirmed to be infected with the deadly Ebola disease is being evacuated from Sierra Leone on a jet sent by the Royal Air Force, a Sierra Leone official said Sunday.
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| US says American held in Syria has been freed Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:52 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government says an American held hostage for about two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria has been released.
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| Strong California quake causes injuries, damage Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:43 PM PDT NAPA, Calif. (AP) — A large earthquake caused significant damage in California's northern Bay Area early Sunday, sending at least 70 people to a hospital, igniting fires, knocking out power to tens of thousands and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness. |
| War planes attack Libyan capital again as airport terminal is destroyed Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:42 PM PDT  By Heba al-Shibani and Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fire destroyed the terminal at Tripoli's main airport on Sunday, one day after it was seized by militia fighters from the Libyan city of Misrata, witnesses said. Unidentified war planes also attacked targets in the capital, residents said, the latest stage of the worst fighting in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. All planes in front of it were damaged, as well as many houses and office buildings on airport road. A militia called Operation Dawn, consisting mainly of fighters from Misrata, said on Saturday that it had captured the airport from a rival faction from Zintan in western Libya.
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| Israel leader tries to link Hamas, Iraq extremists Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister is trying to capitalize on the gruesome video of an American journalist's beheading by the Islamic State extremist group, saying Hamas is an equally vicious foe as he tries to rally international support in Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. But the comparisons between Hamas and Islamic State are being met with reservations by Israel's allies and enemies alike.
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| Palestinian president prepares new UN appeal Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:34 PM PDT  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Aides to the Palestinian president said Sunday that he will soon appeal to the international community to set a deadline for Israel to end its occupation of lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war and make way for an independent Palestinian state.
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| Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in east Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:25 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — To shouts of "Fascists!" and "Hang them from a tree!" captured Ukrainian soldiers were paraded through the streets of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday as bystanders pelted them with eggs, water bottles and tomatoes.
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| Marino back with Dolphins as special adviser Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:25 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — Dan Marino is returning to the Miami Dolphins. |
| Minister: 2 people have died of Ebola in Congo Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:17 PM PDT KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Two Ebola-related deaths have been confirmed in Congo, the country's health minister said Sunday, though local officials believe the cases are unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa that has killed more than 1,400 people. |
| Jihadis capture major Syrian air base in northeast Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:16 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State fighters captured a major military air base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the jihadi group, activists and state media said. |
| US hostage Theo Curtis freed in Syria: Kerry Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:14 PM PDT  A young American who had been held hostage for two years by an Islamic rebel group in Syria was released Sunday to UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, US and UN officials said. "Finally he is returning home," US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement, confirming the release of Theo Curtis, an American researcher whose disappearance in Syria had not been previously reported. Curtis was handed over to UN peacekeepers in the village of Al Rafid, Quneitra in the Golan Heights and after undergoing a medical checkup was turned over to US representatives, the United Nations said.
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| Mourning Foley family prays for fellow hostages Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:04 PM PDT  The family of murdered US journalist James Foley offered prayers for the safety of is fellow hostages in Syria on Sunday as they prepared to take part in a memorial mass. Foley's parents John and Diane Foley were joined by family-members, well-wishers and representatives of the world media for a mass in his home town of Rochester, New Hampshire. "James stood for love and hope," Diane Foley told AFP at the family's suburban home, where James' brothers and sister had gathered.
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| Michael Brown called 'little kid in big body' Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:59 AM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown Jr. was on the verge of starting college, eager to launch himself into the adult world. Instead, on Monday he'll be mourned at his funeral, more than two weeks after his fatal shooting by a white police officer— an act that ignited days of violent protests and reawakened racial tensions that still linger in the nation.
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| Merkel walks part of pilgrimage route in Spain Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:56 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked along the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela on Sunday under bright sun in a highly symbolic show of unity with Spain and its arduous path to economic recovery. Merkel, 60, joined Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on the route as she prepared for a European Union summit on Saturday to decide who gets the top jobs in the 28-nation bloc for the next five years. The two leaders took about an hour to walk a six-kilometre (3.7-mile) stretch of the pilgrimage trail between the villages of O Pedrouzo and Lavacolla, near the airport at Santiago de Compostela. Her two-day visit to the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela coincides with signs of a gradual, yet jobs-scarce economy recovery in Spain since it emerged from recession in mid-2013.
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| Jihadists seize Syria's Tabqa airport after bloody battle: NGO Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:55 AM PDT  Islamic State jihadists on Sunday won a bloody battle for Tabqa military airport, last stronghold of the Damascus regime in Syria's northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group and state media said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 346 jihadists and 25 Syrian troops had been killed in the fighting at the airport since last Tuesday, with another 170 soldiers dying during fierce clashes on Sunday. "One hundred and seventy Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday in the offensive which led to the IS jihadists seizing Tabqa airport," the Observatory said in an email to AFP. Syrian state television said troops had staged an "evacuation" of the airport.
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| Cristobal's pelting rains lash southeast Bahamas Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:54 AM PDT  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Slow-moving Tropical Storm Cristobal lashed parts of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands with heavy rainfall and white-crested surf after swollen rivers swept at least three people away on the Caribbean island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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| 3 dead in Los Angeles-area shootings within 1 hour Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:53 AM PDT SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two others injured early Sunday in three separate attacks within the span of an hour in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. The attacks could be related, police said. |
| Congo declares Ebola outbreak in northern Equateur province Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:50 AM PDT Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday after two out of eight cases tested came back positive for the deadly virus, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said. A mysterious disease has killed dozens of people in Equateur in recent weeks but the World Health Organization had said on Thursday it was not Ebola. "I declare an Ebola epidemic in the region of Djera, in the territory of Boende in the province of Equateur," Kabange Numbi told a news conference. The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the disease which had killed at least 70 people in Equateur was a kind of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. |
| Netanyahu warns Gaza civilians after Israel destroys apartment block Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:43 AM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian civilians on Sunday to leave immediately any site where militants are operating, one day after Israel flattened a 13-story apartment block in Gaza. Seventeen people were wounded in the strike on the structure, which Israel said had housed a Hamas command center. "I call on the inhabitants of Gaza to evacuate immediately from every site from which Hamas is carrying out terrorist activity. Every one of these places is a target for us," Netanyahu said in public remarks at a cabinet meeting.
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| Iraq urges global help in fight against jihadists Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:41 AM PDT  Iraq called Sunday for global support for its fight against jihadists, as Shiite neighbour Iran said it was helping Baghdad resist the militants but not with soldiers on the ground. Iraq is struggling to regain significant parts of the country after a lightning militant offensive led by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group seized second city Mosul in June and swept through the country's Sunni heartland, as security forces fled. The jihadist fighters have been bombarded since August 8 by US air strikes in northern Iraq, allowing Kurdish peshmerga security forces to claw back a limited amount of lost territory, including the Qaraj area, which they retook on Sunday. Iraqi security forces also on Sunday repelled a renewed militant assault on the Baiji oil refinery, the country's largest, a police officer and witnesses said.
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| Quake rocks California wine country, dozens injured Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT  By Jim Christie NAPA Calif. (Reuters) - A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa. The biggest quake in the region in 25 years jolted many residents out of bed when it hit at 3:20 a.m. (6.20 a.m. ET), centered 6 miles (10 km) south of the City of Napa. Three people were seriously injured, including a child who suffered multiple fractures after a fireplace fell on him, local fire battalion chief John Callahan said. There were no reports of any fatalities but the quake shook up residents, said Barry Martin, community outreach coordinator for the City of Napa, which has a population of 77,000.
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| Athlete asks judge to reject NCAA head-injury deal Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:31 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — A former San Diego State football player has asked a federal judge to reject the recently proposed $75 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA, saying it unfairly forces athletes who suffered head injuries to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in potential damages. |
| LAPD: 3 dead, 2 injured in attacks around Los Angeles within 1 hour; shootings may be related Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:27 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — LAPD: 3 dead, 2 injured in attacks around Los Angeles within 1 hour; shootings may be related. |
| US says American held in Syria by al-Qaida group has been released after about 2 years Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:25 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — US says American held in Syria by al-Qaida group has been released after about 2 years. |
| Farah breaks European two mile record Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:23 AM PDT  Distance-running star Mo Farah marked his first appearance on a home track in more than 12 months by smashing Steve Ovett's 36-year-old British record for the rarely run two miles at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on Sunday. The Olympic, world and European champion at both 5,000 and 10,000 metres, Farah won in a time of eight minutes 07.85 seconds as he comfortably surpassed the 8:13.51 secs mark of Ovett, the 1980 Olympic 800m champion. "Early on I felt a bit tired and then as I got into it I just felt better and better," Farah said. Farah won both the 5,000 and 10,000m at the European Championships in Zurich earlier this month, having started the season with an unconvincing marathon debut in London and then suffering a shock health scare which ruled him out of the Commonwealth Games.
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| Roche to buy U.S. biotech firm InterMune for $8.3 billion Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:21 AM PDT  By Ben Hirschler and Caroline Copley LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG has agreed to buy U.S. The Swiss drugmaker said on Sunday it would pay $74.00 a share through a tender offer for InterMune, representing a premium of 38 percent to the closing price on Aug. 22. The acquisition, which has been recommended by the boards of both companies, is the largest by Roche since 2009, when it bought out the remaining stake it did not already own in U.S. The sale of InterMune will not come as a huge surprise to investors as people familiar with the matter said on Aug. 13 that InterMune was working with financial advisers to evaluate strategic options, due to takeover interest from big drugmakers.
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| 'Vacation' over, back to White House for Obama Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:15 AM PDT  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama's summer vacation off the Massachusetts coast is nearing an end.
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| 3 kids among 5 dead in fiery New York car crash Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:14 AM PDT BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A woman and her four passengers, including three children, were returning home from a family gathering when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them, authorities said Sunday. |
| Man charged in Texas police chief's slaying Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:11 AM PDT  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A sheriff's spokeswoman says a 24-year-old man has been charged in the shooting death of a small-town Texas police chief.
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| Trayvon Martin parents to join rally for slain Missouri teen Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:10 AM PDT  By Nick Carey and Edward McAllister FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - The parents of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager shot dead in 2012, were expected to join the family of Michael Brown, killed by a police officer in Missouri this month, in a rally in St. Louis on Sunday to protest against police violence. The demonstration will take place one day before the funeral of Brown, an 18-year-old black youth whose slaying by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the town of Ferguson on Aug. 9 led to days of unrest and drew global attention to race relations in the United States. The shooting of Martin by a civilian vigilante was one of the most high-profile incidents of racial tension in the United States in recent years, with family and supporters saying it showed the rough treatment that black youths live with. Representatives of the Brown family said in public flyers that Martin's parents would attend the Sunday demonstration.
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