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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teenage girl competing in a barrel racing event was arrested over the weekend after she stabbed three competition horses with a pocketknife at a barn in Las Vegas, according to police and event organizers. Police responded to a report of an injured horse early Saturday morning at South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, a hotel about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Strip with a […]

June 1 (Reuters) – A gunman killed six people and himself during a series of shootings in several locations of Muscatine, Iowa, a waterfront city across the Mississippi River from Illinois, police said. A preliminary investigation into the gun violence indicated the shootings “stemmed from a domestic-related dispute,” the Muscatine Police Department said in a statement. (Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) Brought to you […]

Jacob deGrom tossed five shutout innings to earn his 100th career victory and the visiting Texas Rangers opened a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals with a 2-1 win on Monday. Ezequiel Duran doubled in a run among his three hits and Joc Pederson delivered an RBI single for Texas, which matched its season high with its fourth straight win. Nicky Lopez added two hits. After coming up short […]

Tristan Gray belted a grand slam and finished with five RBIs, and the Minnesota Twins held on for a 9-6 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night in Minneapolis. Josh Bell went 2-for-4 with a double for Minnesota, which snapped a five-game losing streak. Trevor Larnach finished 2-for-3 with an RBI. Miguel Vargas went 3-for-5 with two home runs and four RBIs to lead Chicago. Andrew Benintendi finished […]

The Detroit Tigers jumped out to a six-run lead early but had to stave off a late rally by the Tampa Bay Rays to pull out a 10-9 victory Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Detroit used a season-high five homers to snap a four-game losing streak. Dillon Dingler went 4-for-5 and enjoyed the first two-homer game of his career. He also doubled as he tied his career- best of four […]

June 1 (Reuters) – A tour bus driver has been charged with manslaughter stemming from the deaths of five people in a fiery chain-reaction crash that police say was triggered when the motor coach plowed into slower-moving traffic in a highway construction zone. The driver, Jing Sheng Dong, 48, from Staten Island, New York, was initially charged the day after, on Saturday, with two felony counts of involuntary manslaughter. On […]

BANGKOK (AP) — More than a dozen rescue and charity groups used excavation machinery to recover bodies Monday after a massive blast from stored mining explosives in northeastern Myanmar. The explosion occurred at midday Sunday in Kaungtup village, Namhkam township in Shan state near the Chinese border. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the ethnic rebel group that controls the area, said in a statement Monday evening that the death toll […]

June 1 (Reuters) – Damage to a Blue Origin launch pad from the spectacular explosion of the company’s giant New Glenn rocket during a test firing of its engines last week will “take some serious time” to repair, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told CNBC on Monday. A 2028 time frame was “within the realm” of possibility, he said in an interview at CNBC’s CEO Council Summit, the network reported. The […]

Two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal threw four innings of a simulated game on Monday at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the ace lefty of the Detroit Tigers is trending toward a rehab start as soon as this weekend. Unofficially, Skubal threw 45 of 64 pitches for strikes under the dome and fanned six. “It was obviously a step in the right direction and […]