Deadly Youngstown, Ohio, explosion caused by work crew cutting gas line they thought was turned off, investigators say (2024)

MIAMI — It has been a month now since the Miami Heat headed unto the unknown after their humbling, season-ending 118-84 loss to the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.

PHILADELPHIA — Over his 39 years as an NBA referee, Joey Crawford, as far as he could recall, received just two or three death threats. He didn’t take them seriously, and he doesn’t remember hearing a fan or fans screaming at him from the stands about point spreads.

ORLANDO, Fla. — When basketball legend Bill Walton passed away on Memorial Day, I didn’t think about him as the former No. 1 overall draft pick, an NBA champion and a league MVP.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — For decades, women were held out of Olympic distance running on the grounds that they weren't physically capable.

PHILADELPHIA — Adam Crognale used crutches to move from his hospital bed to the window while his mother rolled his IV pole. He was diagnosed two months earlier with lymphoma, forcing him to stay at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for weeklong chemotherapy treatments.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The consensus is that NCAA sports at the power conference level reached a transformative moment last week.

SAN DIEGO — On Dec. 19, 2000, Oklahoma State basketball player Jason Keep stepped in front of a pass against Arkansas-Little Rock in the final minute, fumbling to gather the dribble before throwing down a two-handed dunk.

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitor, in place more than a decade after a federal judge said officers abused the stop and frisk tactic, violating the constitutional rights of minorities, has cost taxpayers $36 million — with no sign that oversight of the nation’s biggest police …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inside the emergency room at her Margate hospital, Dr. Paige Swalley orders intravenous fluids for her third patient who arrived dehydrated and suffering from a heat-related illness.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Grayson Grinsell struck out nine batters over seven scoreless innings to help No. 3 seed Oregon beat host UC Santa Barbara 2-1 at the Santa Barbara Regional. Oregon (39-18) plays the winner between No. 2 seed San Diego State and top-seeded UCSB, which play earlie…

Indonesia’s Mount Ibu has erupted again and spewed thick, gray ash and dark clouds 7,000 meters (16,000 feet) into the air, officials say. The volcano that is located on an island in the eastern North Maluku province erupted for more than six minutes on Sunday, according to the chief of Indonesia’s Geology Agency. A column of ash could be seen rising high into the sky. It spewed out material including volcanic ash and sand. At the time of the eruption, the wind was blowing to the west and volcanic material was carried by the wind down to a field where residents evacuated after previous eruptions were living. Mount Ibu has been continually erupting since early May.

The nation’s third-largest city is preparing for its first school board elections and the slate of potential candidates includes progressive activists, an afterschool squash program leader and a Grammy-winning rapper. The down ballot November race comes after decades of activism and months of legislative squabbles over control of Chicago's public schools. But the messiest part of Chicago’s newest democratic body is yet to come. The election is complicated, with a temporary hybrid board that's hard to convey to voters. Special interests are already gearing up. And there are lingering questions about how a 21-member board, triple the current board's size, will run.

Rising home values have led to higher real estate taxes around the U.S. Now many states are looking to provide relief to frustrated residents. New laws enacted in Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming will limit the growth in tax-assessed values for homeowners. A Kansas special session on tax cuts is to start June 18. Nebraska also could hold a special session on property taxes. Proposals to curb property taxes also will appear on ballots this year in Colorado and Georgia. The movement comes as single-family home prices have risen more than 50% during the past five years.

Saudi Arabia and allied oil producing countries face a decision on whether to extend production cuts. And that could push oil prices higher as the summer travel season increases demand for fuel and as the U.S. presidential election contest heats up. The OPEC+ alliance, made up of members of the Vienna-based producers cartel and allied countries, including Russia, is holding an online meeting but the cuts in question are a matter for a smaller group led by Saudi Arabia. Those countries previously cut some 2.2 million barrels per day to support prices that are weaker than the Saudis and other coalition members would like.

Zelenskyy says China is pressuring other countries not to attend upcoming Ukraine peace talks.

Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack resources to fall back on if they became ill.

LOS ANGELES -- When Los Angeles County medical examiners worked last year to determine how Matthew Perry died, they discovered something startling.

When Victoria Gray and her husband took in their grandchild in 1993, there wasn’t a catchall term to explain the difficult task ahead. They just did the work.

President Joe Biden has been courting Kahlil Greene and other young TikTok influencers since taking office, inviting them to celebrations at the White House and policy briefings on Zoom, where Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been known to pop in.

The New York Mets lead 2-1 in a four-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Philadelphia Phillies, on an eight-game home winning streak, host the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Cleveland Guardians, on a nine-game home winning streak, host the Washington Nationals.

The Tampa Bay Rays will attempt to stop their three-game road skid in a matchup against the Baltimore Orioles.

The San Francisco Giants look to end their three-game home skid with a victory over the New York Yankees.

Both the Miami Marlins and the Texas Rangers are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

Both the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

The Milwaukee Brewers host the Chicago White Sox aiming to extend a four-game home winning streak.

The Boston Red Sox lead 2-1 in a four-game series with the Detroit Tigers.

Both the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

Both the Toronto Blue Jays and the Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

The Kansas City Royals will try to stop their three-game skid when they take on the San Diego Padres.

The Los Angeles Angels enter the matchup with the Seattle Mariners as losers of four games in a row.

The Oakland Athletics play the Atlanta Braves after Max Schuemann had four hits against the Braves on Saturday.

Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Vance Honeycutt hit two long home runs and North Carolina advanced to the championship round of the Chapel Hill Regional, defeating LSU 6-2. After 4 1/2 scoreless innings, North Carolina broke through in the bottom of the fifth with Honeycutt’s three-run shot deep to…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Ted Burton drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the top of the 11th inning and Evan Aschenbeck did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings of relief to lead No. 3 national seed Texas A&M to a 4-2 victory over Texas at the Bryan-College Station Region…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Billy Amick hit a grand slam homerun, Tennessee left the ballpark four times and batted .333 as a team en route to an 12-6 win over Indiana in the Knoxville Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Even before Amick’s grand slam in the third, Dean Curley and Christian Moore e…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Ted Burton drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the top of the 11th inning and Evan Aschenbeck did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings of relief to lead No. 3 national seed Texas A&M to a 4-2 victory over Texas at the Bryan-College Station Region…

As campaigns nationwide experimented with artificial intelligence earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee approached their committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines to use the technology in a “responsible” way. The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was hardly full of revolutionary ideas. But the plan went nowhere. The proposal’s demise highlighted both internal divisions over campaign tactics and the party’s uncertainty over how to best use AI.

Television images show emergency workers trying to rescue people trapped under a collapsed apartment building in Istanbul. Firefighters shifted rubble by hand from the flattened three-story building in Kucukcekmece on the city’s European side on Sunday. Two injured people were pulled from the debris, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. The Istanbul governor’s office said the structure collapsed at 8:40 a.m. local time. The cause was not immediately clear. More than 59,000 people were killed last year when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of southern Turkey and neighboring Syria. The disaster highlighted the poor enforcement of building regulations in Turkey.