HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Alvarez is one of baseball’s biggest stars: the frontrunner for AL MVP with a strong chance of becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner since Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Comfortable as the Cuban-born slugger looks driving in runs for the Houston Astros, his real happy place...
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Florida will start the men's college basketball season where it ended it two seasons ago: No. 1. The Gators were the overwhelming pick to top the preseason AP Top 25 on Monday, receiving 47 of the 59 first-place votes from a panel of national media. It is the first time that coac...
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The Champions League showpiece between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona will go ahead as planned on Tuesday in Paris, the French interior minister confirmed despite violent weekend protests. Many French citizens have been left shocked by the images of violence that have drawn wo...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The punishment phase began Monday for Rogelio Martinez, the man recently found guilty in the 2023 shooting death of San Benito Police Lt. Milton Resendez. A Cameron County jury found Martinez guilty of capital murder following a days-long trial ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season because of blood clots in his lungs, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because o...
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Musk did not specify how he plans to go about providing shares in the company, which went public earlier this summer.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts missed the playoffs five straight years and selected the wrong guy to be their next franchise quarterback. On Monday, Chris Ballard paid the price for it. Team co-owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon announced she had fired the general manager who ...
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A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning, his daughter and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, confirmed to The Texas Tribune. Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias was found unresponsive by staff at the Rio Gran...
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More than 1.5 million pounds of meat products have been recalled.
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PARIS (AP) — The weekend of riots and looting in France did not spare soccer clubs Marseille and Lille. The Ligue 1 teams said their shops have been vandalized during the protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. Over half a million mainly peaceful prot...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — If only we could bundle up the beautiful taste of fall weather we saw over the weekend. There will be a warming trend with highs returning to near average and little to no rain chances by the end of the week. This Monday will see highs in the lo...
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Christian nation? I s America a Christian nation? Here’s what Pastor Cody Deese from the heart of the Bible Belt has to say about that. “America is not a Christian Nation. John Adams told us that. America wasn’t built on Christian principles. Genocide, enslavement and white supre...
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Deshaun Watson owned the fourth quarter again. Caleb Williams was nearly flawless in his return from injury. Aaron Rodgers is still making late-game magic. NFL comebacks come in different forms. Written off after four disastrous seasons in Cleveland, Watson won the starting job i...
