By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon. The suspension, effective immediately, is the latest step by the administration to hobble offshore wind […]
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Drake Maye leads the Patriots to a 28-24 win over the Ravens that clinches a playoff spot
By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Hopefully the rest of the NFL enjoyed the respite. The New England Patriots are back in the playoffs — with an unflappable quarterback and a coach who is thirsty for more. Sound familiar? Drake Maye guided New England to a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, rallying his […]
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Fabian Zetterlund scores 2 as Senators beat Bruins 6-2 for 4th straight win
By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Fabian Zetterlund scored two goals, Tim Stutzle and Dylan Cozens scored 19 seconds apart in the second period and the Ottawa Senators beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Sunday night for their fourth straight victory. Drake Batherson and Claude Giroux each had a goal in the first […]
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Payton Pritchard scores 33 points as short-handed Celtics beat slumping Raptors 112-96
TORONTO (AP) — Payton Pritchard scored 19 of his 33 points in the third quarter, Derrick White and Anfernee Simons each had 15, and the short-handed Boston Celtics beat the slumping Toronto Raptors 112-96 on Saturday night. Neemias Queta scored 14 points, Luka Garza had 12 and Hugo Gonzalez added 10 as the Celtics won […]
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Liam Ohgren gets only score in 7th round of shootout and Canucks rally past Bruins 5-4
BOSTON (AP) — Liam Ohgren was the only one to score in a seven-round shootout, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Boston Bruins 5-4 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory. Ohgren had tipped in the tiebreaking goal 7:34 into the third period before Andrew Peeke’s shot from the point hit the post, bounced […]
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Tajuan Simpkins scores 22 off the bench, Seton Hall defeats Providence 72-67
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Tajuan Simpkins led Seton Hall past Providence on Friday with 22 points off of the bench in a 72-67 win. Simpkins shot 6 of 9 from the field, including 2 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 8 for 9 from the line for the Pirates (11-1, 1-0 Big East Conference). […]
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A little-known diversity visa program is paused after the Brown University shooting
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the United States through a little-known pathway called the diversity immigrant visa. That program makes up to 50,000 green cards available every year by lottery to people from countries that weren’t well represented in the numbers of immigrant admissions to […]
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Motive still unknown after suspect in the Brown attack and MIT professor’s killing is found dead
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Investigators on Friday were trying to sort out why a former Brown University student allegedly opened fire on the campus decades after he dropped out and later gunned down an esteemed Massachusetts college professor he attended school with in Portugal in the 1990s. Claudio […]
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How 1 anonymous tipster cracked the Brown University shooting case
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Information from a tipster who had a strange encounter with another man on a sidewalk outside Brown University was key to police identifying the suspect they believe killed two students at the school and then two days later gunned down a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Known only as “John” in a Providence […]
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Connor McDavid scores short-handed, sets up power-play goal in Oilers’ 3-1 win over Bruins
BOSTON (AP) — Connor McDavid scored on a short-handed breakaway and set up Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ power-play score, helping the Edmonton Oilers beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Thursday night. Former Boston University player Quinn Hutson added his first NHL goal as the Oilers won for the sixth time in eight games. Edmonton goalie Tristan Jarry […]
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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Claudio Neves […]
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Police are investigating link between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor, AP sources say
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is according to […]
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Neighborhood cameras capture potential shooter’s route around Brown University
By MATT O’BRIEN and MINGSON LAU Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The shooting at Brown University on Saturday happened inside an engineering building at the eastern edge of campus, where the Ivy League school blends into a residential neighborhood. Hours before the attack, security camera footage captured a person of interest police say may have been […]
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Photos show memorials for those killed in shooting at Brown University as investigation continues
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The search continued Wednesday for the shooter who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday as students were studying for a final exam on the Ivy League campus. Investigators have been hobbled by the lack of clear eyewitness accounts of the shooter and few, if any, […]
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Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students Saturday at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before. Authorities have released several videos from the day of the attack, which left two […]
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What to know about the search for the Brown University shooting suspect
By PATRICK WHITTLE and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — With the Brown University shooter still on the loose Tuesday, authorities released new video of a suspect and police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators pushed for new evidence that might help them crack the case. Here’s a […]
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Brown mourns the loss of an aspiring doctor and campus leader to the campus attack
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A makeshift shrine of flowers and condolence cards has gone up outside of the Brown University building where a gunman killed two students and wounded nine others, with the Ivy League school and surrounding community trying to make sense of the tragedy. As investigators pursue clues about the gunman, who remained at […]
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Christine Baranski narrates `A Christmas Carol’ before returning for new `The Gilded Age’ season
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artistic director of the Grammy-nominated Skylark Vocal Ensemble. “I love choral music,” she told him. An Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actor, Baranski went on […]
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USC and Brown cancel men’s basketball game after mass shooting on RI campus
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The men’s basketball game between Brown and Southern California scheduled for Sunday in Los Angeles has been canceled. So has the women’s game against Monmouth, which was set for Sunday in Rhode Island. Brown athletic officials announced both cancellations Tuesday. USC said the schools mutually agreed on the decision following the mass […]
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Police fan out to Providence schools to calm worries with the Brown University shooter still loose
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Additional police were sent to Providence schools on Tuesday to reassure worried parents that their kids will be safe even with the Brown University shooter on the loose and no indication yet that investigators have zeroed in on a suspect. Authorities on Monday released several new […]
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Brown University shooting leaves students, community frustrated with official response
By HELEN WIEFFERING, BYRON TAU, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The ongoing effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University ’s campus during a busy exam season and shot nearly a dozen students in a crowded lecture hall has raised questions about the school’s security systems and the urgency of the […]
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Cade Cunningham has 32 points and 10 rebounds as Pistons beat Celtics 112-105
BOSTON (AP) — Cade Cunningham had 32 points and 10 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons beat the Boston Celtics 112-105 on Monday night. Caris LeVert and Tobias Harris each added 13 points for the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons, who won their fourth straight. Detroit also got even for a frustrating loss in Boston late last […]
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Search for the Brown University shooter continues as questions swirl about campus security
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities knocked on doors and scoured yards Monday in search of any video or other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two students […]
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An aspiring neurosurgeon and a campus Republican died in the Brown campus shooting
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press An aspiring neurosurgeon and a student leader of Brown University’s campus Republicans were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight. But the lives of MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were cut short Saturday when a gunman opened fire inside a […]
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Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A person of interest detained after a Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine will be released after law enforcement authorities determined there was no basis to keep the individual in custody, officials said Sunday night. The disclosure, made at a hastily […]