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MLB proposes shortening season to 154 games

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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in a plan given to players during collective bargaining Thursday. Owners also proposed adding nine additional days off to the current postseason format, extending it to a maximum 42 days in a move that would give top starting pitchers potential to appear more often. MLB would allow higher-seeded teams in the first two rounds of the postseason to pick their opponents beginning next year and would make most regular-season ...

Larry Kempe hoping to continue coaching after year away

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When the 2026 high school football season kicked off on Aug. 21, Larry Kempe found himself in uncharted territory. For the first time in 30 years, and for just the second season in a Hall of Fame coaching career that spans 52 years, Kempe was merely a spectator. Instead of being on the ...

Nation and world at a glance for October 9

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Isaias strengthens into Cat 2 hurricane on collision course for US Gulf Coast MIAMI — Isaias has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it surges toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center reported that the storm’s maximum sustained winds increased to 105 mph on Thursday. That bumped the hurricane up into the higher category. Isaias is expected to make landfall along the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. It threatens to bring strong winds, heavy rains and potentially life-threatening storm surges to the Florida Panhandle, southern ...

Honoring their father

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FOWLER — Dan and Tom Douglas barely knew their father. They were 6 and 5 when he went missing in action in Vietnam. To honor him, Dan Douglas, of Fowler, went through the process of having an overpass in Trumbull County, which spans state Route 11, officially designated the U.S. Marine ...

Four astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew. SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the ...

Rising oil prices, falling technology stocks and reversing bond yields keep Wall Street unsettled

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NEW YORK (AP) — Some sharp reversals kept financial markets unsteady on Thursday, as oil prices rose and U.S. stock indexes finished mixed. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% for a second straight loss after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 51 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 1.3% as technology stocks took particularly hard hits. Stocks felt pressure from a 4.1% rise in the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, to $104.28. It’s been pinballing between $96 and nearly $110 over the last month on uncertainty about when ...