Leverkusen tastes success in Germany by adapting to pandemic

After selling its standout player, Kai Havertz, few expected Bayer Leverkusen would emerge as a Bundesliga title challenger this season.

Alabama prisons agency says federal suit ignores progress

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Justice Department

Navy searching for sailor possibly overboard off California

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Search crews combed the ocean off Southern California on Friday for a sailor who may have gone overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Germany to loosen blanket block on deportations to Syria

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's blanket halt to all deportations to Syria that has been in place since 2012 will expire at the end of this year, but it's not clear that much will change in practice.

Lawmakers bump Ohio school funding revamp to 2021 to-do list

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawmakers pushing to pass an overhaul of Ohio’s convoluted school funding system to make it more equitable have come up short during this legislative session, bumping it to the Legislature's 2…

49ers' Williams harbors no grudges to former Washington team

All the bitterness and anger that characterized Trent Williams’ final year in Washington when he sat out the 2019 season, feuded with management and ultimately forced a trade to San Francisco are in the past.

Emmer backs bid to get Supreme Court to overturn Biden's win

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer is the only Minnesota Republican congressman to sign on to a last-gasp bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election.

Jury: Black bikers' race was a factor, but city won't pay

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was motivated by race when it created a traffic plan designed to “suck the fun” out of Black Bike Week, a federal jury has found. But the same jury si…

Florida school massacre case no closer to a trial date

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The 2018 Florida school massacre in which 17 people were killed and 17 others wounded is still not close to going to trial, attorneys said at a hearing Friday.

UN boss: pandemic has exposed gloomy picture of world

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the pandemic has exposed "long-term fragilities, inequalities and injustices,” as the world faces its biggest recession in eight decade…

Greeks face lockdown Christmas, but with books and tidy hair

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The bulk of Greece's lockdown measures will remain in place over the Christmas period although bookshops and hairdressers can reopen next week and the quarantine on people entering the country…

Pence sets Indiana trip to discuss coronavirus vaccine

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has scheduled an Indiana trip to discuss coronavirus vaccines as federal officials are expected to soon

BC-150-actives-e

NC journalists file emergency appeal to get court access

GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — Three newspapers have asked the North Carolina Court of Appeals to order courts in a county where rally-goers were pepper sprayed and arrested to stop barring reporters from court proceedings.

Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face s…