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Strong wind at NCAA baseball tournament in West Virginia sends 5 people to hospital

National News June 7, 2026

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Five people were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained when a strong wind tore through an area occupied by fans at the Morgantown Super Regional NCAA baseball tournament game between West Virginia and Cal Poly on Saturday, according to the university. Video from the storm showed rain and wind that reached speeds of 40 mph tearing up a tent, with one person flying through the air while trying to hold it down as another person rolls uncontrollably down a hill. Other fans scrambled for safety from an area known as Randy's Ridge near the ...

Fuel prices shaping summer plans as boaters get ready to hit water

National News June 7, 2026

DEXTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — On the kind of warm, bright afternoon that Michigan boaters wait all year for, Malik Amine and his brother readied their family's pontoon boat for the summer. The cover was off and Portage Lake sparkled in the sun. But before the brothers could leave a narrow ...

Comedic 'Scary Movie' slays He-Man, Star Wars

National News June 7, 2026

NEW YORK — The summer box office is booming — but not because of the usual suspects. After three weeks of indie horror dominance at the box office, the slasher spoof "Scary Movie" topped ticket sales with $55 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, easily besting ...

Raucous Copenhagen crowd cheers Denmark's mullet contenders

National News June 7, 2026

COPENHAGEN — Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd celebrated on Saturday the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back. Denmark's raucous 2026 Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor ...

Bernadette Chirac, formidable former first lady of France who built power of her own, dies at 93

National News June 7, 2026

PARIS — Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France who spent 12 years at the Élysée Palace from 1995 to 2007 beside President Jacques Chirac — weathering his notorious infidelities with dry humor while building her own political power base in rural France — has ...

Police search for suspects in Ohio shooting that wounded 12 people near a street festival

National News June 7, 2026

TOLEDO, Ohio — Police still had no suspects in custody Sunday after a weekend shooting near an Ohio street festival wounded 12 people and sent attendees scrambling for cover in a busy Toledo neighborhood. Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said it appeared that at least two people ...