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The opening ceremony for the Rio Olympics was a demonstration of Brazil’s heritage, highlighted by the country’s proud musical history. Interim President Michel Temer took over following the suspension in May of President Dilma Rousseff on impeachment charges. But the...

Police in Battle Creek are asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect in a Saturday morning bank robbery. He approached a teller, displayed a handgun and demanded money.

In a 4-for-47 funk, Rodriguez started for just the third time in 19 games, the 2,784th and perhaps final regular-season appearance in a career that started with Seattle in 1994, moved on to Texas in 2001 and then NY three years later.

Simone Manuel anchored the USA women’s 4×100 metres medley relay team to the 1,000th gold medal in her country’s summer Olympic history on Saturday, and the second of her career.

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“I disappointed a lot of people but this feels good”, Rodriguez said after the game.

One of four former Buckeyes in the field at Scioto Country Club in suburban Columbus, the 58-year-old Sindelar had five birdies, including two in a row after a bogey on No. 5. He played almost two complete rounds on Saturday and shot 6-under 65 for each to get to 18-under heading...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Winning a gold medal in soccer, and not worrying about anything else, is no longer good enough in Brazil with the country holding the Olympics. Edmondson later brought him to Zimbabwe because of a strong junior golf program.

Arsenal will be without a number of their first-team defenders as they prepare for their Premier League opener against Liverpool on Sunday.

Allyson Felix clocked 49.67 seconds, the fastest time in Sunday’s 400m semifinals, to win heat three and advance to Monday’s final.

Simone Manuel wasn’t expected to win the gold. She was right back in the pool on Friday, qualifying 11th in the 50-meter freestyle preliminaries. She took two seconds off her previous world record set earlier this year.

The group’s fighters surged through regime territory on Saturday, breaking a three-week government siege in a major setback for the regime.

Phelps had just collected a silver medal in the men’s 100-metre butterfly, after finishing behind 21-year-old Singaporean Joseph Schooling, and tying with Chad le Clos and Laszlo Cseh for second, when he admitted several people had been asking him to continue.

Fidel Castro pictured in July 2014.

Pakistan defeated England in the fourth and final Test of the series to earn a 2-2 draw.