The spring high school baseball season came to an end for all four parish schools this week as Jennings, Welsh, Lake Arthur and Lacassine fell in the first round of the LHSAA playoffs. File photos
HOBART, Australia (AP) — A 59-year-old driver was killed in a crash at the Targa Tasmania rally on Wednesday, a year after three competitors died in the annual race.
DOYLE – The No.22 Welsh Greyhounds and the No.11 Doyle Tigers found themselves in a pitching duel Tuesday afternoon in a Class 2A bi-district playoff game, as Hound ace Cale Navarre and Doyle’s top hurler Caiden Balencia combined to allow just one run over the entire contest. To the dismay of Greyhound fans, it was the Tigers who scored the lone run of the contest to win 1-0 to advance. Doyle improved to 18-14 overall, and will travel to Loreauville for a best-of-three regional round set with the Tigers. The Hounds ended their season with an overall mark of 11-20.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kyle Tucker hit a threerun double in the fifth inning and Cristian Javier won his first start of the season as the Houston Astros held off the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Wednesday night.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States have carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange in a time of high tensions, trading on Wednesday a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — May 27, 2016, was the day that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s marriage went from private misery to public, career-killing spectacle.
Once the weather warms and the patio beckons, it’s time to break out the grill for home-cooked meals in the great outdoors. When your family tires of baked dishes and stovetop recipes, the smell of fresh flavors on the grates offers the reprieve of something new.
