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SportsOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma City Thunder’s injury list got longer and heavier Friday, when the team said center Chet Holmgren will sit for eight to 10 weeks and guard Cason Wallace went under the knife for a shoulder injury that could keep him…
SportsOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma City Thunder star Jalen Williams came through surgery this week on the broken leg and dislocated ankle he suffered Sunday, and the team says he will not be looked at again until late in the season. The operation took place…
From the HERE City National DeskVATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV welcomed the men's and women's basketball teams from Villanova and Notre Dame to a private audience Saturday, one day before the two Catholic schools open the college basketball season in Rome. Roughly 7,000 people filled the Paul VI audience…
From the HERE City National DeskOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without big man Chet Holmgren into the holidays after the team announced Friday that he has a small tear in the patellar tendon of his right knee. Holmgren first felt discomfort in the knee on…
From the HERE City National DeskST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays turned down 2027 mutual options Friday on right-hander Nick Martinez and center fielder Cedric Mullins, a widely expected move that sends both players into free agency. Martinez had a $20 million mutual option for next season. The…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — LeBron James took over the last two minutes Friday night, and the Philadelphia 76ers held off the defending champion New York Knicks 98-93 to start Emirates NBA Cup group play at 1-0. Philadelphia had built a double-digit cushion in the fourth quarter…
From the HERE City National DeskMIAMI — The Miami Marlins exercised Sandy Alcantara's $21 million club option for 2027 on Friday, keeping their ace off the open market on a busy day of contract decisions across Major League Baseball. Declining the option would have cost Miami a $2 million buyout.…
From the HERE City National DeskSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Golden State dug out of a 25-point hole Friday night and pulled away to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 at Chase Center in the opening game of Emirates NBA Cup group play for both teams. Luka Doncic started like he…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO — Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has drawn a second NFL fine for wearing cleats from Caddix, a small Baltimore company that is not one of the league's approved shoe partners, and the company says it will cover the cost. The newest penalty, $23,882, came…
From the HERE City National DeskBROOKLYN, N.Y. — A third quarter that turned into a rout carried the Detroit Pistons to a 110-94 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night at Barclays Center, opening Emirates NBA Cup group play for both teams. Brooklyn led 28-21 after one quarter and…
From the HERE City National DeskORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Goo Goo Dolls, a band that got its start in Buffalo, will headline the halftime show of Buffalo's Thanksgiving night game against Kansas City, the team announced Friday. The Nov. 26 game is the first Thanksgiving contest the Bills have…
From the HERE City National DeskLAS VEGAS — JuJu Watkins is set to play her first college game in more than a year and a half when third-ranked USC opens its women's basketball season Monday against UNLV at T-Mobile Arena in the Hall of Fame Series. Watkins missed all of…
Business
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma City has signed off on permit plans for a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen in the northwest part of the city, moving the Houston-based chain a step closer to opening its first restaurant anywhere in Oklahoma. The approval came this week. Rezoning for the project cleared in…
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HOUSTON, Texas — The two biggest U.S. oil companies said Friday that their refineries, not their oil fields, did much of the heavy lifting in a quarter of soaring profits, as diesel prices stayed high and overseas buyers leaned on Gulf Coast fuel. Exxon Mobil posted a third-quarter profit of…
Politics
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — An Oklahoma City senator wants to give oil and gas companies state tax breaks for hiring engineers, with the richest credits going to employers who recruit graduates of Oklahoma schools. Sen. Paul Rosino, a Republican from Oklahoma City, said he is preparing the bill to shore…
Politics
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Leaders in Del City are campaigning against the sales tax that Oklahoma County voters will weigh Nov. 3 to finish and run the new county jail, a project going up in phases near their city. The measure would set a 0.4 percent county sales tax for…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, a federal judge in California on Friday ordered the Trump administration to stop warning state and local election workers that they could face criminal charges over ballots from voters it suspects are not citizens. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson…
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