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A sheriff has been charged with assault after allegedly hitting a teenage girl while trying to break up a fight during a high school basketball game in eastern Kentucky, police said.

Booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines can be issued three months after the initial course, the European Medicines Agency said.

Miami is hiring Dan Radakovich as its athletic director, luring him away from Clemson after nearly a decade of enormous success there, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Barcelonas 17-year streak of advancing to the Champions League knockout rounds each season ended Wednesday with an exit from the group stage that failed to finish on time because of snow in Italy.

Baker Mayfield's bruises aren't as black and blue as they were before the late, but muchneeded bye.

A heavily rotated Manchester United team held Young Boys to a 11 draw in their Champions League group closer on Wednesday, ending the Swiss sides involvement in European competition this season.

A Florida ethics panel on Wednesday announced it has found probable cause that Democratic candidate for governor Nikki Fried violated state law for failing to properly disclose her income on financial forms.

The Los Angeles Dodgers TripleA team at Oklahoma selected righthander Carson Fulmer from Cincinnati on Wednesday with the 39th and final pick of the TripleA phase of Major League Baseballs annual draft of unprotected players.

The president of the International Olympic Committee did his best to stay neutral Wednesday as Canada, Britain and Australia followed the United States in announcing diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in Beijing.

Attorneys for entertainer Flavor Flav said Wednesday hes working to stay sober following dismissal of a misdemeanor domestic battery charge stemming from a scuffle with his girlfriend at home in suburban Las Vegas.

The billionaire daughter of the Publix Super Markets founder has died after having earlyonset Alzheimer's Disease, the company announced Wednesday. Carol Jenkins Barnett was 65.

France's top diplomat sought to smooth over a monthslong crisis with Algeria that stirred up colonialera tensions, paying a visit Wednesday to Algiers, where the countries agreed to resume cooperation toward peace in Libya and on other international issue...

Spanish soccer club Valladolid condemned the actions of player Gonzalo Plata on Wednesday following his involvement in a car accident.

The Detroit Lions had a walkthrough instead of practice because coach Dan Campbell said there's a lot," of players with flurelated illnesses.

The World Health Organization says early evidence suggests the omicron variant may be spreading faster than the highly transmissible delta variant but brings with it less severe coronavirus disease though its too early to make firm conclusions.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to make the federal government carbonneutral by 2050, aiming for a 65% reduction in planetwarming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an allelectric fleet of car and trucks five years later.