Local Calendar
Tuesday, Aug. 4 High school golf: Williamstown/Gilmer County/Doddridge County at North Bend LKC scramble, 10 a.m.; Parkersburg at Duke Ridgely Invite (Guyan CC), 8 a.m.; Warren at Parkersburg South (Woodridge), 2 p.m.
Norwegian seizes yellow jersey at Women鈥檚 Tour de France
POLIGNY, France (AP) 鈥� Sigrid Haugset set off on a long solo run and kept going to the finish to win the third stage of the Women's Tour de France and claim the yellow jersey on Monday. The Norwegian rider made her break with more than half of the tough 156.5-kilometer (97.2-mile) route between Geneva and Poligny to go. The stage featured four categorized climbs and Haugset made her move with 85 kilometers left, at the foot of the category 2 Col de la Savine. Haugset was also first across the last listed climb of the day, the category 4 C么te de Chaux-Champagny, followed by ...
Pogacar begins pursuit of rare double at Spanish Vuelta
MADRID (AP) 鈥� Tour de France champion Tadej Poga膷ar is returning to the Spanish Vuelta after a seven-year absence to pursue a Grand Tours hat trick of titles. The Slovenian rider's UAE Team Emirates-XRG team announced its lineup for the three-week race on Monday, confirming Poga膷ar ...
Impact players seek to make statement in NFL
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) 鈥� Breece Hall came to training camp with a new contract from the New York Jets and an intense desire to justify the big bucks. "It makes me more hungry to keep proving I am who I say I am," said the star running back, who received a three-year extension in May ...
Jeanty out to prove his worth for Raiders
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) 鈥� There were flashes last season of the Ashton Jeanty who put up historic rushing numbers in 2024 at Boise State and finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting. But 2025 was a trying rookie season for the Las Vegas Raiders' first-round draft selection that year, ...
Authorities seek a motive in the mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger
A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men. The attack Saturday at a new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls ended when the gunman, identified by police as 24-year-old Chad Williams, shot and killed himself. On Monday, police were still trying to determine why Williams carried out the attack, which happened early in the afternoon in a busy shopping plaza in the southern ...