Third baseman Manny Machado made a throwing error on a bunt in the 10th inning and the Oakland Athletics completed their comeback, beating the Baltimore Orioles 9-8 Sunday.
The ball felt good coming out of Mitchell Boggs' hand. Small consolation for the St. Louis Cardinals' reliever after another miserable outing that capped a dismal day for his team.
The Washington state Legislature has passed a no-new-taxes transportation budget that continues spending on existing big-ticket projects but does not fund new ones.
Caring for Albert Einstein’s childhood teacup or Meyer Lansky’s marriage certificate, archivists in New York are assuming a higher profile and doing more networking.
An inaugural class of about 40 female inmates at an alternative high school at Rikers participated in Tribeca Teaches, a program that instructs young people in schools how to make movies.
Washington lawmakers adjourned their 105-day legislative session Sunday without coming to an agreement on a new two-year budget. Gov. Jay Inslee quickly called them to return again in two weeks to complete the work.
Antitax groups seem to be losing their influence, as Republican lawmakers’ constituents support legislation that would require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes.
Chase Headley, Nick Hundley and Alexi Amarista homered off Ryan Vogelsong and the San Diego Padres beat San Francisco 6-4 Sunday for their first three-game sweep of the Giants since May 2010.
This one was a pitchers’ duel all the way and in the end, it was the Mariners prevailing, 2-1, on a Michael Morse home run to left off Angels starter Jason Vargas in the bottom of the eighth. That gives the Mariners three wins in four games here and their first series victory of the
American and Russian officials are taking a close look at whom Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with in Russia to see if he had any indoctrination or training before the Boston Marathon bombing.