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Michael Andretti has emerged from the pandemic confident Andretti Autosport has weathered the worst of its difficulties. The team has four full-time cars entered in Sunday's race in St. Petersburg, Florida. Michael Andretti is running 15 cars across seven different series. Andretti Autosport will have six cars in the Indianapolis 500, a race Michael Andretti has won five times as a team owner. He’s got legitimate title contenders in Alexander Rossi and Colton Herta. 

A prosecutor says the man accused of killing 10 people at a crowded Colorado supermarket last month had armed himself with 10 high-capacity ammunition magazines. The devices have been banned in the state since 2013 after previous mass shootings in the state. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty told reporters Thursday that 22-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa possessed the magazines unlawfully but that investigators don’t believe Alissa purchased the magazines illegally. Magazines that hold more than 15 rounds were banned in Colorado after the 2012 mass shootings at a suburban Denver movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. 

Hundreds of theater workers marched down Broadway on Thursday, rallying to demand more inclusion in the industry, protesting producer Scott Rudin and to call for greater transparency from their union, Actors’ Equity Association. Organizers had several demands, including finding how 2020 Equity dues were spent and what percentage is being spent to help conversations around diversity, achieve greater inclusion for transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming artists and urge efforts to improve diversity within the labor union’s council. Protesters called for the removal of Rudin, who is accused of abusive behavior toward his workers, from the Broadway League.

At least 23.2 million Americans watched on television this week when former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was declared guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd. The Nielsen company's estimate came from viewership figure on 11 different networks that carried Tuesday's verdict live. The actual audience was surely bigger, however, since Nielsen's count did not include ESPN, which also covered the news. CNN had just over 4 million viewers, more than any other network. But Nielsen found that ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NBC and CBS all had at least 3 million people watching, too.

As the U.S. debates the future of policing, the policies that govern the release of body camera footage still vary widely across the nation. In Columbus, Ohio, the release of a recent police shooting video took just five hours. In North Carolina, it requires a court order. In New York City, police can wait up to 30 days — sometimes longer. Pressure is building on law enforcement agencies to act swiftly, even if it means releasing videos before investigations have barely begun. Geoffrey Alpert is a criminal justice professor at the University of South Carolina. He says the disparities have to do with state laws and previous litigation.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A controversial disciplinary body within Poland's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a prosecutor's request to arrest a judge who has become a symbol of resistance for those who believe judicial independence is threatened in the country.…

David Peralta hit a three-run triple in a six-run 10th inning to finish with five hits and a career-best seven RBIs, and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame six Cincinnati home runs to beat the Reds 14-11. Carson Kelly followed Peralta with a two-run homer as the Diamondbacks opened a 14-8 lead. Arizona  hung on in the bottom half to complete a three-game sweep that extended its winning streak to four. The Reds lost their fourth straight, finishing a 2-4 homestand. Cincinnati’s Jesse Winker had his third career two-homer game, and Nick Castellanos hit his sixth home run of the season.

Relatives and friends of Andrew Brown Jr. say he had a smile that belied a lifetime of loss and troubles with the law. They say he was a doting father who was quick to crack a joke and was determined to make sure his children had better lives than he had. The 42-year-old Elizabeth City, North Carolina, man was shot to death Wednesday by a deputy sheriff trying to serve a search warrant. The shooting has prompted protests and demands for accountability. Court records show Brown had a history of criminal charges stretching back into the 1990s, including a misdemeanor drug possession conviction and some pending felony drug charges.

Phillip Evans kept Akil Baddoo’s drive to left field in the park in the seventh inning to help Pittsburgh escape a jam, and the Pirates scored twice in the eighth to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2. Colin Moran and Erik González hit RBI singles with two outs in the eighth. With the score tied at 2, Baddoo nearly put the Tigers ahead, but Evans reached above the fence in left, and the ball bounced off his glove and back into the field of play. Baddoo wound up with a double, and he didn’t end up scoring.

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Before the coronavirus nearly killed her, Kari Webb relished life as a nurse to newborns and a mother of two teenagers. She and husband Rodney bred Bengal cats in their spare time and on weekends, she…

Like so many health care workers battered by the pandemic, Kari Wegg is searching for footing in a life after COVID-19. But the scars across her chest and neck are constant reminders that it takes much more than a shot in the arm to get there. The Indiana nurse came down with the disease last summer; her condition spiraled downward, and her life was saved only by grace of a double lung transplant. The road to normal is a long one, but she's bolstered by the love and support of her husband and sons, and by her own indomitable spirit.

In Sierra Teller Ornelas’ family, those who could spin a good tale earned a seat at her grandmom’s expansive dining table, with lesser voices banished to the living room. The Native American writer and producer is now sharing her storytelling gifts with the world at large in “Rutherford Falls.” It's a new Peacock streaming comedy she co-created, and it's a TV rarity in its depiction of Native American characters and issues. The series is centered on a small-town dispute over relocating its founder’s statue. Ed Helms stars in the series that he and Teller Ornelas are producing with co-creator Mike Schur, who made “The Good Place.”

It may be hard to believe that there are still many “firsts” left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there are a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers. In the past, Asian actors have been recognized for playing stereotypes and foreigners and sometimes not at all. Best picture winner “Parasite” had no acting nominations. The historic gains spotlight where the organization has made progress and where there is still work to do, especially after a year in which Asian Americans were increasingly targeted in racist attacks. But the big unknown is whether this will be a sea change going forward.

How's this for a can't-lose bet: wagering on two of the NFL's top quarterbacks to pass for a single yard in a game? A typographical error in a betting line on a Cleveland Browns-Kansas City Chiefs game in January led to a $10,500 windfall for nine eagle-eyed bettors. The error was revealed this month by the New Jersey regulators, who fined BetMGM.com $500. It involved the Jan. 17 game, and was supposed to be on whether Cleveland’s Baker Mayfield and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes would each pass for 300 yards. But someone dropped the “3” and the bet was offered as whether the pair would exceed “00” yards.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghanistan’s military “will certainly collapse” without some continued American support once all U.S. troops are withdrawn, the top U.S. general for the Middle East told Congress Thursday. Gen. Frank McKenzie also said he was very concerned about…

The cage door is unlocked for the season on the Professional Fighters League. The combat sports promotion was flattened last year because of the pandemic and did not hold events. The PFL competes in a seasonlong format that includes playoffs and championship fights. The champion of each weight class wins a $1 million prize. Anthony Pettis fights in the main event of PFL’s season opener Friday in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He takes on Clay Collard in a 155-pound bout that airs on ESPN2. PFL also added football Hall of Famer Ray Lewis in an advisory role to recruit talent. Also, the rapper Wiz Khalifa has joined the ownership group.