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Authorities say a married couple found dead along with the suspected gunman in a North Carolina home after a 13-hour standoff were all members of the same family. Two police officers also were among the dead. The Watauga County Sheriff’s Office said George Wyatt Ligon and Michelle Annette Ligon were killed Wednesday inside their home in Boone. The sheriff’s office said the suspect, 32-year-old Isaac Alton Barnes, also was found dead and had a large number of weapons. Barnes was identified as Michelle Ligon’s son and George Ligon's stepson. Authorities said Barnes also was suspected in the fatal shootings of two deputies initially dispatched to the home. 

Horse racing could be in line for another Triple Crown bid and this time the likely candidate is an undefeated horse from a barn other than Bob Baffert’s. Essential Quality brings the most impressive resume into the 1 1/4-mile Derby on Saturday. No surprise, then, that he’s the early 2-1 favorite in a full field of 20 horses. Baffert says the Derby is Essential Quality’s to lose and he should know. The trainer guided American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 to sweeps of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. 

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s motion picture academy on Thursday suspended actor-director Noel Clarke after a newspaper reported that multiple women had accused him of sexual harassment or bullying. The film and television academy said it was also suspending Clarke’s award…

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) — An electronics engineer from Gaza, Loay Elbasyouni, had worked with the NASA team that made history this month by launching an experimental helicopter from the surface of Mars. But he says an expedition to…

Anaheim Ducks goalie Ryan Miller will retire after the season, ending the 18-year career of the winningest American-born goaltender in NHL history. The 40-year-old Miller has played nearly 800 games in his career, also with Buffalo, Vancouver and St. Louis, At Anaheim, he has spent the past four seasons primarily as John Gibson’s backup. Miller won the Vezina Trophy in 2010 as the NHL’s best goaltender for Buffalo. Miller also was named the most valuable player and best goaltender at the 2010 Winter Olympics while leading the U.S. team to a silver medal in Vancouver.

A Chattanooga football assistant coach fired over a social media post disparaging the state of Georgia and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams is suing to get his job back along with backpay and damages. He contends his First Amendment rights were violated. Chris Malone says he was forced to resign Jan. 7 in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of U.S. District Court. Malone is suing the chancellor, athletic director and football coach both individually and in their roles at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. The lawsuit says Malone made the social media post on his own account on his own time.

A long-running federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine has moved back into public view after federal agents seized electronic devices from the former New York mayor. The Wednesday search was the latest development in an inquiry involving a complex web of international characters who dealt with Giuliani as he tried to stir up support for a Ukrainian investigation of Joe Biden and his son. Giuliani’s lawyer says the search warrant involved an allegation that Giuliani should have registered as a foreign agent. Giuliani has denied doing anything wrong and has said that the investigation is a political vendetta.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — People in Turkey stocked up on groceries, filled markets and left cities for their hometowns or the southern coast Thursday before the country entered its strictest lockdown of the pandemic. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed a…

When the pandemic descended on the U.S., Associated Press entertainment photographer Chris Pizzello was left with nothing to shoot. He describes himself at that moment as an absurdity — an entertainment photographer in a time with no entertainment. The year since has been a challenge — one that culminated with him shooting the Oscars this week. 

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — There were some genuine surprises in the first batch of data from the nation's 2020 head count released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Officials in some Sun Belt states were bewildered they did not…

The Weeknd was snubbed by the Grammys but he’s the leading nominee at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where rappers Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD earned multiple posthumous nominations, including top artist. Disgraced country singer Morgan Wallen is also up for six nominations. The Weeknd, Juice WRLD and Pop Smoke — the third most-nominated act — are up for top artist along with Taylor Swift and Drake, the show’s most decorated winner of all-time. Others who scored multiple nominations include DaBaby, rising country star Gabby Barrett, Bad Bunny, Chris Brown, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat and Justin Bieber. The Billboard Awards will air live on May 23. 

Across America, people of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites from industry, vehicles, construction and many other sources, a new study has found. Using government air pollution and census data, researchers found that disproportionate numbers of non-white people were exposed to potentially hazardous fine particle pollution from nearly all major U.S. emission sources, regardless of where they live or how much money they make. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, also found that Blacks were the only group disproportionately exposed to each of the pollution sources examined.