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AP Exclusive: How a tainted Kenyan runner won small US races

NEWPORT, Kentucky (AP) — The runners came in all sizes, shapes and ages, from 5 to 99. Celebrating the Fourth of July, some raced...

APNewsBreak: Kenya athletes allege doping bribery

EMBU, Kenya (AP) — Two Kenyan athletes serving four-year bans for doping at the 2015 world championships say the chief executive of Athletics Kenya,...

First Black woman to win Olympic gold dies in Ga.

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — The first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, Alice Coachman Davis, died early Monday in south Georgia. She...

MARATHON WATCH: Silence, then exultation in Boston

A look at the 118th running of the Boston Marathon. For further updates, visit https://bigstory.ap.org. ___ SILENCE TO NOISE: At 2:49 p.m. — the time the...

Hometown favorite wants to win Boston, for Boston

BOSTON (AP) — Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead with a reverence for the Boston Marathon and dreamed, like many locals and foreign...

Joyner-Kersee trains with Palestinian women

EL BIREH, West Bank (AP) — American track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee is visiting the West Bank, encouraging women in the conservative society...

Lauryn Williams makes history as Black Olympians capture medals for women’s bobsled

Williams becomes the first U.S. woman and fifth athlete overall to win medals in different sports at both the Summer and Winter Games KRASNAYA POLYANA,...

USA-1 leads in Olympic bobsled, Williams attempts to make Olympic history

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — The crash didn't break them, it bonded them. Lauryn Williams and Elana Meyers laughed off smashing their bobsled into a...

Va. woman has no regrets over role in bombing suspect burial

Martha Mullen, right, of Richmond, Va., prepares to arm wrestle an opponent, in Richmond, Va. Mullen offered to help in the burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a rural cemetery in Virginia, after seeing news reports about the refusals. (AP Photo/https://www.chrisowensphoto.com, Chris Owens) by Larry O'Dell and Bob LewisDOSWELL, Va. (AP) — The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles north of her Richmond home said the angry backlash from local officials, some cemetery neighbors and online critics has been unpleasant, but she has no regrets.

It can happen anywhere

By LZ Granderson GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (CNN) -- If September 11, 2001, was the day everything changed, then April 15, 2013, serves as another reminder of that change, of our frailties and of a new reality in which "it can't happen here" has been replaced by "it can happen anywhere."

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