If you groan every time you have to pay your monthly car insurance bill, you're not alone.

Watch the full report from Carli Petrus in the video player below Local broker speaks on ways metro Detroiters can save on their car insurance

A necessity for most Michigan drivers, some people are wondering why their car insurance payments keep going up.

"For this one specifically, $300," said young driver Kesean Brown, referring to his car.

Brown tells me he's been paying just over $300 in insurance for his 2015 Jeep Renegade, significantly more than a few years ago. And he says he's been paying even more for another car in his household.

For a two-person household, I feel like it should be lower because when you add more cars to your insurance, it gets more and more, and especially when you get into an accident, it gets significantly raised up a lot," Brown said.

Factors like age, location, and driving record can all impact insurance rates, according to the State of Michigan's website.

Brown tells me he hasn't been in an accident recently, though, and his driving record is clean.

So, why are his insurance rates and others in the state and across the country going up?

Insurance broker Bryan Ede says there are several reasons, including increased claim payouts, more risky driving, and rising vehicle repair costs.

A vehicle is much more expensive to repair today than it was 10, 15, 20 years ago. Almost every vehicle has cameras and sensors; it used to be only luxury cars had these options," Ede said.

Since January 2020, the cost of car insurance has risen 56 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But Ede says we may see those rates cool off soon.

"We are seeing some stability, I wouldnt call it rate decreases, but I would call it, definitely rates are stabilizing, were definitely not seeing those 15, 20 percent swings we saw, you know, 18 months ago, 36 months ago," Ede said.

And if you're trying to save a few bucks, Ede says there are several ways to do so, including shopping around for the best deal and asking about discounts.

"First of all, deductibles, that would be the first thing that we talk to customers about," Ede said. "With the rising costs, the way to keep your rates lower is definitely taking a little bit more risk for you. The carriers that offer telematics, the driving apps, those are huge, especially the ones that are linked to your cell phone, not the plug in device to the car, it does monitor if youre on your phone, playing around with it, doing stuff on your phone while driving.

I feel like if anything they could build a system like sometimes it wouldnt be as much or just something to be more considerate to the people who are paying car insurance," Brown said.

Where Your Voice Matters

Utica Ford head coach Matt Joseph will have a trio of his own players under his wing on the Red Team for Tuesday’s Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association Division 1 all-star game at Davenport University Softball Stadium.

The Falcons, who won 32 games this season, including a regional championship, have the most players from any program for the D1 game. They’ll be represented by catcher Sam Norrito, outfielder Brooke Williams and pitcher Jenna Walters.

“It is special to be able to coach these three players in their last official high school softball game,” Joseph said. “I was probably more excited than the kids when I got the text asking me to coach. “They have all given so much to our program. They all compete as hard as any I have coached and more importantly they are great people. I am very blessed and lucky to have been able to coach them these last four years.”

Dakota outfielder Jenna Higgins joins those three as the other Macomb County rep on the Red team.

From Oakland County, Stoney Creek third baseman Danielle Bryant and Walled Lake Northern first baseman Katelyn Stallings will also team up with the Macomb quartet for Joseph and Saline coach Rebecca Suiter.

Stallings’ inclusion comes after the Knights had a trio of their own (Lauren Fox, Patelyn Gribben, Kayle Turmell) picked to play in last year’s D1 game.

South Lyon head coach Jerry Shippe will be one of the skippers in the opposite dugout for the White Team. It features Lake Orion second baseman Addy Dukus and Lakeland’s Brynn Taliercio, selected as a utility player. Like Stallings, Dukus reps a Dragons’ program that had a trio (Grace Luby, Sydney Bell, Anna Gardner) selected to last year’s festivities.

State champion Richmond will be represented by a pair of players in the D2 game. Catcher Ashley Stafford and pitcher Katie Shuboy will lace up for the Red Team.

In the Division 3 game, Clawson pitcher Sarah McLeod was selected from a Trojans team that won 23 games and reached a regional final.

Games begin at the Farmers Insurance Athletic Complex on Tuesday with the D1 matchup, set for 10 a.m. The D2 game is scheduled for noon, followed by the Division 3 contest at 2:30 p.m. and the D4 game at 4:30 p.m.

It turned Sunday into a prep prospect party for the Detroit Tigers as they grabbed high school talent with their first two picks in the 2025 MLB Draft, snatching catcher Michael Oliveto of Hauppage (New York) High with the 34th overal pick – 10 spots after making Florida prep shortstop Jordan Yost their first choice at No. 24 overall.

The Tigers had been tied to Oliveto, who like Yost, is a left-handed hitter, and who unlike the 6-foot Joyce, is a big lad – 6-3, 185 pounds, and a young man with enough intellect to have earned a Yale scholarship.

Oliveto is, not surprisingly, considered to have prime-time power and a sophisticated hit-tool. Whether he can continue as a catcher or is better targeted down the road for another position is of little immediate concern to the Tigers, who clearly like his potential, both ways.

The Tigers’ calling-card through three drafts under front-office general Scott Harris have been prep hitters with up-the-middle talents. They struck twice Sunday in a manner reminiscent of last year’s first-round pick of Bryce Rainer and the Max Clark-Kevin McGonigle dual haul in 2023.

Yost, 18, is a left-handed batter from Sickles High in Tampa, Florida, about 50 miles from the Tigers’ farm headquarters in Lakeland. He is 6-foot, 170 pounds, and is viewed as a skilled hitter with the kind of contact-crunch and strike-zone eye an organization celebrates.

Yost is a high-ceiling pick, for sure, with two-way, bedrock talents that conform to the Tigers’ concentration on up-the-middle draft skills and baseball savvy, even when a prospect is as young as Yost.

OLSM grad Ike Irish drafted by Orioles in first round of 2025 MLB Draft

With their second-round pick, No. 62 overall, the Tigers grabbed right-handed pitcher Malachi Witherspoon (6-3, 211 pounds) from the University of Oklahoma.

The Tigers were to pick once more Sunday – at No. 98  –  in the 2025 draft’s first three rounds. Rounds 4-20 are set for Monday.

The Tigers have gone for prep bats in early rounds spanning the three years Tigers drafts have been headed by Rob Metzler and Mark Conner, all since Scott Harris became Tigers front-office boss in 2022.

A mother and her two children are safe after their car flipped into a pond in Shelby Township, with bystanders jumping into action to rescue them.

Paul Sutton and his family were stopped at a red light on Hall Road when they witnessed the car fishtail while turning from Hayes to Hall Road before plunging into a retention pond.

"Watched this car make a turn from Hayes to Hall Road and fishtailed it like crazy and sent it in the retention pond out back," Sutton said.

Sutton immediately pulled over and ran to help, finding a teenage girl struggling to open the car door.

"As I got out I saw a car door going up and there was a little girl, maybe around 15ish or so and she couldn't get the door open I went into the water and got into the car and helped her get the door open and she crawled out," Sutton said.

After rescuing the teenager, she informed Sutton that her baby sister was still trapped inside the vehicle in a car seat.

"More water was coming in luckily the airbags pushed her seat up and kept her out of the water," Sutton said.

Michael Tortomose, another bystander who stopped to help, assisted in the rescue effort after his GPS accidentally directed him to the scene.

"We seen the car, but we also heard a fire engine so we figured the fire engine was for this accident, quickly realized that fire engine was not for this accident so right away I knew we had to do something," Tortomose said.

Tortomose helped the mother out of the vehicle while Sutton handed him the baby.

"I assisted the mother out, and Paul over here passed me the baby and it happened really quick and everyone got out," Tortomose said.

Sutton, who serves as a reserve deputy with the Macomb County Sheriff's Office ATV Unit, credits his training for helping him respond effectively to the emergency.

"Just being a first responder, helping people in need, I went to school for law enforcement just what I do, help people," Sutton said.

The two men say they plan to keep in touch and hope to develop a friendship following their shared heroic experience.

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The backstop of the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s back-to-back-to-back state championship teams, Ike Irish, was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft on Sunday, the third primary member of those title squads to be drafted.

Several hours later, another of the OLSM champs, Nolan Schubart, went to the Cleveland Indians in the third round (Pick 101).

The first athlete in school history to be drafted in the first round of any sport’s draft, Irish joins former Eaglet teammates Brock Porter (Round 4, Pick 109 in the 2022 Draft by Rangers) and Alex Mooney (Round 7, Pick 218 in 2023 Draft) to be drafted, giving the OLSM program 11 overall picks.

While Mooney was drafted right on the heels of the Eaglets securing their third straight title — 2019, 2021 and 2022 — with a perfect 44-0 season, Irish spent three seasons at Auburn. He earned Freshman All-America honors by four different organizations in 2023, and was first-team All-SEC and a Buster Posey Award semifinalist in 2024, then became Auburn’s seventh consensus All-America as a junior.

Irish hit .364, slugged .710 with 13 doubles, two triples and 19 home runs for the Tigers in 2025, driving in 58 runs, with an OPS of 1.179, but spent much of the season playing right field after a shoulder injury — a broken scapula on a hit by pitch in March.

A 6-foot-5, 223-pound left-handed-hitting corner outfielder for Oaklahoma State, Schubart has 60-grade power, according to MLB.com, hitting 23 home runs (and falling two hits short of winning the Big 12 Conference triple crown), earning All-America honors from several publications for the second straight year, and Acacemic All-American honors the last two, just the second player in OSU program history to do it twice.

He finishes his Cowboys career with 59 home runs — one every 10 at-bats — ranking fourth in program history in round-trippers, ninth in slugging percentage (.705), 10th with 199 RBI.

Prep roundup: OLSM baseball sets new state record for consecutive wins

 

First-place teams, winning records across the board – the Tigers’ farm surge has been a story as generally upbeat as a Detroit team’s first-place grip in the American League Central.

A look at some of the best, some of the not-so-great, and a stream of performers who have brought color and organizational muscle to the Tigers’ minor-league realm:

 

Best performance by a hitter

Kevin McGonigle, shortstop, Erie. Everyone knew McGonigle, at some point in June/July, was jumping from West Michigan to Double A after he destroyed Midwest League pitching to the tune of .372/.462/.648/1.110. His Erie ticket came July 7 (officially) and, unsurprisingly, was part of a three-player package shipped to Erie alongside two others who in normal years would have wrapped up the Tigers farm’s first-half hitting crown: Max Clark and Josue Briceno. McGonigle might well show at Erie talent as special as has been showcased at those early Tigers farm stops. If so, he will go to spring camp in February with a chance to further dazzle and push his MLB arrival to 2026. A lot left to be displayed and discussed as McGonigle soars.

Best late development by a hitter

Clark’s surge from late spring into July when he added power to an otherwise sturdy profile: In an 11-game stretch from June 22-July 6 he hit three of his eight home runs on the season, and three of his 12 doubles. Important stuff, his power beginning to blossom, when Clark is five months from turning 21 and when his walks on the season are 65 against 58 strikeouts. The Tigers aren’t second-guessing their third overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft.

Best position debate tied to a terrific hitter

Whether a left-handed dynamite stick on Briceno’s level can remain at catcher or eventually move full-time to first base. The Tigers know catching is gold and there’s no reason to cash in Briceno’s chips even if men 6-foot-4 and 200-plus pounds rarely withstand MLB’s behind-the-plate rigors. For now, the Tigers can happily wait this one out, especially as young men such as Thayron Liranzo, Enrique Jimenez and hotshot teen Steven Madero bid for future jobs at Comerica Park. One thing to keep in mind: Spencer Torkelson is three years from free agency. Briceno looms there as a heavy insurance policy.

Toughest break for a blue-chip hitter

Bryce Rainer dislocating his shoulder during a June 4 game at Lakeland. Rainer was showing magic in that left-handed bat and was playing a superb shortstop, all at age 19. By now, he probably would have been making West Michigan a bit less anguished at losing McGonigle, Clark and Briceno to their Erie upgrades. The word from Detroit’s front office is that surgery was a best option and Rainer should be ready to resume his old, quasi-astounding ways next spring. About the only question is whether his pitching-grade arm will return to its 2025 fury. But what a talent the Tigers snagged here with last July’s 11th-overall pick.

Best performance by a starting pitcher

Troy Melton, Toledo. Candidacies here were on the light side. Melton has come on nicely at Triple A, three years after the Tigers made him a fourth-round grab from San Diego State. His power-pitching quiver is impressive (fastball up to 98-99) with a legit five-pitch mix. He needs yet to finish off hitters (see: Reese Olson) and throw to quadrants that can bedevil big-league batters. Of course, that’s every pitcher’s requirement and perfection is elusive. It’s possible Melton could find his way to Detroit during the summer’s second half. Either way, he’s headed for work in Detroit no later than (early?) next season.

Most disappointing facet of the farm’s first half

That so few starters showed promise when much was expected. Ty Madden (shoulder issues), Jaden Hamm, Rayner Castillo, Gabriel Reyes, Owen Hall, Ethan Schiefelbein, Josh Randall, Joseph Montalvo, and others all expected to be arcing upward. It hasn’t, on balance, happened, although there have been exceptions: Lucas Elissalt and R.J. Sales at Lakeland; Andrew Sears at West Michigan; Jake Miller at Erie, among others. What’s ironic is the Tigers forever were better at finding pitching than hitting. That has reversed the past couple of drafts under new execs. No major alterations from taking hitters quickly, and arms later, is expected during the Tigers’ 2025 draft. What the Tigers hope as pitching forecasts become clearer is better health, principally, and pitchers rebounding — as they so often do within the mercurial realm of arms and baseball. Surprises and expectations on the plus side can always sprout in these closing months of 2025 — and during a critical 2026 season.

Better signs from below (pitching)

That relievers appeared to be gestating at various levels, including a rich group at West Michigan: Marco Jimenez, Micah Ashman, Preston Howey, and others. RJ Petit is evolving at Erie, as is Richard Guasch and a restored Tanner Kohlhepp. Moises Rodriguez looks as if a move to West Michigan from Lakeland will happen as quickly as some of the above shift to Erie. And by all means keep an eye on Thomas Szapucki, a one-time bright-light in the Mets system who signed in February with the Tigers. He was splendid during some tune-ups at Lakeland, and now is stationed at Toledo. Another Mud Hen to eyeball: Drew Sommers, a left-handed option, for sure, if the Tigers need help in Detroit. Sommers was Tampa Bay’s price in a February trade for Mason Englert. Also of interest: Woo-Suk Go, 25, a left-handed South Korea product who has past time in the Marlins and Padres systems. He struck out four in two innings Saturday against Omaha.

Hitter who best rebounded

Max Anderson, Erie. Last season, his first full farm year after the Tigers drafted him 45th overall in 2023, was not uplifting (.266, .702 OPS). This year has been more like a rocket-launch, with any night on which Anderson gets fewer than two hits something of a surprise. He has steadily been well above .300 in 2025 with .900-plus OPS, and only a 14.9% strikeout rate. He walks too few times, but his bat-to-ball skills, and power (.534 slugging, 11 home runs) make him one to consider as the Tigers right-side infield future plays out, or as an enticing trade chip this month or later. Note that he also is getting work at third base, although half the Tigers organization seems to have had at least a turn at third.

Still to be sorted out

What the Tigers do with their infield triumvirate of Anderson, Jace Jung and Hao-Yu Lee. All of them primarily are second basemen working (to different degrees) as third-base converts. Anderson is having by far the better season, offensively. Jung is working on a swing-change that appears to be paying off. Lee is keeping pace with the bat and in sharing time at two positions. The Tigers are likely to lose Gleyber Torres this autumn to free agency. One or two of the above ideally becomes a factor at one or both positions as a team’s big-league infield mysteries evolve.

Hitters who aren’t yet cutting it

The Tigers got Gage Workman back from his Rule 5 hiatus with the Cubs and White Sox and looked to be retrieving a potential roster piece. But, ah, since returning to Toledo it’s an old story through 39 games: .188 batting average and another scary strikeout clip, long Workman’s bogeyman, of 39.5%. Also worrisome: Roberto Campos at Erie. He turned 22 last month, should be showing definitive signs of big-league cachet, and instead in 69 games at Double A is batting .231/.293/.331/.624. He is 6-3, 200, bats right-handed and in 2019 was a then-record Tigers international investment of $2.85 million. There are regular assurances across the Tigers organization that Campos will be fine. It’s time to ask: Will he?

Hitter most closely to follow (second half)

Franyerber Montilla at Lakeland. Montilla plays middle infield, switch hits, and had a chilly spring before things began getting toasty with the Flying Tigers (12-for-25 in his past six games). The thermostat turned up last month and an ongoing second-half surge could put him at West Michigan even this summer. His strikeouts (25.1%) remain a bit heavy but, if amended, would factor in any later-summer notions of moving him to high-A.

Pitcher most closely to follow (second half)

Kenny Serwa at Erie. Those who don’t take this man seriously might wish to take in a Serwa start. His knuckleball is real. He can throw it for strikes. He is tough to hit. He can give you six innings, easily. He is an athlete. He probably should bag his fastball, or at least not throw it on an 0-2 count, as he did Thursday and watched as it banged against the fence for a triple. And he should avoid bad innings that seemingly are within the grasp of a 27-year-old man still fairly new to professional baseball. These are fairly achievable matters for a pitcher who in 17 games (12 starts) at West Michigan and Erie has a 3.36 ERA and 1.09 WHIP, with strikeout/walks rates of 7.0 and 3.0 and who has been nicked for only 55 hits in 72 innings. Serwa, in fact, has two knuckleballs thrown at markedly different speeds. Understand this man’s uniqueness. Appreciate his potential.

Over the horizon

There are signs of life, some of them brilliant, in the deeper regions of Detroit’s rookeries in the Florida Complex League and Dominican Summer League. Kelvis Salcedo, Eddy Felix, Jatnk Diaz – all, by next year, could be part of an organization-wide rebound among Tigers kid starters. Offensively, Javier Osorio, Jose Dickson and Jude Warwick, now joining Enrique Jimenez as the Tigers’ best quartet of FCL hitters, should be digging in as lineup regulars at Lakeland. In the Dominican Summer League, teens soon headed States-side include Madero, a marvelously talented young catcher, as well as Cris Rodriguez, Nestor Miranda, and Cristian Perez – and 18-year-old right-handed gunslinger Jhonan Coba.

An eventful first half, this year’s Tigers farm story and its revelations. Second-half news should also, steadily, make 2025 one of the more remarkable seasons in the past 50 years of Tigers minor-league life.

DETROIT – The genesis of Tarik Skubal being named the American League’s starting pitcher in the All-Star Game Tuesday began with a phone call from Yankees ace Max Fried.

“It was actually a really cool conversation from his perspective, because of his history with Atlanta and all that stuff,” Skubal said.

Fried, of course, spent the first eight years of his career with the Braves. Obviously, him going back to that city to start the All-Star Game against the National League would have been a big deal.

And Fried, at that point, hadn’t pulled himself out of the game.

“He asked me if I wanted to start,” Skubal said. “I told him, ‘Hey, if you want to start, I get it. I’m a fan of the game and I want to watch that, as well. If you want to start, go for it. I’m not going to get offended or anything like that.’

“And he was like, ‘No, I don’t really care about the story. I think you deserve (to start). I just wondered if you want to start.’”

Skubal very much wanted to start. Fried went to manager Aaron Boone and told him he thought Skubal deserved to start the game. On Saturday, Boone notified Skubal and the Tigers that he would be starting on Tuesday.

“It was a cool thing,” Skubal said of Fried’s phone call. “It was a very professional thing to do and you have a ton of respect for guys who do stuff like that, especially with the story of him going back there and obviously he’s been great this year, too.”

Fried, who came out of his start Saturday with a blister on his finger, won’t be participating in the game.

“Anybody in their career would want to start an All-Star Game,” Skubal said. “As a kid, you watch those games and you want to be the first arm out there. I think that’s something I’ll keep pretty special for the rest of my career.

“I’m glad I’m able to check that box at this point in my career. I don’t know how many more of these games I’ll get to play in so I’m really glad I get to start this one.”

Skubal will be starting opposite Pirates phenom Paul Skenes, something that just missed happening when the Pirates were at Comerica Park last month.

“That’ll be fun,” Skubal said. “He’s a helluva talent. We missed each other by a day-night doubleheader earlier this season. It’ll be fun to square off on a big stage like that and it’ll be fun to compete against the game’s best.”

Better with buddies

Last season, the Tigers’ representation in the All-Star Game was Skubal and Riley Greene. This year, the Tigers are sending a six-player entourage.

“I feel like with the whole group coming with me, it’s going to make it more fun,” Greene said. “I’m not saying Skub wasn’t fun. Skub was fun. But having more guys there is going to be great.”

Gleyber Torres, who is returning to the All-Star Game for the first time since 2019, seconded that.

“It’s really special to start the All-Star Game with your buddies,” he said. “These opportunities are really good as a player, but also really special for the entire organization. Detroit is going to be represented by four starters and two guys who will come off the bench in the second part of the game.

“That’s really special and we’re going to try to put on a good show.”

Besides Skubal, Greene and Torres, Javier Baez will be the American League’s starting centerfielder, even though he hasn’t played in center since June 4.

“It’s pretty great,” Baez said when he was announced as a starter. “Right now it feels a little weird; I am playing more short. But this is what you work for, to be an All-Star. … I am grateful to enjoy this with my family now.”

Utility man Zach McKinstry and pitcher Casey Mize will also be part of the Tigers’ contingent in Atlanta.

The Tigers presented all six players with beautiful Shinola watchs before the game Sunday.

‘Just be yourself’

Greene has had a remarkable first half. His 24 homers and 78 RBI after Sunday are franchise records by a left-handed hitter before the break. And, counting right-handed hitters, that pre-break production has been matched by only three other players – Hank Greenberg, Cecil Fielder and Miguel Cabrera.

“Like, yeah, this is my second All-Star Game, but I am going to cherish it like it’s my first,” Greene said. “And if there are any more in the future, I’m going to cherish those the same way. You never know when it’s going to be your last one.”

Greene isn’t competing in the Home Run Derby, but he’s planning on watching at least the first half of it Monday. He’s also looking forward to letting himself relax and take in more of the hoopla that surrounds the game.

“I know what to expect this year,” he said. “It was a little harder to relax the first time because you were always like, ‘What do I do?’ You don’t want to step on anyone’s toes. I know now, whatever you do, you aren’t going to step on anyone’s toes.

“Just be yourself. We’re here to hang out and play a game.”

Around the horn

Hinch shared his tentative pitching plan for after the All-Star break. Reese Olson will start the first game in Texas and Skubal will pitch the ESPN game on Sunday. Mize is penciled in for Saturday, but Hinch said that could change if he ends up pitching in the All-Star Game Tuesday. If he does, Hinch could plug Keider Montero into the Saturday start, or deploy a bullpen game.

… Right-hander Sawyer Gipson-Long (neck) is expected to continue his rehab work in Lakeland during the break.

Family and friends of an Oakland County restaurant food server are mourning his loss after he was killed over the weekend as a result of high-speed police chase that ended in Warren.

Relatives identified the victim as Alex Habib, 28, a married father of two from Madison Heights, who died early Saturday in a car crash involving a Roseville police officer.

Warren police Lt. John Grajewski on Sunday confirmed the fatality, which remains under investigation.

According to Warren police, Roseville police initiated a vehicle pursuit around 3 a.m. Saturday that ended in a multi-car crash in the Van Dyke Avenue/11 Mile Road area.

Further details were not immediately available.

Roseville police administrators did not respond Sunday morning to a request for comment.

Habib apparently was an innocent bystander who was struck by one of the vehicles involved in the pursuit, according to friends.

He was married to Danielle and the two have two young children, 1-year-old Eleanora and Santiago, who is 3 months old.

“His life revolved around his family — he was their strength, their protector, and their constant source of support,” relatives said in a GoFundMe request.

“Alex worked tirelessly to provide for Danielle and the kids, both emotionally and financially. He was a man of deep love, quiet strength, and unwavering dedication — someone who gave selflessly and always showed up for the people he loved. His loss is felt not just by his wife and children, but by all who knew him.”

Habib worked as a server at Jim Brady’s restaurant on Main Street in Royal Oak.

According to a social media message posted by management, the Jim Brady’s team of workers is “heartbroken” over his passing.

“We have lost a beloved member of our team,” the Facebook post said. “Alex Habib, who was loved by all those who came into contact with him, has been taken from all of those close to him far too early…The family appreciates any and all that we can do for them. Thank you from the bottom of our heart.”

As of Sunday afternoon, the GoFundMe effort has raised in excess of $55,000.

To make a donation, visit gofundme.com/f/support-for-alex-habibs-loved-ones

Come back to Macombdaily.com for further updates as they become available.

Two women were killed Sunday in a shooting at a church in Lexington, Kentucky, authorities said, following a violent series of events that began with a traffic stop.

According to the Lexington Police Department, the suspect first shot a Kentucky State Police trooper after being pulled over. The trooper survived and is being treated at a nearby hospital, Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement on social media.

"Please pray for everyone affected by these senseless acts of violence," Beshear wrote. "And lets give thanks for the swift response by the Lexington Police Department and Kentucky State Police."

After the initial shooting, police said the suspect carjacked a vehicle and fled the scene. No injuries were reported during the carjacking.

With help from the departments Real-Time Intelligence Center and Air Support Unit, officers were able to track the stolen vehicle to Richmond Road Baptist Church. There, police said, the suspect opened fire, killing two women, 72-year-old Beverly Gumm and 32-year-old Kristy McCombs, and wounding two men.

Officers shot and killed the suspect at the scene. Authorities say the shooter had a lengthy criminal history.

DETROIT (AP) — Jorge Polanco and Cole Young hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run ninth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 8-4 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

Julio Rodriguez, Randy Arozarena and Mitch Garver also hit solo home runs for the Mariners, who humbled the major league-leading Tigers with 12-3 and 15-7 wins in the first two games of the series.

Seattle’s 35 runs is the most they have scored in a three-game series since 2002.

The Tigers are taking a season-high four-game losing streak into the All-Star break.

After Polanco broke a 4-all tie in the ninth and Young created a two-run cushion, the Mariners scored two more runs.

Matt Brash (1-0) struck out two in the eighth to earn the win.

Tommy Kahnle (1-2) gave up three runs on two hits and a walk without getting an out in the pivotal ninth.

Detroit scored two unearned runs off Logan Gilbert in the first inning, taking advantage of Luke Raley’s throwing error, and went ahead again in the seventh on Riley Greene’s 24th homer of the season.

Seattle’s Cal Raleigh went 0 for 2 with three walks, leaving him with an AL-record 38 homers before the All-Star Game — one shy of Barry Bonds’ 2001 major league record for homers before the break. Raleigh stole a base, joining Babe Ruth (1921), Reggie Jackson (1969) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1998) as players with at least 38 homers and 10 stolen bases in their team’s first 96 games.

Key moment

Polanco was a pinch-hitter to lead off the ninth and hit a 401-foot homer to right.

Key stat

Raleigh is the first catcher to lead the majors outright in homers at the All-Star break since Hall of Famer Johnny Bench in 1972.

Up next

The Tigers have a franchise-record six All-Stars in Atlanta, including starting pitcher Tarik Skubal. Seattle is sending five All-Stars to the Midsummer Classic for the first time since 2003.

Jorge Polanco and Cole Young hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run ninth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 8-4 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

Julio Rodriguez, Randy Arozarena and Mitch Garver also hit solo home runs for the Mariners, who humbled the major league-leading Tigers with 12-3 and 15-7 wins in the first two games of the series.

Seattle's 35 runs is the most they have scored in a three-game series since 2002.

The Tigers are taking a season-high four-game losing streak into the All-Star break.

After Polanco broke a 4-all tie in the ninth and Young created a two-run cushion, the Mariners scored two more runs.

Matt Brash (1-0) struck out two in the eighth to earn the win.

Tommy Kahnle (1-2) gave up three runs on two hits and a walk without getting an out in the pivotal ninth.

Detroit scored two unearned runs off Logan Gilbert in the first inning, taking advantage of Luke Raley's throwing error, and went ahead again in the seventh on Riley Greene's 24th homer of the season.

Seattle's Cal Raleigh went 0 for 2 with three walks, leaving him with an AL-record 38 homers before the All-Star Game one shy of Barry Bonds 2001 major league record for homers before the break. Raleigh stole a base, joining Babe Ruth (1921), Reggie Jackson (1969) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1998) as players with at least 38 homers and 10 stolen bases in their team's first 96 games.

Key moment

Polanco was a pinch-hitter to lead off the ninth and hit a 401-foot homer to right.

Key stat

Raleigh is the first catcher to lead the majors outright in homers at the All-Star break since Hall of Famer Johnny Bench in 1972.

Up next

The Tigers have a franchise-record six All-Stars in Atlanta, including starting pitcher Tarik Skubal. Seattle is sending five All-Stars to the Midsummer Classic for the first time since 2003.

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The Fraser City Council voted Thursday night to grant the region’s troubled waste hauler a contract extension that includes a 24% rate hike despite ongoing complaints from homeowners about chronic service delays.

Clinton Township-based Priority Waste received a three-year extension of its existing $1.1 million contract, with 3% annual raises each year, according to the city’s Department of Public Works.

In a memo to the council, DPW Superintendent Rob Barrett said there’s not enough time to solicit bids from other waste hauling firms before the city’s contract expires Sept. 12.

“Unfortunately, we recently discovered that most waste disposal companies require several months to prepare a bid, receive several months to prepare a bid, receive the award, and invest in trucks and personnel to provide the service,” Barrett said in recommending the extension.

Councilmembers said they were frustrated by the lack of bids given Priority Waste’s numerous complaints over various services. Mayor Michael Lesich said he “reluctantly” voted along with the rest of the council.

Fraser’s approval marked the second one this week for Priority Waste, which earlier this week gained support from Orchard Lake in Oakland County.

Daniel Venet, the company’s vice president of municipal sales, said the new agreement in Fraser follows ongoing discussions between the city and Priority Waste over improving the company’s performance.

“From where we started a year ago, we were all in a chaotic moment of stress,” he said. “We put a lot on your shoulders — the DPW staff, yourselves, and the administration. It’s not something I took lightly.”

During Thursday’s meeting in Fraser, Barrett, a former longtime Oak Park employee, apologized to the council for not addressing the matter sooner and said the city administration will request proposals for the service earlier next time the contract is nearing its end.

According to the memo, the extension includes a starting rate of $17.50 per month for residential garbage service, which includes compost and recycling, with a 3% annual increase for each of the three years.

The DPW head said the company’s price of $1.12 million a year for Fraser is “quite fair” by comparison to other bids in local communities that were received recently awarded:

• Harrison Township — $1.2 million
• Shelby Township — $1.29 million
• New Haven — $300,000

“That satisfies me that’s a fair number (in the bid),” Barrett told the council.

Fraser has approximately 5,750 trash pickups, 4,830 recycling pickups, and 3,950 compost pickups per month, according to the city’s DPW.

Priority Waste took over residential accounts from GFL Environmental on July 1, 2024. The company now handles trash services for about 700,000 residents in dozens of communities in Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.

Prior to that, Fraser had an eight-year contract with GFL, which some questioned. While a councilmember at the time, Lesich voted against the move.

Troubled transition

But almost from the day the sale of GFL to Priority Waste was announced in July 2024, the company has been plagued with troubles related to the transition.

Over the past year, Priority Waste has been facing a barrage of complaints from numerous communities over missed pickups and other service issues.

Residents and municipal leaders have reported days-long  delays in trash and recycling collection, scattered trash, difficulty reaching the company. Company officials say they were left many “decrepit” and aging garbage trucks.

Company officials said a load of new trucks have been ordered with final delivery expected around November.

Service improving

Venet said Priority Waste is making steady improvements every month.

He talked about a former GFL official who advised him: “One thing he said to me about Fraser was that the people are understanding and forgiving, but they will hold you accountable when you fail. And things were not good for us those first three months.”

Priority Waste officials thought the problems would have leveled off over the winter. Instead, Venet said, it took three months to sell the old fleet of vehicles. At the same time, the company continued to see an increase in the volume of waste left out for disposal, which “doesn’t help,” he said.

Venet believes as the company continues to chip away, things should get “more like normal.” by January, both in Fraser and other communities.

He also acknowledged concerns about the company’s street sanitation workers.

“My stance is people do make mistakes so we can allow for some variance if a mistake occurs but if it’s an occurrence of choice or it’s habitual or a continuous issue, the employee’s going to get reprimanded and disciplined through our protocols,” Venet said.

He told the council that problems are certain to happen in “an industry with 1 million touches a year.

“But it’s how you respond, correct, and move forward,” Venet said.

The extension comes as Macomb Township’s board voted to issue a formal notice of default that could result in fines against the company as early as next month.

A spokesperson for the company has said they faced obstacles involving the number of GFL garbage trucks Priority Waste received in the sale and technology issues. Many vehicles were broken down and required immediate repairs, while a camera system the company uses to monitor work conditions had problems staying operational.

A historic lodge on the Grand Canyon's North Rim has been destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire, the park said Sunday.

The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

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Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known as the White Sage Fire and the Dragon Bravo Fire. The latter is the one that impacted the lodge and other structures. The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures, low humidity and wind, fire officials said.

No injuries have been reported.

Millions of people visit Grand Canyon National Park annually, with most going to the more popular South Rim. The North Rim is open seasonally. It was evacuated last Thursday because of wildfire.

Firefighters at the North Rim and hikers in the inner canyon were evacuated over the weekend. The park said along with the fire risk, they could potentially be exposed to chlorine gas after the treatment plant burned. Chlorine gas is heavier than air and can lead to blurred vision, irritation or respiratory problems if high amounts of it are breathed in, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rafters on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon also were told to bypass Phantom Ranch, which has a set of cabins and dormitories along the river.

The North Rim lodge was often the first prominent feature that visitors see, even before viewing the canyon. A highway ends at the lodge, which was known for its sloped roof, huge ponderosa beams and massive limestone facade. By walking across the lobby and descending a stairwell, visitors could get their first view of the Grand Canyon shining through windows across the Sun Room.

Meanwhile, officials reported progress in battling a second wildfire burning north of the Grand Canyon. Fire lines on the White Sage Fire that forced evacuations at the North Rim and in the community of Jacob Lake were holding, officials said. On the southern edge of the fire, hand crews and bulldozers were working uphill, and the spread of the blaze had been minimal.

But to the east and north, the fire has spread rapidly, with grasses and standing dead trees contributing to the fires intensity, officials said. The fire was pushing downhill toward the Vermilion Cliffs area, and crews were assessing opportunities to create buffer zones that help slow or halt the fires progress.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan football staff member Connor Stalions, whose actions triggered an NCAA investigation into sign-stealing, says he knew almost every signal opponents used in seven games over two seasons.

Stalions shared those details Saturday on social media, responding to TCU coach Sonny Dykes telling On3 that his team changed some signs in advance of its win over the Wolverines in the 2022 College Football semifinals.

“We got some favorable matchups because of that and, yeah, there was some big plays in the game,” Dykes said in the On3 report.

Stalions bristled at the latest attempt to suggest Michigan won or lost games because of his sign-stealing role with the team.

“There were 7 games in my time at Michigan where I knew almost every signal the whole game: 2021 MSU, 2022 MSU, 2022 PSU, 2022 OSU, 2022 TCU, 2021 Georgia, and 2021 Wisconsin,” Stalions wrote in his post. “We lost 3 of those games because we didn’t tackle well, and Georgia was historically good. We won the four other games because we dominated the line of scrimmage & tackled well. Blocking, ball security, tackling, run fits & coverage tools.

“That’s football. This is not rocket science.”

Nearly a year ago, the NCAA alleged in a notice relating to Michigan’s sign-stealing investigation that current coach Sherrone Moore violated rules as an assistant under former coach Jim Harbaugh, who served a three-game suspension in exchange for the Big Ten dropping its own investigation into the allegations after the two ended up in court.

Moore also was accused of deleting text messages with Stalions, before they were recovered and provided to the NCAA. Moore has said he has and will continue to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation.

Michigan is prepared to suspend Moore for two games during the coming season. The NCAA will decide if that self-imposed sanction is enough to address allegations that Moore failed to cooperate in an investigation that rocked college football during the 2023 championship season with Harbaugh on the sideline.

The school had a hearing with the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions last month. The governing body takes three months on average for contested cases to make a final decision.

The Wolverines open the season on Aug. 30 at home against New Mexico State and then go to Oklahoma, where Moore was an offensive lineman, on Sept. 6.

The NCAA does not have rules against stealing signs, but it does prohibit schools from sending scouts to the games of future opponents and using electronic equipment to record another team’s signals. Records from other Big Ten schools showed that Stalions bought tickets to games involving future opponents, sending people to digitally record teams when they signaled plays.

Stalions initially was placed on leave by Michigan and later resigned. He did not participate in the NCAA investigation.

The NCAA previously put Michigan on three years of probation, fined the school and implemented recruiting limits after reaching a negotiated resolution in a recruiting case and banned Harbaugh from coaching college football for four years.

When a Venezuelan immigrant was arrested last year and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Jefferson County, the teen’s mother hoped for justice.

J.E., who is being identified by her initials to protect her daughter’s identity, wanted the suspect to be convicted, locked away. She wanted to know he couldn’t hurt anyone else, at least for a while.

But that’s not what happened.

Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, 21, posted $5,000 bail and was released from the Jefferson County jail on Nov. 27, 2024, court records show. He was subsequently arrested by federal immigration authorities and was deported from the country by May.

“Clerk notified via email that deft” — the defendant — “has been removed from the country,” Chief Judge Jeffrey Pilkington wrote in a May 19 order.

The deportation effectively ended the state’s criminal case against Castillo — the prosecution cannot continue without his presence in court, though he remains wanted on a warrant and could be prosecuted if he were to return to Colorado.

There was no conviction, no sentence, no jail time — just a deportation.

“It’s been pretty hard on me and my daughter,” J.E. said. “She doesn’t feel like she is getting the justice she deserves. It just has been so easy for immigrants to come into the country after they are deported. So the fear is that he might relocate somewhere else in the U.S. and do this to someone else. Them deporting him ruined justice for my daughter.”

At least two dozen defendants and one witness in criminal cases in metro Denver have been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported in the middle of ongoing state prosecutions since September, The Denver Post found. District attorneys across the region started to notice more defendants disappearing into ICE custody this spring, as President Donald Trump ramped up deportations nationwide.

Colorado district attorneys who spoke with The Post said such deportations are not in the interest of justice and do not improve public safety over the long term.

“If I can’t hold someone accountable because the defendant is deported before we’ve reached a just outcome in the case, and the defendant finds their way back here and commits another crime, that does not make the community safer,” 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason said. “If victims of crime are afraid to call the police after they have been sexually assaulted or some other terrible crime because they are worried about being deported, that makes our community less safe.”

The defendants deported were charged with crimes that included driving under the influence, car theft, drug distribution, assault, domestic violence, attempted murder and human trafficking.

Again and again, court records reviewed by The Post showed criminal cases stalled by deportations.

“Def does not appear as he was deported and is no longer in the U.S.,” a document notes in the file for a  26-year-old man from Brazil who was accused of swinging a knife at his wife.

“Deft no longer in the country. Defendant (failed to appear),” a record states in the file for a 32-year-old man from Mexico charged with driving a stolen car.

‘Full force of the law’

Detectives with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office and the Denver Police Department spent six months building a case against a 28-year-old man from El Salvador who they alleged sold drugs and was connected to a woman who fatally overdosed at an Arapahoe County apartment complex in October.

The investigation included a drug deal with an undercover Denver detective and ongoing surveillance. The man was charged with four felony counts related to drug dealing and two counts of child abuse after the six-month investigation culminated in his arrest on April 9.

The man’s arrest affidavit notes that he was arrested by the Aurora Police Department’s SWAT team, and then, without further explanation, says he was taken into custody by ICE.

Aurora police spokesman Joe Moylan said the city’s SWAT team assisted in the arrest and then turned the man over to the sheriff’s office while at the scene. Anders Nelson, a spokesman for the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, said the agency “partners with ICE” when pursuing cases against suspected non-citizen drug dealers.

“ICE uses various means to positively identify these individuals, and so when they are arrested, ICE agents respond to identify the individual so that we can charge them accordingly under their correct name,” Nelson said. “In this case, the subject had a lengthy criminal history that included active warrants for his arrest and had entered the U.S. illegally on several occasions, and so ICE agents took custody of him.”

The suspect accused of selling drugs was deported within a month. The state criminal case remains open.

“Deft has been deported,” the man’s court records noted on May 9.

In an emailed statement, Denver ICE spokesman Steve Kotecki said the federal agency “arrests aliens who threaten public safety and commit crimes.”

Before their recent arrests and deportations, the two men from El Salvador and Brazil had previously been cited only for traffic violations in Colorado, according to records kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. The man from Mexico had prior convictions for car theft and drug possession.

“ICE recognizes the importance of addressing unlawful actions with the full force of the law, ensuring that individuals are held accountable for their actions,” Kotecki said in the statement. “We are committed to creating safe and thriving communities by supporting effective and fair law enforcement practices.”

Tristan Gorman, a criminal defense attorney, noted that ICE’s mid-case deportations, which come before a defendant is convicted of a crime, are “completely disregarding the constitutional presumption of innocence.”

Mason, who serves as DA for Adams and Broomfield counties, said federal agencies “are under enormous pressure to implement the policies of the current administration.”

“This is new,” he said of the growing number of mid-case deportations.

Long-used process is no longer reliable

In the past, when ICE detained defendants while their state cases were ongoing, prosecutors relied on court orders called writs to ensure the defendants still appeared in court. A writ in this context is a judge’s order to a custodial agency, like a jail or immigration detention center, requiring the agency to bring the defendant to court.

ICE is no longer reliably complying with writs to produce defendants for their state hearings, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said.

“It’s hard to know and it’s hard to predict how a writ will be honored or not,” she said. “…A writ was our standard process that we relied on to keep someone available for a criminal proceeding. It is not consistently working.”

ICE hasn’t communicated its policies or procedures in any cohesive way to her team of Jefferson and Gilpin county prosecutors, King said. Her office is relying on personal connections between staff and officials at ICE to try to ensure defendants in federal custody are brought to court.

“It’s felt pretty ad hoc, and often reliant on us being very proactive,” she said.

ICE officials informed the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and the Denver Sheriff Department in June that the agency would no longer comply with writs for detainees in immigration custody to physically appear in the counties’ criminal courts.

“ICE Denver is no longer honor (sic) writ from Denver County Court due to the Denver County Jail do not (sic) comply with immigration detainer or fail to transfer custody of aliens in a safe and orderly manner,” Hung Thach, a supervisory detention and deportation officer in the Denver field office, wrote in a June 16 email to Denver officials.

In a statement issued to 9News and Colorado Public Radio, Denver Field Office Director Robert Gaudian said ICE would not honor the writs because agency officials were not confident the detainees would be returned to ICE’s custody after their state court appearances.

Kotecki did not respond to a request to share that statement with The Post. He previously has requested blanket anonymity for his statements as a spokesman for the federal agency, which The Post declined to grant. He also has said he would no longer provide information to The Post unless the newspaper complied with his request for anonymity.

“In the past, ICE Denver and the Adams County sheriff have enjoyed a great working relationship, with ICE honoring writs for trials and the sheriff notifying us of an alien’s release,” Gaudian said in the statement, according to 9News. “This relationship must be reciprocal, though. If I’m not confident that the sheriff will return an alien to us, then I cannot in good conscience release that individual.”

Denver sheriff’s spokeswoman Daria Serna defended the department’s practices for handling writs in a statement Wednesday.

“The Denver Sheriff Department’s policy and practice for the transfer of people in custody are in alignment with state and local laws,” she said.

ICE approach varies by jurisdiction

So far in Boulder, immigration authorities have largely complied with writs to produce defendants for state court hearings with just a handful of exceptions, said Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney.

The bigger risk for his office is not knowing about ICE detainment in time to seek a writ and delay deportation, because federal agents are failing to consistently alert prosecutors when they arrest defendants in state criminal cases, he said.

“ICE should provide a notification anytime they pick someone up and the person is a defendant,” Dougherty said. “That has not always happened. What has happened, more often than not, is we find out from the defense attorney or someone connected to the defendant that someone has been arrested by ICE and held for possible deportation.”

Dougherty noted that deportations seem to be happening much faster than in past years. When a defendant is deported in the middle of a case, it has a broad impact, he said.

“The victim never had his or her day in court,” he said. “We couldn’t do justice. There is no conviction, no sex offender registration and no consequences. And the person is deported to a country. We have no reason to believe the person is held responsible for the crime they were accused of.”

In Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties, prosecutors have not had any issues with ICE agents deporting defendants mid-case, said 23rd Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler. He said federal agents have given his office warnings when ICE is interested in defendants, which has allowed prosecutors to revoke defendants’ bonds to keep them in jail — in state custody — while the criminal case is pending.

Gorman, the defense attorney, said revoking bond simply because a person could be deported is fundamentally unfair.

“We’re just basically saying to them, ‘Yeah, we put all these terms and conditions on your bond and you’ve got to comply with them or we will revoke your bond,” she said. “But even if you do absolutely everything right and show up at all your court dates, we might revoke your bond anyway… even though you followed all the rules.”

Arrests at courthouses

Colorado law prohibits ICE agents from arresting people at or near state courthouses for civil immigration purposes — a line that federal agents have crossed multiple times this year, including in Denver and on the Western Slope.

Federal agents have also been routinely making immigration arrests at Denver’s federal courthouses, which are not covered by the state prohibition.

In Garfield, Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties, federal agents monitored courthouse dockets in order to detain defendants for immigration proceedings, Ninth Judicial District Chief Judge John Neiley wrote in an April 8 order instructing federal agents to stop.

“In short, these types of arrests make courthouses less safe, frustrate the process of justice, and could have a chilling effect on litigants, witnesses, victims, court personnel and other members of the public who have a right and obligation to participate fairly in the judicial system,” Neiley wrote in the order.

Although the practice is against Colorado law, there are no criminal penalties for federal agents who make such prohibited arrests. Rather, state law says they can be held in contempt of court or sued by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Spokesman Lawrence Pacheco said the office could not confirm or comment on any such investigations.

“Attorney General (Phil) Weiser is concerned about reports of ICE arrests at state courthouses interfering with state criminal prosecutions and having a chilling effect on witnesses and victims in criminal cases,” Pacheco said. “Federal immigration arrests at courthouses make our communities less safe and violate state law.”

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Jannik Sinner defeated two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win his first Wimbledon championship and reverse the result of their epic French Open final five weeks ago.

The No. 1-ranked Sinner earned his fourth Grand Slam title overall, moving him one away from No. 2 Alcaraz's total as the two young rivals separate themselves from the rest of the pack in men's tennis.

This victory also allowed Sinner, a 23-year-old Italian, to put an end to several streaks for Alcaraz, a 22-year-old Spaniard.

Alcaraz had won the past five head-to-head matches between the pair, most recently across five sets and nearly 5 1/2 hours at Roland-Garros on June 8. Sinner took a two-set lead in that one, then held a trio of match points, but couldn't close the deal. That made Alcaraz 5-0 in major finals.

In addition to ending that piece of perfection, Sinner asserted himself in a match that featured moments of terrific play by both men, but also the occasional lapses.

Alcaraz stepped into the sunlight bathing Centre Court as the owner of a career-best 24-match unbeaten run. He had won 20 matches in a row at the All England Club, including victories against Novak Djokovic in the 2023 and 2024 finals.

The last man to beat Alcaraz at Wimbledon? Sinner, in the fourth round in 2022.

Many people are looking for that nice, relaxing day at the beach this summer. But, if youre not careful, it could take a turn for the worse in the middle of this heat wave with the scorching sun.

Sometimes Im good and I remember sunscreen, beachgoer Jeffery Zimmerman told the Scripps News Group in San Diego.

Sometimes I will choose not to wear it, but I do end up regretting it later on, added Sadie Zimmerman.

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It's very important that people are aware of the risks of being outside, especially during these summer months, said Dr. Charles Miller, assistant medical director & dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente.

Miller said its not only important for everyone going outside in the summer heat to put on sunscreen, but for those who work in it as well.

Such as lifeguards and construction workers to protect themselves from the sun because of where we live, we have a very high ultraviolet index on a scale of zero to 12, it's oftentimes over 10 or 11, Miller said. And long-term effects not only does it cause wrinkles and dark spots and blemishes that people don't like, but it can also cause skin cancer."

Dr. Miller said a good rule of thumb is to apply sunscreen with a SPF of 30 or higher, and it's best to do so even before heading out into the sun. And once youre out here, dont forget to reapply that sunscreen.

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You may want to go the extra mile and make sure that your sunscreen has zinc in it because it does give you a little bit better protection, Miller said. There are some theories that some people say that if you use a chemical sunscreen first and then you put a zinc sunscreen over the top, that can be very helpful.

Some say the simple task of putting on your sunscreen is something that everyone should remember to do.

So, it's always important to protect your skin. It's not worth it to get a little extra sunburn for what you're going to be in pain anyway, and it's miserable. And then you lose the tan because it peels away with the burn, so it's not worth it ever. It's never worth it, said beachgoer Haley Whitehead.

This story was originally published by Ryan Hill with the

Scripps News Group.

Researchers have found that TikTok skincare trends can harm teenagers, putting them at greater risk of skin irritation and allergies.

The study was done out of Northwestern University and it looked at popular TikTok videos mad by girls between 7 and 18 years of age.

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Researchers found the video creators used up to a dozen different products in their daily skincare routines. Many products, however, have ingredients that can cause sun sensitivity, redness and allergic reactions.

They're warning parents to be careful of combining too many products because it how they interact can cause complications.

Experts say teens need to keep their skincare routines simple and read labels for overlapping ingredients that can increase the risk of irritation.

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The EU will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday in hopes of reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration by the end of the month.

This is now the time for negotiations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels on Sunday, after President Donald Trump sent a letter announcing new tariffs of 30% on goods from the EU and Mexico starting Aug. 1.

The EU Americas biggest trading partner and the worlds largest trading bloc had been scheduled to impose countermeasures starting Monday at midnight Brussels time (6 p.m. EDT). The EU negotiates trade deals on behalf of its 27 member countries.

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Von der Leyen said those countermeasures would be delayed until Aug. 1, and that Trump's letter shows that we have until the first of August to negotiate. European leaders have urged Trump and von der Leyen to give negotiations more time.

We have always been clear that we prefer a negotiated solution, she said. If they cant reach a deal, she said that we will continue to prepare countermeasures so we are fully prepared.

Standing alongside Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, von der Leyen said the trade tensions with the U.S. show the importance of diversifying our trade relationships.''

Trump has said his global tariffs would set the foundation for reviving a U.S. economy that he claims has been ripped off by other nations for decades. Trump in his letter to the European Union said the U.S. trade deficit was a national security threat.

U.S. trade partners have faced months of uncertainty and on-and-off threats from Trump to impose tariffs, with deadlines sometimes extended or changed. The tariffs could have ramifications for nearly every aspect of the global economy.

The value of EU-U.S. trade in goods and services amounted to 1.7 trillion euros ($2 trillion) in 2024, or an average of 4.6 billion euros a day, according to EU statistics agency Eurostat. Europes biggest exports to the U.S. were pharmaceuticals, cars, aircraft, chemicals, medical instruments and wine and spirits.

Trade ministers from EU countries are scheduled to meet Monday to discuss trade relations with the U.S., as well as with China.