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Baseball talks underway NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players seek expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights. They also want to nearly double the major league minimum salary and increase revenue sharing among teams. The union presented these proposals Wednesday, a day before Major League Baseball is expected to suggest a salary cap. The current labor contract expires Dec. 1, and a lockout is anticipated. MLB opposes the union's proposals, arguing they worsen competitive balance issues. Players propose increased revenue sharing to guarantee small-market clubs a minimum ...

Marquette, Escanaba earn GNC golf titles

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MARQUETTE — The Marquette boys golf team clinched the Great Northern Conference season championship while Escanaba claimed girls honors after the GNC Meet was held in Marquette on Wednesday. Boys Marquette dominated at home, putting together the four lowest individual rounds for a ...

KHS salutes MVPs, senior athletes

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KINGSFORD — Three-sport senior athletes Jack Kriegl and Cassie Olson were named the male and female athletes of the year in awards announced by Kingsford High School. Kriegl was also named the most valuable player in baseball and boys basketball, while Olson was both the volleyball and ...

Angels spill Tigers, 10-6

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DETROIT (AP) — Vaughn Grissom hit a grand slam and drove in six runs as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 10-6 on Tuesday night. Detroit led 6-4 going into the eighth, and Will Vest (1-4) got the first two outs with a runner on second. Logan O'Hoppe's double made it a ...

Mitchell hits a 3-run HR, Brewers beat Cardinals 6-0

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Mitchell hit a three-run homer and Kyle Harrison tossed six innings of four-hit ball to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. Harrison (6-1) allowed two singles to open the third and two singles in the sixth, ...

Packers running back Josh Jacobs arrested

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Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs is facing five criminal charges, including strangulation and suffocation, after police responded to a disturbance complaint involving him over the weekend. Hobart/Lawrence (Wisconsin) Police Chief Michael Renkas said that Jacobs was arrested Tuesday and booked into Brown County Jail on charges of strangulation and suffocation, battery-domestic abuse, criminal damage to property-domestic abuse, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse and intimidation of a victim. Renkas said police had been dispatched to a complaint involving Jacobs on Saturday ...