INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis 500 will be Sunday; here are the main things to know about the Greatest Spectacle in Racing: 1. Only seven drivers -- including Scott Dixon -- were racing in IndyCar when the now-six-time IndyCar champ won his one and only Indy 500 back in 2008.
MOIESE, Mont. – A sunlit field along the Flathead River outside of Moiese was home base for all kinds of student learning recently. • Wildlife and science lessons paired with cultural activities and traditional games such as double ball, prompting some students to run and scream with glee. • All those play a part in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ River Honoring, which brought about 400 children a day on Tuesday and Wednesday for its largest turnout since 2019. • The goal was to teach children about the river and natural resource programs, said Stephanie Gillin, CSKT information and education specialist, and “everything we do, we try to incorporate culture.” • So the presentations ran the gamut from wildlife to forestry and water quality. The children heard from Séliš and Q’lispé elders and scientists and experts from Salish Kootenai College and tribal departments. The Mission Valley Backcountry Horsemen came, too.
Brownwood High School graduating seniors enter Gordon Wood Stadium Friday evening for commencement. The 226 graduates filed into the stadium from the field house to rows of chairs in the middle of the field as a recording of "Pomp and Circumstance" played through loudspeakers. STEVE NASH/BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Police: 3 wounded in shooting in Chicago neighborhood CHICAGO – Three people were shot and wounded on Friday in Chicago, authorities said. The Chicago Police Department said a man was sitting in a parked car with a woman standing by his driver side window when both were struck with gunfire in South Austin, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he wants to change the name of a notorious drug-producing area known as “the Golden Triangle” to “The Triangle of Good, Hard-Working People.”
NEW ORLEANS – Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections. The 130-mile ring is designed to hold out storm surge of about 30 feet around New Orleans and its suburbs in three parishes.
WASHINGTON – Medicare recipients will get a premium reduction – but not until next year – reflecting what Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday was an overestimate in costs of covering an expensive and controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.
The actions – or more notably, the inaction – of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers moved swiftly to the center of the investigation into last week’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
BOSTON — P.J. Tucker, Markieff Morris and Jimmy Butler had a conversation in the Miami Heat locker room before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday. The topic turned to what Butler needed to do against the Boston Celtics.
Colin Cantwell, 90, who designed the spacecraft in the “Star Wars” films, died at his home in Colorado on May 21. Cantwell designed the prototypes for the X-wing Starfighter, TIE fighter and Death Star. He also worked on films including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “WarGames.” Cantwell was born in San Francisco in 1932.