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7:18 PM on Sunday, August 31

Houston police say an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away

5:00 PM on Sunday, August 31

Vicari Swain returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown to break open a close game, LaNorris Sellers threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Nyck Harbor, and No. 13 South Carolina beat Virginia Tech 24-11 in the opener for both teams

4:41 PM on Sunday, August 31

Miranda Wang is the seventh LPGA Tour rookie to win this year

4:06 PM on Sunday, August 31

Taylor Townsend couldn’t convert eight match points in a second set that ended with a 25-minute tiebreaker and was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Sunday with a 1-6, 7-6 (13), 6-3 loss to Barbora Krejcikova

4:02 PM on Sunday, August 31

Mark Knoller, a longtime White House correspondent for CBS News, has died at 73

3:40 PM on Sunday, August 31

ESPN blamed a transmission issue for fans missing most of the second half of No. 11 Arizona State's game against Northern Arizona

3:10 PM on Sunday, August 31

Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN White House correspondent and journalism dean, has died at 83

2:54 PM on Sunday, August 31

Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was carted off the field after crashing into the metal scoreboard in the eighth inning Sunday

2:54 PM on Sunday, August 31

Josef Newgarden has won his first race of the season at Nashville Superspeedway in the IndyCar finale

2:54 PM on Sunday, August 31

Two adults were killed and seven children ranging in age from 1 to 12 years old were injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident at an off-road ATV park in Alabama

1:22 PM on Sunday, August 31

Carlos Alcaraz has hit a behind-the-back shot at the U.S. Open to win a point in a 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Arthur Rinderknech that made the Spaniard the youngest man in the Open era to reach 13 Grand Slam quarterfinals

1:02 PM on Sunday, August 31

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 358th career homer in the first inning of their series finale against the White Sox, moving into a tie with Yogi Berra for fifth in franchise history

12:58 PM on Sunday, August 31

Virginia Tech coaching great Frank Beamer showed up for the Hokies’ season opener on Sunday against South Carolina, which is coached by son Shane Beamer, wearing Gamecocks black

12:33 PM on Sunday, August 31

The Dallas Cowboys have signed cornerback DaRon Bland to a $92 million, four-year contract extension four days before the NFL opener at defending champ and NFC East rival Philadelphia

9:48 AM on Sunday, August 31

A new tropical storm has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean

9:01 AM on Sunday, August 31

Luka Doncic had a triple-double to power Slovenia to an 86-69 victory over Belgium on Sunday and its first win at EuroBasket

4:15 AM on Sunday, August 31

A flotilla of ships has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid and activists on board

10:58 PM on Saturday, August 30

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to resolve their border differences and bolster cooperation ahead of the opening of a regional summit in Tianjin

10:01 PM on Saturday, August 30

A Chinese philosophy student was deported from the United States after landing in Houston to study at the University of Houston

6:20 PM on Friday, August 29

Tennessee authorities say a cold-case investigation reveals that a sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about an organized crime-busting law enforcement officer actually killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was killed by his enemies