CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs yielded a leadoff single to Billy Hamilton in the seventh inning for Cincinnati's first baserunner of the game.
Arrieta retired the first 18 batters before Hamilton singled back up the middle on Tuesday night. Arrieta then got a warm ovation from the crowd of 28,226.
The Cubs lead 4-0 at Wrigley Field.
Lt. Giuseppe Petrosino is the only New York police officer to be killed in the line of duty outside the U.S. It happened in March 1909 when Petrosino, one of the most celebrated officers in the department's history, was sent to Italy to investigate the Mafia.
The New York Times reports:
"He stayed in hotels under an assumed name, and grew a beard to alter his appearance. But his reputation and purpose had preceded him.
"On the day of his murder, March 12, 1909, Lieutenant Petrosino left his revolver in his hotel room. And as he waited for a trolley in downtown Palermo, Sicily, two assassins approached.
"Four shots. Three bullet wounds."
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two-term U.S. Rep. James Lankford emerged from a crowded primary field Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat, avoiding a runoff despite a well-funded challenge from a tea party-backed candidate.
By getting more than 50 percent of the vote, the 46-year-old Lankford advances to face the Democratic nominee and one independent in November. The seat became open when GOP U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn announced in January he planned to step down with two years remaining on his term following a recurrence of prostate cancer.
A two-term congressman and Baptist minister from Edmond, the 46-year-old Lankford faced a fierce challenge from tea party-backed T.W. Shannon. Shannon last year became both the youngest and the first African-American speaker of the House.
But Lankford, a Baptist minister who spent 13 years directing one of the largest Christian youth camps in the country, dismissed attempts to paint him as a Washington insider, saying at a recent campaign event: "That's just the dynamic of it."
A political unknown when he won an open seat in Congress in 2010 from Oklahoma's Republican-leaning capital city, Lankford campaigned as a hard worker willing to delve deeply into complicated federal budget issues or congressional investigations.
It was the first time in recent history that both Oklahoma Senate seats were on the ballot at the same time. The state's other senator, Jim Inhofe, easily won his GOP primary
Teenie Hodges, the diminutive guitarist and "Take Me to the River" songwriter who became a towering figure in the Memphis music scene, has died. He was 68.
Longtime friend and Royal Studio owner Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell said Tuesday that Hodges died Sunday night from complications of emphysema at a Dallas hospital. Hodges fell ill during a trip to the South By Southwest music festival in March and had been hospitalized with pneumonia since.
Hodges, rapper Drake's uncle, was the go-to guitarist for Memphis soul in the 1960s and '70s. He helped define the sound by working with artists including Al Green, Syl Johnson, and Etta James, and later would inspire dozens of others from Michael Jackson to Cat Power.
Born Mabon Lewis Hodges in Germantown, Tennessee, in 1946, and given his nickname because of his size, Hodges was playing guitar in his father's blues band by the age of 12. He made his first mark in the music world with the help of his brothers, who joined him to form most of the Hi Rhythm Section, the house band for influential Memphis label Hi Records.
Hodges co-wrote "Take Me to the River" with Green and though the soul singer didn't have a hit with it, it's been covered scores of times by artists as diverse as Tina Turner, Talking Heads and Tom Jones and has become part of the American songbook. He also penned "Love and Happiness" with Green and teamed with other Memphis legends including his mentor Willie Mitchell and singer Isaac Hayes to craft a sound that's easily identifiable and still influential.
"What he did for Willie over at Hi was special and unique," Stax Records guitarist David Porter was quoted by the Commercial Appeal of Memphis as saying. "Teenie created the groove, the pocket, as one would call it. That came from the way he played rhythmically. That groove was what made the records for Al Green and so many others such big hits. And that sound, that feel, it came totally from Teenie's spirit. That's what the world should know about this man: His heart is in all those records."
Hodges and the Hi Rhythm Section disbanded after Hi Records was sold in 1975, though it would often re-form over the years, and he worked with a number of musicians in the last decades of his career. He was at South By Southwest to promote the music documentary "Take Me to the River," one of two films he participated in late in life.
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Associated Press Writer Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee, contributed to this report.
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