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Pacific Northwest Sportswatch Daily Listings 05/15/2026 04:01pm • UCLA at Washington — BTN San Diego at Seattle — FOX MLS: Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Seattle Sounders — FS1, Apple TV The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive TV listings provided by LiveSportsOnTV. PHOTO ESSAY: Glitter, wings and whimsy: Black cosplayers turn Georgia woods into a fae wonderland 05/15/2026 03:59pm • WARM SPRINGS, Georgia (AP) — Wearing gauzy wings and floaty dresses in a rainbow of colors, with glitter and rhinestones shimmering on their faces, Black cosplaying creatives gathered in a woodland clearing in central Georgia to celebrate whimsy and magic. ATL Black Fae Fest is a three-day event w Trailblazing goalie Manon Rheaume hired to become first GM of PWHL's Detroit expansion team 05/15/2026 03:55pm • Manon Rheaume is carrying over her trailblazing women’s hockey career into a front office role in being hired as the general manager of the PWHL’s expansion team in Detroit, the league announced on Friday. The Canadian Olympian goaltender, and first woman to appear in an exhibition game of any o California lawmakers rush $25 million to hospitals without knowing who qualifies 05/15/2026 03:51pm • A $25 million grant to cash-strapped hospitals became law less than a week after it was introduced — so fast that it caught some hospitals, their advocates, and even some lawmakers, off guard. It also left a litany of unanswered questions: who came up with the narrow criteria, how many hospitals w Moscow court orders Euroclear to pay compensation to Russia's central bank over seized assets 05/15/2026 03:46pm • MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow ruled in favor of the Russian Central Bank in its lawsuit against Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house that holds the bulk of Russian assets frozen by the European Union, Russian media reported Friday. The lawsuit sought to recover 18.2 trillion rubles ($249 Academy Award winning actor Brendan Fraser to serve as Indianapolis 500's honorary starter 05/15/2026 03:45pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Academy Award winning actor Brendan Fraser has been selected as the honorary starter for next week's Indianapolis 500, race organizers announced Friday. Fraser was born in Indianapolis but was raised in Europe and Canada. He's returning to his hometown to appear atop the flag s Mechanic Roberto Orozco-Ramirez walks free after more than 100 days in jail on immigration charges 05/15/2026 03:42pm • A federal judge in Great Falls ruled to release Froid diesel mechanic Roberto Orozco-Ramirez from jail on Wednesday evening, siding with his lawyers on their argument that his continued detention was unlawful. On Thursday around 10:50 a.m., after more than 100 days behind bars, Orozco-Ramirez walked KALA BIO: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/15/2026 03:36pm • ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — KALA BIO, Inc. (KALA) on Friday reported a loss of $1.6 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Arlington, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 14 cents. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://auto Students missing following attack by armed groups on school in northeastern Nigeria, police say 05/15/2026 03:36pm • MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — An unspecified number of students are missing after suspected jihadi militants attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Friday, police told The Associated Press. Several students cannot be accounted for after the attack, Nahum Daso, Borno po No practice. Plan for the best. That's the Ruff approach with Sabres facing elimination vs Canadiens 05/15/2026 03:33pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The time for talking, practicing and poring over game film is over as far as Sabres coach Lindy Ruff is concerned. With Buffalo facing elimination for the first time this postseason, Ruff told his team to avoid the rink Friday, meet at the airport and contemplated canceling th A political dynasty heiress and a former trade minister advance to Peru’s presidential runoff 05/15/2026 03:24pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) — Keiko Fujimori, the conservative daughter of a disgraced former president, and Roberto Sánchez, a nationalist congressman and former minister, will vie for the presidency of Peru in an electoral runoff, according to the final vote count released Friday. Fujimori and Sánchez wil Maryland students build microwave-sized satellite to study asteroid passing close to Earth in 2029 05/15/2026 03:13pm • University of Maryland students are racing to build a spacecraft to study an asteroid that will pass closer to Earth than some of the satellites currently orbiting the planet. They just need help to funding it. The asteroid is called Apophis. It's about the size of the Eiffel Tower — and on Apr Wyoming cuts wolf hunt in half to buoy Yellowstone region’s disease-depleted population 05/15/2026 03:05pm • Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the state began al NCAA bans ex-Abilene Christian basketball player Airion Simmons for alleged role in throwing games 05/15/2026 02:58pm • A former Abilene Christian men's basketball player was permanently banned by the NCAA on Friday for allegedly helping rig basketball games for sports bettors. According to the NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions, Airion Simmons — who played at Abilene Christian from 2019-2024— colluded wi Israeli forces set up a camp in the Iraqi desert during Iran war, officials say 05/15/2026 02:55pm • BAGHDAD (AP) — Israeli forces set up a post in the desert in Iraq at the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Iraqi and U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The existence of the secret Israeli military facility was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which described it as a bas