LOS ANGELES (AP) — A youth soccer coach has been charged in the death of a 13-year-old whose body was found on the side of a Southern California road. Los Angeles County prosecutors said Monday that the boy was reported missing by his family March 30 after he boarded a train to visit the coach in Lancaster, north of Los Angeles. He wasn’t heard from again. His body was found several days later in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. “No parent should ever have to endure the unimaginable pain and sorrow of learning their child has been murdered,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement. “Sexual predators ... will be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Prosecutors said Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino was charged with one count of murder, with the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission or attempted commission of lewd acts with a child. The charges make him eligible for the death penalty.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than half of families who applied for Alabama’s new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling, as school choice advocates say the flood of applications proves the approach is what parents want. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s office released application figures Tuesday for the CHOOSE Act, the new program which will help eligible families tap state dollars to help pay for private school or home-schooling costs. Families submitted 22,167 applications for a total of 36,873 students. Ivey said the robust number of applications are a sign that, “clearly, taxpaying Alabama families want school choice.” “The CHOOSE Act, Alabama’s education savings account program, will allow more taxpaying Alabama families the opportunity to choose a school that meets their child’s individual needs. We are highly encouraged by the strong response in year one of the program,” Ivey said in a statement about the application numbers.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it has reached a preliminary, staff-level agreement with cash-strapped Argentina on a $20 billion bailout package, providing a welcome reprieve to libertarian President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order. As a staff-level agreement, the deal still requires final approval from the IMF’s executive board. The deal delivers a lifeline to President Milei, who has slashed inflation and stabilized the economy after years of turmoil with a harsh austerity program praised by the IMF. But without cash from the international lender, he has been unable to rebuild the scarce foreign exchange reserves he inherited, which he needs to repay debts and lift Argentina’s strict currency controls. “The agreement builds on the authorities’ impressive early progress in stabilizing the economy,” the organization said in a statement announcing the agreement on the loan under a 48-month arrangement.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill to make Nebraska’s method of awarding presidential electoral votes a winner-take-all system failed to survive a filibuster Tuesday after two Republican lawmakers broke with their own party. The bill’s failure preserves the Omaha area’s “blue dot” congressional district that has seen its electoral vote — one of Nebraska’s five — go to Democratic candidates in three of the past five presidential elections. Republican Sen. Merv Riepe, of Ralston, followed through on his promise not to support the winner-take-all proposal, despite a full-court press by Gov. Jim Pillen to apply public pressure on him. That included a written statement from the governor on Monday for Riepe to stand “with his fellow Republicans on this critical issue.” Pillen also highlighted Riepe’s prior votes over the years to support a change to winner-take-all. But Riepe, whose legislative district is almost evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, reiterated that the winner-take-all system is “a poison pill for my district.” Riepe faces reelection next year if he decides to run for another term.

These are the coaches who won NBA championships in the last six years: Joe Mazzulla with Boston, Michael Malone with Denver, Steve Kerr with Golden State, Mike Budenholzer with Phoenix, Frank Vogel with the Los Angeles Lakers and Nick Nurse with Toronto. Mazzulla is still with Boston. Kerr is still with Golden State. Everybody else got fired. They packed up their ring and left. Malone became the latest name on that list Tuesday, when the Denver Nuggets — the 2023 NBA champions — fired him with three games left in the season, an unprecedented move for a postseason-bound team. And around the league, in the hours that followed, coaches reacted in basically the same stunned, surprised manners.

ATLANTA (AP) — It will be quite difficult for Edmundo Sosa to top his first play of his first career start in the outfield. Sosa, best known for his versatility as an infielder, started in left field for the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night against the Atlanta Braves. Sosa, in his eighth season in the majors with St. Louis and Philadelphia, had no previous starts in the outfield. Sosa looked like an accomplished outfielder when he reached over the wall to rob Marcell Ozuna of a home run in the first inning. Ozuna’s shot off Zack Wheeler looked as if it was headed over the fence. Instead, Sosa leaped and pulled the ball back for the final out of the inning. Sosa kept the ball in his glove as he jogged back to a warm welcome in the Phillies dugout.

A model wears a creation from the Leandro Castro collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Three people have been killed and three others have been injured in a shooting in Virginia Tuesday evening, according to law enforcement. At about 5:30 p.m., law enforcement received 911 calls about a shooting at a town house complex in Spotsylvania County, about 65 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., said Major Elizabeth Scott, spokesperson for the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office. No arrests have been made. “There’s dozens upon dozens of officers out actively looking for suspects and preserving the crime scene,” Scott said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP’s most contentious and expensive contests of 2026. Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump, announced his decision Tuesday in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham after spending more than a year openly flirting with a Senate challenge. During that time, Paxton has sought to position himself as a national leader among the GOP’s ascendant hard right, launching some of the first criminal investigations...

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TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — The losing is over for Yeshiva University’s baseball team. The Modern Orthodox Jewish school snapped a 99-game skid Tuesday with a 9-5 victory over Lehman College in the opener of the New York City neighbors’ nonconference doubleheader played at Fairleigh Dickinson University. No such luck for Lehman, however. The loss was the Lightning’s 43rd in a row. The schools had a combined streak of futility that stretched to 141 consecutive games before playing each other. Caltech in Pasadena, California, dropped 228 straight games from 2003-2013.

Wanona Harp rescues a cat stranded on her neighbor’s porch flooded by the Kentucky River in Lockport, Ky.,Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cincinnati Reds second baseman Matt McLain was placed on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday with a strained left hamstring that the team expects will heal quickly by giving him some days to rest. Manager Terry Francona said McLain had been bothered by the leg in recent days and it made sense to get him off his legs and be cautious in the hope that he can come back in a week. “There’s just so much baseball left to play that it just didn’t seem like it made a lot of sense to try to push through this right now,” Francona said before the Reds played the middle game of their three-game series series against the San Francisco Giants. McLain was batting .214 with three home runs and five RBIs over eight games, including seven starts at second base. Without him, the Reds’ depth is tested given Spencer Steer is currently unavailable to play the field because of a tender throwing shoulder — and he was the designated hitter batting seventh Tuesday.

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos pets a cat as he leaves the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, seen in the background, in Amorgos Island, Greece, on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso drove in four runs, Francisco Lindor hit a leadoff homer and the New York Mets beat the Miami Marlins 10-5 on Tuesday for their sixth consecutive victory. Clay Holmes (1-1) struck out a career-high 10 in 5 1/3 innings for his first win with the Mets and second as a major league starter. Brandon Nimmo broke a fifth-inning tie with a two-run double, and Starling Marte blooped a two-run single. Juan Soto had two singles and scored twice, including on Alonso’s wind-aided, pop-fly double that eluded Kyle Stowers in shallow right field. The temperature at first pitch, moved up three hours Monday to 4:10 p.m. because of a harsh weather forecast, was 43 degrees at blustery Citi Field. Derek Hill hit a two-run homer for the Marlins and made an incredible diving catch on the left-center warning track to save three runs. Liam Hicks had three RBIs.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts right tackle Braden Smith says he missed the final five games last season because of an obsessive-compulsive disorder that was so severe he spent 48 days in a treatment facility and even contemplated suicide. The Indianapolis Star published a story Tuesday in which Smith spoke publicly for the first time about why he was out. Team officials had previously said Smith was out because of a personal matter but provided no additional details. “I was physically present, but I was nowhere to be found,” the 29-year-old Smith said in the interview. “I did not care about playing football. I didn’t care about hanging out with my family, with my wife, with my newborn son. I was a month away from putting a bullet through my brain.” Smith said he was diagnosed with religious scrupulosity, which creates anxiety over engaging in actions that could offend God or may be viewed as blasphemous. Those afflicted may pray or act to seek repentance so frequently it dominates their life.

DENVER (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers acquired Quinn Priester on Monday to bolster their injury-riddled staff, and the right-hander will get into the rotation on Thursday against the Colorado Rockies. With Nelson Cortes landing on the injured list on Sunday, it left Freddy Peralta as the only healthy starter from Milwaukee’s projected five-man rotation less that two weeks into 2025. The Brewers moved quickly to address the lack of arms. “Credit to our front office to be able to make that quick move in the midst of the adversity we’re having on the mound and all the injuries, uncanny amount of injuries,” Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy said. “It’s unfathomable that you think about how many guys we’ve had injured, and for them to move fast and get a quality arm like this, who we’re familiar with and can help us right away, is really great work on their part.”