NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices are once again on the decline across the U.S., bringing some relief to drivers now paying a little less to fill up their tanks. The national average for gas prices on Monday stood around $3.44, according to AAA.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Eli Serrano III hit a home run in the sixth inning and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall in the seventh, helping North Carolina State beat Georgia 8-5 on Monday night to secure the program's fourth trip to the College World Series.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops violated the land border earlier this week, South Korea’s military said Tuesday, amid soaring animosities between the rivals over the North's recent trash-carrying balloon launches.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which blocked most maritime traffic into the harbor.

ATLANTA (AP) — Homer Rice, who as athletic director hired some of Georgia Tech's most successful coaches and implemented the school's Total Person Program, has died. He was 97. Rice died Monday, Georgia Tech announced on Monday night.

INDIANAPOLIS — Marriage, family, generosity and hope were the central themes of the North American Mission Board’s Send Luncheon on Monday, June 10, in Indianapolis as Southern Baptists blessed a family and provided support for adopting and fostering families.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – D.J. Horton, pastor of the Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, S.C., was elected president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference on Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmy Scroggins said he doesn’t have a magic marriage — he has a real marriage. The same goes for his parenting.

INDIANAPOLIS — They told stories about a young mother living in gang-controlled slums in a crowded city; Sudanese refugees who fled their homes with nothing and found a safe place in Uganda; Chuck, a third-generation Korean Japanese man living in Japan who was initially resistant to the gospel. 

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – In his first address as SBC Executive Committee president and CEO to trustees Monday, Jeff Iorg presented a mandate to address issues that have been roiling Southern Baptists in recent years.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Increasing financial transparency, combatting sexual abuse and electing a new slate of officers were among highlights of the SBC Executive Committee’s meeting Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Sharing that WMU has a treasured artifact that went to the moon and back, Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of national WMU, told her listeners how Astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest man to ever step on the moon, carried an emblem of the WMU pin to the moon and back in 1972.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders passed its largest budget ever on Sunday at its annual meeting in Indianapolis. The budget comes on the heels of one of the strongest years in the organization’s 64-year history.

INDIANAPOLIS – Preceding this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm, hosted a kickoff event on Sunday evening designed to set the focus for the busy days ahead.

INDIANAPOLIS — Shane Pruitt said God can reach a person at any age He wants to. Pruitt said he knew of a baptism recently of someone who came to faith in his 80s.

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s been 13 years since Adam Dooley opened an envelope addressed to him marked “personal” — and afterward quit the ministry. It came during the “worst” season of his life — his son was battling leukemia, and they were traveling weekly to St. Jude for treatments. Dooley said the church he was serving was also “angry about everything.”

INDIANAPOLIS — James Noble said the imaginary letter he had to read to the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference on Monday was stained with water — maybe the sweat of the author’s brow, maybe tears.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it plans to stockpile aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A growing number of suspects are facing felony charges in a shootout that injured 11 people last month in a public square in the heart of Savannah's downtown historic district.

GENEVA (AP) — The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million as war drives about a quarter of the population from their homes, the U.N. migration agency told The Associated Press on Monday.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president and nine others went missing Monday and a search was underway, the president's office said.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – “We’re just getting started!” Victor Chayasirisobhon told more than 100 attendees of the third annual Asian Collective Kickoff Celebration on Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Hispanic Baptists kicked off their time in Indianapolis for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention with a celebratory dinner on Sunday night, June 9, at the Indianapolis Convention Center.

INDIANAPOLIS — Some churches today have a lot in common with the Savannah Bananas, pastor and seminary professor Hershael York suggested in his sermon Sunday night at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference in Indianapolis.

Members of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the broader community mourn the death of June Williams Honeycutt, who passed away on Saturday, June 8, 2024, surrounded by her family.