By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The arrival of four women from the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team has thrust the NCAA gymnastics championships into the spotlight. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee as well as gold medalist Jade Carey and silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum are all college
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The arrival of four women from the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team has thrust the NCAA gymnastics championships into the spotlight. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee as well as gold medalist Jade Carey and silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum are all college
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un meteorito viajó muy lejos de su hogar para visitar la Tierra. Los investigadores descubrieron el primer meteorito interestelar conocido en chocar con la Tierra, según un documento del Comando Espacial de Estados Unidos publicado recientemente. Un meteorito interestelar es una roca espacial que se origina fuera de nuestro sistema solar,
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of fans filled the streets of downtown Columbia for a celebration of South Carolina’s second women’s basketball national championship on Wednesday. The Gamecocks closed out a wire-to-wire season at No. 1 with a 64-49 over UConn in the national title game in Minneapolis on April 3. Officials awaited coach Dawn
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Wind gusts should stay around 25-30 mph the next several days. Temps will warm to the 80’s with lots of sunshine.
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets were delayed getting to the arena for their NBA play-in game against the Atlanta Hawks. By a freight train, of all things. Tracks run all around State Farm Arena, a remnant of a time when the area was the site of the city’s two major passenger stations. Those tracks
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By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico lawmaker is urging K-12 school leaders to reject new social studies standards approved by the state’s education department. Republican House Whip Rod Montoya argues that the new standards are racially divisive. He says local school officials “are morally
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El mandato federal de uso de mascarillas en el transporte se extenderá por otros 15 días, lo que significa que las personas que viajen a bordo de aviones, trenes y transporte público en Estados Unidos deberán usar una mascarilla al menos hasta principios de mayo. El mandato, según confirmó el gobierno
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to a two-year contract extension with forward Reese Johnson. The deal runs through the 2023-24 season with an $800,000 salary-cap hit. The 23-year-old Johnson has one goal and five assists in 28 games this season. He made his NHL debut for Chicago last year.
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks are missing John Collins and Lou Williams for their NBA play-in game against the Charlotte Hornets. Collins hasn’t played since March 11 because of a right ring finger sprain and a sprained right foot. He has resumed 4-on-4 workouts but is still not ready for game action. Williams is
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Un hospital, un teatro, una estación de tren y una masacre en las calles de una ciudad constituyen hasta este miércoles los ataques militares más atroces que las fuerzas rusas han llevado a cabo en distintas ciudades de Ucrania. Las imágenes de estos ataques han dado la vuelta al mundo
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer Atlético Madrid’s rough approach didn’t end at the final whistle against Manchester City. The melee in Madrid spilled into the tunnel long after full time had blown on a Champions League campaign that Diego Simeone’s side tried to keep going with a variety of dark arts and rough
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DENVER (AP) — Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination suit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Denver-based Frontier agreed to keep or change several policies to address the needs of pregnant and lactating
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Rockies centerfielder Randal Grichuk thinks feeling at home in the vast outfield of Coors Field may take nothing more than a homestand or two. It’s become an outfield reorientation for Grichuk and fellow Rockies newcomer Kris Bryant. Playing a little deeper is a necessity at Coors,
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By Tara John, Oleksandr Fylyppov, Sandi Sidhu and Julia Presniakova, CNN Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — All Vladimir Nesterenko wanted to do when he grew up was to play basketball. The brown haired 12-year-old dribbled and shot hoops with his dad Oleh in the village where they lived in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. He idolized NBA
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Hong Kong (CNN Business) — China está luchando para contener un brote de covid-19 en Shanghái, a pesar de un confinamiento de 17 días que mantiene a la mayoría de sus 25 millones de residentes encerrados. Shanghái, ubicada en la costa este de China, es la ciudad más grande y próspera, así como una
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s lawyer says federal authorities have informed him that the Democrat is not the target of an investigation that led FBI agents to search Cuellar’s South Texas home. Cuellar denied any wrongdoing in January after FBI agents searched his house in
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EL PASO, Texas – Derick Hamilton (Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier City, La.) has inked to attend UTEP and play for the men’s basketball team starting with the 2022-23 season, head coach Joe Golding announced Wednesday. Hamilton will have three years of eligibility for the Miners. A brief profile on Hamilton and a quote from Golding follow below. Derick Hamilton
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UPDATE 6:45 P.M.: Police say the package was deemed non-hazardous, and all roads to the airport are back open. UPDATE – El Paso Police say officers responded to the El Paso International Airport “in an abundance of caution” after a suspicious package was reported. Police were providing additional screening of baggage. Flights were not impacted
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By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday proposed an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional boundaries that could help his party pick up four seats in the US House of Representatives this November. If the proposed map is enacted and survives a legal challenge, the result could lead to “entirely wiping
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy and Aileen Graef, CNN Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James documented his travel from Wisconsin to the Northeast over a series of YouTube videos posted in recent weeks. James, who was arrested and charged Wednesday afternoon in connection with the shooting, has been linked to a series of videos posted to
Continue Reading By Ethan Cohen and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Democratic Party officials approved a plan Wednesday that will kick off the process that could determine which states will get to hold their presidential primaries first in 2024. The new plan jettisons the current set of early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina and implements
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Village of RuidosoYou can also tune -in to 1490 AM KRUI to hear the audio portion of the meeting. Ruidoso, New Mexico — While the area experienced some high winds that led firefighters to stop their work in the Nogal Fire area, they were able to continue working once the winds subsided later in the
Continue Reading By JOE STIGLICH Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Logan Webb allowed one run over eight innings and Luke Williams doubled home the only runs he needed as the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 2-1. Webb, who emerged as the Giants’ ace last season, gave up four hits. He retired 22 of
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have placed reliever Sergio Romo on the 10-day injured list on with right shoulder inflammation. The move was made retroactive to Tuesday, a day after Romo pitched a scoreless inning at Minnesota in his 800th major league appearance. The 39-year-old Romo finalized a $2 million, one-year contract with Seattle
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, Jennifer Henderson and Allison Flexner, CNN Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. entered a plea of guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of forcibly touching a woman at a New York City nightclub in 2018. Gooding admitted to kissing the woman, a waitress at the club, on her lips without consent. He also
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative group Project Veritas says the Justice Department had secretly obtained from Apple and Google personal information as part of an ongoing investigation into how the organization received a diary purported to belong to President Joe Biden’s daughter. The organization said it had recently learned from Apple
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago White Sox right-hander Lance Lynn thinks he is ahead of schedule in his recovery from right knee surgery. Lynn was pulled from his final start of spring training with right knee discomfort — one of a series of injuries for the reigning AL Central champions already this season. Lynn went 11-6
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By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN The flurry of new abortion restrictions across mostly Republican-led states leaves neighboring states to fill the gap in abortion care. Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Sitt signed a bill Tuesday that would make providing an abortion a felony punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or a 10-year prison sentence. In one
Continue Reading Sergio Gomez (CNN Español) — La UEFA Champions League ya tiene definidos los duelos de semifinales, ronda en la que ya no hay sorteo pues los enfrentamientos ya quedaron decididos en el sorteo de los de los cuartos final el pasado 18 de marzo. Habrá enfrentamiento de españoles contra ingleses en las semifinales de la
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