By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Michigan coach Juwan Howard hit Wisconsin assistant Joe Krabbenhoft after arguing with Wisconsin coach Greg Gard during the handshake line following the Badgers’ 77-63 victory. The Big Ten says it plans to “take swift and appropriate disciplinary action when it completes its review.” During his
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Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A gemstone, billed as one of the largest gem-quality opals in existence, has been sold for nearly $144,000 at auction in Alaska on Sunday. The auction house, Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals, said the opal, dubbed the “Americus Australis,” weighs more than 11,800 carats. It also has a long
Continue Reading By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Aliyah Boston had 16 points and 12 rebounds to tie the Southeastern Conference mark of 19 straight double-doubles and No. 1 South Carolina clinched a share of the league title with a 67-53 victory over No. 12 Tennessee. The Gamecocks improved to 11-0 this season
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By Pooja Salhotra and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A 21-year-old female student at SUNY Potsdam was shot and killed near the upstate New York campus Friday night, state police and university officials said. The victim, identified as Elizabeth Howell, was found on College Park Road, state police said in a news release. She was pronounced dead
Continue Reading MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan was upset 2-0 at home by midtable Sassuolo and wasted a chance to leapfrog city rival Milan and go top of the Italian league. Leader Milan had stumbled Saturday with a 2-2 draw at last-place Salernitana. Inter remains two points behind in second but with a game in hand. Giacomo
Continue Reading AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Honesty Scott-Grayson scored 23 points with five steals and Auburn scored the last 11 points of the game to upset No. 21 Georgia 65-60. After Jenna Staiti’s layup put Georgia on top 60-54 with 7:16 to play, the Bulldogs missed their last 11 shots and had six turnovers. Aicha Coulibaly, who
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EL PASO, Texas — The Fresh Start Community Closet headed by Patricia Torres wants to take what El Pasoans don’t need and give it to people who do. The Fresh Start Community Closet is a part of the Kelly Center for Hunger Relief. Torres told ABC-7, “A lot of our community members are looking for
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EL PASO, Texas- If you’re looking for a job in the Borderland, good news. Not only are there “Job Opening” signs posted throughout our area, but companies are also opening businesses from one end of the Borderland to another. You may recall Amazon is opening a 625,000 square-foot facility in Horizon employing as many as
Continue Reading VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia high school senior who was born with no right leg and a left leg that ends at the middle of his thigh took home a state wrestling championship, surprising everyone but himself. Adonis Lattimore, a senior at Landstown high School, won first place Saturday in the Virginia High
Continue Reading BAROOGA, Australia (AP) — Hannah Green of Australia is the first woman to win a mixed-gender tournament on a main golf tour. The former Women’s PGA champion shot a 66 for a four-shot victory in the TPS Murray River on the PGA Tour of Australasia. It’s part of an innovative series in Australia where men
Continue Reading TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Deja Kelly scored 26 points, Alyssa Utsby added 12 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 24 North Carolina defeated Florida State 64-49. Kennedy Todd-Williams scored 10 points for the Tar Heels and Anya Poole grabbed 13 rebounds. The Tar Heels led by one point early in the fourth quarter before breaking
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper and other media say a leak of data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, reveals details of the accounts of more than 30,000 clients — some of them unsavory — and points to possible failures of due diligence in checks on many customers. Credit Suisse said it “strongly rejects
Continue Reading By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen top-scorer Patrik Schick has been ruled out for several weeks after tearing a muscle in his left calf. Leverkusen says that an MRI scan confirmed the damage sustained during the team’s 3-2 loss at Mainz in the Bundesliga on Friday. Schick has scored a
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Rori Harmon scored 19 points with eight rebounds, seven assists, three steals and a block to lead No. 14 Texas to a 67-58 win over West Virginia. Aliyah Matharu, one of three Longhorns with eight points, closed it out with a three-point play with 12.9 seconds left, her layup coming at
Continue Reading MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Rori Harmon scored 19 points with eight rebounds, seven assists, three steals and a block to lead No. 14 Texas to a 67-58 win over West Virginia. Aliyah Matharu, one of three Longhorns with eight points, closed it out with a three-point play with 12.9 seconds left, her layup coming at
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CNN By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Covering what’s really happening on the Ukrainian border is being made even more difficult because of the constant flow of unverified or potentially misleading information, said Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent. The prevalence of amateur videos, crowdsourced content and difficult to discern satellite imagery can confuse or perhaps misinform
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Covering what’s really happening on the Ukrainian border is being made even more difficult because of the constant flow of unverified or potentially misleading information, said Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent. The prevalence of amateur videos, crowdsourced content and difficult to discern satellite imagery can confuse or perhaps misinform even
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By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate took a significant step in recent days to help former military service members suffering from toxic burn pit exposure by passing a bill to expand access to health care for post-9/11 combat veterans. It’s not yet clear though when burn pit legislation might get to the
Continue Reading WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Daniel Podence helped Wolverhampton’s push for European qualification by clinching a 2-1 win over Leicester in the Premier League. It was Leicester’s failure to clear a cross from Podence that led to the opener in the ninth minute with Raul Jimenez laying the ball back to Ruben Neves who shot through
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EL PASO, Texas — Approximately 100 artists from all around the world gathered in El Paso to paint the streets as part of this year’s Borderland Jam. It’s been five long years, but finally the Borderland Jam returned to El Paso over President’s day weekend. The event allows creatives to come together and paint the
Continue Reading merinojavier73 (CNN Español) — Que levante la mano quien haya encontrado el verdadero amor a través de una aplicación de citas. Que levanten las manos las personas que han sido engañadas en una aplicación de citas. ¿Por qué el documental de Netflix, “El estafador de Tinder”, ha cautivado a tantos a nivel mundial? ¿Qué elementos
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer North Carolina’s hopes for an NCAA Tournament berth became even more tenuous after a loss to Pittsburgh. The Tar Heels bounced back nicely with a win over Virginia Tech for their first Quadrant 1 win in eight tries. North Carolina got an added boost with Michigan’s climb up the
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer North Carolina’s hopes for an NCAA Tournament berth became even more tenuous after a loss to Pittsburgh. The Tar Heels bounced back nicely with a win over Virginia Tech for their first Quadrant 1 win in eight tries. North Carolina got an added boost with Michigan’s climb up the
Continue Reading By Reuters E-commerce sites operated by China’s Tencent and Alibaba Group were added to the US government’s latest “notorious markets” list, the US Trade Representative’s office said Thursday. The list identifies 42 online markets and 35 physical markets that are reported to engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy. “This includes identifying
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CNNEE (CNN) — Este lunes es el Día de los Presidentes y el cumpleaños de George Washington. Pero, ¿en realidad es así? Los estadounidenses no han celebrado el natalicio del primer presidente del país durante su verdadera fecha de nacimiento por 50 años. En vez de eso, en Estados Unidos se celebra el Día de
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police officers in Albuquerque are shifting to a 12-hour schedule to help increase staffing levels on patrol. Police Chief Harold Medina tells Albuquerque TV station KRQE that the vast majority of officers support the 12-hour shift. As of December, the Albuquerque Police Department had 926 officers. The department has had a
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The last-minute scramble to secure the signing of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has started to pay off for Barcelona. Aubameyang scored a hat trick for his first goals since joining from Arsenal at the end of the winter transfer window and led the Catalan club to a resounding
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Tasha Nelson’s 10-year-old son held back tears when he heard the news. The two were in the car when the announcement came through the radio: Virginia’s freshly sworn-in governor had signed an order attempting to ban mask mandates in schools. “My son looked up at me and he had tears in
Continue Reading Colorado Governor Jared Polis tells CNN’s Dana Bash why he ended the state’s indoor mask mandates months ago, ahead of the recent push for states to end mask mandates post-Omicron.
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Es oficial. Noruega es realmente buena en los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno. Con una población de poco más de cinco millones de personas, el país europeo ha seguido superando su peso en Beijing 2022, terminando muy por encima del resto en el medallero. Noruega obtuvo la mayor cantidad de medallas de
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