LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With more than 1,500 active Covid-19 cases in the district, Las Cruces Public Schools announced Friday that staffers will now enforce stricter protocols at sporting events. The district will once again require social distancing at games, according to a news release late Friday. Fans attending events must also sit in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Las Cruces Public Schools is entering enhanced Covid-safe practices for all indoor athletic events and school activities. A district spokesperson says the change is needed to stem the further spread of the virus. Social distancing protocols have been reinstated in all gymnasiums and auditoriums. Spectators will notice marked locations for
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A 37-year-old New Mexico man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2020 fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend in Hatch. A Las Cruces jury found Salvador Gonzales guilty on Friday. Prosecutors say evidence presented during the trial included a video taken by a neighbor that showed Gonzales stabbing
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Shaun White is one of four defending gold medalists named to the U.S. snowboarding team, along with Red Gerard, Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim. Only White had to sweat out his spot on the team after a difficult month of qualifying that included a bout with COVID-19 and an injured ankle.
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — A person familiar with the hire has told The Associated Press that the Phoenix Mercury have hired former Las Vegas Aces assistant Vanessa Nygaard as their next head coach. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the hire won’t be officially announced until Monday. Nygaard
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CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN Attendees of Friday’s March for Life, an annual anti-abortion march in Washington that marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, were optimistic that this year’s march would be the last with Roe on the books. They were marching toward a Supreme Court that has before it
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN Attendees of Friday’s March for Life, an annual anti-abortion march in Washington that marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, were optimistic that this year’s march would be the last with Roe on the books. They were marching toward a Supreme Court that has before it a
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Real Betis has continued its good run with a 4-1 win at Espanyol to strengthen its hold on third place in the Spanish league. It was the third consecutive win for Betis in all competitions, and fourth in its last five matches. The victory moved Manuel Pellegrini’s team within five points of
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — American moguls skier Kai Owens has made her first Olympic team, giving the 17-year-old a chance to return to the country where she was born to compete for a gold medal. Owens was abandoned at a town square in a province of China as an
Continue Reading By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have targeted two finalists for their general manager job. They’re seeking second interviews with Cleveland vice president of football operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kansas City executive director of player personnel Ryan Poles. The requests for meetings were confirmed by a person
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Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Al menos dos personas murieron y una resultó herida luego de que se registraran disparos este viernes en un hotel de Playa del Carmen, confirmó la Fiscalía del estado de Quintana Roo. Este viernes más temprano, el secretario de Seguridad Pública de Quintana Roo, Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, había informado que
Continue Reading LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Julian Perico of Peru has the 36-hole record at the Latin America Amateur Championship. He leads by three shots over Arkansas teammate Segundo Oliva Pinto of Argentina. The winner gets an invitation to the Masters in April and the British Open at St. Andrews in July. Perico had four
Continue Reading By JEFF BABINEAU Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Nelly Korda says she didn’t have much of an offseason break and it shows. The No. 1 player in women’s golf is playing like last year never ended. The 23-year-old American is coming off four LPGA titles, her first major and an Olympic gold medal. She
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Antes de quitarse la vida, Brian Laundrie escribió en un cuaderno que era el responsable de la muerte de Gabby Petito, según el FBI. “Una revisión del cuaderno reveló declaraciones escritas del Sr. Laundrie en las que se responsabiliza por la muerte de la Sra. Petito”, dijo la Oficina de Campo
Continue Reading LYON, France (AP) — Striker Moussa Dembele’s first-half penalty secured a 1-0 win for Lyon against bitter rival Saint-Etienne in their French league match Friday. Dembele, who also scored the winner from the spot last week against Troyes, sent Saint-Etienne goalkeeper Paul Bernardoni the wrong way in the 15th minute for his sixth league goal
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — American forward Josh Sargent scored his first two Premier League goals to help lift Norwich out of the relegation zone with a 3-0 win over 10-man Watford. The 21-year-old Sargent had not found the net in 18 previous games in the English top flight since his offseason move from Werder Bremen until
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New York sportsbooks took more than $600 million worth of bets from phones or computers in the first two weeks of the activity being legal this month. Figures posted Friday by the New York State Gaming Commission show the four currently operating mobile books —
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New York sportsbooks took more than $600 million worth of bets from phones or computers in the first two weeks of the activity being legal this month. Figures posted Friday by the New York State Gaming Commission show the four currently operating mobile books —
Continue Reading SHIPROCK, N.M. (AP) — More than 200 U.S. military medical personnel are being deployed to eight states and the Navajo Nation, including a hospital in New Mexico, to support civilian health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. A 20-person team from the U.S. Army will support the Navajo Nation at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock.
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FULSHEAR, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators say an air traffic controller’s radar display didn’t show the location and altitude of a paraglider when a small plane was placed on a collision course with it near Houston last month. In a preliminary report Friday, National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the powered paraglider lacked a transponder
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EL PASO, Texas – Longtime El Paso sports journalist Ray Sanchez has been laid to rest. Sanchez died on Jan. 12 at the age of 94. A mass was held at St. Matthews Catholic Church on Sunset Friday morning at 10 a.m. He was laid to rest at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Santa Teresa, New
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By Liz Stark, CNN The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is investigating “numerous complaints” about labs and testing sites associated with the Center for Covid Control, the agency confirmed to CNN Friday. “We take seriously any allegations of fraud or misbehavior by COVID-19 testing sites. CMS’s Center for Clinical Standards and Quality investigates these
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — UT-Arlington has accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference beginning this summer. It’s part of an expansion that will push the league to at least 15 schools. The move ends a nine-year run in the Sun Belt Conference for the Mavericks. They spent one athletic season in the WAC
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — UT-Arlington has accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference beginning this summer. It’s part of an expansion that will push the league to at least 15 schools. The move ends a nine-year run in the Sun Belt Conference for the Mavericks. They spent one athletic season in the WAC
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — UT-Arlington has accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference beginning this summer. It’s part of an expansion that will push the league to at least 15 schools. The move ends a nine-year run in the Sun Belt Conference for the Mavericks. They spent one athletic season in the WAC
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joshua Berlinger, CNN At least seven fighters from the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces were killed when ISIS attempted to break thousands of its fighters out of a Syrian prison on Thursday, an attack underlining concerns the terror group could be quietly resurging. The assault on the Ghweran prison, located in the
Continue Reading Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Netflix, SunPower fall; Peloton, Bank OZK rise.
Continue Reading VERONA, Italy (AP) — Hellas Verona beat Bologna 2-1 in Serie A in a match between two teams still getting players back from coronavirus outbreaks. Nikola Kalinic headed in the winner in the 85th to finish off a counterattack. Gianluca Caprari equalized for Verona with a backheel flick before the break following Riccardo Orsolini’s acrobatic
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks fell for a fourth straight day on Wall Street Friday, and the S&P 500 finished its worst week since March 2020, when the onset of the pandemic in the U.S. sparked a bear market. All of the sectors in the S&P 500 fell except consumer staples. A big drop in Netflix
Continue Reading FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Patrick Wimmer has scored one goal and set up another as Arminia Bielefeld surprisingly beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 to boost its hopes of avoiding relegation from the Bundesliga. The win lifts Bielefeld up two places to 14th in the 18-team Bundesliga and away from the relegation zone as it aims for
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