Authorities and volunteers searched Sunday for a missing Northern California man whose dog was found walking alone near a road in southern Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — American Taylor Fritz upset an ailing Rafael Nadel 6-3, 7-6 (5) to win the BNP Paribas Open and snap the 21-time major champion’s 20-match winning streak this year. Fritz earned the biggest victory of his young career in front of a partisan crowd in
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Neither Erling Haaland nor Gio Reyna could help Borussia Dortmund keep pace with Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich as the team was held 1-1 at Cologne. Sebastian Andersson’s first-half equalizer earned Cologne a point from an intensive game and left Bayern six points clear of Dortmund with
Continue ReadingDALLAS — Michael Flowers had 22 points as Washington State beat SMU 75-63 in the second round of the NIT. Kendric Davis led the Mustangs with 30 points.
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Collin Gillespie scored 20 points, Eric Dixon hit a big 3-pointer late and second-seeded Villanova fended off seventh-seeded Ohio State 71-61 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats earned their eighth trip to the Sweet 16 under Jay Wright after surviving a second-half
Continue ReadingBy AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kevin Hayes scored both goals for Philadelphia and the Flyers beat the New York Islanders 2-1 in their first game since trading longtime captain Claude Giroux. Joel Farabee and Travis Konecny each assisted both goals for Philadelphia. Casey Cizikas scored for the Islanders. Giroux was dealt to
Continue ReadingTRAIL, Oregon (AP) — Authorities and volunteers are searching for a missing Northern California man whose dog was found walking alone near a road in southern Oregon. SF Gate reports Tyler Evans’ dog Ali was spotted Wednesday near Trail, Oregon, a town about an hour north of the California border. His mother says Evans, of
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Aliyah Boston scored 10 points and 16 rebounds as top-seeded South Carolina had to ride its strong defense to a 49-33 win over Miami in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Gamecocks again held an opponent without a field goal in the second quarter
Continue ReadingPISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Tom Young, the former Rutgers basketball coach who led the Scarlet Knights to an undefeated regular season in 1975-76 and their only Final Four appearance, has died. He was 89. Young died early Sunday in Virginia Beach, Virginia, son Tom Young Jr. told the university. Young had been hospitalized. Young is
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams is asserting that she should be allowed to immediately begin using a committee that can raise unlimited funds. The state Democratic Party and the Abrams campaign are telling state ethics officials that Abrams should have access to what Georgia calls a leadership committee now. That’s
Continue ReadingBy MITCHELL NORTHAM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — All-Americans Elissa Cunane of top-seeded North Carolina State and Ayoka Lee of ninth-seeded Kansas State are set for a rematch on Monday in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The teams met in November at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina, also the
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) – Una oficina de migración ubicada en Tapachula, Chiapas, en el sur de México, suspenderá hasta nuevo aviso sus operaciones luego de que este viernes se registrara una “irrupción violenta” por parte de migrantes, informó en un comunicado el Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM). El INM dijo que el incidente fue
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Diamond Miller scored 24 points, and fourth-seeded Maryland used a 19-0 run spanning parts of both halves to pull away to a 89-65 win over 12th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast. Angel Reese added 21 points and Ashley Osusu scored 20 for the Terrapins, who advanced
Continue ReadingSTILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State has hired Kansas City’s Jacie Hoyt as its women’s basketball coach. Hoyt went 81-65 during her five-year stint as Kansas City’s coach. The Roos won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in 2020. This season, Kansas City finished third in the Summit League and lost to Northern Iowa in
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis again broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.20 meters — or 20 feet, 4 inches — at the world indoor championships. The 22-year-old Swede had promised “something higher” at the event and set the new mark at his third and final attempt
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN As Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues to intensify, reporting from the war zone is becoming increasingly difficult — and dangerous. Four journalists have so far been killed reporting on the war and many more are injured or missing. Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna has been missing for more than a week, and
Continue ReadingCNN By Uliana Pavlova and Brian Stelter, CNN A Russian journalist working for the independent news site The Insider was killed in a shelling incident in Kyiv, the outlet said in a statement on Wednesday. Oksana Baulina had been filming the shelling destruction in the capital’s Podilskyi District by Russian troops when she came under
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Ye will not be performing at the Grammys this year. A report published in The Blast said that the musician was told Friday that his act had been pulled from the show, which is set to take place on April 3. A representative for Ye, who changed his name from Kanye
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Biden administration intends to declare that Myanmar’s years-long repression of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide.” Two officials say Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to announce the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Disney said it regrets a performance at its Orlando theme park by a high school cheerleading squad after it received backlash for the routine’s depictions of Native Americans. A widely circulated video of the Port Neches-Groves High School “Indianettes” from Texas shows the team dancing and chanting “scalp ’em Indians, scalp
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