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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
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
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
Continue ReadingBy 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 ReadingCNN 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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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
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 38-year-old Las Vegas woman has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison after she was convicted in New York in an elder fraud conspiracy targeting about 7,500 victims and generating about $10 million in proceeds. Federal prosecutors say Romana Leyva was a leader of a fraud conspiracy
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GABSPETITO, INSTAGRAM, MOAB POLICE DEPT, CNN, gabspetito/Instagram By Randi Kaye, CNN Before taking his own life, Brian Laundrie wrote in a notebook he was responsible for Gabby Petito‘s death, according to the FBI. “A review of the notebook revealed written statements by Mr. Laundrie claiming responsibility for Ms. Petito’s death,” the FBI’s Denver Field Office
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mother who claims teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into changing her gender identity and name has filed a legal case against a tiny California school district. A conservative legal group filed the claim Wednesday against Spreckels Union School District saying it was responsible for
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.
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — A judge gave a nine-year prison sentence to a man for convictions for helping move a dead body in the 2014 death of an Arizona man who was struck with an ax. Charles Robbins was given credit for having already served nearly seven years. He had pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution and
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
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks fell again on Wall Street Friday, capping off the worst weekly drop for the S&P 500 since the start of the pandemic. The S&P 500 fell 1.9%, and notched its worst weekly performance since March 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.3% and the Nasdaq lost
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
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
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Hospitalizations COVID-19 hospitalizations fell for the second straight day after not reporting a decrease in several weeks. Over the past 24 hours, the county reported 21 fewer COVID hospitalizations. The county now has a total of 1,055 patients. COVID Hospitalizations in the past month-and-a-half: Jan. 21 – 1,055Jan. 20 – 1,076Jan. 19 – 1,109Jan. 18
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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