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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto, Pete Alonso and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached big-money agreements on one-year contracts as 170 players avoided salary arbitration with deals Friday and 33 exchanged proposed figures with their teams. All-Star pitcher Max Fried and the Atlanta Braves were headed toward a hearing for

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man jailed in Arizona is facing a murder charge in connection with the disappearance of a 4-year-old Oklahoma girl he had been caring for, authorities said Friday, adding that the search for the child was ongoing. Ivon Adams, 36, was arrested Thursday in Arizona on

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto, Pete Alonso and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached big-money agreements on one-year contracts that avoided salary arbitration as the exchange of proposed hearing figures between Major League Baseball and the players’ association stretched late into Friday night. Soto got a $23 million deal with

By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, D’Angelo Russell had 17 and the Minnesota Timberwolves held off the short-handed Phoenix Suns 121-116 on Friday night. Taurean Prince added 16 points off the bench and fellow reserve Naz Red had 13 points for Minnesota. The Timberwolves won for the fourth

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The captain

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to undo a massive expansion of a school voucher program championed last year by her GOP predecessor and other Republicans that lets students apply to use public money for private-school tuition and other education costs. In releasing its budget proposals Friday, the governor’s office said the

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State had mojo on its side, a roster full of sharpshooting, freewheeling players veering toward a third straight NCAA Tournament for the first time in five decades. The pandemic stopped the Sun Devils, like everything else, in their tracks. “I think that was like

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two people have now been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Athena Brownfield, a 4-year-old Oklahoma girl whose 5-year-old sister was discovered wandering alone outside by a postal worker, state investigators said Friday. Arizona authorities arrested 36-year-old Ivon Adams on Thursday, and he is being

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A second grand jury has opted not to indict a fired Tucson police officer for manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect who used a motorized wheelchair. The Arizona Daily Star reports the Pima County Superior Court jury on Wednesday came back with a no bill vote on charging Ryan

By GARY HOROWITZ Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Pac-12 scoring leader Azuolas Tubelis had 25 points to help No. 9 Arizona beat Oregon State 86-74 on Thursday night. The Wildcats (15-2, 4-2 Pac-12) were coming off a 74-61 loss to Washington State that snapped Arizona’s 28-game home winning streak. Tubelis was instrumental in getting

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hunter Woods hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Portland State a 75-74 victory over Northern Arizona 75-74 on Thursday night. Northern Arizona’s Carson Towt’s free-throw attempt hit the front of the rim with 7.1 to play. Woods grabbed the rebound and passed to Cameron Parker, who dribbled the floor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gianni Hunt’s 16 points helped Sacramento State defeat Northern Colorado 72-64 on Thursday. Hunt also had five assists for the Hornets (10-7, 3-1 Big Sky Conference). Callum McRae scored 15 points and added 11 rebounds and seven assists. Akolda Mawein recorded 13 points and shot 6 for 9. The Bears (5-12,

By The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Noah Baumann had 19 points in Grand Canyon’s 80-48 victory over UT Arlington on Thursday. Baumann shot 7 for 11, including 4 for 7 from beyond the arc for the Antelopes (12-5, 3-1 Western Athletic Conference). Rayshon Harrison added 17 points while shooting 5 for 8 (3 for

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Mark Kastelic spent the build-up to the game with family and friends. He signed a hockey stick for a kid during pregame warmups, something he rarely does. When the puck wasn’t in play, Kastelic found himself sneaking peeks into the crowd, even finding his mom

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Desmond Cambridge Jr. scored 21 points to lead four in double figures as Arizona State rolled to a 90-73 victory over Oregon on Thursday night. Arizona State (14-3, 5-1 Pac-12) pulled away early with a 30-9 run for a 44-20 lead late in the first half. Cambridge scored 12 points, Devan

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has given new names to five places that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman. The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, completing a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — At least five people died Thursday in a fiery crash involving semi-trucks on a freeway east of Phoenix, according to authorities. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials originally said three people died in the chain-reaction crash that occurred around 6 a.m. Thursday and blocked multiple lanes of Interstate 10 in Chandler.