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By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Aidan Joseph Bernardi Hutchinson is an impressive reflection of his parents and his middle names honor a great-grandfather who was part of the World War II jungle fighting unit known as “Merrill’s Marauders.” Jacksonville is expected to select Hutchinson with the No. 1 pick

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Robert Thomas scored his 20th goal to extend his points streak to 15 games and the St. Louis Blues beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1. Dakota Joshua also scored and Pavel Buchnevich added an empty-netter to lead the Blues to their 12th win in

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court wants to finally settle a question that has hung for decades over public employees who are elected to the state’s part-time Legislature: Should a person who makes the law also enforce the law? The seven-member court unanimously called Thursday for additional fact-finding

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Former AFL Player of the Year Daryle Lamonica has died at age 80. The Fresno County Sherriff’s said Lamonica passed away at his Fresno home on Thursday morning. The death is considered to be from natural causes. Lamonica was a star with the Oakland Raiders starting in the

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Heavy snow and rain is falling across Northern California as a substantial spring storm moves through the state after a dry winter. Winter storm warnings are in effect Thursday from the Oregon border down through the southern Cascades and the northern Sierra Nevada. Chain controls have been put into effect for

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Like most any boy growing up in Mobile, Walker Hayes’ early goal in his sporting career was obvious. Star at Alabama and then be drafted into the NFL. While it hasn’t quite worked out that way for the country music singer/songwriter, he’s found the

W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin enjoyed the biggest moment of his career inside T-Mobile Arena in 2018, when he skated the Stanley Cup around the rink after defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in the Final. On Wednesday night he enjoyed another milestone. With two goals during a

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Most of the five leading Republican candidates for Nevada governor who gathered for a campaign forum in Las Vegas offered dire assessments of the state’s tourism-dependent economy, rising crime and struggling schools — and asked for votes for their visions to fix them. Several also blamed

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires intensify across the West, researchers are studying how scorched trees could lead to a faster snowmelt and end up disrupting water supplies. Without a tree canopy, snow is exposed to more sunlight. Specks of carbon from burnt trees also darken snow and make

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Las Vegas man has pleaded not guilty to a federal kidnapping charge in the 2018 abduction of a man later found shot to death in Vermont. Aron Lee Ethridge entered the plea during a brief court appearance Wednesday in federal court in Burlington. He was

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Winter storm warnings are set to start going into effect along California’s mountainous eastern spine as a new cold front approaches. The system is the latest in a series of spring storms that has followed a dry winter that left California deep in drought. The Sacramento weather office says widespread rain,

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC Sports revealed its new “Sunday Night Football” announcing team with analyst Cris Collinsworth returning and being joined by Mike Tirico in the booth and Melissa Stark on the sidelines. The network said the crew will work for the first time at the Hall of Fame game on Aug. 4 between

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — New snow is covering parts of the Sierra Nevada and rain has fallen elsewhere in Northern California as spring delivers a taste of the kind of weather that was mostly absent during winter. Chain requirements had to be put into effect Tuesday for vehicles on mountain routes and strong winds created

A Nevada utility has shut off electrical power to the Mount Charleston area near Las Vegas because of threatening wildfire conditions. NV Energy said it shut off power to 470 customers in the area Tuesday morning and that the shutoff is expected to last until 9 a.m. Wednesday. The National Weather Service has warned of

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nathan Bastian had a goal and an assist, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2. The Golden Knights blew their chance to gain ground on the Los Angeles Kings in the Pacific Division, and their playoff hopes lessened severely with just five

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada office of the FBI has a new special agent in charge, with the announcement that Spencer Evans will head the bureau’s Las Vegas field office. Evans joined the FBI in 2004 as an agent in New Haven, Connecticut, and has held various investigative and leadership positions and headed programs