PALM SPRING, Calif. (AP) — Great Osobor scored 19 points and Washington held off Santa Clara for a 76-69 victory on Friday in the championship game of the Acrisure Invitational. Carlos Stewart Jr. scored five points and Elijah Mahi added four during an 11-1 surge to pull Santa Clara, which trailed the entire second half,
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say three people have been wounded in a shooting at an Arkansas mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Little Rock police say the Black Friday shooting at Park Plaza in Little Rock was an isolated incident rather than an active shooter situation. Chief Heath
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lauren Betts scored 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while Gabriela Jaquez added 17 points to help No. 1 UCLA rout Tennessee-Martin 97-37 on the opening day of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown Friday. The Bruins (6-0) never trailed and shot 53% from the field to rout the Skyhawks (1-5), who
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — Richie Saunders scored 13 points and reserve Fousseyni Traore scored 10 points and BYU beat North Carolina State 72-61 in the third-pace game of the Rady Children’s Invitational on Friday. Egor Denim grabbed 11 rebounds for the Cougars (6-1) who never trailed. BYU ran its nation leading streak of wins
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The latest battleground in America’s culture war over gender identity will take place Saturday on a volleyball court in Las Vegas. San Jose State University will play for an NCAA tournament berth in a season that has seen teams forfeit matches against the Spartans amid a federal lawsuit claiming
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Klim Kostin recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick with a goal, assist and a fight, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Seattle Kraken 8-5 on Friday. Jake Walman scored twice for the Sharks, and Macklin Celebrini, Mikael Granlund and Will Smith had a goal and an assist.
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Alex Laferriere scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, and Erik Portillo made 28 saves to win his NHL debut in the Los Angeles Kings’ 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Laferriere had a goal and an assist, and Alex Turcotte also scored for
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Edman and the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed Friday to a $74 million, five-year contract. His new deal contains a team option for 2030 and includes $25 million deferred over 10 years. The agreement supersedes a $16.5 million, two-year contract he agreed to with St. Louis in February that had called
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; Gov.-elect Josh Stein, D-N.C. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sullivan; Sens. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn. ___ CNN’s “State of the Union” — Sullivan; Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md. __ CBS’ “Face the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Black Friday is giving way to a white weekend in parts of New York state. The first big snow of the season has the potential to bury towns along lakes Erie and Ontario during a hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend. Forecasters warn 4 to 6 feet of blowing
Continue ReadingCNN By Mark Morales, Rebekah Riess, Amanda Musa and Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — A woman who flew as a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier this week remains in France after causing a disturbance on a flight scheduled to take her back to the United States Saturday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with rebels’ surprise capture of Aleppo, one of the country’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The rebel advances are among the largest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have
Continue ReadingPALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Nique Clifford finished with 25 points and 12 rebounds to help Colorado State rally for a 76-72 overtime victory over TCU in the consolation final of the Acrisure Invitational on Friday. Bowen Born hit a 3-pointer for the Rams (4-3) with 56 seconds left in regulation, tying the game at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general says he still considers it illegal to provide abortions after fetal viability, despite a newly approved state abortion rights amendment. Attorney General Andrew Bailey writes in an opinion that his office will also continue to enforce a law requiring parental permission for minors to get
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut NAACP says that former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner has died. He was 91. Milner was the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England. He served as Hartford’s Democratic mayor from 1981 to 1987. The Connecticut NAACP says in a statement that “His tenure was marked by significant strides
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Cruise ship industry players are up in arms after the lower house of Mexico’s Congress voted this week to charge a $42 immigration levy for every passenger on cruise ships that dock in Mexico. Two-thirds of the money raised, moreover, would go to the Mexican army, not to improve port facilities.
Continue ReadingOAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — A police officer has been fatally shot in suburban Chicago after responding to a report of a man leaving a bank with a gun. Oak Park police say 40-year-old Detective Allan Reddins was shot once about 9:30 a.m. Friday and later pronounced dead at a hospital. The suspect was shot
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Ibrahim Dahman and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Three Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were crushed to death on Friday while in line outside a bakery in central Gaza amid a worsening food crisis in the enclave, according to Palestinian hospital officials. One of the victims’ father,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, authorities said. Had the guitars been authentic, they would have been worth $18 million, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. The agency said
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, authorities said. Had the guitars been authentic, they would have been worth $18 million, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. The agency said
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