ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — The Big Ten plans to stick with a 20-game conference schedule for men’s basketball and an 18-game schedule for women’s basketball when the league expands to 18 teams next year. The league also announced Tuesday that 15 of the 18 members will qualify for the Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A Michigan school official told jurors that he had no grounds to search the backpack of a teenager before the boy killed four fellow students in 2021. Nick Ejak testified Tuesday that he was pulled into a meeting earlier that day at Oxford High School to discuss a violent drawing
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will spend Tuesday raising money in Florida, a onetime swing state that has since become a Republican stronghold and the home turf of Republican front-runner Donald Trump. One fundraiser is scheduled to take place in Jupiter, about a half hour north
Continue ReadingPIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Sixteen- and 17-year-olds call still wed in South Dakota after a legislative committee shot down an effort to raise the age of marriage to 18. KELO-TV reports that the House State Affairs Committee on Monday voted 8-5 to reject the bill. The current law lets 16- and 17-year-olds marry if they
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some Oklahoma educators are being forced to repay up to $50,000 in teacher recruitment bonuses that were improperly paid out by the state Department of Education. Kristina Stadelman said she’s crushed to learn she’s being forced to repay $50,000, much of which she already spent on
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — An Ohio man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from his attempt in March 2023 to burn down a Chesterland church, a week before it planned to host two drag show events, according to the US Department
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that’s not exactly what’s going on, a new study suggests. Rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Illinois State Board of Elections voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, but the decision is not expected to be the final word in the matter, with an appeal all but assured. The panel voted 8-0 on a bipartisan basis to
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators say a local want ad for a yoga instructor in Costa Rica helped them capture the killer of rising pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in 2022. Investigators had been searching for Kaitlin Armstrong for more than a month and believed she was moving around
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The National Science Foundation has given a consortium of Great Lakes-area universities and tech companies $15 million to develop ways to extract harmful substances from wastewater. The foundation announced Monday that it has named the Great Lakes ReNEW group as one of 10 regional innovation engines across the country. Each will
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder, Tim Lister and Richard Greene, CNN (CNN) — Israeli tanks fired live ammunition and smoke grenades after entering a hospital complex in southern Gaza where more than 8,000 people are sheltering, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Tuesday. After surrounding the Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis for more than a
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Parliament has stripped an imprisoned opposition lawmaker of his parliamentary status, defying a ruling made by the country’s top court in September. After months of legal and political turmoil that saw two of the highest courts in Turkey clash, the decision by the Court of Appeals to unseat Can Atalay,
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Ports Authority says it handled a record number of automobiles on its docks last year. The state agency reported Tuesday that more than 775,000 autos and heavy machinery units moved through the Port of Brunswick in the 2023 calendar year. That is an increase
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Residents have been evacuated from small coastal towns near Cape Town in South Africa as wildfires sweep down from surrounding mountains and burn out of control. Authorities ordered a full evacuation of Pringle Bay, a coastal village popular with holidaymakers. The fires began Monday
Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say police shot and wounded a Kansas woman who’s suspected of fatally shooting her 14-year-old son. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that the 43-year-old Wichita woman is expected to survive after she was shot early Monday following hours of negotiations. Police say it started Sunday night when the
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Joe Hortiz is going from assembling talent for John Harbaugh to leading the football operations with Jim Harbaugh. Hortiz has agreed to terms to become the Los Angeles Chargers general manager, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Justin Thomas expressed faith and trust in the six players serving on the PGA Tour policy board, content to spend the bulk of his time worrying about his golf game. One month later, he’s now part of the action. Thomas was among 16 players
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Universal Orlando Resort’s new theme park will feature lands devoted to Super Nintendo World characters, the “Fantastic Beasts” films and the “How to Train Your Dragon” film franchise. But officials at the Orlando theme park resort said Tuesday that at the center of it all will be Celestial Park. It will
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN GOP Rep. Russell Fry of South Carolina led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in introducing a bill on Tuesday to create a federal law that would help survivors of human trafficking expunge their criminal records for crimes committed as a direct result of being a victim, according to a copy of
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