The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Julian Margrave scored 18 points to help South Alabama defeat Southern Miss 73-70 on Wednesday night. Tyrell Jones made two free throws with 21 …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Old Dominion Monarchs (7-23, 3-15 Sun Belt) at Georgia Southern Eagles (7-23, 7-10 Sun Belt) Statesboro, Georgia; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Georgia Southern faces the Old …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resume: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court. For …

KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his life. After eight attempts Wednesday, the prison warden told them to give up. …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Montana State Bobcats (12-16, 7-8 Big Sky) at Idaho Vandals (11-17, 5-10 Big Sky) Moscow; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Vandals -1.5; over/under is 142 BOTTOM …

COPENHAGUE (AP) — Un helicóptero que venía de una plataforma petrolera marina se estrelló en el Mar del Norte frente a Noruega, matando a una persona y dejando heridas a cinco, dos de ellas de gravedad, informaron autoridades el jueves. El helicóptero Sikorsky S-92 iba en misión de entrenamiento para la empresa estatal noruega de petróleo y gas, Equinor ASA, …

PARIS (AP) — Read all about it, right now — or you’ll have to wait another four years. Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29. It’s a leap year-only publication, filled with cringe-worthy puns and commentary on events of the past four years. The 2024 edition includes an article suggesting France doesn’t need schools …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that expands the power of the state to verify voters’ addresses and adds an additional residency requirement for first-time voters. The bill’s Republican sponsor state Sen. Mike Gaskill called it a “commonsense bill” that adds protections against fraud, but voting advocates have blasted the changes as new hurdles for people seeking to …

Stacy Wakefield had somewhere she needed to be. Two months after her husband, longtime Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, died from cancer — and with the disease wreaking havoc inside her own body — she was back at Boston’s Dana Farber Children’s Hospital, delivering presents and some cheer to cancer-ailing kids days before last Christmas. “To a lot of …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. USC Trojans (11-16, 5-11 Pac-12) at Washington State Cougars (21-7, 12-5 Pac-12) Pullman, Washington; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -7; over/under is 138 BOTTOM LINE: …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — El gobierno descartó que el presidente Javier Milei vaya a expresarse de forma agresiva durante su intervención del viernes ante el Congreso para abrir un nuevo periodo de sesiones ordinarias e instó a los legisladores opositores y a los manifestantes que se agruparán en torno del edificio legislativo a que guarden respeto. “Apelamos, en el marco …

The U.S. economy is humming and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being added every month. In a stunning burst of hiring to start the year, the nation added 353,000 jobs in January, shrugging off the highest interest rates in two decades that have been put in place by the U.S. Federal Reserve in part to cool off hiring …

The NHL issued $25,000 fines each to Buffalo Sabres coach Don Granato and Toronto Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe for separate instances of unprofessional conduct directed at officials. The league deemed Thursday that both coaches crossed the line during games on Tuesday night. Granato was issued a bench minor in the third period of Buffalo’s 3-2 loss at Florida, after …

SEATTLE (AP) — Osvaldo Alonso was never a star in the traditional sense despite being one of the most feared players in Major League Soccer during his 15-year career. A four-time MLS All-Star and Seattle’s all-time leader in appearances during the MLS era, Osvaldo retired Thursday after signing a ceremonial one-day contract with the Sounders. Nicknamed “The Honey Badger” for …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Australia’s National Rugby League decided to try to expand its reach to the United States, it used a distinctly American sport as a model. The NFL annually plays regular-season games in London, is in the midst of a four-year commitment to Germany and in September will make its mark in Brazil for the first time. …