February, 2024

• 29 February

  Margrave’s 18 lead South Alabama over Southern Miss 73-70

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Georgia Southern plays Old Dominion following Moore’s 23-point performance

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Caitlin Clark’s 33-point game moves her past Lynette Woodard for the major college scoring record

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Things to know about Idaho’s botched execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech

  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. …

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• 29 February

  Idaho hosts Montana State following Denker’s 20-point game

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Un muerto, cinco heridos, al estrellarse helicóptero en Noruega

  

  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, …

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• 29 February

  Looking for a leap year lift? Check out this silly French newspaper that only publishes on Feb. 29

  

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Indiana Legislature approves bill adding additional verification steps to voter registration

  

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Stacy Wakefield had a passion for service that continued after husband Tim Wakefield’s death

  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 …

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• 29 February

  Ellis and USC host No. 19 Washington State

  

  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: …

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