Associated Press stories, Page 1547
Penn State, other Big Ten teams adapt to return of noisy crowdsVideo
MADISON, Wis. — Big Ten teams spent the opening week of the season getting reacquainted with an unfamiliar sound. Authentic crowd noise. After playing in empty stadiums throughout the pandemic-delayed 2020 season, teams across the country welcomed spectators back and many stadiums were packed on the first big weekend of...
Arizona attorney general: Tucson employee vaccine mandate is illegal
PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Tuesday that Tucson’s vaccine mandate for its employees is illegal, giving the city 30 days to repeal it or risk losing millions of dollars in state funding. Democratic-led Tucson has repeatedly clashed with the state’s Republican leadership over the city’s aggressive efforts...
Mexico Supreme Court rules that penalizing abortion is unconstitutionalVideo
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act. The decision will immediately affect only the northern border state, but...
West Virginia looks to fix mistakes after fading at MarylandVideo
West Virginia’s Neal Brown went into the season opener with cautious optimism and returned home with a mess. Now the third-year coach needs to figure out why things went totally wrong for the Mountaineers in the second half of a 30-24 loss at Maryland on Saturday. The Mountaineers scored three...
Hurricane Ida 9 days later: 430K still without power
NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana, most of them outside New Orleans, still didn’t have power Tuesday and more than half of the gas stations in two major cities were without fuel nine days after Hurricane Ida slammed into the state, splintering homes and...
Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid covid surge
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly...
Georgia jumps to No. 2 behind Tide in AP Top 25; Penn State climbs to No. 11
Georgia jumped three spots to No. 2 behind Alabama in The Associated Press Top 25 released Tuesday, giving the Southeastern Conference the top two teams in the country for the 30th time in the 85-year history of the college football poll. It is the second time in the past three...
NASA confirms Mars rover’s 1st rock sample grab, 40 to go
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest Mars rover has completed its first sample grab, tucking away the tube of rock for return to Earth. The Perseverance rover team confirmed last week’s successful drilling and collection, after reviewing photos of the core sample. NASA wanted to be certain the sample was...
Covid-19 boosters are coming but who will get them and when?
Covid-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans but already the Biden administration is being forced to scale back expectations — illustrating just how much important science still has to be worked out. The initial plan was to offer Pfizer or Moderna boosters starting Sept. 20, contingent...
Early stumble as El Salvador starts Bitcoin as currency
SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for transactions was not functioning. For part of the morning, El Salvador’s president became tech support for...
NWHL rebrands to Premier Hockey Federation entering 7th year
The National Women’s Hockey League is history. Welcome, Premier Hockey Federation. North America’s first women’s professional hockey league to pay players a salary is adopting the new name on Tuesday as part of a rebranding to reflect sweeping changes made to its management structure, coupled with an influx of private...
Jill Biden heads back to classroom as a working first lady
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden is going back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English to community college students in boxes on a computer screen, the first lady resumes teaching in person Tuesday from a classroom at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has worked since 2009. She...
Vatican won’t say if women can vote in 2023 church meeting
ROME — Vatican officials declined on Tuesday to say if women would be able to vote on concrete proposals about the future of the Catholic Church at the end of a two-year process of consultation of ordinary faithful that Pope Francis kicks off next month. For years, women activists and...
Back to back; Europe rides rookies to Solheim Cup win
TOLEDO, Ohio — Matilda Castren glanced at the rapidly expanding sea of red on the videoboard next to the 18th green, took a deep breath and tried to block everything out. Her long road to the Solheim Cup. Europe’s rapidly dwindling lead over the host Americans. A record crowd filled...
On TV, 9/11 was last huge story for ‘Big 3’ network anchors
NEW YORK — “Turn on your television.” Those words were repeated in millions of homes on Sept. 11, 2001. Friends and relatives took to the telephone: Something awful was happening. You have to see. Before social media and with online news in its infancy, the story of the day when...
Finally, Derek Jeter, Larry Walker and Ted Simmons to be inducted into Hall of Fame
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Derek Jeter visited Cooperstown when he was a kid nearly four decades ago and says he doesn’t remember much about the trip. He’s returning this week and likely won’t ever forget even one moment. After a delay of well over a year, the former New York Yankees...
Florida shooter may have first pounded on neighbor’s doorVideo
LAKELAND, Fla. — Someone pounded on Miguel Rivera’s sliding glass door early Sunday, but when he went to investigate, no one was there. Minutes later, gunfire erupted at his neighbor’s house, where authorities say a Marine vet who thought he heard the voice of God killed four people, including a...
Poll: Americans warier of U.S. government surveillance
WASHINGTON — As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security, and only about a third believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting, according to a new poll. More Americans...
Lake Tahoe evacuation orders lifted, but fire threat remains
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The lifting of a mandatory evacuation order for South Lake Tahoe’s 22,000 residents is a confident milestone in the fight against the Caldor Fire, but it remains only 48% contained and still threatens areas south of the resort town. Firefighters are confronting aggressive winds and...
Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias
NEW YORK — A car passed, the driver’s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: “Terrorist!” It was 2001, mere weeks after the twin towers at the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her younger sister were walking...
Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expireVideo
NEW YORK — Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic support programs for those who are still being hit financially by the year-and-a-half-old coronavirus pandemic. Two critical programs expired on Monday. One provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers and...
Coaching football in the genes for Nick SirianniVideo
Coaching football is the genes for the Sirianni family. Nick Sirianni spent three hours listening to his brother, Mike, coach Washington & Jefferson to victory over John Carroll on Saturday. On Sunday, the entire family will tune in to watch Nick coach his first regular-season game in the NFL when...
Virginia is set to remove Richmond’s Lee statue on Wednesday
RICHMOND, Va. — A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., is set to come down on Wednesday, more than 130 years after it was built as a tribute to a Civil War hero who is now widely seen as a symbol of racial injustice, state...
‘Tough times’ sharpen resolve, skills of FedEx Cup champion Patrick CantlayVideo
ATLANTA — Patrick Cantlay made a name for himself — not just a nickname — in a span of two weeks that will be remembered as much for his sheer grit as the $15 million he earned from winning the FedEx Cup. Four times at the BMW Championship, he stood...
After shaky opener, No. 9 Notre Dame gets short week to prepare for ToledoVideo
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Coach Brian Kelly knows his No. 9 Fighting Irish need to improve in several areas. A difficult season opener on the road was all the proof he needed. Notre Dame blew an 18-point lead at Florida State on Sunday night before regrouping to win 41-38 in...
