Associated Press stories, Page 2612
Patriots make 3rd straight Super Bowl, beat Chiefs 37-31 in OTVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The New England Patriots are headed to their third straight Super Bowl, once more thanks to Tom Brady’s brilliance. The five-time NFL champion guided the Patriots 75 yards after winning the overtime coin toss, and backup Rex Burkhead’s 2-yard TD lifted New England past Kansas City...
Deputies shoot Oregon man after he kills 4, including baby daughter
PORTLAND — A rural Oregon man killed four members of his family at the home they shared and was shot by sheriff’s deputies as he tried to kill a girl, authorities said. Mark Leo Gregory Gago, 42, killed his parents, his girlfriend and their infant daughter Saturday night before deputies...
Native American Nathan Phillips says he tried to ease tensions at Mall
DETROIT — A Native American who was seen in online video being taunted outside the Lincoln Memorial said Sunday he felt compelled to get between two groups with his ceremonial drum to defuse a confrontation. Nathan Phillips said in an interview with The Associated Press that he was trying to...
Career game from Michael Hughes carries Duquesne to OT win at George Washington
WASHINGTON — Michael Hughes scored 21 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked seven shots — all career highs — and Duquesne defeated George Washington, 91-85, in overtime on Sunday. Hughes also scored the layup with 5.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the score at 77. In overtime, Sincere Carry...
Greg Zuerlein’s 57-yard field goal in OT sends Rams to Super BowlVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Greg Zuerlein kicked a 57-yard field goal in overtime and the Los Angeles Rams, helped by a huge missed call by the officials, advanced to the Super Bowl with a 26-23 victory over the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game Sunday. The stunning finish came...
Former CIA officer portrayed in ‘Argo’ film dead at 78
FREDERICK, Md. — A former CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980 and was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the film “Argo,” has died. He was 78. A family statement and his literary agent confirmed that Antonio “Tony” Mendez died Saturday at an...
Giuliani: ‘So what’ if Trump and Cohen discussed testimony
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani left open Sunday the possibility that Trump and former personal attorney Michael Cohen might have discussed Cohen’s congressional testimony. But, he added, “so what” if he did? Giuliani appeared Sunday on CNN, where he said he did not know if Trump had...
Ice glazes over swath of U.S. as wind chills fall below zero
BOSTON — Bitter cold is setting in after a major winter storm blanketed a wide swath of the country in snow, sleet and rain this weekend, creating dangerously icy conditions that promise to complicate cleanup efforts and make travel challenging on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some of the coldest...
‘Time to say goodbye’: Vonn in too much pain to continue
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — What was evident all weekend for Lindsey Vonn became clear to everyone else on Sunday. The American skier’s surgically repaired knees simply don’t let her apply the power she requires to win races anymore. The pain is too severe; the psychological impact too much to bear;...
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ is No. 1 with $40.6M debut
NEW YORK — M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” didn’t live up to expectations but it still easily dominated the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend at the box office, debuting with an estimated $40.6 million in ticket sales. Universal Pictures is estimating that “Glass” will make about $47 million over the four-day...
Unclaimed veterans buried with dignity, thanks to strangers
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When the flags were removed from the caskets and folded with military precision, there were no family members there to receive them. So, the banners were passed, hand-to-hand, through the crowd. Some mourners wept as they clutched the flags briefly. Others kissed them. But the three veterans...
Curtain rising Sunday night on total lunar eclipse
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza. Sunday night, the Earth will slide directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There won’t be another until 2021. It will also be the year’s first supermoon, when a full...
Students seen mocking Native Americans could face expulsion
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Students at a Kentucky Catholic school who were involved in a video showing them mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a Washington rally could potentially face expulsion, according to the diocese. In a joint statement , the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic...
Democrats aren’t buying Trump’s shutdown-ending ‘compromise’
WASHINGTON — In a bid to break the shutdown stalemate, President Donald Trump offered to extend temporary protections for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones in exchange for his long-promised border wall. But while Trump cast the move as a “commonsense compromise,”...
Founder of Dead Poets Society is published, posthumously
PORTLAND, Maine — The late founder of the Dead Poets Society of America can be inducted to the society of fallen bards now that he’s now a published poet. Walter Skold visited the gravesites of more than 600 poets, and one of his criteria was that the subjects had to...
Super Bowl berths on the line in conference title games
The Los Angeles Rams are back inside the stadium where they lost for the first time this season, looking for retribution and a Super Bowl berth as they face the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game. The Superdome is coming alive for the last time this football season...
Penguins defense unravels in loss to Golden Knights
LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Marchessault scored three goals for his second career hat trick to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Phil Kessel, Dominik Simon and Sidney Crosby scored for the Penguins, and Casey DeSmith finished with 28 saves. Marc-Andre...
Winter storm misses Southwest Pa.
Most of Western Pennsylvania escaped snowfall during the day Saturday as temperatures remained in the 30s and brought steady, sometimes heavy, rains. The region Is expected to receive 1 to 3 inches of snow overnight as temperatures drop, while northern counties such as Butler and Indiana could get significantly more...
Phil Mickelson drains long birdies for Desert Classic lead
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Phil Mickelson made three long birdie putts on the back nine Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Desert Classic. Making his first start of the year, the 48-year-old Mickelson shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 on the Stadium Course at PGA...
Second-half surge leads Syracuse past Pitt
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim breathed a sigh of relief. Five days after his Orange’s biggest win of the season, there was no letdown. Tyus Battle scored 22 points, Boeheim’s son Buddy had a season-high 13 points and Syracuse beat Pitt, 74-63, on Saturday, the Orange’s zone defense...
World Economic Forum warns of impact of global tensions
LONDON — International tensions and nationalist politics can further weigh on the global economy this year and hinder efforts to deal with big issues such as climate change, the organizers of this week’s Davos forum warned last weekWednesday. In its annual Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum said the...
Patriots to test Chiefs’ suddenly stingy defense
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The only defense the Kansas City Chiefs played most of this season was, well, in defense of their own defense, which gave up so many yards and points that it became a running joke around the league. Yes, the Chiefs scored in bushels. They also allowed...
Snow, ice blanket Midwest as storm heads to New England
DETROIT — People throughout parts of the Midwest woke Saturday to a heavy and steady snowfall that forced the cancellation of hundreds of airline flights and made driving dangerous. More than 460 flights were canceled Saturday morning at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and about 50 flights were canceled...
Man gets 10 to 20 years in death of Lock Haven woman missing since 1991
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — A man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years on a murder conviction in the disappearance a quarter-century ago of a woman whose body has never been found. Senior Lycoming County Judge Kenneth Brown sentenced Loyd Groves in Clinton County Thursday to the maximum term...
Model in Russian court apologizes for U.S. election claim
MOSCOW — A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said Saturday that she apologizes to a Russian tycoon for the claim and won’t say more about the matter. Anastasia Vashukevich made the statement in...
