Associated Press stories, Page 825
Robert Morris drops season finale to Eastern Illinois
Pierce Holley threw for three touchdowns and MJ Flowers ran for 179 and a score as Eastern Illinois beat Robert Morris, 28-14, on Saturday. Eastern Illinois (8-3, 4-2 Big South, OVC Association) won its eighth game in a season for the first time since 2013. Holley threw a 26-yard touchdown...
Duquesne clamps down on Merrimack, clinches NEC football title
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Darius Perrantes threw three touchdown passes and Duquesne wrapped up the Northeast Conference championship with a 26-14 victory over Merrimack on Saturday. Duquesne, which joined the NEC in 2008, won at least a share of the conference title for the seventh time, but just the second...
Schedule, Joe Burrow’s injury provide Bengals daunting challenge
Even before Joe Burrow’s season-ending wrist injury was announced, the Cincinnati Bengals were facing a challenging road in trying to get to the playoffs for a third straight season. Without Burrow, that might be too big of a hill to climb. Thursday night’s 34-20 loss to the Baltimore Ravens evened...
Tiger Woods to play in Bahamas, 1st competition since Masters
Tiger Woods showed he could walk four days while caddying for his son. Now he has decided he is fit enough to try to play. Woods announced on social media Saturday he will be playing in the Hero World Challenge, which starts Nov. 30 at Albany Golf Club in the...
Adam Johnson’s UK team retires his jersey number after skate-cut death
NOTTINGHAM, England — The English hockey team that Adam Johnson played for retired his No. 47 jersey Saturday as part of a memorial game honoring the American who died after an opposing player’s skate cut his neck during a game. Nottingham Panthers players appeared to be wearing neck guards, too,...
Ford, Stellantis workers join those at GM in approving contract settlement that ended UAW strikes
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union overwhelmingly ratified new contracts with Ford and Stellantis, that along with a similar deal with General Motors will raise pay across the industry, force automakers to absorb higher costs and help reshape the auto business as it shifts away from gasoline-fueled vehicles. Workers...
Patients, staff leave Gaza’s biggest hospital; dozens killed at crowded refugee camp
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one describing a panicked and chaotic evacuation as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among the evacuees and took some away. Israel’s military has been searching the hospital for a Hamas command center it...
No. 12 Penn State pulls away from Rutgers despite Drew Allar leaving game after hitVideo
STATE COLLEGE — Kaytron Allen is a man of few words. Most of his teammates consider him one of the shyest players on Penn State’s roster. When he pulls on his football helmet, however, Allen’s personality emerges. Allen, all smiles and full of trash talk, bruised his way for two...
SpaceX launched its giant new rocket but explosions end the second test flight
SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight. The rocketship reached space following liftoff from South Texas before communication suddenly was lost. SpaceX officials said it appears the ship’s self-destruct system blew it up...
Political violence threatens to intensify as the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism warn
The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the...
Officials stock up on overdose antidote naloxone after fentanyl-laced letters disrupt vote counting
SEATTLE — The suspicious letters sent to vote centers and government buildings in six states this month were undeniably scary, some containing traces of fentanyl or white powder, accompanied by not-so-veiled threats and dubious political symbols. Harkening back to the anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, the mailings...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and singer Cassie settle lawsuit alleging abuse 1 day after it was filed
NEW YORK — A lawsuit by singer Cassie containing allegations of beatings and abuse by music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs has been settled, the artists announced Friday, one day after the lawsuit was filed. The settlement was announced in a statement sent by attorney Douglas Wigdor, who represents Cassie, whose...
Tempers flare and bills languish as Speaker Johnson confronts the same problems that vexed McCarthy
WASHINGTON — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in disarray after the sudden ouster of his predecessor last month. But as Johnson, R-La., tries to rebuild that slim majority, he’s fast running into the same hard-right factions and divisions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was...
Panicked people leave Shifa Hospital, while dozens are killed at a school elsewhere in northern Gaza
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Patients, staff and displaced people fled Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one describing a panicked and chaotic evacuation as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among the evacuees and took some away. Israel’s military has been searching Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for traces of...
Robert Morris gives Wisconsin scare before losing on road
MADISON, Wis. — Tyler Wahl and freshman reserve John Blackwell scored 18 points apiece, and Wisconsin held off Robert Morris, 78-68, on Friday night. Chris Ford’s layup pulled the Colonials even at 50-50 with 10 minutes, 54 seconds remaining. Blackwell answered with a three-point play, Wahl hit the first of...
Qudus Wahab’s double-double leads Penn State past Morehead State
UNIVERSITY PARK — Qudus Wahab scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and Kanye Clary had 14 points with a pair of steals as Penn State beat Morehead State, 74-51, on Friday night. The Nittany Lions won their fourth straight — all at home — to start the season under...
Convicted sex offender found guilty of hacking jumbotron at Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A convicted child molester was found guilty Friday of hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium after the team learned he was a registered sex offender and fired him. A federal jury found 53-year-old Samuel Arthur Thompson, of St. Augustine, guilty of producing, receiving and possessing...
Bill Cosby accuser files new lawsuit under expiring New York survivors law
A woman who said Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her when she was a young comedy writer more than 50 years ago filed a lawsuit against the actor Thursday under a soon-to-expire New York law that gave victims of sexual abuse a one-year window for claims that would otherwise be barred...
Colorado judge keeps Trump on ballot, rejects insurrection argument
DENVER — A Colorado judge on Friday rejected an effort to keep former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, the latest blow to groups seeking to block his run for another term using a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment that prevents anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from...
Dogs coming down with an unusual respiratory illness in several states
Veterinary laboratories in several states are investigating an unusual respiratory illness in dogs and encouraging people to take basic precautions to keep their pets healthy as veterinarians try to pin down what’s making the animals sick. Oregon, Colorado and New Hampshire are among the states that have seen cases of...
Ravens TE Mark Andrews likely out for season after injuring ankle against BengalsVideo
BALTIMORE — Ravens tight end Mark Andrews is expected to miss the rest of the season because of an ankle injury he suffered in the first quarter of Baltimore’s 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night. “Mark Andrews has a very serious ankle injury,” coach John Harbaugh said...
FDA screens cinnamon imports after more kids sickened by lead-tainted applesauce
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is screening imports of cinnamon from multiple countries for toxic lead contamination after growing reports of children who were sickened after eating pouches of applesauce and apple puree. Cinnamon from a manufacturer in Ecuador is the “likely source” of high levels of lead found...
Judge rejects Trump’s request for a mistrial in civil fraud case
NEW YORK — The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case denied his bid for a mistrial Friday, rejecting claims from the former president’s lawyers that the proceedings are poisoned by political bias. Trump’s lawyers had argued Judge Arthur Engoron irreparably harmed Trump’s right to a fair trial through “astonishing...
Column: No Joe Burrow means no chance for BengalsVideo
Joe Burrow shook his head, screamed and jogged to the locker room because the pain in his right wrist wouldn’t allow him to throw a football on the sideline. Another week in the NFL, another injured quarterback. Burrow is no ordinary QB, however. He’s the franchise for Cincinnati. With him,...
Browns working out former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco after Deshaun Watson injuryVideo
BEREA, Ohio — Joe Flacco used to beat the Browns regularly. He might be joining them. The former Super Bowl MVP is working out Friday for Cleveland, which is still sorting through its quarterback situation after losing Deshaun Watson with a season-ending shoulder injury, according to multiple reports. The 38-year-old...
