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NFL Week 10 roundup: Matt Prater’s 59-yard FG lifts Lions to 30-27 win over WashingtonVideo
DETROIT — Matt Prater made a 59-yard field goal as time expired, lifting the Detroit Lions to a 30-27 win over Washington on Sunday. Matthew Stafford threw two of his three touchdown passes in the first half and directed the winning drive with just 16 seconds left. Rookie defensive end...
Planning travel for college basketball becomes more complicated during pandemicVideo
Planning travel for college basketball teams can be complicated. Flights and hotels have to be booked, buses rented, meals planned. Schedules have to be worked around practices and games. Planning amid the covid-19 pandemic makes it exponentially more difficult. Coaches and administrators have to consider ventilation systems, vendor testing protocols,...
Dustin Johnson rolls to first Masters title with record scoreVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — In this one-of-a-kind Masters that had no fans and no roars, Dustin Johnson made sure it had no drama. And when he polished off his five-shot victory Sunday with lowest score in tournament history, he had no words. Only tears. Looking smart in the Masters green jacket...
Tulsa enters college football Top 25; Indiana set for top-10 matchup
No. 25 Tulsa is ranked in the Associated Press college football poll for the first time in 10 years, and No. 9 Indiana is set to play the first top-10 matchup in program history. The AP Top 25 was mostly stagnant Sunday after four of the top five teams did...
SpaceX launches 2nd crew, regular station crew flights begin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company. The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and one Japanese, the second crew to be launched...
Tiger Woods hits 3 balls into water at Masters, cards a septuple-bogey 10
AUGUSTA, Ga. — This was an imperfect 10 for Tiger Woods. The defending Masters champion recorded a septuple-bogey 10 on the 12th hole of the final round — the highest score on any hole in his career. Woods plunked three balls into Rae’s Creek on Sunday in front of the...
Hurricane Iota heads for battered Honduras, Nicaragua
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Iota became the 13th hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras — countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily...
Poll workers contract virus, but Election Day link unclear
Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on Election Day have tested positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and cases in New York, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia. The infections cannot be tied definitively to polling...
North Dakota nurses worry about working with sick colleagues
BISMARCK, N.D. — Like many medical workers around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is a burden that Fargo emergency room nurse Adam Johnston can’t escape. The grim reality follows him everywhere: at work, where people die every shift; at the grocery store, where people rail against his city’s mask requirement;...
‘Righting a wrong’: Nevada 1st to protect same-sex marriage
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Las Vegas has been known for decades as the place for exuberant nuptials blessed by the swirl of Elvis’ white capes. But for years, legal marriages were barred for same-sex couples. Now, the state that’s home to the “wedding capital of the world” is also the...
Trump seems to acknowledge Biden win, but he won’t concede
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election result. Trump’s statements came in tweets that included several baseless claims about the Nov....
Jamie Oliver’s crispy salmon tacos served with mango and avocado
In his new cookbook, “7 Ways,” Jamie Oliver highlights 18 ingredients — from chicken to shrimp and eggs to potatoes — and offers seven new ways to construct dishes around them with no more than eight ingredients. Here is one of the offerings: Crispy Salmon Tacos Serves: 2 Start to...
Analysis: Halfway through season, Steelers in lead for awards
Oh, the drama. Each year on Super Bowl Eve, the Associated Press presents its individual awards for the NFL season in a prime-time showcase fitting for the honors. We’re only halfway through the 2020 schedule, impacted of course by the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s worthwhile to take a look at...
Russian city to demolish derided ‘Robot’ building
MOSCOW — A hulking, never-occupied building sardonically likened to a robot’s head that has loomed over the Russian city of Kaliningrad for decades is to be demolished next year, the region’s governor says. The 21-story House of Soviets was left unfinished when funding ran out in 1985 amid the Soviet...
Thousands rally behind Trump, insisting he won race he lost; violent clashes break out
WASHINGTON — After several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results and marched to the Supreme Court, nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators led to fistfights, at least one stabbing and more than 20 arrests. Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept...
World No. 1 Dustin Johnson builds 4-shot edge heading into Sunday at MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dustin Johnson began his assault on Augusta National with a 5-iron for a tap-in eagle, and he never relented until he matched the 54-hole record at the Masters and built a four-shot lead to put himself in prime position for another major. Johnson has been in this...
Jarrett Doege throws 2 TDs, West Virginia runs over TCU
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jarrett Doege threw two touchdown passes and ran for one score, Leddie Brown surpassed 100 rushing yards for the fifth time this season and West Virginia beat TCU, 24-6, on Saturday. The Mountaineers (5-3, 4-3 Big 12) used a balanced offensive attack to beat TCU (3-4, 3-4)...
Penn State falls short late, reaches 0-4 with loss to Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. — Luke McCaffrey had a hand in two touchdowns in his first start, Nebraska’s defense made two huge late defensive stops and the Cornhuskers held on to beat Penn State, 30-23, for their first win Saturday. McCaffrey took over for Adrian Martinez, who had started all of his...
Curtis Flowers defense team receives human rights award
OXFORD, Miss. — A human rights award has been presented to the defense team for a Mississippi man who was freed from prison in December after more than 20 years and this year had all charges dropped against him. The Curtis Flowers defense team, which includes the George C. Cochran...
‘All Screwed Up’ aims to untangle the legacy of DJ Screw
NEW YORK — When DJ Screw started trending in August, it wasn’t because of newly discovered music or a coordinated effort by his devoted fans. The chatter surrounded a TikTok video that quickly went viral for all the wrong reasons: a teen attempting to explain a “new” music trend called...
Thousands attend weekly protest against Israel’s Netanyahu
JERUSALEM — Several thousand protesters gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night in what has become a weekly demonstration calling for the Israeli leader to resign. The protesters have been demonstrating for some five months, saying Netanyahu is unfit to lead while he is...
Ethiopia’s Tigray region bombs airports as conflict spreads
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s defiant Tigray regional government said Saturday it fired rockets at two airports in the neighboring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa’s second-most populous country. The Tigray regional government said in a statement on Tigray TV that such strikes...
Romania: 10 die in fire at covid-19 intensive care unit
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian officials say a fire at a hospital treating covid-19 patients has killed 10 people and critically injured seven others. The blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for people with covid-19 patients at the public hospital in the northern city of Piatra Neamt, said Irina...
Thai protesters rally again, promoting a diversity of causes
BANGKOK — Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand rallied again on Saturday, promoting a diversity of causes and taking an opportunity to display their rejection of the country’s power structure directly to the monarch. Some 20 groups called the rally at Bangkok’s Democracy Monument under the name “Mob Fest” as the latest...
Britain’s Prince Charles celebrates 72nd birthday
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles celebrated his 72nd birthday Saturday following an eventful year that saw him contract the coronavirus and his son Prince Harry step down from official royal duties. Gun salutes would normally be fired from London’s Green Park and the Tower of London for the heir...
