GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley has been named Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year for the second straight season while Notre Dame’s Niele Ivey has been named coach of the year. The league announced its award winners Tuesday, with Kitley repeating after averaging 18.8 points and a league-best 10.7 rebounds. The
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By Janelle Chavez, CNN Over the course of a two-day meeting, vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of approval for RSV vaccines for adults over the age of 60. The vaccine candidates, made by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, could become the world’s first approved vaccines against the common virus. On
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — At an upcoming meeting of national soccer federations FIFA will be urged to compensate migrant workers and families of those who died or were injured on World Cup projects in Qatar. Human rights group Amnesty International says the issue will be raised by Norwegian soccer officials
Continue Reading By CLAY BAILEY Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — LeBron James’ injury hasn’t changed the Los Angeles Lakers’ goal of reaching the postseason. Lakers coach Darvin Ham said Tuesday that James is still going through medical evaluations before the team makes a decision on how long the NBA’s career scoring leader may be unavailable after
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man who was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at MU Hospital is facing more charges. Chance Williams, 29, is charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed-criminal action, third-degree domestic assault, first-degree kidnapping and tampering with a victim in a felony prosecution. A court date for those charges has not been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team routed Lindenwood in a 17-2, run-rule win in seven innings on season-opener at Taylor Stadium on Tuesday. St. Louis native Luke Mann hit the lone home run for the Tigers, however, multiple guys brought in runs. Dalton Bargo, Helias alum Trevor Austin, Hank Zeisler, Ross Lovich, Ty Wilmsmeyer
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have told wide receiver Kenny Golladay he will be released after two horrible seasons. Speaking to Giants fans during a question-and-answer telephone session at the NFL scouting combine on Tuesday, general manager Joe Schoen said the 29-year-old receiver team has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team held its first spring practice on Tuesday afternoon. The team will hold practices all the way up until the annual Spring Game on March 18. You can watch extended highlights from practice in the video player below. https://youtu.be/KszHGZxla-Q Just as head coach Eli Drinkwitz said on Monday, quarterback
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By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News’ Tucker Carlson “exclusive” access to Jan. 6 security footage of the Capitol attack, despite the conservative commentator’s own work raising false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot over Joe Biden’s
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The trailer for Disney’s “Peter Pan & Wendy” — based on the Mouse House’s 1953 animated classic “Peter Pan” — dropped on Tuesday, and it certainly presents a movie that looks far more inclusive than past retellings of the original J.M. Barrie tale. “But you’re not all boys,” Ever Anderson’s Wendy
Continue Reading LYON, France (AP) — Lyon reached the semifinals of the French Cup by beating second-division Grenoble 2-1. Bradley Barcola and new signing Jeffinho scored first-half goals and Lyon held on after Amine Sbaï netted for the visitors in the 74th minute. Lyon signed the 23-year-old Jeffinho from Brazilian club Botafogo for 10 million euros just
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Pride have updated the team’s secondary uniforms to feature black shorts rather than white to address players’ concerns during menstrual cycles. The Pride’s “Luna” uniform, with its primarily white jersey, will now have black shorts. Orlando is the first team in the National Women’s Soccer League to alter its
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Residents of Vanuatu are hunkering down as a cyclone barrels through the Pacific island nation. Authorities say power has been knocked out in some areas and there are many fallen trees and branches, but its too early to assess the extent of the damage with
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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — The group that puts on the Holiday Bowl is branching out with a college basketball tournament that will feature an inaugural field of Southern California, Oklahoma, Seton Hall and Iowa during the Thanksgiving holiday. The Rady Children’s Invitational will be played Nov. 23-24 at UC
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four Tennessee police officers are being investigated for their treatment of a woman whose pleas for help they repeatedly ignored as they accused her of faking illness after she was discharged from a hospital. The woman was pronounced dead a day later. The Knox County District
Continue Reading By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top lawmakers in Congress have been briefed on the investigations into classified documents found in the private possession of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. Lawmakers leaving the briefing Tuesday declined to specify what was discussed. But both Republicans and
Continue Reading HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Officials say water pressure should be gradually returning to a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan stricken by a water main break that left most residents with no water service or low water pressure. Hoboken Mayor Ravinder Bhalla says crews have successfully isolated the broken water main.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Defense Department has confirmed that soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo over the weekend, killing five men and wounding a sixth. The department said in a statement Tuesday it was cooperating with civilian prosecutors investigating the deaths. The statement said
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri state representative has been sentenced to six years and three months in federal prison without parole for fraud schemes involving medical clinics in southwest Missouri. Tricia Derges, a Republican from Nixa, Missouri, was sentenced Tuesday and ordered to pay $500,600 in restitution. Derges was convicted in June of
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri state representative has been sentenced to six years and three months in federal prison without parole for fraud schemes involving medical clinics in southwest Missouri. Tricia Derges, a Republican from Nixa, Missouri, was sentenced Tuesday and ordered to pay $500,600 in restitution. Derges was convicted in June of
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