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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia has hired Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton of Missouri State as its women’s basketball coach. Athletic director Carla Williams made the announcement. Agugua-Hamilton compiled a 74-15 record in three seasons with the Lady Bears. Her team won two Missouri Valley Conference titles and reached the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons, advancing

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a Pleasant Hill man who fell from a boat on a city lake over the weekend drowned. Television station KSHB reports that the incident happened around 11 a.m. Sunday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 67-year-old Michael Hamilton fell from a boat he was aboard into Pleasant Hill

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The game show that made famous the phrase “Come on down!” is coming on down to you. “The Price Is Right” is hitting the road, putting the game show on wheels and making 50 stops on a coast-to-coast tour for anyone who can’t make the

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State has hired Kansas City’s Jacie Hoyt as its women’s basketball coach. Hoyt went 81-65 during her five-year stint as Kansas City’s coach. The Roos won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in 2020. This season, Kansas City finished third in the Summit League and lost to Northern Iowa in

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears have signed Indianapolis Colts defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad to a two-year contract and Kansas City Chiefs receiver and kick returner Byron Pringle to a one-year deal. They also re-signed safety DeAndre Houston-Carson to a one-year contract. Muhammad spent the past four seasons in Indianapolis and is reuniting

DETROIT (AP) — Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that halted trains across Canada and interrupted shipments to and from the U.S. More than 3,000 CP Rail conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference are off the job after negotiators failed to

By BECKY BOHRER and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Efforts are underway to build support for a constitutional convention question that will be on the ballot this year in Alaska. Similar questions will go before voters in Missouri and New Hampshire. Critics say the times are too partisan and the country

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a man who was killed on an Amtrak train in Missouri is suing the railway company over its handling of the shooting. The family of 30-year-old Richie Terell Aaron Jr., of Independence, alleges in the lawsuit that Amtrak should have stopped the train after the shooting and

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Joplin police say an officer shot a man who was allegedly assaulting another officer. Police Capt. Trevor Duncan says the shooting occurred Saturday night when officers stopped three people who were walking in an alley. One of the people ran and was chased by an officer on foot. Duncan says that

FAIR GROVE, Mo. (AP) — A 36-year-old volunteer firefighter in southwest Missouri died when the firetruck he was driving left the road and overturned. The Ebenezer Fire Protection District says Dustin Brandhorst died Friday evening in Fair Grove. KOLR reports the Missouri State Highway Patrol says Brandhorst was responding to a fire at an abandoned

By NICOLE KRAFT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gus Nyquist, Patrik Laine and Emil Bemstrom each had a goal and an assist, lifting the Columbus Blue Jackets over St. Louis 5-4 and sending the Blues to their third straight loss. Sean Kuraly and Jakub Voracek also scored, and Eric Robinson and Oliver Bjorkstrand each

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Veteran infielder Matt Carpenter has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. The 36-year-old Carpenter was a three-time All-Star while playing his first 11 major league seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. He will have a $2 million base salary while in the majors if added to the 40-man

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Jacy Sheldon had 25 points and five steals, and No. 6 seed Ohio State overcame an early double-digit deficit to beat 11th seed Missouri State 63-56 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Sheldon made 10 of 12 free throws for the Buckeyes,

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri System has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by a white woman who alleged she was removed from her position in favor of a younger, Black woman. The Columbia Missourian reports the university will pay $1.57 million to Rachel Brown, who was 60 when she lost her job

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey needed only one season at LSU to bring women’s NCAA Tournament games back to Baton Rouge for the first time since 2014. Mulkey says she didn’t envision where the Tigers would be now when she left a powerhouse

By CHUCK KING Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty will miss the start of the season and there’s no timetable for his return after he received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his ailing right shoulder. The Cardinals are hopeful Flaherty could be ready by May, but haven’t ruled out

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — It may look a little weird for a few days, but Freddie Freeman is officially wearing Dodger blue and Kris Bryant is donning the purple and black of the Colorado Rockies. A few miles away in Mesa, Japanese star outfielder Seiya Suzuki is in camp,

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have agreed with former Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster on a $10.75 million deal for next season, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract is

By JIM SALTER Associated Press BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says nuclear waste buried in a Missouri landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than first believed. And it is part of the reason the $205 million Superfund project announced in September 2018 has been delayed. The EPA had