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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tamar Bates scored 17 points, Mark Mitchell added 16 and Missouri defeated Howard 77-62. Missouri led by 12 at halftime but it took a late second-half run to put the game away. The Tigers’ lead was only 61-57 after Howard’s Marcus Dockery drilled a 3-pointer with 4 1/2 minutes to go

Associated Press Two men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico border to shoot at immigrants illegally crossing there and any federal agents who might try to stop them. A jury at the U.S. District Court in the Missouri state

AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boston outfielder Jarren Duran and right-hander Kutter Crawford are among 29 players with two-to-three years or service time who are eligible for salary arbitration, and Atlanta left-hander Angel Perdomo just missed the cutoff. Seattle’s George Kirby also is among the so-called Super 2s along with fellow right-handers Shane

NORWICH, England (AP) — Norwich forward Josh Sargent has undergone surgery for a groin injury and will be out for two months. The 24-year-old U.S. international has scored four goals in nine games this season for midtable Norwich. Manager Johannes Hoff Thorup confirms that Sargent had the surgery and will miss eight weeks. Sargent missed

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Sponsorship deals were far from Jonny Bottorff’s mind when he transferred to Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. As money-making opportunities for college athletes have boomed since then, the offensive lineman has earned a few hundred dollars through name, image and likeness deals, but nothing that has changed his

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Jadis Jones had 14 points in Lindenwood’s 98-30 win over NAIA member University Health Science & Pharmacy on Thursday night. Jones also added five rebounds for the Lions (1-1). Nathan Johnson Jr. scored 13 points and added three blocks. Jaylon McDaniel shot 5 of 5 from the field and 3

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues forward Dylan Holloway returned to the lineup against Utah in the team’s first game since he was taken to the hospital after getting hit in the neck with a puck. Holloway participated in the Blues’ morning skate at Enterprise Center and declared he felt good to

AP Baseball Writer SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A remarkable era of parity in Major League Baseball hit a bit of a snag this October when the big-spending New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets finished as three of the top four teams in this year’s postseason. Sometimes, all that money really is

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Diamond Sports Group announced Thursday that it has a reached a multi-year agreement with the St. Louis Cardinals to continue broadcasting their games. The Cardinals are one of five Major League Baseball franchises that are part owners of their regional sports network. Games will air on FanDuel Sports Network Midwest. FanDuel

Oklahoma heads to Missouri on Saturday to renew a rivalry of old conference rivals that dates to 1902, only now they are playing each other in the Southeastern Conference. It has been a tough debut in the SEC for the Sooners, who have won just one of their first five games. They snapped a three-game

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues forward Dylan Holloway was back at the team’s practice facility and appeared to escape serious injury a day after being struck in the neck by a puck and leaving the ice on a stretcher against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Holloway said Wednesday he feels “way better.”

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights advocates prevailed on seven ballot measures across the U.S. in Tuesday’s election and lost on three. The losses are the first on statewide reproductive rights ballot measures anywhere in the U.S. since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a ruling that struck down the nearly

AP Pro Football Writer Whenever a team is trailing by seven points late in an NFL game and driving, the talk quickly turns to whether it will go for 2 and the win if it happens to score a touchdown. Tampa Bay, New England and Seattle all opted against it in Week 9 and ended

Republican Rep. Eric Burlison won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Missouri on Tuesday. Burlison won his second term representing a reliably Republican district in southwest Missouri, which includes the Joplin area. Before being elected to the U.S. House in 2022, Burlison served in the Missouri House and Senate. He also worked as a

WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri voters approved a measure on Tuesday that enshrines abortion rights in the state constitution and replaces a near-total ban on the procedure. The measure guarantees a person’s right to get an abortion and make other reproductive health decisions. It opens the door to legal challenges of a ban on most abortions