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Flapper follies
OTHELLO — The play opening Thursday at Othello High School promises to be the bee’s knees. Perhaps even the cat’s …
Eastern Caribbean issues rare alerts for rumbling volcanoes
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Volcanoes that have been quiet for decades are rumbling to life in the eastern Caribbean, prompting officials to issue alerts in Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as scienti…
Armed Forces Bowl: No. 22 Tulsa plays 3-win Mississippi St
Armed Forces Bowl: No. 22 Tulsa (6-2) vs. Mississippi State (3-7), at TCU's Amon Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, noon EST (ESPN).
UK okays 'vaccine for the world'; extends time between doses
LONDON (AP) — Britain authorized an easy-to-handle coronavirus vaccine Wednesday and decided to stretch out the time between doses to allow more people to get some level of protection faster as infections surge. Th…
No. 22 Tulsa gets 3-win Mississippi St. in Armed Forces Bowl
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Three-win Mississippi State is set to wrap up coach Mike Leach's first season by becoming the first Southeastern Conference team to play in the Armed Forces Bowl, with a chilly Texas weathe…
The Latest: Jets rookie RB La’Mical Perine tests positive
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Jamey Chadwell of Coastal Carolina is The Associated Press college football coach of the year
NEW YORK (AP) — Jamey Chadwell of Coastal Carolina is The Associated Press college football coach of the year.
Pandemic, protests and 'Murder Hornets' top state stories
Washington saw the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States this year, as well as the first deadly cluster as the pandemic upended virtually all activity in the state. The coronavirus outbreak was vote…
Trump's $2,000 checks all but dead as GOP Senate refuses aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's push for $2,000
Virginia advocates set to try again on death penalty repeal
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Death penalty opponents are cautiously optimistic they have enough bipartisan support from lawmakers to get a bill passed next year ending executions in Virginia, a state that has put more peop…
NC Sen. Sam Searcy to leave as second term begins
HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state senator plans to resign as his second General Assembly term is about to begin, citing the potential "to serve the people of North Carolina in a different capacity.”
Study of virus screening at concert reports zero infections
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmissi…
Israeli foreign minister joins exodus from centrist party
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday he is leaving the Blue and White party and taking a “break” from politics, marking the further disintegration of the centrist party that came close to unsea…
Fulham virus outbreak sees 2nd EPL game postponed this week
LONDON (AP) — A coronavirus outbreak at Fulham forced a second Premier League match this week to be called off on Wednesday, only hours before the team was due to play across London at Tottenham.
Aid group says colleague 'murdered' in Ethiopia's conflict
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Dutch aid group said Wednesday that one of its staff members was “murdered” at a refugee camp during the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, bringing the number of humanitarian workers kil…
2020 sports quiz: Brady to Bundesliga, Big Ten to Brooklyn
You’ve had time to shelter at home and bone up. Your 2020 year-end sports quiz awaits. Like much else these days, quizzes will be graded on the curve: