February, 2024

• 13 February

  Wyoming hosts Utah State after Falslev’s 25-point performance

  The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Utah State Aggies (20-4, 8-3 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (12-11, 5-5 MWC) Laramie, Wyoming; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Utah State visits the Wyoming Cowboys after Mason …

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• 13 February

  Tennessee Girl’s Prep Polls

  The Associated Press’ Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee’s three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through February 13, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote: Division …

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• 13 February

  Pennsylvania’s 2024 primary election features contests for attorney general and Congress

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s 2024 primary election may lack drama in the high-stakes races for president and U.S. Senate, but the fields for lower-ballot contests filled up for the state’s attorney general’s office and a handful of its 17 seats in the U.S. House. The deadline was Tuesday at 5 p.m. for Republicans and Democrats to submit voter signatures …

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• 13 February

  A new report says the world faces a ‘dangerous decade’ as instability and military spending rise

  LONDON (AP) — The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Tuesday by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which also highlighted …

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• 13 February

  Here’s what happened to a man who broke a panda park’s strict dietary rules

  BEIJING (AP) — Don’t feed the pandas. That’s the rule seemingly broken by a man who was banned for life from one of China’s main panda centers after throwing unspecified “objects” into an enclosure on Monday. A notice from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding didn’t identify the objects, but said that feeding pandas may cause them harm, …

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• 13 February

  Clark eyes NCAA career scoring record while Baylor set to retire Griner’s jersey

  The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. It’s a busy week ahead as Caitlin Clark has her eyes set on breaking the NCAA scoring record while Brittney Griner will return home to Baylor to have …

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• 13 February

  NHL suspends Maple Leafs’ Rielly 5 games for cross-checking the Senators’ Greig. NHLPA is appealing

  Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly was suspended five games for cross-checking Ottawa Senators forward Ridly Greig in the final seconds of the teams’ game over the weekend. The NHL Players’ Association announced Wednesday it was filing an appeal on Rielly’s behalf, less than 24 hours since the league’s department of player safety handed down its ruling. An in-person hearing, …

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• 13 February

  A Mississippi university tries again to drop ‘Women’ from its name

  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leaders of Mississippi University for Women made a new proposal Tuesday to shed the school’s gender-specific name in a way they hope will be accepted by alumni who fondly call their alma mater “The W.” The public institution would become Wynbridge State University of Mississippi and would still market itself as “The W,” if legislators approve …

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• 13 February

  Rusia pone a la primera ministra de Estonia en lista de buscados

  

  MOSCÚ (AP) — Rusia incluyó a la primera ministra de Estonia, Kaja Kallas, en una lista de personas buscadas por sus esfuerzos para retirar monumentos de la era soviética en la nación báltica, dijeron funcionarios el martes en un momento de crecientes tensiones entre Moscú y Occidente por la guerra en Ucrania. El nombre de Kallas apareció en el registro …

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• 13 February

  San Francisco mayor’s race heats up with another challenger to London Breed

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former interim mayor of San Francisco announced Tuesday he’s running for his previous job, joining a competitive field of candidates who say the city has crumbled under the watch of Mayor London Breed, who is up for reelection this year. Mark Farrell served as interim mayor of San Francisco from January to July 2018, when …

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