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Utah guard Gianna Kneepkens (5) drives against Stanford guard Agnes Emma-Nnopu (2) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rob Gray)

Pac-12 women hope to send record number of teams to NCAAs

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Pac-12 Conference is having likely its best women’s basketball season, which has a chance to get even stronger. As the conference tournament gets underway Wednesday with four first-round games, the Pac-12 could place at least eight teams in the NCAA Tournament. The Pac-12 sent seven […]

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San Antonio faces Utah, looks to end road losing streak

San Antonio faces Utah, looks to end road losing streak

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-San Antonio Spurs (14-47, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (31-31, eighth in the Western Conference) Salt Lake City; Tuesday, 7 p.m. MST BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio visits Utah looking to break its 18-game road skid. The Jazz are 21-18 in Western Conference games. Utah […]

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FILE - This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Experts are marveling at how U.S. disease detectives figured out how eyedrops were linked to dozens of infections. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP)

How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people

NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak caused by an extremely worrisome bacteria — one that some […]

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Weber State outlasts Northern Arizona 90-89 in OT

Weber State outlasts Northern Arizona 90-89 in OT

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Steven Verplancken Jr. scored 26 points, Dillon Jones added a double-double and Weber State defeated Northern Arizona 90-89 in overtime on Monday night. Verplancken shot 8 for 15 from the floor (4 for 8 from 3-point range) and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line for […]

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In this undated photo provided by Michael Walton, his brother Scott Walton poses in his pilot uniform. Scott Walton, 46, was among five killed when the medical flight he was piloting crashed in rural northern Nevada on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. There were no survivors. (Courtesy of Michael Walton via AP)

Family: Nevada plane crash pilot had ‘affinity for aviation’

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, was following in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II. All five on board died from multiple blunt-force injuries in the […]

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NTSB says medical plane apparently broke apart before crash

NTSB says medical plane apparently broke apart before crash

STAGECOACH, Nev. (AP) — A medical transport flight that crashed in a mountainous area in northern Nevada, killing five all five people aboard the plane including a patient, apparently broke apart before hitting the ground, authorities said Sunday. The National Transportation Safety Board has sent in a seven-member team of […]

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Grandfather of pilot killed in Nevada crash flew WWII planes

Grandfather of pilot killed in Nevada crash flew WWII planes

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, was following in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II, his brother said. A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board investigation into […]

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New Hawks coach Snyder facing difficult midseason transition

New Hawks coach Snyder facing difficult midseason transition

ATLANTA (AP) — Quin Snyder was more than just the first coaching candidate contacted when Atlanta Hawks general manager Landry Fields began looking to replace Nate McMillan. Snyder was the only candidate interviewed by Fields. “Everything we were looking for, it was check, check, check,” Fields said of his conversation […]

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Nyman will take final leisurely downhill run before retiring

Nyman will take final leisurely downhill run before retiring

In a typical downhill race, Steven Nyman takes around two heart-pounding minutes to glide his way through the finish. Better carve out at least five heart-filled minutes for him in Aspen, Colorado, on Saturday. The 41-year-old American ski racer plans to take his sweet time on his final — and […]

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Gwendolyn Herzig speaks to a reporter at Park West Pharmacy in Little Rock, Arkansas on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Herzig, who is transgender, was asked about her genitalia by an Arkansas lawmaker when she testified about a bill restricting gender affirming care for minors. The question is an example of the rhetoric transgender people are facing at statehouses as they speak out against new bills targeting their rights. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — It was pharmacist Gwendolyn Herzig’s first time testifying before a legislative committee when she spoke to several Arkansas lawmakers in a packed hearing room this month about a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Herzig, who is transgender, spoke out against the legislation and told the […]

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