Nation and World
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Woods, McIlroy behind tech-infused golf league in TV venture
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. A day after Woods and McIlroy announced a new media venture call...
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Our first steps? Fossil may boost case for earliest ancestor
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Twenty years ago, scientists discovered a 7-million-year-old skull that they concluded belonged to a creature who walked upright and was our earliest kno...
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Tigray forces allege 'large-scale' Ethiopia offensive
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region alleged Wednesday that Ethiopia's military launched a 'œlarge-scale'ť offensive for the first time...
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Brown U. acquires trove of Mumia Abu-Jamal's prison papers
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Brown University has acquired a trove of records, writings and artwork from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political activist and journalist who spent decade...
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Officer fatally shoots man who had gas can taped to chest
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago police officer shot and killed a man Wednesday afternoon who was advancing toward him with a knife and hammer and had a gas can ...
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South African workers march in capital against inflation
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African workers on Wednesday demonstrated against the country's rising cost of living including record-high fuel prices and increased costs for...
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SD Gov. Kristi Noem weighs response to ethics complaints
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota ethics board's finding that Gov. Kristi Noem may have engaged in misconduct by intervening in her daughter's application for a re...
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2nd ex-prison guard convicted in inmate beating death
Aug 23, 2022 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A former Illinois prison guard could face life in prison after a jury convicted him Tuesday of violating the civil rights of a 65-year-old inmat...
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Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to flood
Aug 23, 2022 7:00 am - Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a drought. Sound familiar? It should. The Dallas r...
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These are dry, stressful days for lawns. Some tips to help.
Aug 23, 2022 7:00 am - Much of the country has experienced drought and extreme heat this summer, and turfgrass lawns are feeling the pain. There are steps we can take, however, to mitigate the...