Associated Press stories, Page 364
Los Angeles tree advocates wait and hope that fire damage won’t be too severe
LOS ANGELES — People across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that shade the pavement, provide a respite for people and even clean some air pollution. They’ve confronted increasing drought, bad tree-trimming and objections from some neighbors who resent the leaves and sap. Now...
Ovechkin scores 873rd career goal, Frank gets 1st as Capitals beat Predators 4-1Video
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist, Ethen Frank got his first NHL goal and the Washington Capitals beat the Nashville Predators, 4-1, on Saturday night. Tom Wilson and Andrew Mangiapane also scored for the Capitals. Logan Thompson stopped 32 shots as the Capitals won for...
J.J. Spaun takes the lead at Sony Open with a wide-open chase in the wind of WaialaeVideo
HONOLULU — Stephan Jaeger had nine birdies for the lowest round this week at Waialae, and two of the most important holes for him Saturday in the Sony Open were pars. Jaeger knows dropping a shot is losing ground, and the way the Sony Open is playing out, no one...
Texans intercept Herbert a career-high 4 times in a 32-12 win over Chargers in wild-card playoffVideo
HOUSTON — Derek Stingley says the Texans aim to force three turnovers a game. On Saturday against the Los Angeles Chargers, they surpassed that goal with the All-Pro cornerback grabbing two of Justin Herbert’s career-high four interceptions to help Houston roll to a 32-12 wild-card playoff victory. “We’re just going...
Australian Open 2025: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have a real rivalry atop men’s tennisVideo
MELBOURNE, Australia — When Carlos Alcaraz is on court for a training session, perhaps working on his newly revamped service motion, he is doing so to buttress a game already good enough to have won four Grand Slam titles. He also has his young rival, Jannik Sinner, in mind. “The...
CBS’ Jim Nantz will reach a rare broadcasting milestone when he calls his 500th NFL game SundayVideo
Jim Nantz has called many signature events during his nearly 40 years at CBS Sports. He will reach a milestone Sunday, though, that only a few NFL announcers have accomplished. Nantz will call his 500th NFL game when the Buffalo Bills host the Denver Broncos in an AFC wild-card round...
Powerful winter storm that dumped snow in South maintains its icy grip
ATLANTA — Flight cancellations piled up and officials warned of continuing dangerous roads Saturday in the wake of a winter storm that brought biting cold and wet snow to the U.S. South, leading to school closures and disrupting travel. The storm was moving out to sea off the East Coast...
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned after submitting his Trump report, Justice Department says
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a...
Israel’s Netanyahu sends Mossad director to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar in sign of progress
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, his office said Saturday, in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza. It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would...
Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died
BOULDER, Colo. — Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died. He was 84. The charismatic figure known as Coach Mac died Friday night “after a courageous journey with dementia,” according to a family statement. His family announced in 2016 that he had...
Kohl’s to close 27 stores by April as struggling department stores works to improve sales
NEW YORK — Kohl’s said Friday it was closing 27 underperforming locations in 15 states by April — a fraction of its 1,150 store base — as the struggling department store chain aims to boost profitability and improve sagging sales. The announcement comes as the Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based chain has...
Firefighters race to contain Los Angeles wildfires with menacing winds forecast to return
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters raced Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward the world famous J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, while new evacuation warnings left more homeowners on edge. A fierce battle against the...
Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final 4 minutes, officials say
SEOUL, South Korea — The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people. After analyzing the devices, the U.S....
Ukraine says it captured 2 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, the first such claim by Kyiv since North Korea sent thousands of troops to shore up Moscow’s war effort on the other side of the...
Sam Moore, who sang ‘Soul Man’ in Sam & Dave duo, dies at 89
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin,’” has died. He was 89. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died Friday morning...
Ohio State, Notre Dame to meet for title, long after upset losses
Two upset losses stood out among the rest in college football this season. Notre Dame suffered one of them. Ohio State the other. In years past, those losses might have been enough to knock both teams out of the hunt for a national title. This year, with the debut of...
Ohio State gets shot at 6th national title after beating Texas in CFP semifinalVideo
ARLINGTON, Texas — Jack Sawyer had the kind of moment that will live on long past his playing days with Ohio State. Of course, one more victory would make it that much sweeter. Sawyer stripped Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers — his former roommate — and returned the fumble 83 yards...
Jordan Spieth sees wrist surgery as chance to reset, plans to return at Pebble BeachVideo
Jordan Spieth has been playing golf for a month without pain and plans to return from wrist surgery at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, ending his longest stretch without competition and looking at his time off as a chance to reset. “I had some really bad habits for a long...
Former rivals Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray team up at Australian OpenVideo
MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have known each other for a quarter of a century. They played from the age of 12, meeting 36 times as professionals, including 10 Grand Slam matches. Yet they’ve never been able to talk shop and freely trade all sorts of thoughts...
Trump is planning 100 executive orders starting Day 1 on border, deportations and other priorities
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White House, in what amounts to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a rush of other policy priorities. Trump told Republican senators about the onslaught ahead during a private meeting...
Biden is still considering pardons for people who have been criticized or threatened by Trump
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday said he was still considering whether to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden said he and his aides were playing close attention to rhetoric from Trump and...
Harbaugh back in Houston for playoffs a year after winning college title when Chargers visit TexansVideo
HOUSTON — Coach Jim Harbaugh returns to Houston on Saturday with the Los Angeles Chargers for a wild-card playoff game against the Texans, a little more than a year after leading Michigan to a national championship at NRG Stadium. Harbaugh left Michigan after that 34-13 victory and has turned around...
How a loss to Northern Illinois set the table for Notre Dame’s run to the CFP title gameVideo
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The toughest game Notre Dame will play this season is, obviously, going to happen on Jan. 20, the College Football Playoff national championship game. The toughest game the Irish played to date probably was the Orange Bowl against Penn State. There were plenty of tough games...
Powerful winter storm dumps heavy snow, causing flight delays, slick roads and school closings
ATLANTA — A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into Southern U.S. states Friday, making for dicey travel and a rare snow day for many students. Arkansas and North Carolina mobilized their National Guards for tasks...
Federal probe of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre says ‘no avenue’ for criminal case in connection to attack
OKLAHOMA CITY — The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded Friday that while federal prosecution may have been possible a century ago there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case more than 100 years after one of the worst racial attacks...
