Associated Press stories, Page 794
Voters back abortion rights, but some foes won’t relent. Is the commitment to democracy in question?
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: the commitment to democracy. As voters in state after state affirm their support for abortion rights, opponents are acting with escalating defiance toward the democratic...
Georgia remains No. 1 in Top 25; Ohio State jumps Michigan for No. 2
Ohio State passed Michigan and moved up to No. 2 in the Associated Press college football poll Sunday, a week before the Big Ten rivals play another top-five matchup, and No. 4 Washington also flip-flopped with No. 5 Florida State. Georgia remained No. 1 and received a season-high 61 first-place...
Cheers! A bottle of Scotch whisky sells for a record $2.7 million at auction
LONDON — A bottle of Scotch whisky billed as “the most sought-after” in the world sold Saturday for almost 2.2 million pounds ($2.7 million), an auction record for a bottle of wine or spirits. The Macallan Adami 1926 sold at Sotheby’s in London, after a bidding war between would-be buyers...
Maine and Massachusetts are the last states to keep bans on Sunday hunting. That might soon change
PORTLAND, Maine — Some states are steadily chipping away at longstanding bans on Sunday hunting, and there’s a push to overturn the laws in Maine and Massachusetts, the final two states with full bans. Maine’s highest court is considering a lawsuit asking whether the state’s 19th century law, which prevents...
Democratic-led cities pay for migrants’ tickets to other places as resources dwindle
DENVER — As weary migrants arrive in Denver on buses from the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas, officials offer them two options: temporary shelter or a bus ticket out. Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who arrived in Denver since November 2022 have chosen the bus, plane or...
Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have employed a...
Sugar prices are rising worldwide after bad weather tied to El Nino damaged crops in Asia
Skyrocketing sugar prices left Ishaq Abdulraheem with few choices. Increasing the cost of bread would mean declining sales, so the Nigerian baker decided to cut his production by half. For scores of other bakers struggling to stay afloat while enduring higher costs for fuel and flour, the stratospheric sugar prices...
41 workers remain trapped in tunnel in India for 7th day as drilling operations face challenges
LUCKNOW, India — Forty-one workers remained trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day Saturday as a new drilling machine arrived on site to replace the damaged one. The nature of the exceptionally hard rock formation in the area coupled with the clearing of debris...
31 premature babies are evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital, but scores of trauma patients remain
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza’s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to...
Florida State QB Jordan Travis carted off after injury to left leg
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis was carted off the field after suffering what appeared to be a serious injury to his left leg late in the first quarter of the fourth-ranked Seminoles’ game against North Alabama on Saturday night. Travis, a Heisman Trophy contender, was tackled after...
More than a foot of snow, 100 mph winds possible in Sierra Nevada storm
RENO, Nev. — The National Weather Service issued advisories Saturday along the California-Nevada line ahead of an early winter storm that could bring more than a foot of snow to the upper elevations of the Sierra and winds gusting up to 100 mph over ridgetops. The winter weather advisories, in...
Biden: ‘Revitalized Palestinian Authority’ should govern Gaza, West Bank
WILMINGTON, Del. — President Joe Biden says achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.” In an op-ed published Saturday in the...
Man fatally shot while hunting in western New York state
SAVANNAH, N.Y. — A man on a hunting trip was shot and killed in Western New York on Saturday, the first day of the state’s regular deer and bear hunting seasons, authorities said. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office said it responded about 7 a.m. to a report a hunter had...
Jahiem White, Garrett Greene run wild in West Virginia’s romp over CincinnatiVideo
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia freshman Jahiem White rushed for a season-high 204 yards, Garrett Greene ran for a career-high 154 and the pair combined for five touchdowns in a 42-21 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday. West Virginia (7-4, 5-3 Big 12) turned a matchup of two of the league’s...
Robert Morris drops season finale to Eastern Illinois
Pierce Holley threw for three touchdowns and MJ Flowers ran for 179 and a score as Eastern Illinois beat Robert Morris, 28-14, on Saturday. Eastern Illinois (8-3, 4-2 Big South, OVC Association) won its eighth game in a season for the first time since 2013. Holley threw a 26-yard touchdown...
Duquesne clamps down on Merrimack, clinches NEC football title
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Darius Perrantes threw three touchdown passes and Duquesne wrapped up the Northeast Conference championship with a 26-14 victory over Merrimack on Saturday. Duquesne, which joined the NEC in 2008, won at least a share of the conference title for the seventh time, but just the second...
Schedule, Joe Burrow’s injury provide Bengals daunting challenge
Even before Joe Burrow’s season-ending wrist injury was announced, the Cincinnati Bengals were facing a challenging road in trying to get to the playoffs for a third straight season. Without Burrow, that might be too big of a hill to climb. Thursday night’s 34-20 loss to the Baltimore Ravens evened...
Tiger Woods to play in Bahamas, 1st competition since Masters
Tiger Woods showed he could walk four days while caddying for his son. Now he has decided he is fit enough to try to play. Woods announced on social media Saturday he will be playing in the Hero World Challenge, which starts Nov. 30 at Albany Golf Club in the...
Adam Johnson’s UK team retires his jersey number after skate-cut death
NOTTINGHAM, England — The English hockey team that Adam Johnson played for retired his No. 47 jersey Saturday as part of a memorial game honoring the American who died after an opposing player’s skate cut his neck during a game. Nottingham Panthers players appeared to be wearing neck guards, too,...
Ford, Stellantis workers join those at GM in approving contract settlement that ended UAW strikes
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union overwhelmingly ratified new contracts with Ford and Stellantis, that along with a similar deal with General Motors will raise pay across the industry, force automakers to absorb higher costs and help reshape the auto business as it shifts away from gasoline-fueled vehicles. Workers...
Patients, staff leave Gaza’s biggest hospital; dozens killed at crowded refugee camp
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one describing a panicked and chaotic evacuation as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among the evacuees and took some away. Israel’s military has been searching the hospital for a Hamas command center it...
No. 12 Penn State pulls away from Rutgers despite Drew Allar leaving game after hitVideo
STATE COLLEGE — Kaytron Allen is a man of few words. Most of his teammates consider him one of the shyest players on Penn State’s roster. When he pulls on his football helmet, however, Allen’s personality emerges. Allen, all smiles and full of trash talk, bruised his way for two...
SpaceX launched its giant new rocket but explosions end the second test flight
SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight. The rocketship reached space following liftoff from South Texas before communication suddenly was lost. SpaceX officials said it appears the ship’s self-destruct system blew it up...
Political violence threatens to intensify as the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism warn
The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the...
Officials stock up on overdose antidote naloxone after fentanyl-laced letters disrupt vote counting
SEATTLE — The suspicious letters sent to vote centers and government buildings in six states this month were undeniably scary, some containing traces of fentanyl or white powder, accompanied by not-so-veiled threats and dubious political symbols. Harkening back to the anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, the mailings...
