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What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring 03/08/2024 11:15pm • LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he's zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps. But it's not gravity pulling him toward the finish line: It's the brute force of a Mexico-bound plane lands in LA in 4th emergency this week for United Airlines 03/08/2024 09:28pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Airlines jetliner headed to Mexico City from San Francisco made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Friday after the crew reported a hydraulics issue, in the fourth emergency involving a United Airlines flight this week. The plane landed safely at Los Angeles Inter New Jersey appeals court rejects high school's petition to overturn game it lost on blown call 03/08/2024 09:10pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey court has denied an appeal from a high school that lost a state basketball tournament game when referees wrongly overturned a buzzer-beating basket. The state appellate division ruled late Friday that it would not grant Manasquan school officials' petition stemmin Mission Foods NHRA Gatornationals 03/08/2024 07:52pm • FridayGainesville, Fla.Friday's QualifyingTop Fuel 1. Steve Torrence, 3.690 seconds, 333.08 mph; 2. Shawn Langdon, 3.697, 332.43; 3. Mike Salinas, 3.717, 321.19; 4. Doug Kalitta, 3.723, 332.10; 5. Clay Millican, 3.726, 332.67; 6. Tony Schumacher, 3.728, 328.94; 7. Tony Stewart, 3.739, 327.82; 8. Tri Officers need warrants to use aircraft, zoom lenses to surveil areas around homes, Alaska court says 03/08/2024 05:42pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant before using aircraft to scope out the area around a person's home with binoculars or cameras with zoom lenses, the state's highest court ruled in a decision released Friday. The Alaska Supreme Court ruling comes in a case Tiger Woods to skip the Players Championship as the Masters nears 03/08/2024 05:39pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods is not in the field for The Players Championship next week, opening questions about whether or where the five-time Masters champion will play before Augusta National. The Players already is missing a bevy of big names from those who joined LIV Golf. Now it's mis IndyCar hopes competitive on-track racing captures audience as F1 season looks to be another snoozer 03/08/2024 04:45pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — IndyCar finally snapped six months of dormancy with a Felix Rosenqvist-led spirited Friday practice session that Formula 1 wishes it could reproduce. As the IndyCar season sets to begin Sunday on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, the series has a very real opportu 'Oh my God feeling.' Trooper speaks about shooting knife-wielding man, worrying about other officers 03/08/2024 03:54pm • A Connecticut state trooper who shot a 19-year-old man to death in a stolen car in 2020 testified in his defense Friday that he believed he had to open fire because the man was armed with a knife and made threatening movements toward other officers. Trooper Brian North, 33, took the stand on the fif Canadian town mourns 'devastating loss' of family killed in Nashville plane crash 03/08/2024 03:53pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee identified those killed in a fiery small plane crash next to Interstate 40 on Monday as a family of five from Canada. The pilot was Victor Dotsenko, 43, and the passengers were his wife Rimma, 39, and their three children, David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. out of Saudi GP with appendicitis. Oliver Bearman steps up at age 18 03/08/2024 03:00pm • Ferrari has a new British driver, and it isn't Lewis Hamilton. Carlos Sainz Jr. was ruled out of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with appendicitis that required surgery on Friday and Ferrari handed 18-year-old Oliver Bearman his Formula 1 debut hours before qualifying. He placed 11th. “Carlos is out Andretti has crash-tested an F1 car even after series rejection, still interested in NASCAR 03/08/2024 02:53pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Michael Andretti shied away from discussing his rejection by Formula 1 on Friday in his first interview since the European series denied his application to join the grid as a true American team. “We're in the process of doing things, so we're still feeling very good Here are the worst areas for air pollution in DC, according to satellite imagery 03/08/2024 02:20pm • Air quality is often measured near the surface using handheld monitors or devices run by state agencies or the Environmental Protection Agency. Now researchers are using satellite images to quickly identify pollution problems that cause health issues. "Satellite data provides a first look at w Transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address 03/08/2024 01:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript of President Joe Biden’s as-delivered State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, as provided by the White House. It includes interactions with the audience and White House corrections to Biden’s remarks in brackets: Good evening. Good evening. If I were smart, Iâ Ex-police officer convicted in sexual assault is the first to face tougher new penalty, DOJ says 03/08/2024 12:58pm • A former Oklahoma police officer convicted in the sexual assault of a woman during a traffic stop will become the first to face a heftier penalty under the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, the Justice Department said. Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr., 35, is facing up to 40 years in pr Audi seals full takeover of Sauber ahead of becoming Formula 1 constructor in 2026 03/08/2024 11:02am • INGOLSTADT, Germany (AP) — German automaker Audi said Friday it has reached an agreement for a full takeover of the Sauber team ahead of its entry as a full Formula 1 constructor in 2026. Audi said Sauber's current majority shareholder Islero Investments backed Audi's plans for a full takeover of