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Caitlin Clark attendance boon: Some WNBA teams look for bigger arenas when the Fever come to town 05/01/2024 02:46pm • WNBA teams have started making moves to capitalize on the popularity of Caitlin Clark. Some are booking bigger venues for when Clark and the Indiana Fever come to town. The Las Vegas Aces and Washington Mystics have moved their games against the Fever to bigger arenas. The numbers Clark generated in Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout 05/01/2024 02:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that's supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through. � 'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways 05/01/2024 02:15pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly Rabid raccoon found in College Park for 2nd time in the past month 05/01/2024 01:51pm • For the second time in the past few weeks, Prince George's County officials say a rabid raccoon was found in College Park, Maryland, last Tuesday. They're cautioning residents who were possibly exposed to get in contact with the health department. The sick animal was spotted less than half a mile Student protests take over some campuses. At others, attention is elsewhere 05/01/2024 01:45pm • BOSTON (AP) — Boston College students held a protest rally against the Israel-Hamas war last week. Bullhorns were banned, lest the noise disturb studying for finals. Tents weren't allowed. Students who'd been arrested at other Boston campus protests were barred. After an allotted hour, the studen Ex-Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has been threatened with jail time in his divorce case 05/01/2024 01:17pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican who spent years as one of Ohio's highest profile politicians has been threatened with jail time for violating the terms of his 2020 divorce agreement. Josh Mandel, a former two-term state treasurer who ran three times for U.S. Senate, was sentenced to seven days Northwestern University's deal with student protesters offers example of successful negotiations 05/01/2024 01:15pm • CHICAGO (AP) — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide. But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hour Sentencing postponed for Minnesota man who regrets joining Islamic State group 05/01/2024 12:47pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse for joining a “death cult” and has been cooperating with federal authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces after his sentencing hearing set for Wednesday Former students of the for-profit Art Institutes are approved for $6 billion in loan cancellation 05/01/2024 11:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of its campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud. Saying the chain lured students with “pervas Biden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters 05/01/2024 11:23am • PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he's moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana. Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelectio 100-year-old veteran honored with graduation ceremony 05/01/2024 10:55am • Jack Milton served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, plus  he found time to earn a college degree. Now, at 100 years old, Milton has finally received the college graduation ceremony and party that he missed nearly 60 years ago. His military career began in the U.S. Army Air Co UNC's RJ Davis is returning to school for a 5th season. He was an AP 1st-team All-American last year 05/01/2024 10:39am • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — First-team Associated Press All-American RJ Davis is returning to North Carolina to play his fifth season of eligibility, which could have him ultimately contending for the school and Atlantic Coast Conference career scoring record. The school and Davis announced the decis Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice 05/01/2024 10:32am • It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation. What started as just one week in May has evolved over the decades into a monthlong tribute of even Sports on TV for May 6 - 12 05/01/2024 10:00am • Adv04 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, May 6 COLLEGE GOLF 3 p.m. GOLF — The PGA Works Collegiate Championships: First Round, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. MLB BASEBALL 6 p.m. FS1 — Detroit at Cleveland NBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs: TBA New York mayor says about 300 arrested in crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and City College 05/01/2024 09:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — New York mayor says about 300 arrested in crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and City College.