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Trail Blazers end 9-game skid by beating Grizzlies 122-92 03/01/2024 11:47pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dalano Banton scored a season-high 19 points, Jabari Walker also had 19 points and 10 rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers snapped a nine-game skid by defeating the Memphis Grizzlies 122-92 on Friday night. Duop Reath added 18 points for the Trail Blazers, who led the enti Capitals score 5 straight goals to beat the Flyers 5-2, a big win for Washington's playoff hopes 03/01/2024 10:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out that, no, the Washington Capitals aren't ready to give up on their chances of making the playoffs. Less than 36 hours after coach Spencer Carbery's profanity-laced challenge to players at practice, the Capitals answered in a big way in their most important game of the s Mobley, Garland lead short-handed Cavaliers past Pistons, 110-100 03/01/2024 09:59pm • DETROIT (AP) — Darius Garland hit eight 3-pointers and scored 29 points, Evan Mobley had 22 points and 17 rebounds and the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers held off the Detroit Pistons 110-100 on Friday night. Playing without Donovan Mitchell (knee soreness) and Caris LeVert (elbow), Cleveland led Former Alabama football players thank retired coach Nick Saban for helping them reach NFL combine 03/01/2024 07:19pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some Alabama players saw the signs of Nick Saban's impending departure from college football long before his January retirement announcement. Others were every bit as surprised as the general public. Still, the Crimson Tide players attending this week's NFL annual scouting comb Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage from January cyberattack 03/01/2024 06:37pm • Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office phone lines, left clerks unable to issue vehicle registrations or marriage licenses and threatened to publicly release sensitive data they claimed to have stolen unless official Question of whether Nebraska public money can go to private schools still set for November ballot 03/01/2024 06:32pm • Nebraska’s top election official has ruled that voters will get to decide this year whether to repeal a law that gives taxpayer money for private school scholarships. But both Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen and state Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, who authored the school choice law and sought to ha Canada plans state funeral for late Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 03/01/2024 05:03pm • TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will hold a state funeral for Brian Mulroney, the prime minister who in the 1980s solidified trade ties with the U.S. and spoke out against South Africa’s apartheid and whose death drew tributes Friday from world leaders. Mulroney died Thu Jill Biden casts Donald Trump as a threat to women as she opens a tour of battleground states 03/01/2024 04:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) — First lady Jill Biden warned Friday that returning Donald Trump to the White House would threaten women who already have watched the former president’s Supreme Court picks nix a federal right to abortion services. Trump has “spent a lifetime tearing us down and devaluing our exi One year after buying a failed bank, New York Community Bancorp is struggling 03/01/2024 04:38pm • A New York bank is under severe pressure Friday close to one year after absorbing a large chunk of another bank 30 miles (50 kilometers) away that had failed. Shares of New York Community Bancorp plunged after longtime CEO Thomas Cangemi, who has spent much of this year reassuring investors about t Prosecutor in Iowa St. gambling case files motion to dismiss charges against 4 remaining defendants 03/01/2024 02:28pm • The prosecutor handling the sports wagering case against four former or suspended Iowa State athletes has asked a judge to dismiss all charges. In a motion filed Friday in Story County District Court, assistant county attorney Benjamin Matchan wrote that the Division of Criminal Investigation exceed At Duke, basketball provides the perfect backdrop to salute 'kid captains' facing medical battles 03/01/2024 12:51pm • DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The action had stopped in Duke’s rowdy Cameron Indoor Stadium for a timeout. For 10-year-old Samantha DiMartino, the most exciting part of the night had arrived. She smiled while walking to midcourt alongside Marcelle Scheyer, wife of Blue Devils coach Jon Scheyer, as the are Prince George’s Co. lawmakers vote on a budget battle splitting the county versus school leaders 03/01/2024 12:27pm • After weeks of debate and delays, the state lawmakers representing Prince George’s County, Maryland, voted in favor of two bills that give the county government credit for a pair of tax revenue streams that go toward education funding. The two bills are also expected to pass in the state Senate African American Film Critics group celebrates Black Hollywood and beyond while building its stature 03/01/2024 12:18pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay remembered working as a publicist years ago, struggling to draw major traffic to star-studded events for the African American Film Critics Association. No matter which renowned Black actor showed up — from Viola Davis to Forest Whitaker — the organiza Brian Mulroney, former Canadian prime minister who forged closer ties with US, dies at 84 03/01/2024 08:34am • TORONTO (AP) — Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement that was once vilified but is now celebrated, died Thursday. He was 84. The country’s 18th prime minister died peacefully and surrounde Maryland State House lockdown prompted by threatening call lifted, nothing suspicious found 03/01/2024 07:15am • Police locked down the Maryland State House for about two hours following an anonymous threat that prompted officials to close the legislative building and the surrounding area on Thursday evening. Law enforcement officials gave the all clear to reopen the area just before 7 p.m. after sweeping t