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15-year-old Kansas football player's death is blamed on heat 10/17/2024 06:51pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Outdoor conditioning while a heat advisory was in effect during the humid summer left 15-year-old football player Ovet Gomez Regalado pale and asking for water. After a 15-minute exercise, he collapsed as he walked to a building at his suburban Kansas City high school and died A father and son are both indicted on murder charges in a mass school shooting in Georgia 10/17/2024 06:31pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury indicted both a father and son on murder charges Thursday in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. A Barrow County grand jury indicted 14-year-old Colt Gray on a total of 55 counts, including murder in the deaths of four people and 25 counts of ag Battleground North Carolina sees strong early voting, despite obstacles created by Helene 10/17/2024 06:28pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections Who was Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel says it killed? 10/17/2024 06:24pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was Dennis Eckersley's daughter gets suspended sentence in baby abandonment case 10/17/2024 04:52pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the woods in subfreezing temperatures was given a suspended sentence Thursday, provided she continues to maintain contact with mental health providers. Alexandra Eckersley, 27, the daughter of Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis E Florida digs out of mountains of sand swept in by back-to-back hurricanes 10/17/2024 04:44pm • BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When a hurricane sets its sights on Florida, storm-weary residents may think of catastrophic wind, hammering rain and dangerous storm surge. Mounds of sand swallowing their homes? Not so much. That’s the reality for some after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered F No. 16 Indiana trying to extend perfect season and milestone start when Nebraska visits 10/17/2024 03:55pm • The Indiana Hoosiers already accomplished more than anybody expected this season. They're bowl eligible at the earliest moment in school history. They're 6-0 for the first time since 1967 and the second time in school history. They're ranked No. 16, marking the first time since 2020 they've appeared Drug kingpin Demetrius 'Big Meech' Flenory leaves federal prison for a residential program in Miami 10/17/2024 02:58pm • MIAMI (AP) — Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, who co-founded the notorious drug trafficking organization Black Mafia Family, will serve the remainder of his prison sentence in a residential reentry program in Miami, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Flenory, 56, was originally sentence No. 22 Illinois eyes 1st ranked-vs-ranked win at home since 1991 against No. 24 Michigan 10/17/2024 02:56pm • CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Michigan and Illinois will try to get back on track Saturday in the first ranked-vs-ranked game at Memorial Stadium since 2000. No. 24 Michigan (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) had a school-record 27-game Big Ten winning streak snapped Oct. 5 at Washington when it lost 27-17. The Wolverin Commanders look to get back on track when they host the struggling Panthers 10/17/2024 01:50pm • Carolina (1-5) at Washington (4-2) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT, CBS BetMGM NFL Odds: Commanders by 8 Against the spread: Panthers 1-5; Commanders 4-2 Series record: Washington leads 10-7. Last meeting: Washington beat the Panthers 27-21, on Nov. 21, 2021, at Carolina. Last week: Panthers La Nina could soon arrive. Here's what that means for winter weather 10/17/2024 01:06pm • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center says there is a 60% chance that a weak La Nina event will develop this autumn and could last until March. La Nina is part of a natural climate cycle that can cause extreme weather across the planet — and its effects Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall 10/17/2024 12:25pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, whose chart-topping British boy band generated a global following of swooning fans, was found dead Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, local officials said. Buenos Aires police said in a statement After hurricane, with no running water, residents organize to meet a basic need 10/17/2024 12:09pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — It takes water to flush a toilet and tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago. When Lark Frazier went around asking her Asheville neighbors how they were doing as far as water to flush, severa Sun coach Stephanie White is focused on family emergency and not coaching future 10/17/2024 12:01pm • Connecticut coach Stephanie White is more focused on a family emergency that her professional future right now. “My priority is my family right now,” White said on a zoom Thursday while holding back tears. “Honestly, just being here for my family getting through this, that’s my priority.” France’s richest family shaking up soccer with planned purchase of second-tier Paris FC 10/17/2024 11:46am • PARIS (AP) — France’s richest family, the Arnaults of luxury empire LVMH, announced the planned purchase of second-division soccer club Paris FC on Thursday and ambitions to establish it in the top flight. It’s a major shakeup for soccer in France, putting vast wealth behind a potential challe