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Ben Johnson hits game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer as Bellarmine beats Central Arkansas 68-65 02/22/2024 08:46pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Peter Suder scored 20 points and Ben Johnson made a go-ahead 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Bellarmine a 68-65 victory over Central Arkansas on Thursday night. Johnson used a shot fake to get his defender in the air and he sank an off-balance 3-pointer for the win. It was h Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years 02/22/2024 05:27pm • DENVER (AP) — Denver police are asking for the public’s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman’s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people. In announcing an arrest warrant last Friday, police said Miles Harford was coopera Montenegro court rules to extradite Terraform Labs founder to the US. An appeal is pending 02/22/2024 07:51am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea, a court official in the Balkan Country said Thursday. Kwon, 32, was arrested nearly a year ago in Zach Hicks makes 3 free throws with 3 seconds left to lift Penn State past No. 12 Illinois, 90-89 02/21/2024 09:50pm • STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — While Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center might hold three times as many fans as the program’s rickety old Rec Hall, the nearly 100-year-old facility was at its atmospheric best Wednesday night — at No. 12 Illinois' expense. Zach Hicks made three free throws after bein Decaying bodies and fake ashes spur Colorado to confront lax funeral home oversight 02/21/2024 07:11pm • DENVER (AP) — On the heels of two egregious cases of funeral home owners allegedly mishandling bodies and cremated remains, Colorado lawmakers aimed Wednesday at trying to shore up the state’s lax regulations that failed to prevent the horrific incidents. A bipartisan House committee unanimously 2 Maryland men attempted to steal 5,000 iPhones with fraud scheme, jury finds 02/21/2024 09:44am • Two Maryland residents were found guilty of trying to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars with fake iPhones from China on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, both Chinese nationals that were residing in Germantown, Maryland, were charged with ma Man accused of killing wife sentenced in separate case involving sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings 02/20/2024 05:28pm • BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man charged with killing his wife was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years behind bars over an unrelated art fraud case involving the sale of two fake Andy Warhol paintings. Brian Walshe, who faces first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 39-year Editorial Roundup: United States 02/20/2024 01:26pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Feb. 17 The Washington Post on suicides in federal prisons Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide and mob boss Whitey Bulger’s murder both made headlines as shocking failures of the federal prison system. But the shortcom George Santos sues late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos to ridicule him 02/18/2024 02:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show. The lawsuit filed in U.S. district court for the southern Woman's corpse and 30 cremated remains found after ex-funeral home owner gets evicted from house 02/16/2024 07:09pm • DENVER (AP) — A financially troubled former funeral home owner kept a deceased woman’s body in a hearse for two years at a house where police also found the cremated remains of at least 30 people, authorities said Friday in the latest case to underscore lax oversight of Colorado’s funeral indu Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says 02/16/2024 05:11pm • Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. The stunning news — less than a Abortion rights opponents and supporters seize on report that Trump privately pushes 16-week ban 02/16/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy, though his campaign denied the report and said the former president plans to “negotiate a deal” on abortion Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/16/2024 02:36pm • Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the A loophole got him a free New York hotel stay for five years. Then he claimed to own the building 02/16/2024 10:26am • NEW YORK (AP) — For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law. But prosecutors this week said Mickey Barreto went too far when he filed paperwork claiming ownership of the entire New Yorker Hotel building — Red flags, missed clues: How accused US diplomat-turned-Cuban spy avoided scrutiny for decades 02/15/2024 03:47pm • MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Rocha was well known in Miami’s elite circles for an aristocratic, almost regal, bearing that seemed fitting for an Ivy League-educated career U.S. diplomat who held top posts in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and the White House. “Ambassador Rocha,” as he preferred to be calle