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NCAA Women's Div. II Basketball Tournament Glance 04/10/2024 10:01am • All Times EDT First Round Friday, March 15 Atlantic Region At campus sites Gannon 73, West Virginia St. 53 Lock Haven 74, California (Pa.) 60 Fairmont St. 72, West Chester 68 Fayetteville St. 72, Indiana (Pa.) 63 Central Region Southern Nazarene 70, Henderson St. 61 Harding 82, Pittsburg St. 74, OT Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed the existence of the 'God particle,' dies at 94 04/10/2024 03:14am • LONDON (AP) ��� Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ���God particle��� that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said h Shea Langeliers hits 3 home runs, leads Athletics over Rangers 4-3 04/10/2024 12:32am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Shea Langeliers hit three home runs, including a two-run drive in the ninth inning that lifted the Oakland Athletics over the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Tuesday night. Langeliers, a 26-year-old who entered with 29 career big league homers, hit solo drives in the second off Nathan Stock market today: Asian markets are mixed after a slow day on Wall St ahead of US inflation update 04/10/2024 12:30am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead of some potentially market-moving reports. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1.9% to 17,144.54, while the Shanghai Composite index slipped 0.3% to 3,088.25. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 gave up 0.4% to Luka Doncic scores 39 in triple-double as Mavs beat Hornets 130-104, clinch playoff spot 04/10/2024 12:30am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Luka Doncic had 39 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, and the playoff-bound Dallas Mavericks continued their late-season surge, beating the Charlotte Hornets 130-104 on Tuesday night for their 15th win in 17 games. Dallas secured a guaranteed playoff spot among the top six Shea Langeliers has 3-homer game, first for Athletics starting catcher in 99 years 04/10/2024 12:30am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Shea Langeliers became only the second Athletics starting catcher to hit three home runs in a game ��� and the first in 99 years. Langeliers' third home run of the night was a two-run drive in the ninth inning that lifted Oakland over the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Tuesday night. Dominic Fletcher's 2-run double helps White Sox snap 5-game skid with 7-5 win over Guardians 04/09/2024 11:22pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Dominic Fletcher hit a two-run double in the eighth inning as the Chicago White Sox snapped a five-game losing streak with their first road win, 7-5 over the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night. Fletcher's shot to right-center off Scott Barlow (0-2) broke a 5-5 tie as the White S Years after college student is stabbed to death, California man goes on trial in alleged hate case 04/09/2024 10:26pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� The killing of a gay University of Pennsylvania student in Southern California more than six years ago was a hate crime, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements of a murder trial. The defendant, 26-year-old Samuel Woodward of Newport Beach, is accused of stabbing t Youngkin amends Virginia 'skill games' legislation, takes other action on final batch of bills 04/09/2024 10:21pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed a rewrite of legislation intended to legalize and tax skill games, adding stiff new restrictions that industry supporters argued would still amount to a de facto ban of the slots-like gambling machines hosted by small businesses. Th At least 3 dead and 4 missing in an explosion at a hydroelectric plant in Italy 04/09/2024 10:13pm • MILAN (AP) ��� An explosion Tuesday at a decades-old hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people were missing. The explosion at power company Enel's Bergi plant south of Bologna during maintenance AUTO RACING: Byron gives Hendrick more to celebrate in Martinsville. Verstappen gets another F1 win 04/09/2024 08:38pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 Site: Fort Worth, Texas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 10:30 a.m., and qualifying, 11:20 a.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FS1). Track: Texas Motor Speedway. Race distance: 267 laps, 400.5 miles. Last year: William Byron won after Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to 10 years in prison for not stopping a 'runaway train' 04/09/2024 07:55pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021. ���These con LA police say woman threw her 2 girls, one of whom died, onto freeway after killing partner 04/09/2024 06:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� An infant girl and her 9-year-old sister who were found on a busy Los Angeles-area freeway were thrown from a moving SUV, and investigators believe their mother was responsible and died by suicide after also killing her partner, authorities said Tuesday. The 8-month-old was pro Norfolk Southern agrees to $600M settlement in fiery Ohio derailment. Locals fear it���s not enough 04/09/2024 05:19pm • Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train derailment in Ohio, but residents worry the money not only won���t go far enough to cover future health needs that could be tremendous but also won't amount to much once divvied up. � Many eclipse visitors to northern New England pulled an all-nighter trying to leave 04/09/2024 04:35pm • FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) ��� Thousands of visitors to northern New England communities in the path of the total solar eclipse were told to pack their patience for the trip. In some areas, they needed it for up to 12 hours after the event started, inching their way back home on packed interstates and sec