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A tornado outbreak in February? In the Great Lakes? Storms leave a trail of destruction 02/29/2024 02:04pm • Severe storms that appear to have spawned a rare February tornado outbreak sent sleeping Midwesterners scrambling for safety and left a trail of damage and power outages across four Great Lakes states, including the Chicago suburbs, ending a spell of summerlike, sometimes record temperatures. Nearly Grocery chain Hy-Vee to sponsor IndyCar's Labor Day doubleheader at Milwaukee Mile 02/29/2024 11:37am • WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Hy-Vee will serve as the sponsor for IndyCar’s Labor Day weekend doubleheader at Milwaukee Mile, the circuit’s first events at this 1-mile oval track since 2015. The Iowa-based grocery chain already has served as the primary host and partner for the IndyCar doubleheader Wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle becomes the largest in state history, growing to nearly 1,700 square miles 02/29/2024 10:17am • CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — Wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle becomes the largest in state history, growing to nearly 1,700 square miles. Climate change cost U.S. ski industry billions, study says, and future depends on emissions 02/29/2024 09:38am • DENVER (AP) — U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change and could lose around $1 billion annually in the 2050s depending on how much emissions are reduced, a new study found. People “may not care about the loss of the species halfway around the w The London police officer who killed Sarah Everard should never have been employed, an inquiry finds 02/29/2024 08:47am • LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years ago should never have been employed in the first place, with three police forces failing to spot clear signals of his unsuitability, an official inquiry revealed Thursday. According t Israel-Hamas war brings back pain to Argentine Jewish community decades after major bombing attack 02/29/2024 08:24am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked numerous targets in Israel, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar felt she had traveled back in time, to July 18, 1994. What happened in Buenos Aires 30 years ago broke her apart. A bomb-laden van exploded insi Charred homes, blackened earth after Texas town revisited by destructive wildfire 10 years later 02/29/2024 07:45am • FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled for safety Tuesday aft Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns 02/28/2024 11:37pm • CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. An 83-year-old gra Missing teen with autism found in New Mexico, about 200 miles away from his Arizona home 02/28/2024 11:29pm • DEMING, N.M. (AP) — A missing teen with autism has been found in New Mexico — about 200 miles (322 kilometers) away from his home in southern Arizona, according to New Mexico State Police. The 13-year-old turned up at a Walmart in Deming on Tuesday after going missing the night before from his Thiam's 25 help High Point knock off Winthrop 100-96 in OT 02/28/2024 11:02pm • HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Abdoulaye Thiam had 25 points in High Point's 100-96 overtime victory over Winthrop on Wednesday night. Thiam made four free throws in the final 16 seconds of overtime to secure the victory. After trailing by 19 points, the Eagles forced overtime when K.J. Doucet made three NTSB report casts doubt on driver's claim that truck's steering locked in crash that killed cyclists 02/28/2024 09:52pm • GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — A newly released report on a fatal crash involving a pickup truck and a group of cyclists last year near Phoenix casts doubt about the driver's claim that the vehicle's steering locked up. The National Transportation Safety Board released a report Wednesday on the Feb. 25, 2 Private US moon lander still working after breaking leg and falling, but not for long 02/28/2024 09:45pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over, according to company officials who said Wednesday it was on the verge of losing power. Intuitive Machines, the company that built the lander, released new photos Wednesda Okwuosa's game-winning layup leads Boston University past Lehigh 64-62 in OT 02/28/2024 09:21pm • BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Kyrone Alexander scored 18 points, Ethan Okwuosa made a game-winning layup just before the buzzer in overtime and Boston University beat Lehigh 64-62 on Wednesday night. Alexander was 3 of 8 shooting, including 2 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 10 for 10 from the line for Climate change, cost and competition for water drive settlement over tribal rights to Colorado River 02/28/2024 08:36pm • FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who still live withou Oil spill from capsized barge near Tobago soils beaches hundreds of miles away 02/28/2024 06:05pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month involves hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel, some of which has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away, authoriti