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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 Washington state House overwhelmingly passes ban on hog-tying by police 02/28/2024 04:55pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� The Washington state House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern because of the risk of suffocation. ���This practice is dehumanizing, and it���s dangerous,��� said Democratic Re Three slain Minnesota first responders are honored as heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice 02/28/2024 04:47pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Three Minnesota first responders who were gunned down while responding to a report of a domestic incident at a home with seven children inside were remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice. The Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville has been An Ohio city is marking 30 years since the swearing-in of former US Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow 02/28/2024 04:18pm • MARION, Ohio (AP) ��� A history-making, record-setting former U.S. treasurer is being celebrated in her Ohio city this week as she marks the 30th anniversary of her swearing-in ceremony. Democratic Mary Ellen Withrow, 93, plans six appearances Thursday and Friday around Marion, about 50 miles (80 ki Why did the Texas Panhandle fires grow so fast? 02/28/2024 04:07pm • The rapid growth of raging wildfires in the Texas Panhandle has been staggering. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties Tuesday as the blaze forced widespread evacuations. On Wednesday, the Texas A&M Forest Service said the fire had grown to rival the largest i Wildfire in Texas Panhandle grows to 1,300 square miles, rivaling largest blaze in state history 02/28/2024 03:38pm • CANADIAN, Texas (AP) ��� Wildfire in Texas Panhandle grows to 1,300 square miles, rivaling largest blaze in state history. From balmy to brrr: Wisconsin cities see a nearly 60-degree temperature swing in under 24 hours 02/28/2024 03:20pm • Wisconsin cities recorded nearly 60-degree swings in temperatures within 24 hours from Tuesday's balmy weather and Wednesday's chilly return to winter, tying a record for at least one city and potentially setting a record elsewhere. That's according to a National Weather Service review of historic Conservationist Aldo Leopold's last remaining child dies at 97 02/28/2024 02:59pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The last remaining child of famed conservationist and author Aldo Leopold has died at age 97. Estella Leopold, a researcher and scientist who dedicated her life to the land ethic philosophy of her famous father, died on Sunday in Seattle after several months in hospice, the Al Scientists create new idea on how to hack a warming planet: drying the upper atmosphere 02/28/2024 02:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier. Water vapor ��� water in its gas form ��� is a natural greenhouse gas that traps heat, just like carbon dioxide from burni $1 million in stolen cargo discovered in warehouse near Georgia port 02/28/2024 01:31pm • RINCON, Ga. (AP) ��� Authorities in Georgia discovered an estimated $1 million worth of stolen cargo inside a warehouse a few miles from Savannah���s busy seaport. Investigators with a search warrant found pallets of consumer goods including cellphones, food and Peloton exercise equipment, the Effi A pregnant Amish woman is killed in her rural Pennsylvania home, and police have no suspects 02/28/2024 12:06pm • SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Investigators have no suspects in the killing of a pregnant 23-year-old Amish woman inside her home in rural northwestern Pennsylvania, and are appealing for tips from the public to help solve the crime, a state police spokeswoman said Wednesday. Rebekah A. Byler was the v How Hakeem Jeffries' Black Baptist upbringing and deep-rooted faith shapes his House leadership 02/28/2024 10:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood together at the annual National Prayer Breakfast ��� an opportunity, in the words of one introductory speaker, to ���put our political differences aside.��� Such differences are vast between Johnson, a sta Bridgeport mayor wins do-over election in race marred by ballot irregularities 02/28/2024 09:25am • Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim won a do-over election Tuesday in Connecticut���s most populous city, months after a judge threw out the results of the first one because of allegations of absentee ballot box stuffing during a Democratic primary. Ganim easily defeated fellow Democrat John Gomes, the city�