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Notable numbers capture the wild weather hitting much of the US this week 02/27/2024 04:55pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Wild fluctuations in temperatures are being recorded in much of the United States this week, with some cities experiencing a winter weather whiplash in which they are going from record highs to severe storms to snow and freezing temperatures in a matter of days. And the whiplash do Court appearance postponed: Man accused of leading police on 30-mile chase in stolen Md. highway truck remains hospitalized 02/27/2024 04:13pm • Arrest warrants reveal new details about what happened after police say a Maryland man stole a tow truck, rammed several vehicles and led authorities on a nearly 30-mile chase earlier this month. Flavio Cesar Lanuza, 27, of Laurel, remains hospitalized Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Cen A mower sparked a Nebraska wildfire that has burned an area roughly the size of Omaha, officials say 02/27/2024 03:59pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A mower sparked a prairie fire that has burned a huge swath of grassland in central Nebraska roughly the size of the state's largest city of Omaha, state officials said Tuesday. The fire, first reported Monday morning less than 10 miles (16.1 kilometers) northeast of North Platt Nebraska prosecutors to pursue death penalty in only one of two grisly small-town killings 02/27/2024 03:30pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in the December killing of a Catholic priest inside his home but will pursue execution in the brutal killing of a retiree during a break-in that happened in the same tiny town four months earlier. Kierre Williams ha Indiana man gets 195-year sentence for 2021 killing of a woman, her young daughter and fiancé 02/27/2024 01:52pm • PERU, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of a woman, her young daughter and her fiancé has been sentenced to 195 years in prison. A Miami County judge sentenced Mitchell Page, 27, of Brookston last week to the maximum 65 years for each of three murder counts Family of exonerated Black man killed by a Georgia deputy is suing him in federal court 02/27/2024 12:59pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The family of a Black man fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during an October traffic stop filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking more than $16 million in damages, arguing the deputy used excessive force and the sheriff who employed him ignored the officer's history of violenc Ukrainian President Zelenskyy lands in Saudi Arabia to push for peace and a POW exchange with Russia 02/27/2024 11:49am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and met the kingdom's powerful crown prince to push for a peace plan and the return of prisoners of war from Russia. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has sought to position himself Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, dueling for advantage on immigration 02/27/2024 11:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S-Mexico border on Thursday, as both candidates try to turn the nation’s broken immigration system to their political advantage in an expected campaign rematch this year. Biden will travel t Why does the US government think a Kroger-Albertsons merger would be bad for grocery shoppers? 02/27/2024 10:48am • Kroger and Albertsons — two of the biggest grocery chains in the United States — had hoped to complete the largest supermarket merger in the country's history this year. But their plan to compete with big-box retailers by combining forces faces legal challenges that make it look far less likely, Man pleads guilty in deaths of 2 officers at Virginia college in 2022 and is sentenced to life 02/27/2024 10:36am • HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A man who had been scheduled for trial in the shooting deaths of two popular police officers at a Virginia college in 2022 instead pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Alexander Campbell, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree murder in t Australian police find bodies of couple after officer who was an ex-boyfriend admits to killing them 02/27/2024 09:34am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police on Tuesday found the bodies of a couple shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend, who happened to be a police officer, hours after he admitted to killing and hiding them under rocks and debris on a rural property. The remains of former television reporter J AUTO RACING: Suarez wins at Atlanta by an eyelash while Verstappen hopes to start four-peat in F1 02/27/2024 08:50am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube Site: Las Vegas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 2:05 p.m., and qualifying, 2:50; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Race distance: 267 laps, 400 miles. Last year: William Byron won after starting sec Winthrop visits Giffa and High Point 02/27/2024 03:42am • Winthrop Eagles (17-12, 8-6 Big South) at High Point Panthers (23-6, 12-2 Big South) High Point, North Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: High Point hosts the Winthrop Eagles after Kezza Giffa scored 20 points in High Point's 74-59 win over the Charleston Southern Buccaneers. The Panthers Alexander and Boston University host Lehigh 02/27/2024 03:42am • Boston University Terriers (13-16, 8-8 Patriot League) at Lehigh Mountain Hawks (12-15, 9-7 Patriot League) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Boston University takes on the Lehigh Mountain Hawks after Kyrone Alexander scored 23 points in Boston University's 82-79 overtime w Long-stalled Geneva motor show revs again as Renault, MG, BYD electrics roll onto its smaller stage 02/27/2024 12:01am • GENEVA (AP) — The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five years, and organizers are desperately trying to rev up its fortunes. The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until no