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Assault claims roil Iditarod sled dog race as 2 top mushers are disqualified, then 1 reinstated 02/23/2024 07:49pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Claims of violence against women are roiling the world's most famous sled dog race ��� Alaska's Iditarod ��� with officials disqualifying two top mushers this week and then quickly reinstating one of them on Friday, days before the start. The upheaval began last week, when Teens broke into a Wisconsin luxury dealership and drove off with 9 cars worth $583,000, police say 02/23/2024 07:32pm • WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) ��� A group of teenagers believed to be from the Chicago area broke into a luxury car dealership in Wisconsin and drove off with nine vehicles worth more than a half-million dollars, police said. Sunday's heist at a Jaguar-Land Rover dealership in Waukesha was captured on surveil Love tops Atlanta qualifying, becomes 1st NASCAR Xfinity driver to win pole in first 2 career races 02/23/2024 07:26pm • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) ��� Jessie Love became the first driver to win poles in his first two career NASCAR Xfinity starts by claiming the top spot on Friday in Atlanta. Love won the pole for Saturday's race with a best time of 31.87 seconds on Atlanta Motor Speedway���s 1.54-mile track. The 19-year-old Cleats left behind after Jackie Robinson statue was stolen to be donated to Negro League Museum 02/23/2024 07:21pm • The bronze Jackie Robinson cleats that were left behind when a statue of the first player to break Major League Baseball���s color barrier was stolen from a Kansas park are being donated to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Thieves cut the statue off at its ankles last month, leaving only the feet White House, tribal leaders hail 'historic' deal to restore salmon runs in Pacific Northwest 02/23/2024 06:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington celebrated on Friday as they signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. The plan, announ Astronomers spot new tiny moons around Neptune and Uranus 02/23/2024 06:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system ��� two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful land-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, and announced Friday by the International Astr 2 National Guard members die in northeast Mississippi helicopter crash 02/23/2024 06:13pm • BALDWYN, Miss. (AP) ��� Two National Guard members died after a helicopter crashed Friday afternoon during a training flight in northeast Mississippi, officials said. The aircraft went down in a wooded area near Baldwyn, Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar told WTVA-TV. The site is about 115 miles ( 3 University of Wyoming swimmers killed in highway crash in Colorado 02/23/2024 06:09pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ��� Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed and two others injured when their sport utility vehicle veered and rolled over alongside a rural highway, bringing to at least 15 the school's students killed in recent years on the perilous road. Trash dispute between roommates led to threat one month before fatal Colorado campus shooting 02/23/2024 05:02pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A college student accused of killing his roommate and another person at a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs dorm room last week told his roommate a month earlier he would ���kill him��� if he was asked to take out the trash again, according to a court document released Friday. 2 children were killed when a hillside collapsed along a Northern California river 02/23/2024 04:50pm • SHASTA LAKE, Calif. (AP) ��� Two children were killed when a hillside collapsed along a river in Northern California, which has been hit by a series of winter storms. The Shasta County Sheriff���s Office said in a statement that the two victims were caught in the debris and fell down the hillside Th After 1st US moon landing in 50 years, here comes the 'Full Snow Moon' 02/23/2024 03:47pm • With the last-minute assistance of a NASA-precision landing technology, the first CLPS mission ��� or commercial lunar payload services ��� carrying the agency���s science and technology demonstrations successfully landed on the moon at 6:23 p.m. on Feb. 22. NASA and Intuitive Machines held a tel A list of mass killings in the United States this year 02/23/2024 03:14pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities say a 39-year-old woman intentionally set a fire at home to kill herself and her four children. The children were 9-year-old twins, a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. Police announced late Wednesday that a preliminary A World War II bomb prompted an evacuation in England before being taken to sea to be blown up 02/23/2024 01:45pm • LONDON (AP) ��� An unexploded World War II bomb was safely transported Friday through the eerily empty streets of the southwestern English port city of Plymouth before being placed on a boat for its next and final journey to sea where it will be blown up by naval divers. In what prompted one of the Kenya mourns as marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum is given a state funeral 02/23/2024 12:51pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Kenya's world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum was given a state funeral Friday following his death in a car crash earlier this month, as many Kenyans urged the government to do more to protect the country���s famous athletes. Hundreds of dignitaries ��� from Kenyan Presi IOC says there will be no compromise if Milan-Cortina Olympics track is not ready by March 2025 02/23/2024 10:17am • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� The International Olympic Committee reiterated that the bobsled track for the Milan-Cortina Games has to be ready by March 2025 and that there will be no ���compromise.��� Italy is going ahead with a controversial, $90 million plan to rebuild the historic track in Cortina for