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A Pennsylvania woman is convicted of killing her 2 young children in 2019 09/26/2024 02:41pm • READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman was convicted of killing her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home five years ago. Lisa Snyder, 41, was convicted Tuesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the September 2019 deaths of 4-year-old Brinley and 8-year-o Hurricane Helene is unusual — but it's not an example of the Fujiwhara Effect 09/26/2024 02:16pm • Treacherous Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday evening on Florida’s northwestern coast and then continue on to torment parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee with heavy rain, flash floods and gusty winds. While Helene will likely weaken as it moves inland, its “fast f What obstacles stand in the way of an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire? 09/26/2024 01:40pm • Israel and Hezbollah each have strong incentives to heed international calls for a cease-fire that could avert all-out war — but that doesn't mean they will. Hezbollah is reeling after a sophisticated attack on personal devices killed and wounded hundreds of its members. Israeli airstrikes have ki Future conference rivals clash as No. 25 Boise State hosts Washington State 09/26/2024 12:09pm • Give it a couple of years and a clash between Boise State and Washington State will be a conference matchup with both as members of the Pac-12. For now, it’ll have to settle for simply being a critically important early non-conference meeting between regional rivals that could have ramifications c Man who set off explosion at California courthouse had a criminal case there 09/26/2024 12:01pm • SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — A 20-year-old man tossed an explosive device into the California courthouse where he was about to be arraigned on a gun charge and the explosion left five people with minor injuries and shut down the court complex and other nearby city buildings, police said. The explosi Tunisia's coast guard finds bodies of 13 migrants washed up on its shores 09/26/2024 10:23am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The bodies of 13 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found washed up on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast this week as authorities struggle to stem unauthorized boat crossings from North Africa to Europe. Tunisia's Coast Guard said the bodies were recovered on Wednesday near Ma Evacuation order lifted for Ohio town where dangerous chemical leak occurred 09/26/2024 09:38am • WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Residents in an Ohio community where a dangerous chemical leak occurred have been allowed to return to their homes. An evacuation order was issued shortly after styrene, a toxic and flammable chemical that is used to make plastic and rubber, began leaking Tuesday a No. 7 Miami opens ACC play against Virginia Tech, looking to keep flying after hot start 09/26/2024 06:10am • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — This is basically where Miami was at this time last year. Unbeaten through four games, climbing in the national rankings, feeling good going into the start of Atlantic Coast Conference play. And then, thud. ACC play last season for Miami started with a debacle against Ge Clemson's Swinney shrugs off critics after 17th-ranked Tigers hot stretch going into Stanford game 09/26/2024 06:10am • CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is not interested in "Told ya so,' no matter how well his 17th-ranked Tigers are playing these days. Swinney accepted those dogging his program after a 34-3 loss to then top-ranked Georgia a month ago. He won't clapback at them after Clemson's past Faster-paced MLB games being embraced by fans and players, no longer 'too much of a time commitment' 09/26/2024 06:00am • CHICAGO (AP) — On a cloudy, breezy day in September, Tate Conrad and his son, Miles, settled into their seats behind the home dugout at Wrigley Field. The New York Yankees — Tate Conrad's favorite team from when he was growing up in New York — were in town to play the Chicago Cubs. A pretty go A zoo in Finland is returning giant pandas to China because they're too expensive to keep 09/26/2024 12:17am • HELSINKI (AP) — A zoo in Finland has agreed with Chinese authorities to return two loaned giant pandas to China more than eight years ahead of schedule because they have become too expensive for the facility to maintain amid declining visitors. The private Ähtäri Zoo in central Finland some 330 Tropical Weather Latest: Fast-moving Hurricane Helene is expected to be a major storm upon landfall 09/25/2024 11:32pm • Helene strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday, and forecasters warned that the storm would intensify as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico on a path to Florida. The storm had already prompted residents to evacuate, schools to close and officials to declare emergencies in Florida and Georgia. The hurrica A huge Hurricane Helene is expected to hit Florida as a major storm and strike far inland 09/25/2024 11:27pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An enormous Hurricane Helene swamped parts of Mexico on Wednesday as it churned on a path forecasters said would take it to Florida as a potentially catastrophic storm with a surge that could swallow entire homes, a chilling warning that sent residents scrambling for highe Suspect is detained after an explosion at a California courthouse injures 5 people 09/25/2024 11:01pm • SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — A man set off an explosive device in the lobby of a California courthouse on Wednesday, sending five people to the hospital with minor injuries and prompting the shutdown of the court complex and other city buildings, officials said. A 20-year-old man was detained follow Cambodia hopes a new canal will boost trade. But it risks harming the Mekong that feeds millions 09/25/2024 08:58pm • PREK TAKEO, Cambodia (AP) — The Mekong River is a lifeline for millions in the six countries it traverses on its way from its headwaters to the sea, sustaining the world’s largest inland fishery and abundant rice paddies on Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Cambodia's plan to build a massive canal linkin