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What we know about the plane crash that killed NASCAR's Greg Biffle and his family 12/18/2025 05:33pm • A private jet crashed at a regional North Carolina airport and erupted into flames Thursday, killing seven people, including retired NASCAR star Greg Biffle and three members of his family, officials said. Here are some things to know about the crash. What happened? The plane took off Thursday morni NASCAR mourns the loss of Greg Biffle, family in tragic plane crash in North Carolina 12/18/2025 05:14pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Greg Biffle was picked by NASCAR as one of its top 75 drivers in history. He was a Hall of Fame nominee for the stock car series and he drove for 18 years at the top of the sport. Yet for all the races and the handful of memorable wins, he is perhaps best remembered for h What to know about the Arizona serial killings that resulted in the death penalty 12/18/2025 04:01pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� An Arizona man was sentenced Thursday to death in a string of fatal shootings in metro Phoenix during a three-week span in 2017. Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 43, was found guilty in late September of murder in eight killings. Jurors agreed on the death penalty in six of the killings, but t Belarusian leader says Russia deployed its latest nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile to the country 12/18/2025 02:26pm • Belarus' authoritarian president said Thursday that Russia had deployed its latest nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system to the country, a move that comes as talks to end the war in Ukraine have entered a crucial phase. President Alexander Lukashenko said the Oreshnik, an intermediate range balli Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions 12/18/2025 02:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions ��� and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a young star called Fomalhaut. They thought it could be a planet and continued to Along the Texas Coast, a new sanctuary aims to protect the endangered and rare whooping crane 12/18/2025 01:13pm • WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) ��� Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane���s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its ���whooping��� call, is one of the rarest in North America and was among the first to be protected by the En Brian Walshe is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife, whose body was never found 12/18/2025 12:32pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A Boston-area man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the grisly murder of his wife, who disappeared nearly three years ago and whose body has never been found. Brian Walshe, 50, was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the killing of Ana Walshe, 39. The sentence carr Sudanese paramilitary group RSF killed more than 1,000 civilians in Zamzam camp in April, UN says 12/18/2025 10:35am • CAIRO (AP) ��� More than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group earlier this year on the largest displacement camp in western Sudan, the U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report released Thursday. RSF stormed Zamzam camp in April as part of Refugee firefighters in Mauritania battle bushfires to give back to the community that took them in 12/18/2025 10:26am • MBERA, Mauritania (AP) ��� The men move in rhythm, swaying in line and beating the ground with spindly tree branches as the sun sets over the barren and hostile Mauritanian desert. The crack of the wood against dry grass lands in unison, a technique perfected by more than a decade of fighting bushfi Thailand carries out more airstrikes on Cambodia as deadly border conflict flares 12/18/2025 10:07am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Thailand on Thursday carried out more airstrikes on Cambodia, claiming its jet fighters struck a warehouse where the Cambodian army had stored rockets that have been deployed to deadly effect in combat that began last week. The two nations have been fighting over patche Rural schools hit by Trump's grant cuts have few options for making up for the lost money 12/18/2025 09:11am • SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� When the funding for Shannon Johnson's job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done. Johnson taught elementary and middle-school students in rural Kentucky how to navigate conflic Rain creates a crimson spectacle on Iran's Hormuz Island for the first time this year 12/18/2025 08:16am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Rainfall on Iran's Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep red. The beach is known for its vivid red sand and cliffs, created by high conc An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones 12/18/2025 07:18am • AILSA CRAIG, Scotland (AP) ��� If you���re looking to strike gold ��� silver or bronze, too ��� look to Ailsa Craig. This uninhabited isle 10 miles (16 kilometers) off the coast of southwest Scotland is the source of the super-dense granite used to make curling stones for the Winter Olympics. Jim En Staging the Africa Cup of Nations part of Morocco's bid to become a soccer superpower 12/18/2025 06:23am • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Staging the Africa Cup of Nations from Sunday is another major step in Morocco���s road to becoming a global soccer power and a dry run as a co-host for the 2030 World Cup. Three years after reaching the semifinals of the 2022 World Cup, the North African kingdom will host 24 Riley leads Tulsa against Western Kentucky after 29-point outing 12/18/2025 04:43am • Tulsa Golden Hurricane (10-1) at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (7-3) Bowling Green, Kentucky; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Tulsa faces Western Kentucky after Tylen Riley scored 29 points in Tulsa's 83-70 win over the New Mexico State Aggies. The Hilltoppers are 5-0 in home games. Western Kentuc