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West Virginia gets the week's marquee matchup as the Big 12 season begins with 16 teams 08/29/2024 06:10am • Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference: Game of the week No. 8 Penn State at West Virginia, Saturday, noon ET (Fox) The Mountaineers, coming off a surprising 9-4 record last year after being picked to finish last in the Big 12, are the league's only team opening against a ranked Power Fo No. 1 Georgia opens championship-or-bust season against No. 14 Clemson in Atlanta 08/29/2024 06:10am • No. 14 Clemson vs. No. 1 Georgia at Atlanta, Saturday, noon ET (ABC) BetMGM College Football Odds: Georgia by 13 1/2. Series record: Georgia leads 43-18-4. WHAT���S AT STAKE? Georgia has its sights squarely on a third national championship in four years after just missing out on the playoff a year a No. 1 Georgia opens season against No. 14 Clemson, a team that was once a fixture on the schedule 08/29/2024 06:10am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� They are only about 70 miles apart, the Georgia and Clemson campuses, certainly close enough to be bitter rivals. Yet, thanks to all the upheaval in college football over the past few decades, they rarely see each other anymore. ���Really, a great rivalry,��� Georgia coach Kirby Sma Grand Canyon's only water pipeline fails, prompting shutdown of overnight hotel stays 08/29/2024 12:56am • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) ��� The main pipeline providing water to the Grand Canyon National Park has failed after a series of breaks, leading to a sudden and sweeping shutdown of overnight hotel stays during one of the busiest times of the year for the famous tourist destination. Water Authorities search for missing California couple last seen leaving home on nudist ranch 08/28/2024 09:34pm • REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) ��� Authorities in southern California are searching for a missing couple last seen leaving their home on a nudist ranch over the weekend. Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband, Daniel, 79, were reported missing Sunday to the Redlands Police Department by a worried friend, the What to know about the pipeline that brings water to millions of Grand Canyon goers 08/28/2024 09:19pm • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) ��� Four significant breaks in the water pipeline that serves the Grand Canyon means visitors won���t be able to stay overnight in hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim through the Labor Day holiday. Here are some things to know about the Transc Crews work to restore power to more than 300,000 Michigan homes, businesses after storms 08/28/2024 09:10pm • ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) ��� Crews for two of Michigan's largest utilities were working to restore power Wednesday to more than 300,000 homes and businesses left in the dark amid hot, muggy conditions after severe storms toppled trees and snapped power poles. More than 302,000 Michigan customers were w A military court has sentenced a Myanmar journalist to life in prison, outlet's editor says 08/28/2024 09:06pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his colleagues to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law, their editor said Wednesday. The sentences for Myo Myint Oo and Aung San Oo of the independent onlin A second elephant calf in 2 weeks is born at a California zoo 08/28/2024 08:06pm • FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ��� The second elephant calf in two weeks has been born at a California zoo. African elephant Amahle gave birth early Monday morning, according to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. The event came 10 days after Amahle's mother, Nolwazi, gave birth to another male calf. The new additions ar A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattles El Salvador with no immediate reports of injuries or damage 08/28/2024 06:49pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 rattled El Salvador on Wednesday afternoon with no initial damage reported, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which took place 37 miles (60 kilometers) off the coast of the western region of La L In a north Texas county, dazed residents sift through homes mangled by a tornado 08/28/2024 06:37pm • VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) ��� The dazed residents of a north Texas county sifted through their mangled homes on Sunday after seven people there were killed when a tornado ripped through the remote region near the tiny community of Valley View. Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington said there's ���just 4 killed, 10 injured when passenger van rolls several times in Texas highway crash 08/28/2024 06:36pm • ALVORD, Texas (AP) ��� Four people were killed and 10 were injured when a van rolled multiple times after the driver veered off a Texas highway and then overcorrected Wednesday, authorities said. The crash happened just before 8 a.m. on U.S. 287 in Alvord, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest o Ludacris' gulp of untreated Alaska glacier melt was totally fine, scientist says 08/28/2024 06:32pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Rapper-turned-actor Chris ���Ludacris��� Bridges sparked concern from some social media followers when he knelt on an Alaska glacier, dipped an empty water bottle into a blue, pristine pool of water and drank it. Video of Ludacris tasting the glacial water and proclaiming, Paralympic Games opening ceremony starts the final chapter on a long summer of sport in Paris 08/28/2024 06:14pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Just weeks after hosting the Olympics, Paris inaugurated the 2024 Paralympics on Wednesday with a nearly four-hour-long opening ceremony in the heart of the city. Against the backdrop of a setting sun, thousands of athletes paraded down the famed Champs-Elys��es avenue to Place de Killings of invasive owls to ramp up on US West Coast in a bid to save native birds 08/28/2024 05:53pm • U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan finalized Wednesday that faces challenges from barred owls returning after they've already been removed. Traine