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No. 21 Arizona aiming to keep momentum rolling in first season under Brent Brennan 08/22/2024 02:09pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona made a rapid rise under coach Jedd Fisch, going from a school-record 20-game losing streak to a 10-win season and a bowl victory in three years. With Fisch now at Washington, it's Brent Brennan's turn to keep the momentum going as the program shifts from the Pac-12 to What has worked to fight climate change? Policies where someone pays for polluting, study finds 08/22/2024 02:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases. Their answer: Not many have done the job. And success often means someone has to pay a price, whether at the pump or elsewh Arizona State looking to improve this year on injury-filled first season under Kenny Dillingham 08/22/2024 01:53pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Kenny Dillingham spent much of his first season at Arizona State plugging holes. Injuries plagued the Sun Devils during Dillingham's return to his alma mater, forcing him to use non-quarterbacks under center and even bust out the swinging gate on offense in an attempt to be com Can the College Park Airport cut through miles of red tape in order to expand? 08/22/2024 01:50pm • The College Park Airport is the world's oldest, continuously operating airport. The first plane to soar even a mile into the air took off from there. The first woman to ever ride in a plane took off from there, too. And before Sept. 11, the runways handled more than 50 flights per day. With p Browns enter make-or-break 3rd season with QB Deshaun Watson following suspension, shoulder injury 08/22/2024 01:32pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson was supposed to be the one, the missing piece to return Cleveland's forlorn franchise to fame. That was the plan. The Browns did their part to make it happen. They're still waiting for Watson to fulfill his end. On the eve of a make-or-break third season in Clevelan US home sales ended a 4-month slide in July amid easing mortgage rates, more homes on the market 08/22/2024 01:31pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ended a four-month slide in July as easing mortgage rates and a pickup in properties on the market encouraged home shoppers. Existing home sales rose 1.3% last month from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.95 million, the Natio Former Milwaukee hotel workers accused of killing a man by pinning him down plead not guilty 08/22/2024 01:10pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four former Milwaukee hotel workers accused of killing a man by pinning him down pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges. The former Hyatt Hotel employees — security guards Todd Erickson and Brandon Turner, bellhop Herbert Williamson and front desk worker Devin Johnson Behren Morton set as Texas Tech's opening day QB, an injury-plagued role in recent years 08/22/2024 12:42pm • LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Behren Morton enters the season as Texas Tech's starting quarterback for the first time, while coach Joey McGuire once again hopes an injury doesn't force a long-term need for the backup. It's been seven years since the Red Raiders made it through their schedule unscathed at What to know about Labor Day and its history 08/22/2024 12:38pm • DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. This year is the 130th anniversary of the holiday, which is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Germany's Scholz pledges that his government will help rescue a troubled cruise ship maker 08/22/2024 10:36am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's government will help rescue a major German shipyard that has solid orders for new cruise ships but has run into financial difficulty, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday. Meyer Werft employs more than 3,000 people in Papenburg on the Ems river in northwestern Germany, near Who is Mike Lynch? A look at the British tech tycoon killed when his yacht sank off Sicily 08/22/2024 10:34am • Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died after his yacht sank off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity. Lynch, 59, struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion Hungary says it will provide free tickets to Brussels for migrants trying to enter the EU 08/22/2024 10:06am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's anti-immigration government is prepared to provide free one-way tickets to Brussels for migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter the European Union, a minister said Thursday in response to hefty fines recently imposed on the country over its restrictive as Blackouts in extreme weather drive demand for cleaner backup power 08/22/2024 10:00am • Software engineer Kenna Ofoegbu in Houston, Texas tries hard to keep his three kids cool during the summer and that means air conditioning. Yet their house has lost power three times in just the past two and a half months. One of those outages lasted three days. That time, Ofoegbu and his wife deci Former New Hampshire lawmaker loses right to vote after moving out of his district 08/22/2024 10:00am • NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire lawmaker has avoided jail time but lost his right to vote after moving out of his district, keeping his seat for a year and being charged with crimes related to his change of address. Troy Merner, 62, a Republican, pleaded guilty Wednesday to les Radical architectural redesign sets Woodley Park sales price record 08/22/2024 09:36am • A handsome, 1950s brick colonial in Woodley Park, purchased in 2019 for $1.7 million, underwent a radical, midcentury exterior and interior redesign in 2020 and just sold for $3.5 million. The home went under contract after just five days on the market and set a record price for a detached, singl