NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry says DeMarcus Cousins is back in the lineup for Wednesday night's matchup against Dallas after missing New Orleans' previous two games with a right ankle sprain.
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — UMass has hired Matt McCall as its next basketball coach.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday signed into law a measure that would impose fines and prison time on doctors who perform abortions that are based solely on whether the mother wants to have a…
NEW YORK (AP) — A former journalist from St. Louis who was arrested on a cyberstalking charge related to threats against Jewish organizations made his first New York court appearance on Wednesday and was given legal representation.
Twelve people were killed and three others were injured Wednesday when a van carrying 14 church members and a pickup truck collided on a two-lane Texas highway, authorities said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mets All-Star reliever Jeurys Familia accepted a 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy, discipline stemming from an altercation last October.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Part of music icon Bob Dylan's once-secret 6,000-piece archive, including thousands of hours of studio sessions, film reels and caches of unpublished lyrics, has opened in Oklahoma, curators announced this week.
Big Papi was a big hitter, and that was really his only duty for most of his 20 major league seasons.
SPUR, Texas (AP) — A storm system blamed for the death of a truck driver in Oklahoma barreled eastward Wednesday, generating a tornado in Houston and threatening additional bad weather in the central United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it mistakenly proposed counting LGBTQ Americans and has since "corrected" the proposal to remove the gender and sexuality category. Gay rights groups quickly declared that it was another sign that…
DENVER (AP) — Colorado will push ahead to develop more affordable renewable energy despite President Donald Trump's order eliminating many restrictions on fossil fuels production, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a Texas crash of a church van and a pickup truck in which 12 people were killed and three injured (all times local):
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Senate on Wednesday approved a $5 million interest-free state loan to help repair a large sinkhole in suburban Detroit, narrowly rejecting a call to stick with a House plan that would instead give Macomb…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville police officer died Wednesday from injuries he suffered in a crash during a high-speed chase, city officials said.
TACOMA. Wash. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a Mexican man arrested in the Seattle area despite participating in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children (all times local):
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's congress has approved a total ban on the mining of metals in the country, one of the first to enact such a broad ban.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's only remaining clinic that performs abortions is challenging a state order that would shut it down.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in Minnesota charged four suspects Wednesday in an alleged sex-trafficking ring that targeted women who are Chinese nationals and kept them isolated.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Parole Board recommended Wednesday that an inmate's request to be spared from lethal injection be rejected, the third clemency bid knocked down this week as the state prepares an unprecedented plan to conduct…
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Twelve people were killed and three others were injured Wednesday when a pickup truck slammed head-on into a van carrying 14 senior members of a Texas Hill Country church on a two-lane highway in southwestern Texas,…
WESTON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on funeral for a Wisconsin detective killed in the line of duty (all times local):
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republican lawmakers have dropped plans for what would have been among the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, retreating only a day after the proposal was announced.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Associated Press photographer Nick Ut is retiring after 51 years of taking pictures from the front lines of the Vietnam War to the red carpets of Hollywood.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards released his proposal Wednesday to rewrite Louisiana's tax laws, pushing significant changes that would shift more of the state tax burden to businesses, lessen sales taxes and raise hundreds of millions…
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — The Cleveland Indians will be without two starters to begin the season with right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall joining Jason Kipnis on the disabled list.