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Schools are competing with cellphones. Here's how they think they could win
Read full article: Schools are competing with cellphones. Here's how they think they could winStudents are struggling to stay engaged in class at a time of poor mental health, shortened attention spans, reduced attendance and worsening grades.
ACLU sues Washington state city over its anti-homeless laws after a landmark Supreme Court ruling
Read full article: ACLU sues Washington state city over its anti-homeless laws after a landmark Supreme Court rulingThe American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has sued the city of Spokane, alleging its anti-homeless laws violate the state constitution.
No hate crime charges filed against man who yelled racist slurs at Utah women's basketball team
Read full article: No hate crime charges filed against man who yelled racist slurs at Utah women's basketball teamA northern Idaho prosecutor won’t bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women’s basketball team while the team was in Idaho to attend the NCAA Tournament.
Police say use of racial slur clearly audible as they investigate racist incidents toward Utah team
Read full article: Police say use of racial slur clearly audible as they investigate racist incidents toward Utah teamPolice investigating racist incidents directed toward the Utah women’s basketball team when they were near their Idaho hotel while in town for the NCAA Tournament say they’ve found an audio recording in which the use of a racial slur was clearly audible.
March Madness: TV ratings slightly up over last year despite Sunday's blowouts
Read full article: March Madness: TV ratings slightly up over last year despite Sunday's blowoutsThe first three days of the NCAA Tournament attracted record ratings, only to see the momentum stifled due to Sunday’s games being blowouts.
Utah coach says team was shaken after experiencing racist hate during NCAA Tournament
Read full article: Utah coach says team was shaken after experiencing racist hate during NCAA TournamentUtah coach Lynne Roberts says her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after arriving at its first women's NCAA Tournament hotel in Idaho last week.
Van-Dogs? Vandals and Bulldogs come together to create unique March Madness marriage with bands
Read full article: Van-Dogs? Vandals and Bulldogs come together to create unique March Madness marriage with bandsFor this weekend, the University of Idaho marching band is calling itself the “Van-Dogs Marching Band.”.
Grand win for Grand Canyon as 12th-seeded Antelopes take down No. 5 seed Saint Mary's 75-66
Read full article: Grand win for Grand Canyon as 12th-seeded Antelopes take down No. 5 seed Saint Mary's 75-66Tyon Grant-Foster scored 22 points, and Grand Canyon earned its first NCAA Tournament victory as the 12th-seeded Antelopes knocked off No. 5 seed Saint Mary’s 75-66.
San Diego State avoids an early March Madness exit, holds off UAB 69-65 in first round
Read full article: San Diego State avoids an early March Madness exit, holds off UAB 69-65 in first roundJaedon LeDee dominated inside on the way to 32 points, Lamont Butler added 15 and No. 5 seed San Diego State held off 12th-seeded UAB 69-65 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Detroit Mercy's Davis sets NCAA career 3-point record
Read full article: Detroit Mercy's Davis sets NCAA career 3-point recordAntoine Davis of Detroit Mercy set the NCAA record for career 3-pointers on Saturday, hitting a career-best 11 3s and scoring a season-high 41 points in an 87-75 win over Robert Morris.
Message from US asylum hopefuls: Financial sponsors needed
Read full article: Message from US asylum hopefuls: Financial sponsors neededMigrants and asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries have increasingly found that protections in the United States are available to those with money or the savvy to find someone to vouch for them financially.
No. 1 Gonzaga clinches WCC title with win over Santa Clara
Read full article: No. 1 Gonzaga clinches WCC title with win over Santa ClaraDrew Timme scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Andrew Nembhard added 21 points, and top-ranked Gonzaga beat Santa Clara 81-69 to clinch its 10th straight West Coast Conference regular-season title.
Holmgren leads No. 1 Gonzaga over San Francisco 78-62
Read full article: Holmgren leads No. 1 Gonzaga over San Francisco 78-62Drew Timme scored 23 points, Chet Holmgren added 22 and top-ranked Gonzaga beat San Francisco 78-62 in a makeup game after their Jan. 6 contest was postponed by COVID-19 issues.
Gonzaga, UCLA hold down top poll spots ahead of showdown
Read full article: Gonzaga, UCLA hold down top poll spots ahead of showdownGonzaga and UCLA continue their hold on the top two spots in The Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll, setting the stage for their highly anticipated showdown this week.
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Gonzaga remains No. 1, Baylor back to No. 2 in AP Top 25
Read full article: Gonzaga remains No. 1, Baylor back to No. 2 in AP Top 25Gonzaga won 86-69. Gonzaga won its ninth consecutive West Coast Conference regular-season title after going 14-0 and is the lone remaining undefeated team in Division I. Win those two and Gonzaga will become the fifth team in the last 45 years to head into the NCAA Tournament undefeated. AdThe win over the Mountaineers gave Baylor its first Big 12 regular-season title and moved it back into the No. The Razorbacks entered the AP Top 25 on Feb. 15 and have made a quick climb, reaching No.
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Perfect Zags: No. 1 Gonzaga stays unbeaten, tops LMU 86-69
Read full article: Perfect Zags: No. 1 Gonzaga stays unbeaten, tops LMU 86-691 Gonzaga remained the only unbeaten in the country with a 86-69 win over Loyola Marymount on Saturday night. The Bulldogs (24-0, 15-0 WCC) won their 51st straight home game to set a school record and finished off a perfect regular season. Gonzaga has won 28 straight games dating to last season and is the first team to finish the regular season unbeaten since Kentucky in 2014-15. Eli Scott had 20 points and 11 rebounds to lead Loyola Marymount (12-8, 7-5), and Mattias Markusson added 19 points and 10 rebounds. AdGonzaga: The Bulldogs won their 21st straight game by double-digits as the No.
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The Latest: NHL down to a season-low 8 players on COVID list
Read full article: The Latest: NHL down to a season-low 8 players on COVID listThe Chicago White Sox gave the Hall of Famer the opportunity to manage again despite a lengthy absence from the dugout and stuck with him after news of a drunken driving arrest broke shortly after his hiring. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:___The NHL is down to a season-low eight players on the COVID-19 list after play on Tuesday night, five of them on the Philadelphia Flyers. That’s a marked improvement in the 11 days since the league had a season-high 59 players on the list. The Flyers have moved into third among NHL teams, with players spending a combined total of 98 days on the list, one more than Buffalo. Abreu powered the White Sox back to the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
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Gonzaga, Baylor remain atop AP Top 25 in quiet week
Read full article: Gonzaga, Baylor remain atop AP Top 25 in quiet weekGonzaga guard Julian Strawther celebrates his basket during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against San Diego in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)Gonzaga and Baylor remain atop The Associated Press men's college basketball poll in a week of little change. The top five from a week ago remained the same in the poll released Monday and no teams dropped out of the AP Top 25. 12 Houston dropped six spots after losing to Wichita State and No. ___More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/College-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Gonzaga, Baylor remain atop AP Top 25; Alabama cracks top 10
Read full article: Gonzaga, Baylor remain atop AP Top 25; Alabama cracks top 10Alabama has won nine straight games, with several wins marked by hot shooting and blowout margins. They have scored at least 81 points in six straight games, including an 85-65 win at Kentucky and a 90-59 win against Arkansas. But they've won four straight games — three by double-digit margins — since returning and re-entered the poll Monday at No. CONFERENCE WATCHThe Big Ten and Big 12 lead the way among the conferences. Both have a national-best six ranked teams, though the Big 12 has five in the top 15 (Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech, No.
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Gonzaga-Baylor remain 1-2 in AP Top 25; Texas rises to No. 4
Read full article: Gonzaga-Baylor remain 1-2 in AP Top 25; Texas rises to No. 4The top-ranked Zags and second-ranked Bears remained 1-2 in Monday's latest Top 25 as they have all season. 25 Florida State had the week's biggest tumble, falling seven spots after losing at Clemson and then having its game against No. 6 Kansas fell three spots after the Texas loss, bringing the total of teams that fell from last week's rankings to 11. CONFERENCE WATCHThe Big Ten continues to have the biggest haul of ranked teams, though the Big 12 has a strong showing in the poll's top tier. But the Big 12 has three of the top six teams in Baylor, Texas and Kansas, and five teams overall.
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No. 1 Gonzaga faces stiff test against No. 16 Virginia
Read full article: No. 1 Gonzaga faces stiff test against No. 16 VirginiaGonzaga has played one close game, a five-point win over West Virginia, and is winning by nearly 18 points per game. The Hawkeyes dropped a spot in this week's AP Top 25 after losing by 11 to Gonzaga. 19 Michigan, which moved up six spots in this week's poll, faces Nebraska. RANKED VS. RANKED: Two games on Wednesday feature ranked teams facing each other. 13 Creighton (6-2), which dropped four spots in this week's poll after losing to Marquette.
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Search underway for murder hornets nest in Washington state
Read full article: Search underway for murder hornets nest in Washington stateFILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologist Chris Looney displays a dead Asian giant hornet, a sample brought in from Japan for research in Blaine, Wash. Washington state agriculture workers have trapped their first Asian giant hornet. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool, File)SPOKANE, Wash. – Agricultural officials in Washington state said Friday they are trying to find and destroy a nest of Asian giant hornets — also known as murder hornets — amid concerns they could kill honey bees crucial for pollinating raspberry and blueberry crops. Evidence of six of the hornets were found over the last week near the town of Blaine in Whatcom County, the Washington state Department of Agriculture told reporters. The Asian giant hornet — the world’s largest at 2 inches (5 centimeters) — can decimate entire hives of honeybees and deliver painful stings to humans. There is also evidence that the giant hornets are also attacking native wasps and hornets, Spichiger said.
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Hanford contractors agree to pay $58 million fine for fraud
Read full article: Hanford contractors agree to pay $58 million fine for fraudFederal prosecutors on Tuesday afternoon announced the settlement involving the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Manhattan Project-era facility near Richland, Washington, that is the nation's most contaminated nuclear site. Plutonium produced at Hanford was used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, that effectively ended World War II. Under Tuesday's settlement, Bechtel and AECOM also entered into a three-year independent corporate monitor agreement. The four whistleblowers will receive $13.7 million of the $57.7 million settlement amount, the government said. About $26 million of the settlement will be paid to the Department of Energy as restitution for the overbilling.
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US: Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmon
Read full article: US: Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmonSPOKANE, Wash. The U.S. government announced Friday that four huge dams on the Snake River in Washington state will not be removed to help endangered salmon migrate to the ocean. The federal failure to remove the dams despite clear supporting science is a disaster for our endangered salmon and orcas, said Sophia Ressler of the Center for Biological Diversity. The Pacific Northwest population of orcas also called killer whales was placed on the endangered species list in 2005. Snake River sockeye were the first species in the Columbia River Basin listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1991. On the way to the ocean, juvenile salmon can get chewed up in the dams turbines.
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Conservation groups upset by North Cascades grizzly decision
Read full article: Conservation groups upset by North Cascades grizzly decisionSPOKANE, Wash. The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump administration scrapped plans to reintroduce the apex predators there. Grizzly bears only occupy less than 5% of their historic range, and the North Cascades presents prime habitat for grizzly bears,'' said Andrea Zaccardi, an attorney with the group. "Their recovery there is critical to the overall recovery of grizzly bears in the U.S.The center contends the North Cascades could support more than 700 grizzly bears over 9,000 square miles of habitat. Federal grizzly bear recovery plans are mandated by the Endangered Species Act and require grizzly recovery in the North Cascades, Gunnell said. Now the largest concentration of grizzlies, numbering less than 1,800, are around Montana's Glacier National Park and around Yellowstone National Park.
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Bodies of 6 of 8 Idaho plane collision victims recovered
Read full article: Bodies of 6 of 8 Idaho plane collision victims recoveredSPOKANE, Wash. Searchers recovered the bodies of six of the eight people killed when two airplanes collided over a scenic mountain lake in Idaho, the Kootenai County Sheriffs Office said Tuesday. Specialized divers were searching the bottom of Lake Coeur d'Alene for the remaining two victims, sheriff's Lt. Ryan Higgins said. One of the aircraft in the Sunday collision was a float plane operated by Brooks Seaplane of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which conducts charter flights for tourists over the lake, the sheriff's office said. The second airplane was a Cessna 206 that was carrying two people and was registered in Lewiston, Idaho, the sheriff's office said. After all the bodies are recovered, the wreckage will eventually be lifted out of the lake.