Most car shoppers focus their time and energy on getting the best sale price during a vehicle purchase. This is understandable considering the purchase price is the biggest number in the transaction. But a lot of these shoppers fail to consider another key factor that can help save money: getting the best value for their trade-in vehicle. Being prepared with …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. KENT, Ohio (AP) — VonCameron Davis scored 19 points as Kent State beat Western Michigan 63-61 on Tuesday night. Jalen Sullinger made a layup on the left side …

College football’s busy recruiting calendar created a particularly hectic first few weeks on the job for all the head coaches who switched schools over the last month. When Nick Saban announced his retirement last month, it set off a chain reaction that resulted in head coaching changes at Arizona, Washington and San Jose State as well as Alabama. That doesn’t …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Manhattan Jaspers (5-15, 2-9 MAAC) at Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (9-13, 5-6 MAAC) Emmitsburg, Maryland; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: MAAC foes Mount St. Mary’s and Manhattan …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Green Bay Phoenix (15-9, 10-3 Horizon League) at Robert Morris Colonials (9-14, 5-7 Horizon League) Moon Township, Pennsylvania; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Robert Morris hosts the …

PGA TOUR WM PHOENIX OPEN Site: Scottsdale, Arizona. Course: TPC Scottsdale. Yardage: 7,261. Par: 71. Prize money: $8.8 million. Winner’s share: $1.584 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC). Defending champion: Scottie Scheffler. FedEx Cup leader: Matthieu Pavon. Last week: Wyndham Clark won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Notes: Scottie Scheffler will …

The Associated Press high school boys basketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Monday, total points, and last week’s ranking: Class 4A W-L Pts Prv 1. Fishers (9) 18-1 234 3 2. Lawrence North (3) 18-1 209 1 3. Noblesville 16-2 169 4 4. Westfield 14-2 160 2 5. Greenfield 18-0 149 6 6. Kokomo 17-3 135 7 …

Fellow country artists and fans react to the death of singer-songwriter Toby Keith, who died Monday at 62. “I was saddened to hear of Toby Keith’s passing. He really was one of the good guys. He helped a lot of people get started in the business. He loved God, he loved his family, and he was a true patriot. He …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s easy to forget that a river runs through the heart of Los Angeles. Normally flowing at a crawl, much of it through nondescript concrete channels, the Los Angeles River picks up speed during the rainy season. By Monday, fed by a slow-moving atmospheric river dumping historic amounts of rain, the river was raging and even …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is warning Congress not to raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots until the agency can study whether older pilots would raise safety risks. FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker said in a letter to two key senators that pilot fitness is critical to safety, and the agency should be able to create safeguards …