February, 2024

• 20 February

  Philadelphia’s Kai Wagner reinstated for first Union game of the season

  NEW YORK (AP) — Philadelphia Union defender Kai Wagner’s suspension for violating Major League Soccer’s on-field discrimination policy has been lifted for the team’s opening game of the season. Wagner received a three-game suspension during last season’s playoffs after allegations he used a racial slur against a New England Revolution player. The suspension was supposed to extend one game into …

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• 20 February

  Andreas Brehme, scorer of West Germany’s winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, dies at 63

  BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s 1990 World Cup hero Andreas Brehme has died. Brehme endeared himself to the nation in the final when he scored a late penalty after team captain Lothar Matthäus’ boots broke to give West Germany a 1-0 win over Diego Maradona’s Argentina. Brehme’s partner Susanne Schaefer told Germany’s dpa news agency on Tuesday that he died “suddenly …

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• 20 February

  2 men are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two men charged with murder in last week’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument, according to court documents released Tuesday. Missouri prosecutors said at a news conference that Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, Missouri, and Dominic Miller, of …

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• 20 February

  Missouri House votes to ban celebratory gunfire days after Chiefs’ parade shooting

  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House on Monday passed a bill to ban celebratory gunfire in cities less than a week after a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade left some attending lawmakers hiding in bathrooms. Kansas City police have said the shooting appeared to stem from a dispute between several people and not celebratory …

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• 20 February

  US Supreme Court won’t hear lawsuit tied to contentious 2014 Senate race in Mississippi

  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will not consider a dispute over a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life after he was arrested and accused of providing information to people who snuck into a nursing home and photographed the ailing wife of a U.S. senator during …

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• 20 February

  UCF visits West Virginia after Battle’s 25-point game

  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. UCF Knights (13-11, 4-8 Big 12) at West Virginia Mountaineers (8-17, 3-9 Big 12) Morgantown, West Virginia; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knights -3; over/under is …

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• 20 February

  Blue Jays slugger Guerrero focused on his offseason preparation ahead of the 2024 season

  

  DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was the big winner earlier this month in salary arbitration. Now the Toronto Blue Jays slugger feels that his hard work during the offseason will propel him to big season on the field. “I believe I had a great offseason,” Guerrero said through an interpreter after the Blue Jays’ first full-squad workout on …

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• 20 February

  Ohio takes on Kent State after Clayton’s 22-point game

  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 State Golden Flashes (13-12, 6-6 MAC) at Ohio Bobcats (13-12, 7-5 MAC) Athens, Ohio; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bobcats -3.5; over/under is 148 BOTTOM …

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• 20 February

  UK appeals court asked to assess whether sentencing of killer of 3 in Nottingham was too lenient

  

  LONDON (AP) — The British government’s top lawyer has referred to the U.K.’s Court of Appeal the sentence handed to a 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham last summer, arguing that it was “unduly lenient.” Attorney General Victoria Prentis said Tuesday she had asked the …

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• 20 February

  Tuesday’s Time Schedule

  All Times EST Tuesday, Feb. 20 NHL Dallas at NY Rangers, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m. NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9 p.m. Nashville at Vegas, 10 p.m. Columbus at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. TOP 25 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL No. 1 UConn at …

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