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The Zags are in their first Final Four. Now they're playing for a trip to their first national championship game against seventh-seeded South Carolina. Can Gonzaga's run continue? Follow here for live updates.

Pop artists took for their subject matter images and objects from the mass media and popular culture, including advertising, comic books and consumer products.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a bicyclist was killed at a New York City intersection by a hit-and-run driver, and police have made an arrest. The NYPD says a red Ford Escape struck Gelasio Reyes as he was riding his bike at around 3 a.m. Saturday in Queens before the driver fled the scene. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn has disclosed that he earned more than $1.3 million for work for political groups and government contractors, as well as for speeches to Russian companies and lobbying for a firm owned by a Turkish businessman. Flynn’s recent financial history, made available Saturday by the […]

With other recycling options now commonplace, Oregon officials hope to revamp the groundbreaking Bottle Bill with the increase from 5 to 10 cents for bottled and canned water, soda, beer and malt beverages — regardless of what the labels say.

Protesters held signs saying “Say No to Scalia 2” and “Long Live RBG,” the latter a reference to 84-year-old liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As the gay-rights movement spread in the 1970s, Gilbert Baker was often asked by friends aware of his creative talents to make banners for protests and marches.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jamie McMurray has become the “other” driver on Chip Ganassi Racing’s two-car team. The 40-year-old veteran, in his 15th season on NASCAR’s top circuit, hasn’t won in more than four years. His teammate is 24-year-old Kyle Larson, the early points leader and one of racing’s rising stars. But McMurray is enjoying […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA Tournament is ready to carve out its finalists from among the Final Four. South Carolina, Gonzaga, Oregon and North Carolina are the last teams standing in a March Madness field that started with 68 teams. There are three games left to determine the 2017 champion, starting with two semifinals […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crash of the House Republican health care bill may well have transformed an issue the party has long used to bash Democrats into the GOP’s own political nightmare. Since former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was enacted in 2010, Republicans have blamed Democrats for rising premiums and diminished choices of […]

NILES, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a carbon monoxide leak caused by a malfunctioning pool heater at a southwestern Michigan hotel has killed a child and sickened about a dozen other people, including seven other children and several police officers. WNDU-TV and WSBT-TV report officials at Lakeland Hospital in Niles confirmed the child’s death Saturday. […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Ghana-born writer is being honored in Boston for her first book of fiction. Yaa Gyasi will be bestowed the 2017 PEN Hemingway Award on Sunday at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. She’s the author of “Homegoing,” a work of historical fiction about the descendants of a West […]

Dexter Fowler is going to have a bunch of old friends on hand for his debut with the St. Louis Cardinals. The rivalry between the Cardinals and Chicago Cubs begins a new chapter in prime time on Sunday. The Cubs are the new kings of baseball, coming off their first World Series title since 1908, […]

DALLAS (AP) — Vic Schaefer and his Mississippi State Bulldogs didn’t get much time to celebrate what might be the greatest shocker in women’s basketball history. Not when there’s one more game to win, not when there’s a national championship on the line against SEC rival South Carolina. “They’re really grounded. Our kids know what’s […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway on Saturday kicked off its annual six-month whale hunting season with whalers allowed to kill an increased quota of 999 minke whales, up from 880 animals in 2016. The International Whaling Commission imposed a commercial ban on whaling in 1986, but Norway objected. Norwegian officials estimate there are more than […]

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — You wouldn’t expect to encounter Donald Trump in a Bulgarian shopping mall, especially not standing next to Vladimir Putin. Wax figures of both presidents are part of a visiting exhibition staged by the famous Retro Museum from the Black Sea town of Varna. It took nearly six months to create the […]

GREENVILLE, Del. (AP) — A new exhibition at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum offers would-be sleuths a firsthand look at how experts detect high-priced fakes and forgeries. The exhibit opens Saturday and runs through Jan. 7. It includes a broad range of objects that illustrate the ongoing battle pitting clever forgers and con men against equally determined […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A black bear cub picked up by an Oregon hiker who said the cub was not moving and barely breathing has been moved to a wildlife center in Washington. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/jLRIw7 ) the 3-month-old bear dubbed “Elkhorn” was sent to PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, Washington on Friday. The […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dying in West Virginia comes at a huge cost for some families, particularly in late winter and spring. In a trend that some funeral directors blame on the opioid epidemic, the state’s indigent burial program has run out of money months ahead of the end of the fiscal year. According to […]

Pay for Highway 99 tunnel overruns or lose state aid, a Republican lawmaker from Kalama tells Seattle in a longshot bill filed this week.

Sarah Burgess’ new play about private-equity profiteers is a theatrical heir to David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” for the Occupy Wall Street generation.

The Bulldog brand is building. The national profile is growing.

BATH, Maine (AP) — A naval aviator who crash-landed his airplane to try to save a downed pilot in the Korean War is being honored with a ship bearing his name. Medal of Honor recipient Tom Hudner, who’s 92, planned to be on hand Saturday as the future USS Hudner was christened at Bath Iron […]

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — This hardscrabble Wyoming city of about 30,000 people proclaims itself the “Energy Capital of the Nation” on the mayor’s blue blazer and even the parking ticket payment boxes. Nearby are some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, where dump trucks the size of houses haul out more than 40 percent of […]

News reports say a church was destroyed and dozens of homes damaged after a possible tornado whipped through the Virginia Beach area. The Virginian-Pilot reported that severe storms on Friday night struck the Hampton Roads region, which includes the cities of Virginia Beach and Norfolk. The newspaper quoted fire department officials in Virginia Beach as […]