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10:49 PM on Friday, March 13

Braylon Mullins scored 15 of his 21 points in the first half, Jayden Ross hit a couple of momentum-stunting 3-pointers in the second, and sixth-ranked UConn defeated Georgetown 67-51 to set up a showdown of the top two seeds in the Big East Tournament final

10:43 PM on Friday, March 13

An offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid

8:15 PM on Friday, March 13

Zuby Ejiofor scored 20 points and No. 13 St. John’s beat Seton Hall 78-68 to reach the Big East Tournament title game for the second consecutive season

8:09 PM on Friday, March 13

Ludvig Aberg is leading The Players Championship after a 63 that he made look easy

7:49 PM on Friday, March 13

A strong chemical smell has forced a temporary halt to flights at four major airports near Washington, D.C. The FAA says air traffic controllers cannot manage traffic safely during the incident

7:42 PM on Friday, March 13

Henry Bolte, Breyson Guedez and Nick Kurtz homered on consecutive pitches from San Diego’s Michael King in the Athletics’ Cactus League game with the Padres

7:23 PM on Friday, March 13

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds

6:57 PM on Friday, March 13

Conductor Juanjo Mena, former principal conductor of the Cincinnati May Festival, says he will retire this year because of Alzheimer’s disease

5:40 PM on Friday, March 13

The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028

5:24 PM on Friday, March 13

A Georgia prosecutor has dropped a vehicular homicide charge against a teen who police say was driving the truck that struck and killed a beloved high school teacher when a prank turned deadly, his lawyer says

3:31 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill

1:47 PM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war

12:14 PM on Friday, March 13

Anaheim Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas has been suspended five games for his knee-on-knee hit that injured Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews

10:04 AM on Friday, March 13

A man has been charged with selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who used it to kill one person and wound two others at Old Dominion University

8:40 AM on Friday, March 13

As a staff photojournalist for The Associated Press based in Los Angeles, Chris Pizzello covers hundreds of entertainment events a year

7:47 AM on Friday, March 13

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government

3:18 AM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members

12:03 AM on Friday, March 13

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building

12:01 AM on Friday, March 13

The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was convicted of a terrorism charge that should have disqualified him from that benefit

9:06 PM on Thursday, March 12

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season