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NEW YORK — Best-selling children’s author Jay Asher has been expelled from a prominent writers organization because of allegations about sexual harassment. Lin Oliver, executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, told The Associated Press on Monday that Asher had violated the society’s harassment code. He was banned last year but

PHOENIX — Pitcher Jake Odorizzi and the Tampa Bay Rays have gone to salary arbitration with the sides $250,000 apart. The right-hander, who turns 28 next month, asked arbitrators Dennis Archer, Phillip LaPorte and Matt Goldberg for a raise from $4.1 million to $6.3 million. The Rays argued during Monday’s hearing that he should be

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Rick Barnes wants his players to carry the memories of their most lopsided loss of the season for the rest of the year. Barnes hopes those frustrating moments will help fuel the 18th-ranked Volunteers attempt to bounce back from a 78-50 defeat at Alabama and continue their surprising drive toward

ATLANTA — Mark Fox may be running out of time to find a way to save Georgia’s season — and perhaps his job. Georgia heads to Wednesday’s game at Florida having lost three straight games and six of seven. The Bulldogs (13-11, 4-8 Southeastern Conference) may need to win at least five of their last

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is donating $25,000 to establish the Edwin Jackson Memorial Scholarship in memory of the former linebacker who was killed in a traffic accident Feb. 4. Irsay issued a statement Monday calling Jackson a “wonderful young man” who is already missed. Irsay says he wants to honor Jackson’s memory,

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Republican governor is urging the state’s highest court to rule in favor of a company whose owner refused to print T-shirts for a gay rights festival because of his Christian beliefs. Attorneys for Gov. Matt Bevin have asked to file a brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court in the case involving

WASHINGTON — New satellite research shows melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up already rising seas. Sea level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and melting from glaciers and ice sheets. Scientists say at the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters)

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — Officials in American Samoa began a full assessment Monday of damage caused by tropical storm Gita over the weekend. Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga says the storm caused widespread damage to homes and infrastructure. No injuries or deaths were reported. President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration Sunday for the

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Talk about a house divided. Giancarlo Stanton and AJ Ramos, former teammates with the Miami Marlins and still close friends, are looking into living together this season now that both play in New York. It would seem to be a convenient arrangement, with at least one player on the road

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Three adults and one child killed in the crash of small airplane in northern Los Angeles County were members of a family. The single-engine plane went down and broke apart Sunday near Agua Dulce. Jake Hastings tells KCAL-TV that the victims included his father, Tom Hastings, who was piloting the Cirrus

LAS VEGAS — UNLV’s Shakur Juiston has been named the Mountain West Conference men’s basketball player of the week after notching his 10th and 11th double-doubles of the season in big victories over Nevada and Wyoming. The junior forward poured in 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds in the 86-78 win at

WASHINGTON — Highlights from President Donald Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2019. DEFENSE Trump’s budget for 2019 shows the administration’s concern about the threat from North Korea and its missile program. The Pentagon is proposing to spend hundreds of millions more in 2019 on missile defense. The budget calls for increasing the number of strategic

RENO, Nev. — Nevada’s football team has reached an agreement to play at Big Ten power Penn State in 2020 for the first time in school history. It’s the latest addition to a list of Power Five schools that Nevada of the Mountain West will face in its non-conference schedule over the next three seasons.

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — The hometown of Olympic gold medalist Red Gerard has unofficially upgraded its name in his honor. A sign welcoming visitors to the Colorado mountain town of Silverthorne was changed over the weekend to “Goldthorne” after the 17-year-old snowboarder captured the United States’ first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

“All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire” (Crown Archetype), by Jonathan Abrams The now-celebrated television series “The Wire” attracted few viewers and was virtually snubbed by the Emmys during its five-season run that ended a decade ago. Its producers had to fight tooth and nail to keep HBO from prematurely pulling the

LAS VEGAS — You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One convention hall area was packed with everything from chip-embedded, alphabet-like coding blocks to turtle-like tanks that draw on command. Of course,

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan suggests studying whether the nation’s largest public utility should sell its transmission assets, which Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander calls “a looney idea” with “zero chance of becoming law.” Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman Jim Hopson said Monday the TVA will work with the Office of Management and

RENO, Nev. — Nevada’s basketball team is hanging onto a spot in The Associated Press Top 25 poll despite last week’s loss to rival UNLV. The Wolf Pack dropped from 23rd to 24th in the new AP rankings announced Monday. They followed the home loss to UNLV Wednesday with an 83-58 victory over San Diego

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The Latest on a toddler badly hurt in ambulance crash (all times local): 1:45 p.m. The grandfather of a toddler badly hurt after an ambulance crash says the family is devastated. Gary Oakes of Wise, Virginia, said in a brief phone interview Monday that his 3-year-old grandson had been under medical care

NEW YORK — The Latest on the lawsuit filed by New York’s attorney general against Weinstein (all times local): 1:40 p.m. New York’s attorney general says his office’s four-month investigation of The Weinstein Co. found “a pervasive pattern” of sexual harassment, intimidation and abuse. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday his office found “extensive cover-up”

ATLANTA — Investigators say a Georgia state trooper fatally shot a man during an attempted traffic stop in Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says Atlanta police saw a stolen vehicle around 2:20 p.m. Friday and asked the Georgia State Patrol to help stop it. A state trooper used his blue lights and siren to

BERLIN — A German cultural foundation says it has been bequeathed photos, films, manuscripts, letters and files from the estate of Leni Riefenstahl, the legendary filmmaker best known for the propaganda movies she made for Nazi Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said Monday that Riefenstahl’s sole heir, her former secretary, donated the complete collection

Legendary guitarist Glenn Tipton won’t be joining the heavy metal band Judas Priest on its upcoming tour. The British rockers say Tipton is stepping down from touring due to Parkinson’s disease, a condition that began to afflict him a decade ago. He will be replaced on the band’s “Firepower” tour by Andy Sneap, a veteran

BASEL, Switzerland — Manchester City winger Leroy Sane has recovered from his ankle injury five weeks ahead of schedule. Sane was originally ruled out for up to seven weeks at the end of January after a late tackle from Cardiff defender Joe Bennett left the Germany international with ligament damage. But the 22-year-old Sane is

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City winger Leroy Sane has recovered from his ankle injury five weeks ahead of schedule. Sane was originally ruled out for up to seven weeks at the end of January after a late tackle from Cardiff defender Joe Bennett left the Germany international with ligament damage. But the 22-year-old Sane is