The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."

Florida coach Todd Golden is ready to move on, with any potential legal response to come after the season. That might not happen until April for the fifth-ranked Gators.

The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers burned by inflation warily eye price tags and businesses try to chart a course amid political turmoil in leading economies France and Germany.

Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety procedures.

JASON ELLIOTT/Press North Idaho College sophomore Vaughn Weems drives to the basket during a Scenic West Athletic Conference game against Salt Lake on Jan. 9 at Rolly Williams Court. NIC returns home to face Utah State-Eastern tonight at 7.

States are handing multimillion-dollar contracts to a handful of fledgling private companies to manage the rapidly growing, convoluted marketplace of school-choice programs. The process has been bumpy.

The 63-year-old’s stroke of luck came Dec. 30, when she bought a Lucky7s Fast Cash ticket in Saginaw and realized she had hit the jackpot. Her prize of $855,779 left her with an “unbelievable feeling,” she told Michigan Lottery officials in a Jan. 24 news release.

Emergency responders received an initial report of two people stranded on the ice flow around 12:40 p.m. Jan 22. Coast Guard rescuers from the Saginaw River station and Air Statio

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Theryn Hallock scored 23 of her 25 points in the second half, Julia Ayrault had a double-double and No. 21 Michigan State rolled past No. 24 Michigan 88-58 on Saturday.

The grant, DOE award number DE-SC0025835, is part of a recent round of awards from the Department of Energy. Additional details and an abstract can be found using the DOE's grant search tool. For more information about the project, contact Dr. Robert Makin.

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

Army at Colgate, 6 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 6 p.m. La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Fordham, 6:30 p.m. Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.