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MARSHALL 30, MISSOURI St. 24 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Carlos Del Rio-Wilson accounted for 249 yards and two touchdowns and Marshall held off Missouri State for a 30-24 win on Saturday night. Missouri State rallied from a 24-10 deficit to get the score to its final margin. After the Bears' 11-play, 86-yard drive that lasted three minutes, defensive lineman Javae Gilmore deflected Skyler Locklear's pass attempt on fourth-and-goal at Marshall's 7 with 1:59 remaining. The Thundering Herd (2-1) scored points in their first three drives and never trailed. Del Rio-Wilson threw a 39-yard ...

Burrow, Chase hook up for 2TDs in Bengals win

HOUSTON (AP) — Joe Burrow threw two touchdown passes to Ja'Marr Chase to lead the Cincinnati Bengals to a 20-6 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday. The big day by Chase came a week after the five-time Pro Bowler had just two receptions for 12 yards in a win over Tampa Bay. That ...

Free AI

Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet. Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more. But lots of people are worried. "Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters. It's possible that AI will decide that we humans are in the way and imprison us or kill us. Not likely, say AI specialists, but possible. Anthropic's CEO just warned that AI is advancing faster than our ability to control it. He and other AI executives say they want to slow it down. He proposes embedding independent "evaluators" inside his company to assess risks. He also wants international ...

The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump

One of the challenges with writing about the war in -- and on -- Ukraine is that so little changes. I don't mean the fighting on the ground, though even there, when viewed from a distance, it doesn't look as though much has shifted in a long while. Russia has gained very little territory in the last year (even as it has suffered an estimated half-million Russian casualties over the last 12 months). All of that to gain 0.3% of Ukrainian territory (and net zero gains in the last six months). Though distance can be deceiving, the fighting on the ground has actually been far more dynamic, ...

‘Appetizing’ stores are the quieter, less famous sibling of the Jewish deli

NEW YORK (AP) — In traditional Jewish American food culture, a "deli" was where you went for a towering pastrami sandwich. You went somewhere else entirely to buy lox and a schmear: an " appetizing store." The quieter, less famous sibling of the Jewish delicatessen comes straight out of the kosher laws that forbid mixing meat and dairy — not just on the plate, but in the kitchen, the utensils, even the store itself. Today, many delis offer a combination of the two, and a wave of new places aims to capture both traditions. Sunday brunch food that evolved on the Lower East ...

St. Marys falls to Ritchie County, 12-0

ST. MARYS – After getting sand kicked in their face by two football heavyweights to open the season, the Rebels from Ritchie County decided to kick back some of their own. Thursday night at Bill Hanlon Field, Ritchie County snapped a four-game losing streak to St. Marys by pitching a 12-0 ...