Appeals court rejects climate change lawsuit by young Oregon activists against US government
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. governmentโs role in climate change violated their constitutional rights.
AP Top 25: No. 3 Washington, No. 5 Oregon move up, give Pac-12 2 in top 5 for 1st time since 2016
No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Oregon all moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll to give the Pac-12 two top-five teams for the first time since the final ranking of the 2016 season.
Felix gets a bronze on her farewell at world championships
Allyson Felix won her 19th and final medal in the world championships Friday night โ a bronze she took after running the second leg of Americaโs 4x400-meters in the mixed relay thatโs been touted as the last major race of the 36-year-oldโs career.
In letter, USADA says it can't change marijuana rules alone
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency leaders are pushing to further mitigate โharsh consequencesโ for marijuana if itโs not intentionally used to enhance performance, though they cannot unilaterally change the rules, they wrote in a letter to members of Congress critical of the agency in the wake of sprinter ShaโCarri Richardsonโs ban from the Olympics.
โHome Improvementโ actor Zachery Ty Bryan arrested in Oregon
EUGENE, Ore. โ Zachery Ty Bryan, the actor who played the oldest son on the long-running 1990s sit-com โHome Improvementโ was arrested in Oregon and faces charges of strangulation and assault. The Eugene Police Department said officers were dispatched to a North Eugene apartment Friday night on a report of a physical dispute. Bryan reportedly assaulted the victim, impeded her breathing, and took her phone away when she tried to call 911, police said. A message left with a possible agent for Bryan was not immediately returned. It wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
Pandemic-proof: Fall college football revived on West Coast
FILE- In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, a PAC-12 logo is displayed on the field before an NCAA college football game between Washington State and Oregon in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang, File)A major college football season that was in peril six week ago as conferences succumbed to concerns about COVID-19 is reconstituting. Not even a pandemic could stop college football at the schools that play it at the highest level. This every-conference-for-itself college football season looks like it will have five different start dates. ___Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25