Local Sports Schedule

(all events start at 5 p.m. unless noted) Tuesday, March 24 BASEBALL Brooke at Linsly SOFTBALL Martins Ferry at Indian Creek Toronto at River Buckeye Trail at Shadyside Wheeling Park at Steubenville John Marshall at University Magnolia at Linsly Wheeling Central at Monroe Central, 5:30 p.m. TENNIS Linsly at Wheeling Central, 3:30 p.m. Morgantown at Wheeling Park, 4 p.m.

Wheeling Oglebay Tennis Club Sponsor Season Kick-Off

Photo Provided The Wheeling Oglebay Tennis Club recently sponsored a free high school season kick-off for any prospective OVAC player at the Wheeling Park Indoor Facility. Drills were conducted by members of the West Liberty University Men's Tennis Team under the direction of coaches Ronnie ...

Hawaii’s Worst Flooding In 20 Years Prompts Evacuations

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials urged people in hard-hit areas to evacuate Saturday due to the state's worst flooding in more than 20 years, after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago with still more expected over the weekend. Muddy ...

Extreme Heat Continues To Strike Southwest U.S

Parts of California and Arizona were under extreme heat warnings again Saturday while sweltering summerlike weather even stretched as far north as Nebraska just a day into spring. Temperatures at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit were forecast in the Southwest, closing a remarkable week of record-breaking heat. Experts say April, May and June are likely to be hotter than normal almost everywhere in the U.S. Win Marsh said the heat was a reason to return home early to Utah after she and her husband, Stephen, hiked 170 miles over two weeks in Arizona, starting at the Mexico border. Their ...

Perfect brackets fall into the single digits after Texas upsets Gonzaga and Nebraska tops Vandy

Forty games into the NCAA Tournament, fans hoping to fill out a perfect bracket were a respectable 2 for 26,587,885. No. 11 seed Texas all but wiped out the remaining unblemished entries in the annual March Madness contests with its 74-68 upset of No. 3 seed Gonzaga on Saturday night. After the win by the Longhorns, who started in the First Four, there were 22 perfect entries in ESPN's bracket challenge and 27 in the NCAA's contest. The last three games on Saturday were won by higher-seeded teams, but No. 4 seed Nebraska was hardly a sure thing, having never won an NCAA Tournament ...