A Nigerian-based conspiracy to extort money from a Marquette teen resulted in a guilty plea on money laundering.

Bad River Tribal Elder Joe Bates is traveling to showings of the film 'Bad River' in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. He’s hauling a 60-foot banner with him to raise awareness along the way and collect signatures to show how much support there is to end Line 5.

There was change at the top of this week's USA TODAY Sports Bracketology with Alabama rising to a No. 1 seed at the expense of SEC rival Tennessee.

Sleeping Bear Dunes and Presque Isle Park in Michigan are ranked among the best U.S. locations for witnessing a winter sunrise, according to a Mixbook survey.

Dinsimore Guyton Robinson, 29, of Huntsville, Alabama, is one of five U.S.-based defendants charged in the case and the first to enter a guilty plea.

No. 10 Marquette plays the Butler Bulldogs after Stevie Mitchell scored 21 points in the Golden Eagles' 87-74 victory against the Villanova Wildcats

Fresh off another productive week, the Wisconsin men moved up in the latest college basketball rankings. The Badgers are now 17th in both the AP and Coaches Pol

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.

Here’s where the Nebraska, Creighton and Omaha men and women landed in the NCAA's latest NET rankings: As of the morning of Jan. 27 Creighton: No. 34 Nebraska: No. 32 Omaha: No. 261 Creighton: No. 39 Nebraska: No. 63 Omaha: No. 202 Manage Omaha Subscription Activate Digital Subscription

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.

Texas (14-6), 9 p.m. No. 25 UConn (14-6) vs. DePaul (10-11), 8 p.m. No. 18 Illinois (14-6) at Nebraska (12-8), 8:30 p.m. No. 19 Memphis (16-4) at Tulane (11-9), 9 p.m. No. 1 Auburn (18-1) at No. 23 Mississippi (15-5),

The top five spots in this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll remain unchanged, with Auburn still the unanimous No. 1 selection, while St. John's and Memphis made the biggest