Als erste in Deutschland durften am Sonnabend die Gastwirte in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wieder aufschließen. Nach sieben Wochen Zwangspause haben rund ein Drittel der Betriebe die Chance genutzt.

Wenn es mehr als 50 Corona-Neuinfektionen je 100.000 Einwohner gibt, muss ein Landkreis reagieren. In drei Kreisen - Greiz, Coesfeld und Steinburg - ist das derzeit der Fall. Doch es gibt noch weitere Regionen, die nur knapp unter der Marke liegen.

Mehrere katholische Bischöfe kritisieren die Corona-Maßnahmen und greifen dabei auf weitverbreitete Verschwörungstheorien zurück. Sie sehen den "Auftakt einer Weltregierung". Die Deutsche Bischofskonferenz übt scharfe Kritik.

The CFL is idle during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mississippi State's new coach posted, and later deleted, a tweet of a photo of an elderly woman resting in a chair and simultaneously knitting a noose to pass her time during coronavirus self-quarantine.

Rolovich has brought his fun to The Palouse, hired in January as Washington State’s new football coach, replacing Mike Leach, who went to Mississippi State. But winning Cougs over will ultimately be decided on the field.

The former Cougars coach is expected to participate in “listening sessions” with student and community groups and tour the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum after he tweeted an image of a noose last week.

To help compensate for lost NCAA distribution and added expenditures caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, Washington State announced multiple “cost containment” measures Monday.

The Woodinville grad, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, sent packages the school will distribute to its athletes.

The quarterback is expected to be a third-day pick in this week's NFL draft.

Working with a specialty coach for 10 weeks dropped their 40-yard dash times considerably.

It's considered to be a historically deep receiver draft class this year, but the 6-foot-4 receiver hopes to stand out with his size.

Washington State football player Bryce Beekman died in his Pullman apartment on March 23 from ‘acute intoxication’ of fentanyl and promethazine, the Whitman County Coroner's Office said Friday.

On the heels of three productive seasons at WSU’s “Z” wide receiver spot, Patmon was chosen by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round, and with the 212th overall pick, of the 2020 NFL draft.

Here's a look at how the Pac-12 stacked up against other conferences during the NFL draft.

Of the 65 programs that make up college football’s “Power Five” conferences, 63 have at least one prospect committed in the 2021 recruiting class. Washington State and Arizona are the two that don't.

Inglewood (Calif.) High wide receiver Orion Peters pledged to WSU, becoming the first 2021 prospect to do so when he announced his decision on Twitter Friday night.

Anyone who stumbled on the tweet sent out by Renard Bell at 2:41 p.m. Friday would understand why the Washington State wide receiver is smiling again. “My grandma is fully recovered from COVID-19,” Bell posted with two emojis – the first depicting a set of hands praying and the second of a heart. My grandma […]

Seahawks WR DK Metcalf and former Cougars QB Gardner Minshew shared their experiences as first-year players with 547 players in the NFL’s first rookie webinar after the draft last month.

Christian Hilborn, a 6-foot-5, 280-pound offensive tackle from Highland High School in Utah has pledged to the Cougars, becoming WSU's second commit of the 2021 class.

The University of Washington will suspend athletic-related activities and events through March 29 due to concerns regarding the novel coronavirus. “The University of Washington athletic department has announced it will suspend all athletic-related activities and events, including workouts, training and practices, through the end of the winter quarter and spring break (March 29) for all […]

Not weighed down by their 10-year drought at the Pac-12 tournament, the Cougars trailed for just 87 seconds against Colorado on Wednesday night before driving the Buffaloes into the ground, 82-68, at T-Mobile Arena.

How will the shuttering of the NCAA Tournament impact the multi-million payouts to the schools and conferences? We don’t have a clear answer yet.

After the cancellation of the spring and winter championships tournaments stemming from concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA will grant an extra year of eligibility to athletes who participate in spring sports, the organization announced Friday.

WSU's season was cut short -- along with all of college basketball -- due to fears about the spread of coronavirus. But the season was certainly entertaining, considering expectations. Here are the 10 most memorable moments.

On the anniversary of the Kingdome's implosion, we take a trip down memory lane to relive its best and worst moments.

On Wednesday, Stewart announced he's leaving Washington and entering the NBA draft where he's expected to be selected in the first round.

Gonzaga stood out in a study that seeded men’s and women’s NCAA tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head-coaching ranks.

Coach Kyle Smith has added one of the top-rated prospects in program history to an already robust 2020 recruiting class.

The Cougars have been in contact with a handful of potential transfers. Here's a look at four players who’ve reportedly shown interest in WSU and why they’d be a good match.

Henson played in just 10 of 32 games and logged 72 minutes for the Cougars.

To help compensate for lost NCAA distribution and added expenditures caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, Washington State announced multiple “cost containment” measures Monday.

The Cleveland High grad will keep his college eligibility.

With the third episode of "The Last Dance" largely centered on his father, DJ Rodman made sure his schedule was clear so he could watch unbothered and uninterrupted. What he saw even surprised him.

Daron Henson is leaving Washington State to play at his fourth school, but the sharpshooting forward isn’t going far.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus could “smolder” in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health Organization has warned. The virus is spreading in Africa, but so far the continent has not seen a dramatic explosion in the number of confirmed cases. More than 52,000 confirmed infections and […]

While jurisdictions around the world begin to relax coronavirus restrictions, a handful are pioneering a novel — and potentially fraught — approach: The double bubble. In Canada they're doing it in Newfoundland, Labrador and New Brunswick.

ROME (AP) — A petition signed by some conservative Catholics claiming the coronavirus is an overhyped “pretext” to deprive the faithful of Mass and impose a new world order has run into a hitch. The highest-ranking signatory, Cardinal Robert Sarah, head of the Vatican’s liturgy office, claims he never signed the petition. But the archbishop […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s army expects there to be two more outbreaks of the new coronavirus, according to an internal report seen by The Associated Press. The army report predicts “two more waves of the epidemic” and that Spain will take “between a year and a year-and-a-half to return to normality.” The document was […]

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi’s Supreme Court confirmed Friday that last year’s presidential elections remain nullified and a fresh vote held in July. The Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling by the southern African nation’s Constitutional Court that President Peter Mutharika’s 2019 election was invalid because of widespread irregularities. Mutharika, who leads the Democratic Progressive […]

NEW YORK — A child died in a Manhattan hospital on Thursday from what appeared to be a rare syndrome linked to the coronavirus that causes life-threatening inflammation in critical organs and blood vessels of children, the hospital said. If confirmed, it would be the first known death in New York related to the mysterious […]

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government is not reporting hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico City, dismissing anxious officials who have tallied more than three times as many fatalities in the capital than the government publicly acknowledges, according to officials and confidential data. The tensions have come to a head in […]

WASHINGTON — In his eagerness to reopen the country, President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Americans that it would be safe to go back to the workplace. But the past few days have demonstrated that even his own workplace may not be safe from the coronavirus. Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary tested […]

ROME (AP) — South Korea’s capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other nightspots Saturday because of a new cluster of coronavirus infections, Germany scrambled to contain fresh outbreaks at slaughterhouses, and Italian authorities worried that people were getting too friendly at cocktail hour during the country’s first weekend of eased restrictions. The new […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The flight from Italy was one of the last arrivals that day at the Stockholm airport. A Swedish couple in their 50s walked up and loaded their skis into Razzak Khalaf’s taxi. It was early March and concerns over the coronavirus were already present, but the couple, both coughing for the entire […]

YAKUTSK, Russia (AP) — On the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in the World War II, The Associated Press spoke to veterans in ex-Soviet countries and discovered that lessons they learned during the war are helping them cope with a new major challenge — the coronavirus pandemic. As they recalled the horrors of the […]

KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) — Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle with advancing Nazi forces. “You can see it was burning,” he says, pointing at the weathered trace of a red star. Abayev and members of his search team […]