The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Ole Miss Rebels (19-6, 6-6 SEC) at Mississippi State Bulldogs (17-8, 6-6 SEC) Starkville, Mississippi; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -8; over/under is 142.5 BOTTOM …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to keep up with customer demand, Batesville Tool & Die began seeking 70 people to hire last year. It wasn’t easy. Attracting factory workers to a community of 7,300 in the Indiana countryside was a tough sell, especially having to compete with big-name manufacturers nearby like Honda and Cummins Engine. Job seekers were scarce. “You could …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 7-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country. Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep (1-to-1.5-meter) hole collapsed on her and her …