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Fresh The NCAA hit Southern California's men's basketball program with two years' probation on Thursday because a former assistant coach violated NCAA ethics rules when he accepted a bribe to steer players to a business management company. 1 hour ago in Sports Fresh Hall officials revealed the full list of presenters Thursday. Members of a Hall class are asked to choose who they would like to accompany them to the stage and present them before their acceptance speech; when the inductee is being enshrined posthumously, as in Bryant's case, family members are asked to make t...

An emerald ash borer flashes its wings. (Provided photo — Benjamin Smith, via Wikimedia Commons) ITHACA (AP) — An invasive insect that kills ash trees is prompting Cornell University to fell 1,700 of the trees on its lands, a step it says will visibly alter the campus’s appearance. The trees infested by the emerald ash borer will be felled between January and the end of March and include trees on and off campus, the university said Dec. 22. The beetle, which bores under the tree’s bark, kills most infested ash trees within four years, creating a hazard. “This is a safety ...

Jack Barclay to discuss burrowing owls Jan. 10 Burrowing owls will be the topic of a Jan. 10 lecture by Jack Barclay, sponsored by the Sussex Bird Club. FILE PHOTO December 30, 2020 The Sussex Bird Club will offer a lecture on burrowing owls by Jack Barclay at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 10, via Zoom. Barclay studied burrowing owls for more than 20 years in California, observing them in the close-cropped fields near airport runways that offer good burrowing owl habitat. Barclay is a senior wildlife biologist who specializes in the biology and conservation of burrowing owls. As co-founder o...

Todd Bittner/Provided Emerald ash borer larvae and galleries discovered under the bark of an ash tree at Arnot Forest, March 2018, marking Tompkins County’s first documented emerald ash borer occurrence. Cornell removing ash trees, as replanting effort launches December 22, 2020 Cornell will be removing more than 1,700 of its ash trees infested by devastating emerald ash borer insects, mostly between January and March 2021, to reduce potential harm to people and property. At the same time, an initiative has been developed to replant trees. The university will be sending letters ...