DES MOINES, Iowa—Kansas coach Bill Self missed the defending national champion’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against Howard, a 96–68 victory by the Jayhawks on Thursday. Assistant coach Norm Roberts served as acting head coach with Self continuing to recover from a heart procedure performed last week. The school announced about three hours before tipoff that…

WESTWEGO, La.—A 4-year-old boy in Louisiana, sitting in the back of a car with two younger siblings, fatally shot himself in the forehead with a gun he found while his mother and another adult smoked marijuana in the front seat, authorities said. An autopsy Monday found that Jarion Walker’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Jefferson Parish…

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter on Friday that the electric carmaker will raise the U.S. price of its advanced driver assistant software dubbed “Full Self Driving” to $12,000 on Jan. 17. The 20 percent price rise comes less than two years since Tesla raised Full Self-Driving (FSD) prices to $10,000…

TROY, Mich.—Police say they believe a 23-year-old man fatally shot his twin brother and shot and wounded their father before apparently taking his own life in suburban Detroit. A 64-year-old woman was also in the home in Troy during the shooting Monday morning but was not harmed, police said. Police responded to separate 911 calls…