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• New Cat Cafe, Charm Kitty Cafe, Helps Local Cats Get Adopted

  09-10-2017 23:41
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Charm City, meet Charm Kitty.
  Baltimore’s first cat cafe opened for business on Sept. 30.
  “It’s basically just a place you can come get a cup of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and hang out with some cats,” says owner, Cam Tucker.
  And people are doing just that. The cafe has been booked solid.
  And if you like one of the cats, you can take it home! That’s right, all the cats at the cafe are adoptable.
  “At the end of the day, its about getting
  
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• Bystander Rape-Prevention Programs Face Questions

  09-10-2017 23:33
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Training programs around the country are trying to teach bystanders to stop sexual assault, and now is when they have to be especially alert. Campus sexual assault reports are so common at the beginning of the fall semester, college administrators call this time of year the “red zone.”
  Penn State University sends campus-wide text alerts when someone has been sexually assaulted. During the last academic year, there were 29 campus text alerts about sexua
  
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• Drivers Finally Seeing Relief At The Pump After Hectic Hurricane Season

  09-10-2017 23:21
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s been a rough few weeks for drivers who have been feeling the pain at the pump in the wake of several natural disasters, but things are starting to change.
  It’s very common for gas prices to go up following a major natural disaster. This year, the United States has had several of them. Experts say their impact is starting to wear off.
  It started with Hurricane Harvey’s assault on southeast Texas back in August.
  The intense flooding crippled the
  
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• KKK Leader From Baltimore Facing Charges For Allegedly Firing Gun At Charlottesville Rally

  09-10-2017 23:18
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Tonight, the case against a Ku Klux Klan leader from Baltimore is moving forward.
  Richard Preston Jr. faces felony charges for firing a gun during deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. The act was caught on camera.
  WJZ investigator Mike Hellgren reports that Preston, a KKK imperial wizard, is scheduled to appear in court later this week on gun charges related to the rally, which was held on the weekend of August 11 and 12.
  WJZ has learned that Preston li
  
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• All Clear Given At Arundel Mills’ Movie Theater After Threat Causes Evacuation

  09-10-2017 23:11
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The all clear has been given at a movie theater inside a Maryland mall after it was evacuated as a precaution because of a reported threat.
  Authorities say someone called in a threat at 4:30 p.m., at the Cinemark at Arundel Mills Mall, which is right next to Maryland Live! Casino.
  Non-specific bomb threat called in @ Arundel Mills Mall movies. Movies ONLY being evacuated as precaution only. No further info available
  — Anne Arundel Police (@AACOPD) October 9, 20
  
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• ‘You’re Going To Learn A Lot About These People’: Geneva Carr Talks Second Season Of ‘Bull’

  09-10-2017 22:45
  Geneva Carr is so humble and enthusiastic when she talks about Bull, you have to remind yourself that you’re not talking to a super fan, but one of the show’s main stars. In her own words, Geneva Carr is “really jazzed” about the the direction Bull is taking in its second season. She watches the premiere of each episode on the couch with a bag of popcorn like the rest of us, and she deserves it — she has worked hard to reach new depths with her character Marissa Mor
  
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• Third Baltimore police detective to plead guilty in federal ... - Baltimore Sun

  09-10-2017 22:26 via baltimoresun.com
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  Police Det. Jemell Rayam will plead guilty Tuesday in federal court to robbing people he detained, billing for overtime hours he didn't work, and forging reports ...
  GUILTY: Third Baltimore Officer pleads guilty in fraud caseFox Baltimore
  Report: 3rd Baltimore Officer To Plead Guilty To Racketeering ChargesCBS Baltimore / WJZall 7 news articles »
  
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• Tuberculosis Cases Confirmed At Maryland High School

  09-10-2017 22:11
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Two cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed at a Maryland high school.
  Health officials say the cases are at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Prince George’s County.
  Authorities say those infected are being treated and there is no risk of additional exposure to any students or staff, as it normally takes at least eight hours of close contact in a small room for TB to be transmitted.
  School and health officials will meet with parents and staff to
  
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• ‘It’ Clown Costume Flying Off Shelves, Topping Halloween Lists

  09-10-2017 22:03
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — If you’re afraid of clowns or have had enough of last year’s terrifying “creepy clown” incidents, then the hottest costume of 2017 will probably give you nightmares this Halloween. The evil clown from the hit film “It” is this year’s must-have costume for many.
  Will this be the most popular costume for halloween? #Halloween #pennywise #it #z90 pic.twitter.com/OlNG2d0P00
  — Z90.3 | San Diego (@Z903) October 1, 2017According to
  
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• Maryland Man Shot 14 Times, Killed, At Crisfield Apartment Complex

  09-10-2017 21:54
  CRISFIELD, Md. (AP) — Police in Crisfield are asking that witnesses come forward in a fatal shooting in which a man was struck by bullets 14 times.
  Crisfield Police Chief Michael Tabor asked for information about the shooting early Friday. Officers responding to several 911 calls found the body of 25-year-old Mark Laquan Smith of Salisbury lying in an apartment parking lot next to a vehicle. He had been shot at least 14 times.
  Investigators say drugs, money and a revolver were found lying
  
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• Surveillance Photo Released Of Man Who Used Stolen Credit Card

  09-10-2017 21:51
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the man who used a credit card that was stolen from inside a vehicle.
  The Westminster Police Department reports several car break-ins from communities near Route 31 early Monday morning.
  Wallets and credit cards were stolen, and one of those stolen credit cards was used shortly after the thefts.
  The suspect was driving a silver Chevrolet Silverado with Maryland tags.
  Anyone with information about this suspect is as
  
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• City Says Defaced Christopher Columbus Monument Will Be Repaired, Re-Dedicated

  09-10-2017 20:46
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Weeks after a Christopher Columbus monument at a Baltimore park was defaced, officials said today — Christopher Columbus Day — that it will be repaired.But they want resident input first.
  In August, a group of vandals targeted the Herring Run Park monument, which is more than 200 years old. A video posted online shows someone using a sledgehammer to smash the base of the structure.
  The vandalism came just a week after city officials ordered that four Confederat
  
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• Halloween Warning: Head Lice May Be Waiting In Store Costumes

  09-10-2017 20:31
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Halloween is usually filled with creepy crawlers, but health experts are warning that there may be real ones lurking inside your costume’s mask this year.
  Medical officials are sounding the alarm that head lice may become a disgusting nuisance for many children and adults who are trying on Halloween costumes. According to reports, doctors see a spike in head lice cases this time of year. While many blame the start of a new school year, the biggest culprit is actuall
  
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• Monday, October 9, 2017

  09-10-2017 20:15
  It’s just another Manic Monday with McDaniel College
   
  Coffee With Tess Holliday
  
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• University of Maryland Student Attacked With Baseball Bat

  09-10-2017 19:38
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A University of Maryland student was attacked on campus by a man with a baseball bat.
  University police say the attack occurred just before 11 p.m. Friday outside the Stamp Student Union. Police say two students got into a verbal altercation with a passing car.
  At one point, a passenger in the car got out of the car and followed the students. Police say the passenger went back to the car and retrieved the bat, striking one of the two students.
  The student was treat
  
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• Convicted Rapist Awarded Joint Custody Of Victim’s Child

  09-10-2017 19:10
  CBS Local — A convicted sex offender has been awarded joint custody of the child he fathered after allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl.
  In September of 2008, Christopher Mirasolo of Brown City, Michigan allegedly held the victim, her sister, and another girl captive in a vacant house for two days. Mirasolo, who was 18 during the kidnapping, was arrested a month later after the victim discovered she was pregnant.
  The shocking decision was made by Sanilac County Circuit Court
  
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• Trump Administration To Terminate Obama’s Climate Plan

  09-10-2017 19:09
  HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
  “The war on coal is over,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt declared in the coal mining state of Kentucky.
  For Pruitt, getting rid of the Clean Power Plan will mark the culmination of a long fight he began as the elected attorney general of Oklahoma. Pruitt was among
  
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• Keidel: Is Big Ben Done?

  09-10-2017 18:59
  By Jason Keidel
  What the heck is wrong with Big Ben?
  I know, it’s typical shock-jock stuff to overreact to one play or one game, to call for a player’s vocational scalp on a microscopic sample size. That’s especially true when the athlete in question is a quarterback who started in three Super Bowls, won two of them, and will stroll into the Hall of Fame five years after he retires.
  Even still, you have to wonder what’s happened to the arm, body, and mind of Ben Roethlisb
  
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• Baltimore Among Top 10 Cities That Eat The Most Chick-fil-A Sandwiches

  09-10-2017 18:46
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — When people think of Baltimore, a crab cake may be the first food to come to mind, but Chick-fil-A’s original chicken sandwich is obviously very near and dear to Marylanders, too.
  Chick-fil-A recently ranked the 10 cities that ordered the most original chicken sandwiches in 2016, and Baltimore made the cut, having consumed more than 300 million of them in 2016.
  The original chicken sandwich is an all time favorite of people all over the country, a breaded and f
  
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• Fmr. Ravens Coach Resigns From Dolphins After Video Shows Him Snorting White Powder

  09-10-2017 17:59
  DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins offensive line coach Chris Foerster resigned Monday and said he was seeking medical help after video surfaced on social media that appeared to show him snorting three lines of a white powdery substance at a desk.
  Hours after the 56-second video was posted on Facebook and Twitter, Foerster announced his departure in a statement released by the team.
  “I am resigning from my position with the Miami Dolphins and accept full responsibility for my act
  
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• Group Behind Online Petition Declaring Trump Mentally Ill Holding Physical Events This Weekend

  09-10-2017 17:29
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A Change.org petition declaring that President Donald Trump is mentally ill and “must be removed from office” now has more than 60,000 signatures, but it all started with one — that of a Baltimore-area psychologist.
  Towson-based John Gartner, who specializes in borderline personality disorder and depression treatment, tells The Baltimore Sun he believes the president is a “malignant narcissist,” which can manifest with paranoia, anti-social be
  
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• Missing 15-Day-Old Baby Found Dead In Woods

  09-10-2017 17:12
  COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — The body of a 15-day-old Georgia baby who had been reported missing has been found in a wooded area.
  News outlets report the Newton County Sheriff’s Office says the child’s father, Christopher McNabb, fled shortly before being named a person of interest in her death Sunday. The 27-year-old was apprehended hours after the baby’s body was found and charged with a probation violation involving a burglary.
  Investigators say they found Caliyah McNabb&rsqu
  
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• Radio Host Delilah Taking Break After Son’s Suicide

  09-10-2017 17:05
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Radio host Delilah said she is taking a break from her nationally syndicated program to grieve after her son took his own life last week.
  Delilah posted on Facebook Saturday that her son, Zachariah, killed himself Tuesday morning. Zachariah “was being treated, counseled, and embraced fiercely by family and friends while battling depression for some time now,” she said.
  “I will be absent from the radio and on social media for a time as I grieve
  
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• Native Community To Honor Indigenous People’s Day

  09-10-2017 15:52
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Native American organizers are spending Columbus Day spreading awareness of a campaign to support legislation in Baltimore to change the name of the holiday to Indigenous People’s Day.
  The event will take place on Monday at the Baltimore American Indian Center, where leaders from the Baltimore Native American community will share information about the campaign.
  Last year the Baltimore City Council introduced legislation to change the holiday’s name but the bill
  
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• Wildfires Force Evacuations In California

  09-10-2017 15:02
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Wildfires have spread across Wine Country Sunday night burning buildings, and forcing hundreds of evacuations including two hospitals and injuring several people. That’s according to CBS affiliate KPIX.
  The Atlas Peak Fire was one of several fires. The flames grew to more than 200 acres near Napa. A fire near Calistoga burned several buildings sending several people to the hospital.
  The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for the Bay area. Th
  
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• 35-Second Returns? Walmart Speeds Up Online Purchase Returns

  09-10-2017 14:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is making new moves to speed up the return process for online purchases.The first change will come next month, when customers will be able to start the return process on Walmart’s app. After that, they can bring the item to a store, scan a barcode with their smartphone and drop it off with an employee at an express lane at the customer service desk. The new process will take about 35 seconds or less.
  In December, customers will be able to keep items ordered o
  
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• Officials Seek State Privacy Protections For Police Body Camera Footage

  09-10-2017 12:44
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore County officials are asking for state lawmakers to consider strengthening rules that govern public access to police body camera footage. That’s according to our media partners at The Baltimore Sun. 
  Councilman Todd Crandell of Dundalk and Councilman Wade Kach of Cockeysville are sponsoring a measure that would urge the General Assembly to consider statewide legislation that would regulate when the public could view such footage “without tra
  
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• Baltimore County officials seek state privacy protections for police body camera footage - Baltimore Sun

  09-10-2017 11:00 via baltimoresun.com
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  Baltimore County's top prosecutor and two members of the County Council want state lawmakers to consider tightening rules that govern public access to police body camera footage. They say they're concerned about the potential for invasions of privacy.
  Following 'Faked' Footage Scandal, Baltimore Moves to Restrict Public Access to Body Cam FootageGizmodoall 7 news articles &r
  
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• Nate Marches Across US East Coast, Dumping Heavy Rains

  09-10-2017 10:56
  BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Nate slogged its way across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains and bringing gusty winds to inland states as a tropical depression, a day after Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast.Nate spared the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks.
  Nate — the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005
  
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• 2017 MD Home And Garden Show Contest

  09-10-2017 06:01
  The Maryland Home and Garden Show is Back at the Timonium Fairgrounds!
  
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• Baltimore Co. Woman Collecting Donations To Help Caribbean Island Of Dominica

  09-10-2017 05:42
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Gulf Coast was hit by Hurricane Nate Saturday night. Nate is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US since August.
  The Caribbean was hit hard by Hurricane Maria, particularly the island of Dominica — which is not a U.S. territory.
  While Dominica is small, but the destruction level is massive. Rebuilding the island will depend on help, from the outside world.
  Hurricane Maria hit Dominica with stinging rain and Category 5 winds.
  The Caribbean island is kno
  
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• Light City 2018 Inviting Baltimore Neighborhoods To Join In Festival

  09-10-2017 05:18
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore is expanding their Light City Festival for 2018. The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts is inviting the community to participate in their annual Light City event.
  Tracey Leong explains how you can join in with your neighborhood.
  For the first time, neighborhoods are being invited to join the Light City Festival and showcase their community for a chance to win cash prizes.
  Illuminating Charm City for the third year, Light City will once again tr
  
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• Md. Man Among 95 Fallen Firefighters Honored At Ceremony

  09-10-2017 05:10
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — They run into danger, without a second thought, put their lives on the line to save complete strangers.
  On Sunday, 95 firefighters from across America who died in the line of duty, were honored for their sacrifice to helping others.
  “Firefighters are the ones running towards danger, a burning building, a blazing wilderness, or even a car crash while others are running away,” said Chief Dennis Compton, chairman of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation boa
  
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• FBI Searches Las Vegas Gunman’s House Again

  09-10-2017 04:46
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they’d find.
  The search of Paddock’s three-bedroom house on a cul-de-sac in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, was for “re-documenting and rechecking,” said local polic
  
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• Big Tech Has Big Plans To Help Reconnect Puerto Rico

  09-10-2017 04:28
  Facebook and Google once aimed to connect the world. Now they would be happy just to reconnect part of it.
  In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to send a “connectivity team” to help restore communications in ravaged Puerto Rico. Google parent company Alphabet offered to send its Wi-Fi balloons. They were among several tech companies proposing disaster response ideas, most aimed at getting phone and internet service up and running.
  Some of these plans,
  
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• 1 Person Hurt After Man Opens Fire In Ellicott City Wal-Mart

  09-10-2017 03:45
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Police are searching for the person who opened fire inside a Maryland Wal-Mart, injuring one person.
  The Howard County Police Department reports the shooting happened around midnight at the Wal-Mart located in the 3200 block of North Ridge Rd. in Ellicott City.
  Police received reports of a shooting inside the store, and officers arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound.
  Following their investigation, police say the shooting happened during a fight inside the s
  
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• Nate Downgraded To Tropical Depression Moving Inland Through Southeast

  09-10-2017 02:45
  BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Nate moves inland with heavy rains and gusty winds after socking the central Gulf Coast.
  Forecasters said Sunday that Nate was about 75 miles south of Nashville, Tennessee. Nate was a hurricane when it washed ashore earlier Sunday along the Mississippi coast.
  On Sunday afternoon, Nate was downgraded to a tropical depression with winds of about 35 mph.
  The depression is dropping rain across Florida and Georgia and into the southern Appalachian Mountains.
  #Nate will
  
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• Man Killed After Being Struck By Car, Caring For Injured Dog

  09-10-2017 02:11
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Authorities in western Maryland say a pedestrian had died after being struck by a vehicle while tending to an injured dog, who has also died.
  The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Sunday that 49-year-old Clifford Lee Staley was walking along the shoulder of a road in Hagerstown on Saturday evening with two dogs.
  Deputies saw a minivan hit one dog. Police says Staley immediately ran into the roadway to help.
  A deputy who was getting suppl
  
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• Film Producer Harvey Weinstein Ousted From Weinstein Co.

  09-10-2017 01:32
  NEW YORK (AP) — Film producer Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Co., effective immediately, following new information revealed regarding his conduct, the company’s board of directors announced Sunday.
  Weinstein had previously voluntarily taken a leave of absence following decades of sexual harassment allegations detailed Thursday in a New York Times expose. The board on Friday endorsed that decision. But it went further Sunday, removing Weinstein from the company he
  
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• Flacco, Ravens Beat Raiders Without Carr 30-17

  09-10-2017 01:14
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Joe Flacco hit Mike Wallace on two deep passes to spark Baltimore’s struggling offense, and the Ravens got a fumble return for a touchdown by Jimmy Smith to beat the short-handed Oakland Raiders 30-17 on Sunday.
  Flacco had struggled to get the ball downfield in losing the past two weeks. He changed that on the opening drive of the game for the Ravens (3-2) when he connected on a 52-yard pass to Wallace that set up an early touchdow
  
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• Baltimore KKK Leader Awaits Hearing On Charlottesville Gun Charge

  09-10-2017 00:52
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Baltimore Ku Klux Klan leader who authorities say fired a gun during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is in custody in Virginia awaiting a court appearance this week.
  Richard Wilson Preston is charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school on Aug. 12, the day of the rally that descended into violent chaos.
  The American Civil Liberties Union said it provided law enforcement officials with a video of the shooting before Preston&rsqu
  
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• Jason Aldean Pays Tribute To Vegas Victims, Petty On ‘SNL’

  09-10-2017 00:37
  NEW YORK (AP) — Country star Jason Aldean took the stage on “Saturday Night Live,” paying tribute to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre and to the late rocker Tom Petty.
  Aldean performed Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” during the live opening Saturday night and then introduced the show.
  “This week we witnessed one of the worst tragedies in American history,” he said. “So many people are hurting. You can be sure that we are going to walk
  
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• Former NFL Player John Moffitt Defends Cam Newton’s Comments

  09-10-2017 00:20
  BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) — Former NFL player John Moffitt took to social media on Sunday to echo sexist comments made by Cam Newton against women sports reporters.
  Moffitt defended Newton, who said to Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrigue’s question about wide receiver Devin Funchess’ route running, the former league MVP said, “it’s funny to hear a female talk about routes. It’s funny.”
  In a post on facebook, the former offensive lin
  
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