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• Judge orders Sorrento and ex-police chief to pay $40K in legal fees

  22-01-2017 23:25
  
  A federal judge has awarded nearly $40,000 in fees to attorneys for a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty.
  
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• Ground stop lifted, United Airlines flights set to resume

  22-01-2017 20:20
  
  NEW YORK - United Airlines says domestic flights are on the move again after being grounded Sunday because of a computer problem.Company spokeswoman Maddie King says the "IT issue" that initially caused the ground stop has been resolved and flights are resuming, but customers may experience additional delays. She didn't give any more details.It was not immediately clear how many flights were affected. The ground stop lasted about 2 ½ hours.Chicago-based United Airlines and United Expr
  
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• Patriots will face Falcons in Super Bowl

  22-01-2017 17:43
  
  A season that began with Tom Brady serving a four-game suspension will end with him in the Super Bowl, where his New England Patriots will take on Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons.While most of the attention between now and the NFL championship game on Feb. 5 in Houston will be focused on Brady vs. Ryan, the truly key matchup could be Atlanta's score-at-will offense, which produced the most points during the regular season, against the unheralded defense of New England, which allowed the fewest
  
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• Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons dominate Green Bay Packers 44-21

  22-01-2017 17:43
  
  ATLANTA - Behind the play of quarterback Matt Ryan the Atlanta Falcons have defeated Green Bay for a spot in the Super Bowl. Ryan had a tremendous game passing for four scores and running for a fifth as the Falcons won 44-21. For the game Ryan connected on 27 of 38 passes for 392 yards.Julio Jones caught nine of the passes for 180 yards and two scores.The game was the last one to be played in the Georgia Dome as the Falcons move into a new facility next season.Permalink| Comments
  
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• San Antonio police respond to shooting at mall

  22-01-2017 17:11
  
  SAN ANTONIO - Police in San Antonio say they have responded to a shooting at a large shopping mall.Romana Lopez, a spokeswoman for San Antonio police, confirmed that police on Sunday were at Rolling Oaks Mall.Lopez did not immediately provide any other details about the shooting.Video from local television stations showed police cars and at least two ambulances at the mall.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Robbery 'gone bad'

  22-01-2017 17:11
  
  SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio's police chief is calling it "a robbery gone really, really bad."Two suspects robbed a jewelry store at the Rolling Oaks Mall on Sunday, ending with shots fired and one person dead.Police say after the robbers fled the store a "good Samaritan" who tried to stop the men was shot and killed by a robber.A bystander who was carrying a licensed concealed weapon, then shot and wounded the robber who killed the man.The second suspect wounded two other people as he fled. He was
  
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• 1 dead, 5 injured in San Antonio shopping mall robbery

  22-01-2017 17:11
  
  SAN ANTONIO - Authorities in San Antonio say one person is dead and five others have been injured after two men robbed a jewelry store in a San Antonio shopping mall.Police Chief William McManus said that after the two suspects fled the store on Sunday, one of them fatally shot a "good Samaritan" who tried to stop them.Another man, who was carrying a licensed concealed weapon, then shot and wounded that robber.The other robber fled the mall, firing his weapon and injuring a man and a woman. Two
  
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• After mass turnout, can protests turn into political impact?

  22-01-2017 16:20
  
  DENVER - Organizers of the women's march on Washington and parallel demonstrations around the country have scored a success with huge crowds. But can they transform that into an actual movement?That's the question many on the left are asking a day after Saturday's rallies. Other protest movements have drawn big crowds but fizzled without changing the political landscape.Liberals are hoping the protests evolve into something like the tea party, the conservative movement that led opposition to Pre
  
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• Madonna defends her anti-Trump speech at women's march

  22-01-2017 16:18
  
  NEW YORK - Madonna is defending her fiery, expletive-laden speech at the women's march, saying her words were "taken wildly out of context."The singer said at the Washington, D.C., march Saturday that she had at times been angry after the election and had thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House."In a statement Sunday on Instagram , Madonna said she was trying to express there are two ways to respond to Donald Trump's election: with hope or with outrage. She said she hopes to effec
  
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• Wyoming congresswoman Cheney says Trump is wrong on NATO

  22-01-2017 15:30
  
  CASPER, Wyo. - Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney says President Donald Trump's views on NATO are wrong and she hopes he changes them.In an interview with the Casper Star-Tribune published Sunday, Cheney called NATO "probably the most effective military alliance in history" and pledged to defend it.Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is a Republican who was elected to her first term in November.Throughout his campaign and in recent interviews, Trump challenged the viability
  
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• George H.W. Bush improving, wife staying night in hospital

  22-01-2017 14:28
  
  Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. With AP Photos.HOUSTON (AP) - A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush's health continues to improve and doctors are hopeful he can be moved out of intensive care at a Houston hospital in the next day or two.Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath said Sunday that Bush's wife, 91-year-old former first lady Barbara Bush, has decided to remain another night at the hospital, where she's been recovering from bronchitis.The 92-year-old former president has been i
  
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• Double shooting in New Orleans leaves 15-year-old dead

  22-01-2017 13:30
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Police say a 15-year-old is dead and a 13-year-old wounded after a shooting Saturday night.The Times-Picayune reports that just before 6 p.m. Saturday police responded to a call about a shooting at the intersection of Desire and North Galvez Streets.The police news release says they found the dead 15-year-old on the sidewalk. He'd been shot multiple times.The other teenager was brought by a private vehicle to a hospital.Albert Greenleaf, who lives near where the shooting happened,
  
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• Casino developers reapply to build 2 new casinos along Miss. Gulf Coast

  22-01-2017 13:27
  
  BILOXI, Miss. - An official says that developers have reapplied to build two casinos along the Mississippi Gulf Coast whose proposed sites were previously rejected by gaming commissioners.Allen Godfrey, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission, tells The Sun-Herald that developers RW Development and Jacobs Entertainment have reapplied.RW Development proposed building South Beach Casino on the northeast side of Veterans Avenue at U.S. 90. But commissioners in 2008 voted it
  
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• Shyamalan's 'Split' divides competition to rule box office

  22-01-2017 13:25
  
  NEW YORK - M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller "Split" blew away box-office expectations, earning an estimated $40.2 million in ticket sales over inauguration weekend.Though many were focused on Friday's presidential inauguration and Saturday's nationwide women's marches, "Split" doubled forecasts to easily lead all films. The Universal Pictures release again brings together Shyamalan, director of "The Sixth Sense," with the low-budget horror experts of Blumhouse Productions."Split," sta
  
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• Current, former major leaguers die in Dominican crashes

  22-01-2017 13:22
  
  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Authorities in the Dominican Republic say that Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura and former major leaguer Andy Marte both have died in separate traffic accidents.Highway patrol spokesman Jacobo Mateo says Ventura died on a highway leading to the town of Juan Adrian, about 40 miles northwest of Santo Domingo. He says it's not clear if Ventura was driving.Metropolitan traffic authorities say Marte died when a car he was driving hit a house along a road
  
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• Man charged in rush-hour explosion that damaged a police car

  22-01-2017 13:21
  
  BOSTON - Police have charged a man they believe is responsible for a rush-hour bombing that damaged a Boston police cruiser but caused no serious injuries.Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said Sunday he doesn't know the motive of the Friday morning rush-hour explosion. He says a device deliberately left under the vehicle went off by itself.Police arrested 42-year-old Asim Keita on Saturday night. The charges include possession of an explosive device and assault with intent to murder.The
  
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• Little is known on status of US student held in North Korea

  22-01-2017 13:19
  
  CINCINNATI - There's been little public word about what has happened to an American college student detained by North Korea, as a new administration takes over one year later amid deep U.S. concerns about the hostile country's nuclear and missile development.North Korea announced last Jan. 22 it had detained Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, for alleged anti-state crime. Warmbier was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison at hard labor after
  
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• 'Very beginning' for embassy move discussions

  22-01-2017 13:18
  
  WASHINGTON - The White House says it's at the "very beginning" of discussing plans to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.The statement follows reports in Israeli media that President Donald Trump had imminent plans to announce the move.Trump is scheduled to speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone later Sunday.Like many presidential candidates, Trump promised to make the embassy move. But presidents have avoided following through on that pledge in p
  
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• Trump aide says tax returns won't be made public

  22-01-2017 13:07
  
  WASHINGTON - White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway says President Donald Trump will not release his tax returns, appearing to shut the door on a decades-long tradition of transparency.Every president since 1976 has released their returns. During the campaign, Trump refused to make his filings public, saying they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and saying he'd release them after that review is complete.Conway was asked Sunday about a petition on the White House website sign
  
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• Second student was wounded in Ohio school shooting

  22-01-2017 13:05
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities say a second student was wounded in a school shooting that left another critically injured.Champaign County Prosecutor Kevin Talebi says a 17-year-old student was struck but didn't have life-threatening injuries. The second youth injured wasn't identified immediately.Authorities say the 17-year-old shooter fired a 12-gauge shotgun in the Friday morning attack at the West Liberty high school 45 miles northwest of Columbus.He was initially held in a juvenile center on
  
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• More fight over 163-mile pipeline through Atchafalaya Basin

  22-01-2017 13:03
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana environmental groups are gearing up for round two in a battle against a proposed 163-mile oil pipeline that would stretch across south Louisiana from Lake Charles through the Atchafalaya Basin and east to St. James.A public hearing last week for a required U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit drew more than 400 supporters and opponents. Many of the opponents gathered before the hearing and decried a project they fear will foul the state's wetlands and water.A second hearin
  
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• Judge orders town, ex-police chief to pay $40K in legal fees

  22-01-2017 12:58
  
  BATON ROUGE - A federal judge has awarded nearly $40,000 in fees to attorneys for a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty.The woman's lawyers sought nearly $90,000 in fees, but U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled Thursday that $39,899 is reasonable compensation. Dick found evidence of overbilling and duplicative billing in records submitted by plaintiffs' attorneys.Dick awarded $50,000 in damages to the
  
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• Southeast US braces for more tornadoes, storms

  22-01-2017 12:55
  
  ATLANTA - Tornado activity is remaining a threat across south Georgia, where 11 people were killed early Sunday.The National Weather Service said Sunday that southern Georgia, northern Florida and the corner of southeastern Alabama could face "intense and long track" tornadoes, scattered damaging winds and large hail.The weather service said that a "severe thunderstorm and tornado outbreak is expected today across north Florida and south Georgia, with the significant severe threat also expected
  
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• Trump to focus this week on trade, immigration

  22-01-2017 12:52
  
  WASHINGTON - Reince Priebus, White House chief of staff, is saying that President Donald Trump's first full week in office will include action on trade, immigration and national security.Priebus suggested Trump will sign some executive orders to order some of the President Obama's policies but did not outline specifics.The chief of staff, during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," also said that Trump was feeling the "enormity" of the presidency when he stepped into the Oval Office for the first
  
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• Charge dropped against man who burned flag at RNC in Ohio

  22-01-2017 12:33
  
  CLEVELAND - The man whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the burning of the American flag being protected by free speech no longer faces a charge over another flag-burning at last summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.Cleveland.com reports court filings show prosecutors last week dropped the misdemeanor assault charge against Gregory "Joey" Johnson. A city spokesman didn't immediately return messages seeking comment.The 60-year-old San Francisco man was arrested afte
  
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• Trump scoffs at protesters, asks if they voted

  22-01-2017 12:31
  
  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he watched some of the protests from Saturday - when more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches in Washington and around the world.But he doesn't seem to think much of the demonstrations.He says in a tweet Sunday morning that he was "under the impression that we just had an election!" and adds: "Why didn't these people vote?"While Trump is claiming these protesters didn't vote, that seems unlikely.Trump won the vote in the Electoral College, pu
  
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• Spanish police announce arrests in cultural artifacts ring

  22-01-2017 12:29
  
  MADRID - Spanish police say 75 people have been arrested and more than 3,500 stolen artifacts and pieces of art seized in a joint operation with 17 other European countries that dismantled an international cultural goods trafficking ring.Authorities said Sunday they had secured up to 500 archaeological objects alone in the southern Spanish town of Murcia, including 19 that were taken from the local archaeological museum in 2014.The multi-national investigation started in October and the arrests
  
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• German Foreign Minister: Trump's election marks new era

  22-01-2017 11:54
  
  BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says U.S. President Donald Trump's election marks the end of an era, and Berlin will move quickly to secure "close and trusting trans-Atlantic cooperation based on common values" with the new administration.Steinmeier wrote in Bild newspaper on Sunday that "with the election of Donald Trump, the old world of the 20th century is finally over" and "how the world of tomorrow will look is not settled."He says with any power change there are "u
  
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• 2 US soldiers hurt in ammunition truck accident in Poland

  22-01-2017 11:51
  
  WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Defense Ministry says two U.S. soldiers have been hurt in an Army truck accident in southwestern Poland.A ministry communique issued Sunday said the truck carrying tank ammunition skidded off a slippery road because the driver was going too fast for the winter road conditions.Some of the ammunition for M-1 Abrams tanks the truck was hauling spilled onto the road leading to Zagan, where U.S. troops are based. The road was temporarily closed after the accident occurred af
  
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• Russia PM calls idea US will lift sanctions soon 'illusion'

  22-01-2017 11:49
  
  MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the west's sanctions on Russia are likely to remain in place "for a long time" despite expectations Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president will lead to warmer relations between Washington and Moscow.Medvedev told members of the ruling United Russia party on Sunday that Russian leaders "can't place our hope on foreign elections" and "It's time to dispense with the illusion that sanctions against our country will be lifted."Trump's pledge
  
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