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• Athletic Bilbao winless streak in Liga ends on late penalty

  10-12-2018 23:57
  MADRID (AP) — Veteran striker Aritz Aduriz converted a penalty kick in stoppage time to end Athletic Bilbao’s 13-game winless streak in the Spanish league on Monday.
  Aduriz calmly converted his shot from the spot to give the hosts their first league win — 1-0 over Girona — since the first round in August.
  Athletic seemed headed to another draw until Jonas Ramalho fouled Iker Muniain inside the area.
  The result moved the Basque Country club even on points with Villarreal,
  
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• US judge tosses bulk of suit against Trump immigration move

  10-12-2018 23:53
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family members in the U.S.
  U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler on Monday threw out the bulk of a lawsuit that argued the termination of the Obama-era Central American Minors program was arbitrary and violated the U.S. Constitution.
  The International Refugee Assistance Project, a l
  
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• Knox Co. Man Accused Of Shooting At Officers

  10-12-2018 23:45
  HIMYAR, Ky. (LEX 18) — A Knox County man was arrested early Monday morning after police say he fired shots at them through the walls of his house.
  Officials with the state police and a Knox County deputy responded to reports of an assault at a home in Himyar.
  According to a news release, officials say a woman inside the home peered out the window. A few moments later, they say, Jason Marsee, 47, fired eight rounds from a rifle through the side of the home in the directions of the sta
  
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• Italy’s Salvini says fears about new migrant law ‘surreal’

  10-12-2018 23:45
  ROME (AP) — Italy’s interior minister is defending a new government-backed law eliminating the category of “humanitarian protection” for migrants, saying it will actually provide more protections to real refugees.
  Matteo Salvini dismissed as “fake news of epic proportions” the alarm raised by Amnesty International and other human rights groups that thousands of migrants could be out on the streets as a result of the law.
  Salvini said at a news conference Monda
  
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• Jaguars: Fournette yelled at fan in response to racial slur

  10-12-2018 23:44
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone says running back Leonard Fournette was responding to racial slurs while yelling at a fan in Nashville, Tennessee last Thursday night.
  Fournette declined to address the accusation in the locker room Monday on the advice of his agent.
  Teammate and fellow running back T.J. Yeldon, however, said several fans directed racial slurs at Jacksonville players.
  “Did I hear it? Yeah,” Yeldon said. “All the running bac
  
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• Employee At Richmond BBQ Restaurant Diagnosed With Hepatitis A

  10-12-2018 23:43
  RICHMOND, Ky. (LEX 18) – The Madison County Health Department confirms that a worker at Sonny’s BBQ in Richmond has been diagnosed with hepatitis A.
  The restaurant is located on Center Drive in Richmond, Ky. The affected employee worked there from Nov. 18 and Dec. 1.
  Hepatitis A is caused by a virus that is passed person to person through fecal-oral contact. The risk to patrons who ate at Sonny’s BBQ is very low.  However, individuals who ate there between November 18&nbs
  
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• Ex-sailing chief questions voting on class for 2024 Games

  10-12-2018 23:32
  The former head of sailing’s governing body has joined other sailing officials in questioning the results of a vote to add a mixed-gender offshore class to the 2024 Olympics.
  Paul Henderson of Toronto, who headed sailing’s governing body from 1994-2004 and also is a former member of the International Olympic Committee, said in a letter to World Sailing President Kim Andersen of Denmark that some votes were recorded incorrectly during the recent annual conference in Sarasota, Florida,
  
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• Police Charge Tenn. Man With Sex Crimes Involving Adair Co. Teenager

  10-12-2018 23:27
  Samuel Hicks
  ADAIR COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Kentucky State Police have arrested Tennessee man who they say admitted to having sex with a a 14-year-old girl in Columbia.
  Authorities say 39-year-old Samuel Hicks of Marysville, Tennessee, was arrested Dec. 8 near the girl’s home.
  Police said they received a complaint Dec. 1 claiming Hicks had sex with the minor.
  KSP says a trooper viewed messages on the social media platform SnapChat and determined that Hicks “knew he was meeting wi
  
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• Thousands of mailed ballots in Florida were not counted

  10-12-2018 23:22
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices.
  The Department of State last week informed a federal judge that 6,670 ballots were mailed ahead of the Nov. 6 election but were not counted because they were not received by Election Day. The tally prepared by state officials includes totals from 65 of Florida’s 67 counties.
  Three statewide Florida races, including the contest for
  
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• UN: 20 million Yemenis are hungry, 250,000 face catastrophe

  10-12-2018 23:21
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief says 20 million people in Yemen are hungry — a 15 percent increase from last year. And he says that for the first time, 250,000 face “catastrophe,” which means starvation, death and destitution.
  Mark Lowcock recently returned from Yemen and told reporters Monday that there has been “a significant, dramatic deterioration” of the situation in Yemen.
  There are five levels on the global scale for classifying the se
  
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• Northern Arizona hires Chris Ball as next football coach

  10-12-2018 23:21
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Northern Arizona has hired Memphis defensive coordinator Chris Ball as its next football coach.
  Ball’s hiring was announced by the school Monday.
  Ball replaces Jerome Souers, who stepped down after 21 years to take another position within the athletic department.
  Ball spent the past three seasons as the Tigers defensive coordinator under Mike Norvell. He led a defense that forced the fifth-most turnovers in the FBS over a three-year span and was third national
  
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• Border Patrol handcuffs demonstrators supporting migrants

  10-12-2018 23:21
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents have handcuffed about a dozen people participating in a demonstration organized by a Quaker group at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling for the end of the detention and deportation of immigrants and the militarization of the border.
  A photographer for The Associated Press saw about a dozen people being handcuffed Monday after they were told by agents to move back away from a wall.
  US Customs and Border Protection spokesman Theo Francisco says he had
  
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• Study: Social media surpasses newspapers as news source

  10-12-2018 23:20
  NEW YORK (AP) — A survey says Americans today are more likely to get news from social media web sites than newspapers.
  The Pew Research Center said Monday that 20 percent of Americans cited social media as a frequent news source, compared to 16 percent that credited newspapers. It’s the first time since Pew has found sites like Facebook and Twitter outpacing newspapers.
  Pew has been asking about news consumption, with a slight change in wording, since 1991. That year, 56 percent of A
  
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• Polygamous group lets go of sprawling Arizona worship center

  10-12-2018 23:17
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous group at the Utah-Arizona border is letting go of the sprawling building where it worshipped in the latest sign that the sect run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs is crumbling and losing control of the community it ruled for a century.
  Jeff Barlow says the nearly 53,000 square-foot (4,900 square-meter) meetinghouse in the remote red rock community hadn’t been used for at least six months and the utilities had been turned off for about a month.
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• California family finds cat alive a month after deadly blaze

  10-12-2018 23:15
  PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A family has been reunited with their cat after it stayed behind during a deadly wildfire last month that leveled their home in Northern California.
  Courtney Werblow and her family returned to her parents’ burned home in Paradise over the weekend and found their beloved cat, Timber, standing near the ruins.
  Werblow recorded a video of the emotional moment when she spots the beige cat with a brown face looking at them from a distance.
  She starts to cry as she c
  
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• Digne’s last-gasp free kick earns Everton 2-2 draw v Watford

  10-12-2018 23:13
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Lucas Digne curled home a free kick in the sixth minute of injury time to earn Everton a 2-2 draw with the Watford after a wild second half featuring three goals and a saved penalty in the English Premier League on Monday.
  Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster kept out a penalty from Gylfi Sigurdsson with the score at 2-1, but barely moved when Digne whipped his free kick into the top corner from the edge of the area in the final minute of stoppage time.
  The match started
  
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• The Latest: Teen charged with killing pregnant schoolmate

  10-12-2018 23:12
  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of pregnant teen in northern Indiana (all times local):
  5:10 p.m.
  Authorities say an Indiana high school football player told investigators that he killed a 17-year-old schoolmate because she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion.
  Sixteen-year-old Aaron Trejo was charged as an adult with murder on Monday in the Sunday killing of Breana Rouhselang and the fetus. He was arrested Sund
  
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• NASA’s first look: Tiny asteroid is studded with boulders

  10-12-2018 23:10
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.
  Scientists on Monday released the first morsels of data collected since their spacecraft Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs about 80 million tons (73 million metric tons). Bennu regularly crosses Earth’s orbit and will come perilously close to Earth in about 150 years.
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• Meek Mill, Fat Joe attend DJ Khaled’s Miami birthday bash

  10-12-2018 23:07
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Meek Mill, Busta Rhymes and Fat Joe were among the rappers who came out to celebrate DJ Khaled’s birthday at an over-the-top party at the Perez Art Museum to close out Art Basel in Miami Beach.
  The Haute Living party celebrated birthdays for both DJ Khaled and his wife Nicole with a 60-person dinner Sunday night. Swizz Beatz gave a special DJ set, getting guests pumped up when he played “This Is How We Do It.” He toasted the birthday couple, sayin
  
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• Puerto Rico to hire crews to fix streetlights after Maria

  10-12-2018 22:53
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s power company says it plans to hire private firms to repair some 106,000 streetlights across the U.S. territory that remain in the dark more than a year after Hurricane Maria.
  Technical operations chief Carlos Alvarado says the island’s Electric Power Authority does not have enough employees to do the job. He says he expects to contract companies starting in mid-January for repairs that would otherwise take up to eight months.
  Alvarado
  
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• Nashville’s only abortion clinic suspends abortion services

  10-12-2018 22:53
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Women seeking abortions in Nashville will now have to travel hours outside the city after the only clinic offering abortions in the region has temporarily halted its services.
  Tereva Parham, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, confirmed Monday that the Nashville-based clinic stopped offering abortions last week but is still open for other health services.
  Parham says the change is temporary to allow a “quality improvement&r
  
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• No party of ‘no’ here: House Dems like governing

  10-12-2018 22:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As House control is about to switch, it’s serving as a reminder about Democrats: They like government. And governing.
  While tea party Republicans swept to power to stop things — repeal Obamacare, roll back environmental regulations and decrease the size and scope of government — Democrats are marching into the majority to build it back up. And after spending eight downcast years in the minority, they can’t wait to get started.
  Democrats say the goa
  
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• Hawks C Miles Plumlee out at least a week with injured knee

  10-12-2018 22:45
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks center Miles Plumlee will be out for at least a week because of an injured left knee.
  The team said in a release that Plumlee began experiencing pain before a practice last week. He underwent an MRI at Emory Sports Medicine Complex, which led to a non-surgical procedure on Monday.
  Plumlee will be re-evaluated Dec. 18.
  He has played sparingly for the Hawks, averaging 4.8 points in 16 games.
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• Hawks C Mile Plumlee out at least a week with injured knee

  10-12-2018 22:45
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks center Miles Plumlee will be out for at least a week because of an injured left knee.
  The team said in a release that Plumlee began experiencing pain before a practice last week. He underwent an MRI at Emory Sports Medicine Complex, which led to a non-surgical procedure on Monday.
  Plumlee will be re-evaluated Dec. 18.
  He has played sparingly for the Hawks, averaging 4.8 points in 16 games.
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• Making A Difference: Man Plays Santa Claus To Walmart Patrons

  10-12-2018 22:44
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18)- A stranger was playing Santa at the Walmart at Nicholasville Road in Lexington on Saturday and a local woman wants to thank him for his kindness.
  A normal Saturday shopping trip restored Donna Cooke’s faith in humanity. She was in line in the Nicholasville Road Walmart, her cart full of groceries, when a man footed the bill.
  “He said ‘I’m going to pay for all of your purchases today for Christmas and I looked at him strangely and started bawl
  
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• Man with backyard bomb pleads guilty to explosives charge

  10-12-2018 22:37
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused of setting off a pipe bomb in his backyard has pleaded guilty to an explosives charge.
  Court records show that 61-year-old Joseph Caltagirone pleaded guilty Monday in Tampa federal court to possessing an unregistered destructive device. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
  Tampa police say the bomb squad happened to be conducting training in April when they heard a loud explosion. They followed a greyish-white smoke plume to Caltagirone’s home,
  
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• Researchers: Lanza documents may boost study of mass killers

  10-12-2018 22:36
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The disclosure of Adam Lanza’s writings and other documents offer little toward understanding why he carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, but researchers say the detail on the gunman’s mental decline could offer insights into the mind of a mass killer.
  Some relatives of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at the school on Dec. 14, 2012, said they welcomed the release of the long-withheld records, although they wish it had not c
  
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• Crew member of Starz series ‘Power’ hit, killed at shoot

  10-12-2018 22:36
  NEW YORK (AP) — A production assistant on the Starz network drama series “Power” has been struck and killed by a vehicle while setting up traffic cones for a film production in Brooklyn.
  Police say 63-year-old Pedro Jimenez, of Manhattan, was pronounced dead at a hospital following the accident just before 4:30 a.m. Monday in the Boerum Hill neighborhood.
  Police say the 64-year-old driver of the vehicle remained at the scene. There have been no arrests.
  A Starz spokeswoman says
  
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• Bills linebacker Matt Milano out with broken left leg

  10-12-2018 22:35
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills starting linebacker Matt Milano has had surgery to repair a broken left leg and will miss the remainder of the season.
  Coach Sean McDermott provided the update on Monday, a day after Milano broke his fibula in a 27-23 loss to the New York Jets. Milano was hurt when his leg became twisted in a pile after he stopped quarterback Sam Darnold from scoring at Buffalo’s 1 on third-and-goal from the 4 with 1:22 remaining.
  Milano was examined by team do
  
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• Chicago man campaigning for local candidate shot in the leg

  10-12-2018 22:33
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say a volunteer for a City Council candidate was shot in the leg as he was speaking on Facebook Live while campaigning in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.
  Police say that Maxwell Omowale Justice was speaking to the camera as he was handing out flyers and trying to get signatures for a candidate on Sunday afternoon in the West Englewood on the city’s South Side when shots could be heard. Justice drove himself to an area hospital. He was
  
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• Cardinals’ DT Nkemdiche goes on IR with knee injury

  10-12-2018 22:26
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals are placing defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche on injured reserve with a knee injury.
  Nkemdiche, the Cardinals’ first-round draft pick (29th overall) in 2016, was injured in Arizona’s 17-3 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
  Coach Steve Wilks said Monday that the knee would require surgery but wouldn’t give any other details.
  Nkemdiche is the 15th Cardinals player to go on injured reserve this season.
  After struggling with injurie
  
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• Dems: Pelosi foes seek term limits on leaders, panel chairs

  10-12-2018 22:20
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say lawmakers who have opposed Nancy Pelosi’s effort to become speaker next year want her to commit to limiting how long people could serve as House party leaders or committee chairs.
  Should the California Democrat and her foes reach agreement, it could move her toward the support she’ll need when the new House convenes Jan. 3 and votes on its new speaker.
  Her opponents have complained that Democratic leaders are entrenched and there is no chance for
  
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• Jury deciding sentence for man who rammed rally protesters

  10-12-2018 22:09
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Several people who were severely injured when a man drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last year described devastating physical and psychological effects to a jury tasked with making a sentencing recommendation Monday.
  The man’s lawyers argued he acted in self-defense and out of fear, and a psychologist testified that he has a long history of mental health issues. The jury began deliberating the sentence shortly after 3 p.m.
  
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• Redskins coach Gruden says Jordan Reed’s year could be done

  10-12-2018 22:08
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Redskins tight end Jordan Reed could be done for the season because of a strained toe muscle.
  Redskins coach Jay Gruden said Monday that he thinks Reed was hurt on Mark Sanchez’s high throw on his first pass of a 40-16 loss to the New York Giants a day earlier.
  Gruden said “there is a level of concern” with Reed, who leads the team with 54 catches and 558 receiving yards.
  Gruden added that the Redskins will have to wait to see “if it&rsq
  
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• Church says nuns embezzled from school to cover Vegas trips

  10-12-2018 22:08
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Church officials say a pair of nuns embezzled a “substantial” amount of money from the Southern California Catholic school where they worked for decades and used it to pay for gambling trips to Las Vegas casinos.
  Adrian Alarcon, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said Monday the embezzlement appears to have gone on for about 10 years.
  During that time Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper was principal of Saint James Catholic School in Redondo Beach. Si
  
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• LEX 18 Traffic Tracker: I-75 NB Reopens After Crash

  10-12-2018 22:04
  Update: The road has reopened.
  WHITLEY COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) – All lanes are currently blocked on I-75 northbound at milemarker 27 in Whitley County.
  Scene photos show that a helicopter was seen landing at the crash site.
  The estimated duration of the closure is two hours.
  The post LEX 18 Traffic Tracker:I-75 NB Reopens After Crash appeared first on LEX18.com.
  
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• Report: Alabama prison homicide rate highest in nation

  10-12-2018 22:02
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new report suggests that Alabama has the deadliest prisons in the country.
  The Montgomery-based nonprofit organization Equal Justice Initiative says Alabama prisons are the nation’s most lethal.
  Prison system statistics and news releases show 18 inmates have been killed in state prisons since October 2016.
  An attorney with the nonprofit, Charlotte Morrison, says violence is epidemic in state prisons. She says prison staff and inmates live under the constant
  
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• Kentucky Power Works To Restore Electricity In Eastern Ky.

  10-12-2018 22:01
  PIKEVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18)- A major weekend winter storm affecting much of the south interrupted service for slightly more than 1,000 Kentucky Power customers. Up to 6 inches of heavy wet snow caused trees out of the right-a-way to fall, bringing down wire and breaking poles and cross arms.
  Crews are working to return power to customers. The most recent outage totals are as follows:
  Outages
  As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, about 530 customers were without power.Floyd, 86
  Lawrence, fewer than 5
  Leslie,
  
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• Google accelerates Plus closure after another privacy lapse

  10-12-2018 21:56
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is still having trouble protecting the personal information on its Plus service, prodding the company to accelerate its plans to shut down a little-used social network created to compete against Facebook.
  A privacy flaw that inadvertently exposed the names, email addresses, ages and other personal information of 52.5 million Google Plus users last month convinced Google to close the service in April instead of August, as previously announced. Google reve
  
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• Hank The Bell Ringing Horse Will Ring Bell For Salvation Army

  10-12-2018 21:55
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) – A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but have you ever heard of a bell-ringing horse?
  Meet Hank, a rescue of Equinox Stables who spends his free time ringing the bell for the Salvation Army during the holiday season. A fan favorite, Hank will be making appearances at Lexington Green for the duration of the campaign.
  Hank will be out at the mall at Lexington Green the following dates:
  Saturday, Dec. 15 12 p.m. -4 p.m.
  Monday, Dec. 17 12 p.m. -4 p.m.
  Tuesd
  
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• Barcelona backs down on plan to play in US

  10-12-2018 21:53
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Spanish league’s plan to play a regular-season match in the United States in January took a major hit when Barcelona backed down from its commitment.
  The club’s board of directors said on Monday it agreed to withdraw the team’s intention to play the game against Girona near Miami. The board said Barcelona remains behind the idea of the game aboard, but considered the “project will not prosper until there is an agreement between all partie
  
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• Police, FBI probe suspected white supremacist attack on DJ

  10-12-2018 21:50
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the FBI is helping investigate an attack by several suspected white supremacists on a black disc jockey at a tavern in Washington state over the weekend.
  The Snohomish County Sheriff’s office said Monday that seven men and one woman were arrested for investigation of assault, hate crimes and other charges early Saturday in Lynnwood. Investigators said the group tried to take over the DJ’s equipment, then beat him and stomped him while shout
  
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• Ex-Louisville Priest Convicted Of Child Abuse Dies At 71

  10-12-2018 21:47
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — A former Louisville Catholic priest who was convicted of molesting two teenage boys has died, according to church officials.
  In a statement, the Archdioces of Louisville said James R. Schook died Saturday at age 71.
  “In praying for the repose of his soul, we also pray for the continued healing for his victims and for all victim survivors of childhood sexual abuse,” the Archdioces’ statement says.
  Schook was pastor of St. Ignatius Martyr Parish i
  
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• Beshear donates $14,000 to atone for tainted contributions

  10-12-2018 21:45
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general says he has donated more than $14,000 from his 2015 campaign fund to make up for tainted contributions orchestrated by his former chief deputy.
  Andy Beshear told reporters Monday his campaign has sent a check for $14,302.79 to Common Cause of Kentucky, a government watchdog group. But the group’s chairman said he is not sure they can accept the money since they don’t normally take money from political campaigns.
  
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• In Possible Plea Deal, Suspected Russian Agent Case ‘Resolved’

  10-12-2018 20:40
  WASHINGTON (AP) —  A woman accused of being a secret agent for the Russian government has likely taken a plea deal, prosecutors indicated Monday in a court filing that said her case has been “resolved.”
  This Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Detention Center shows Maria Butina. (Alexandria Detention Center via AP)
  The information was included in a filing in the case against Maria Butina. Her lawyers and federal prosecutors have asked for a hearin
  
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• In unusual admission, French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s partially responsible for anger fueling protests

  10-12-2018 20:35
  PARIS (AP) — In unusual admission, French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s partially responsible for anger fueling protests.
  The post In unusual admission, French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s partially responsible for anger fueling protests appeared first on LEX18.com.
  
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• Braves INF Rio Ruiz claimed off waivers by Orioles

  10-12-2018 20:33
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Braves infielder Rio Ruiz has been claimed off waivers by the Baltimore Orioles.
  The 24-year-old Ruiz played sparingly with the Braves the last three seasons and had little future with the team after the emergence of Johan Camargo and the signing of free agent Josh Donaldson.
  Ruiz played a total of 72 games with Atlanta, hitting .189 with four homers and 21 RBIs. He spent most of 2018 with Triple-A Gwinnett, where he batted .269 with nine homers and 72 RBIs.
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• Claims of fear to return home spike at US-Mexico border

  10-12-2018 20:31
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities say the number of people expressing fear of returning home when they are stopped at the Mexican border spiked in the last year.
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the figures Monday reflecting the first step in the asylum process. The agency fielded nearly 93,000 claims of so-called “credible fear” in the 2018 fiscal year ending Sept. 30, up 67 percent from the previous year. The claims accounted for 18 percent of all peopl
  
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• Former health care executive charged with securities fraud

  10-12-2018 20:23
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A British national has been charged in a plot to defraud investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars in connection with a health care company.
  The U.S. attorney’s office says Pavandeep Bakhshi was arrested at New York’s JFK Airport over the weekend. He’s scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark on Monday afternoon.
  Bakhshi and three other men are charged with falsifying bank records and using other means to significantly inflate the value of
  
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• Maine governor settles suit claiming Facebook censorship

  10-12-2018 20:20
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor has settled with the ACLU over a lawsuit that charged his Facebook page was blocking the governor’s critics.
  The operators of Gov. Paul LePage’s Facebook page agreed to unblock certain critics in a settlement reached Friday.
  LePage doesn’t admit to the lawsuit’s claims he was censoring critics in a public forum and violating their civil rights.
  LePage’s office says the governor’s page was a politic
  
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