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• Report: Texas senator denies sexting, but won’t say who did

  18-12-2018 23:56
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former U.S. prosecutor hired by the University of Texas says a state senator accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to a graduate student blamed them on someone else and didn’t fully cooperate with investigators.
  The report released Tuesday concluded that Republican state Sen. Charles Schwertner didn’t violate university policies based on “available evidence.”
  The report was signed by former U.S. attorney Johnny Sutton. The univers
  
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• New entrant to NJ sports bet market; NBA-FanDuel in deal

  18-12-2018 23:56
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Canadian company says it will enter New Jersey’s sports betting market as an affiliate of Monmouth Park Racetrack.
  Toronto-based theScore says it will begin offering an online and mobile sports book in mid-2019, pending approval by state regulators.
  The company offers digital sports experiences through its web, social and esports platforms.
  The announcement came the same day that the National Basketball Association announced a deal making daily fantasy sp
  
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• Lawmakers call for probe into Guatemalan child’s death

  18-12-2018 23:56
  LORDSBURG, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers visiting the Border Patrol station where a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl was taken hours before her death are demanding an investigation into the response by federal agents.
  Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus spoke Tuesday outside the Border Patrol station in Lordsburg, New Mexico.
  Jakelin Caal and her father were taken into custody Dec. 6 at the Antelope Wells port of entry in rural New Mexico. She began vomiting and later stopped breathing while be
  
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• Kushner credited for pushing rare bipartisan bill

  18-12-2018 23:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Jared Kushner is being credited this week for helping to spearhead what could be the first major bipartisan legislative success of the Trump era: a first-in-a-generation criminal justice overhaul.
  Liberal and conservative groups alike have praised President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser for his efforts, despite ongoing skepticism and opposition by some of those same groups to much of the Trump administration’s policy agenda.
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• CBS gives no indication it will release Moonves findings

  18-12-2018 23:51
  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS has given no indication that it will publicly release the findings of the report that led the network to deny a $120 million exit package to Leslie Moonves.
  The network’s former chief executive was dismissed for sexual misconduct. He has denied the allegations and insisted the sex was consensual.
  Moonves, who was once the most powerful executive in the television industry, lost the payout Monday when the CBS board of directors concluded that there were grounds to
  
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• Officials baffled by large migrant groups at remote crossing

  18-12-2018 23:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. immigration officials say hundreds of migrants are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in a desolate New Mexico region that until recently had seen barely any traffic.
  They say it appears to be a smuggling route.
  It is where 7-year-old Jakelin Caal and her father were found Dec. 6 along with more than 160 others. Caal started vomiting on the bus ride to the Border Patrol facility some 90 miles away from where they were taken into custody. She later died.
  U.S. Customs and
  
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• Raiders place OL Gabe Jackson on IR with elbow injury

  18-12-2018 23:48
  ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Raiders have placed starting right guard Gabe Jackson on injured reserve with an elbow injury.
  The Raiders also promoted defensive back Rico Gafford and defensive tackle Gabe Wright from the practice squad and waived linebacker Emmanuel Lamur on Tuesday.
  Jackson hurt his elbow late in a win over Pittsburgh on Dec. 9. He missed last week’s game at Cincinnati and now will be out for the final two games of the season as well.
  Lamur had 12 tackles in ei
  
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• US reverses policy on migrant children’s sponsors

  18-12-2018 23:45
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is reversing a policy that required fingerprinting for all adults living in a household where a migrant child would live.
  Parents and other sponsors have said the fingerprinting rule had slowed placement of children in homes, in part because some members of the household were afraid to be fingerprinted. The information is shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the agency has arrested more 150 people since information sharing began in
  
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• A day after trading for him, Suns waive G Austin Rivers

  18-12-2018 23:39
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns have waived guard Austin Rivers, a day after he was obtained in a trade with the Washington Wizards.
  In a deal finalized over the weekend and announced Monday, the Suns acquired Rivers and Kelly Oubre from the Wizards in exchange for Trevor Ariza.
  If he clears waivers, Rivers becomes an unrestricted free agent.
  Rivers appeared in 29 games for Washington, averaging 7.2 points per game while shooting 39 percent from the field. He averaged 15.1 points per game
  
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• Raptors coach Nurse, Hawks guard Bazemore fined by NBA

  18-12-2018 23:38
  NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse and Atlanta Hawks guard Kent Bazemore were fined by the NBA on Tuesday.
  Nurse was fined $15,000 for criticizing the referees after a 95-86 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday. Nurse was upset about a lack of fouls called against players guarding Kawhi Leonard, who had only four free-throw attempts.
  Nurse said the fouls against Leonard have “been going on all year. I do not understand why they are letting everybody play one of the best
  
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• Big East to represent Team USA at 2019 Pan Am Games

  18-12-2018 23:33
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Big East Conference will represent USA Basketball for the 2019 Pan American Games, beating out the other Power Five conferences for the honor.
  Instead of bringing players together from across the country, officials from the NCAA and the national governing body decided to designate one Division I conference to represent the United States at the tournament traditionally held the year before the Summer Olympics.
  After reviewing bids from all the major conferences,
  
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• Colorado baker back in court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation

  18-12-2018 23:30
  DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds say the state is punishing him again for not baking a cake celebrating a gender transition.
  Lawyers for Jack Phillips argued Tuesday in U.S. court in Denver to try to stop the state from taking action against him over the new discrimination allegation.
  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a limited ruling for the baker in the gay couple’s 2012 case.
  Phillips is suing to over
  
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• Attorney: Deadly hotel freezer could lock someone inside

  18-12-2018 23:29
  CHICAGO (AP) — The attorney for a woman suing a suburban Chicago hotel over the death of her 19-year-old daughter in a walk-in freezer says someone could have locked the young woman inside.
  Attorney Geoffrey Fieger told a news conference Tuesday that a button on the freezer door’s handle allows it to be locked, overriding a mechanism that would let someone inside get out.
  The body of Kenneka Jenkins was found Sept. 10, 2017, in the freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hot
  
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• Police: Man sets girlfriend, himself on fire at coffee shop

  18-12-2018 23:23
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in upstate New York say a man went to a coffee shop where his girlfriend works, told her to come outside, doused her in flammable liquid and set her on fire.
  Police in Tonawanda say man also set himself on fire Monday afternoon by accident due to his proximity to the 25-year-old woman. His name has not been released.
  Both were taken to a hospital with serious and potentially life-threatening injuries.
  Officials say they are investigating it as a domestic
  
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• Uber approved to resume autonomous car tests in Pittsburgh

  18-12-2018 23:12
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation has approved Uber’s request to resume testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in the Pittsburgh area.
  The approval was effective Monday and lasts one year. It comes about nine months after one of Uber’s autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian.
  A department spokeswoman says Uber can test throughout Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located.
  If Uber’s cars go more than 25 miles
  
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• Packers RB Aaron Jones done for rest of year, placed on IR

  18-12-2018 23:03
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones will miss the final two games of the season after being placed on injured reserve.
  The team’s leading rusher left the 24-17 loss to Chicago on Sunday in the first quarter with a knee injury. The defeat helped eliminate the Packers from playoff contention.
  Jones ran for 728 yards and eight touchdowns on 133 carries in 12 games, including eight starts. He was among the league leaders in averaging 5.5 yards per attempt.
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• Man City reaches League Cup semifinals after shootout win

  18-12-2018 23:03
  On a tumultuous day for beleaguered Manchester United, crosstown rival Manchester City advanced to the English League Cup semifinals to keep in the hunt for trophies on four fronts this season.
  Man City beat Leicester 3-1 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday to stay on course to retain the title and give Pep Guardiola another piece of silverware, hours after his great managerial rival Jose Mourinho was fired by United.
  The game finished 1-1 in regulation time, with Kevin De Bruyne marking the first
  
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• Football dominates television viewing as holiday nears

  18-12-2018 23:03
  NEW YORK (AP) — Professional football is the lifeblood of live television this time of year. And it illustrated its dominance in the ratings last week.
  Four NFL games finished among the Nielsen company’s 20 most popular prime-time programs, with NBC’s Sunday night and Fox’s Thursday contests the top two. Both games featured Los Angeles teams.
  Add in three pre-game shows, and football accounted for seven of Nielsen’s entries.
  The games usually dwarf regular programmi
  
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• Duesseldorf stuns Dortmund 2-1 as leaders fall to 1st defeat

  18-12-2018 22:47
  BERLIN (AP) — Promoted Fortuna Duesseldorf stunned Borussia Dortmund with a 2-1 win on Tuesday, dealing the leader its first Bundesliga loss of the season.
  Goals from Dodi Lukebakio and Jean Zimmer in either half cut Dortmund’s lead to six points over Borussia Moenchengladbach, which earlier defeated Nuremberg 2-0.
  Bayern Munich is three points further back ahead of its home game against Leipzig on Wednesday.
  Substitute Paco Alcacer scored his league-leading 12th goal of the season i
  
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• Prada withdraws luxury trinkets over blackface controversy

  18-12-2018 22:25
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prada is no longer selling a line of accessories and displays following complaints they featured blackface-style imagery.
  The controversy began last week when a New Yorker complained in a viral Facebook posting after walking past a Prada boutique in Manhattan’s SoHo district and noticing what she described as a “racist and denigrating” caricature in the storefront.
  The Italian fashion house had recently launched a series of luxury keychains and trinkets, i
  
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• Louisiana: Outbreak of 25 hepatitis A cases; get immunized

  18-12-2018 22:24
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease. It’s the 15th state to declare an outbreak.
  Dr. Joe Kanter says Louisiana’s 25 outbreak cases are far fewer than in nearby states including Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. He says officials hope to convince people most at risk to get vaccinated, and want to best coordinate federal, state and community resources to fight the disease.
  Risk groups in
  
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• Russian businessman to stay in jail pending laundering trial

  18-12-2018 22:22
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Russian businessman who lived a lavish life in North Carolina will remain in jail while he’s prosecuted on charges including money laundering and murder-for-hire.
  An online court docket shows a federal magistrate judge ordered Leonid Teyf to stay in custody pending trial. The judge’s order Tuesday noted strong evidence against Teyf.
  Prosecutors say in court documents that the 57-year-old Teyf stashed millions in U.S. bank accounts after helping to orchest
  
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• Georgia man convicted of child rape caught in Bahamas

  18-12-2018 22:18
  ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia man who fled an Atlanta courthouse before being convicted of child rape and molestation has been arrested in the Bahamas.
  Fulton County district attorney’s spokesman Chris Hopper said in an email Tuesday that prosecutors are working to extradite Don Martin, who is originally from the Bahamas.
  Martin fled earlier this month after five days of trial testimony and didn’t return for closing arguments.
  Prosecutors say Martin was an Atlanta ch
  
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• Chicago drug trafficker testifies against El Chapo at trial

  18-12-2018 22:18
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former Chicago drug trafficker who did business with the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo is testifying against him.
  Pedro Flores told a federal jury on Tuesday that he and his twin brother met face to face with Joaquin Guzman (wah-KEEN’ gooz-MAHN’) at a mountainside hideaway in Mexico in 2005. He says Guzman hired them to distribute hundreds of thousands of kilos of cocaine in Chicago, New York, Detroit and other U.S. cities.
  The Flores brothers made milli
  
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• Carnegie Hero Fund honors 18 for acts of selfless courage

  18-12-2018 22:18
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A teenager who went into a burning home to save his 23-month-old nephew is among 16 Americans and two Canadians being recognized for putting their lives at risk during acts of heroism.
  The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission on Tuesday announced the latest recipients of the Carnegie medals for heroism. The winners or their survivors will also receive grants.
  The honorees include 17-year-old Brent Rudy Edwards, who collapsed from smoke inhalation after carrying his nephew to saf
  
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• State Medical board confirms complaint records on OSU doctor

  18-12-2018 22:08
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The State Medical Board is acknowledging for the first time that it has records about a complaint investigation involving the now-deceased Ohio State University team doctor accused of widespread sexual misconduct against students decades ago.
  Neither institution will share details about the documents involving now-deceased physician Richard Strauss. They were provided to Ohio State’s lawyers this month.
  Board communications obtained by The Associated Press indic
  
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• Flynn Sentencing Abruptly Postponed; Judge Expresses ‘Disgust’

  18-12-2018 22:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, on Tuesday, saying he could not hide his disgust for Flynn’s crime of lying to the FBI and accusing him of selling out his country.
  Lawyers for Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the agency about his Russia contacts, requested the delay during a stunning hearing in which U.S. District Judg
  
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• US hospital ship returns after treating Venezuelan migrants

  18-12-2018 22:03
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Navy hospital ship has returned home after its crew treated thousands of people in Central and South America, including migrants who fled crisis-wracked Venezuela.
  Kevin Buckley, the commanding officer for medical operations on the USNS Comfort, said Tuesday that 26,000 people were treated for anything from hernias to cataracts.
  Buckley spoke on a pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia where the Comfort is based.
  The 11-week mission stopped in countries that i
  
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• The Latest: NRA ‘disappointed’ by bump stock ban

  18-12-2018 22:00
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration’s move to ban bump stocks (all times local):
  3:55 p.m.
  The National Rifle Association is “disappointed” with the Trump administration’s plan to outlaw bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire continuously.
  Spokeswoman Jennifer Baker says the Justice Department should provide amnesty for gun owners who already have the devices.
  The Justice Department says the attachments will be banned beginning
  
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• Colts place starting defensive lineman on injured reserve

  18-12-2018 21:58
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts put starting defensive tackle Al Woods on injured reserve Tuesday.
  The move comes two days after Woods left Indy’s shutout over Dallas with a foot injury.
  Woods appeared in all 14 games this season and had 24 tackles, including one for loss. He could become a free agent in March.
  Woods, Margus Hunt and Denico Autry played key roles in a Colts’ rotation that helped lead Indy to seven wins in eight games and jump back into playoff conten
  
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• Universities tapping into Sioux Falls’ medical tech industry

  18-12-2018 21:54
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two universities in South Dakota are teaming up to train biomedical engineers in an effort to help boost Sioux Falls’ burgeoning medical technology industry. The Argus Leader reported that the program involves the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City and the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. The partnership was recently approved by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
  The collaboration is meant to expand the University of South Dako
  
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• The Latest: Panel wants ‘no notoriety’ for school shooters

  18-12-2018 21:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s school safety commission (all times local):
  3:45 p.m.
  President Donald Trump says one of the nearly 100 recommendations from his administration’s School Safety Commission is an effort to prevent school shooters from capturing the media spotlight.
  He says the report proposes “no notoriety” campaigns to encourage the media not to use the names and other information about shooters. He says that makes the shooters
  
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• Hoover’s Lawyer Seeks To Question Accuser In Deposition

  18-12-2018 21:49
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky judges have heard arguments over whether an attorney for the state’s ex-House speaker — who lost his leadership role in a sexual harassment case — has the right to question the accuser in separate whistleblower cases.
  Leslie Vose, who represents ex-House Speaker Jeff Hoover, says Hoover and two other lawmakers have a “substantial interest” in the whistleblower cases. As a result, she says they have the right to a “vigorous
  
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• Caen scores deep into injury time to beat Toulouse 2-1

  18-12-2018 21:49
  PARIS (AP) — Midfielder Faycal Fajr converted a penalty nine minutes into injury time to give Caen a 2-1 win over fellow struggler Toulouse in the French league on Tuesday, lifting the team provisionally out of the relegation zone.
  Fajr and Saif-Eddine Khaoui both scored for the second straight match to help Caen move up to 16th place, one point behind Toulouse.
  Khaoui scored with a rasping shot from outside the penalty area to put Caen 1-0 up after 18 minutes.
  Forward Max-Alain Gradel und
  
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• Miss America may be leaving Atlantic City … again

  18-12-2018 21:48
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss America may be leaving Atlantic City again.
  The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News report the Miss America Organization is looking for cities around the country interested in hosting the competition.
  The newspapers obtained the group’s call for proposals from interested cities via a public records request to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. The authority’s contract with Miss America has expired.
  The authority contributed $12 milli
  
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• Yemeni mom wins travel ban waiver to see dying son in US

  18-12-2018 21:44
  A Yemeni mother blocked by the Trump administration’s travel ban has won her fight for a waiver that would allow her to travel to California to see her dying 2-year-old son.
  Basim Elkarra of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Sacramento said Shaima Swileh was granted a visa Tuesday and will be flying to San Francisco on Wednesday.
  She has been living in Egypt but is from Yemen, whose citizens are restricted from traveling to the United States under the Trump administration’
  
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• California doctor accused of prescribing drugs in 5 deaths

  18-12-2018 21:43
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Southern California doctor on charges of doling out illegal prescriptions they say were part of a pattern that led to five fatal overdoses and the death of a bicyclist who was struck by a driver under the influence.
  Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham was arrested Tuesday and scheduled to appear in federal court.
  Federal prosecutors say Pham illegally distributed opioids and powerful other narcotics from his urgent care clinic in the city of Irvine.
  An affidav
  
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• Judge inclined to free DEA agent accused of helping gang

  18-12-2018 21:40
  CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago says she’s inclined to free a DEA agent on bond pending his trial on charges alleging that he joined the agency specifically to help a murderous Puerto Rican-based group traffic guns and cocaine.
  Magistrate Judge Susan Cox said at Tuesday’s detention hearing that the charges against 41-year-old Fernando Gomez “are among the most serious” she’d seen, given the DEA link, but that prosecutors hadn’t shown he is dang
  
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• Daniel Descalso, Cubs agree to $5M, 2-year contract

  18-12-2018 21:37
  CHICAGO (AP) — Infielder Daniel Descalso and the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a $5 million, two-year contract that includes a club option for 2021.
  He gets $1.5 million next year and $2.5 million in 2020. Chicago has a $3.5 million option for 2021 with a $1 million buyout.
  The 32-year-old hit .237 with 22 doubles for Arizona last season. He set career bests in home runs (13) and RBIs (57) while playing in 138 games, his most since 2012.
  Descalso has batted .240 with 46 homers and 279 RBIs i
  
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• Redskins’ Nicholson arrested, charged with assault & battery

  18-12-2018 21:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Redskins safety Montae Nicholson was arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with assault and battery and being drunk in public stemming from a fight at a restaurant and retail complex near the team’s practice facility in Ashburn, Virginia.
  Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kraig Troxell confirmed Nicholson’s arrest. He says the 23-year-old was released on $2,500 bond.
  Police say Nicholson and 24-year-old Sydney Maggiore were involved in a ver
  
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• Wednesday Warmth

  18-12-2018 21:35
  We’ve got a nice little warm up coming in for the final days of fall. Tomorrow our highs will be well into the 50’s and even try to push 60 in places with sunshine.
  Wednesday’s Highs
  However, the first hours of winter may be interesting and we’ll have that on LEX 18 NEWS with our 8 Day Forecast
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• South Carolina extends contract for Muschamp, assistants

  18-12-2018 21:35
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Will Muschamp and three assistants received contract extensions on Tuesday.
  Muschamp got a one-year extension that ties him to the school through 2024. Offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon received a two-year extension, while defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson and quarterbacks coach Dan Werner got one-year extensions.
  The deals were approved by the school’s board of trustees.
  Muschamp is 22-16 and is the first Gamecocks coach to make a
  
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• Ethics complaints against Kavanaugh dismissed

  18-12-2018 21:29
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of judges has dismissed ethics complaints against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
  The judges say the complaints must be dismissed because they were filed under a federal law that does not apply to Supreme Court justices. That’s the outcome many ethics experts predicted once Kavanaugh took his Supreme Court seat.
  The complaints deal with statements Kavanaugh made during his confirmation hearings. They were filed originally with Kavanaugh’s ol
  
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• Darlington Raceway to celebrate early 1990s era next season

  18-12-2018 21:17
  DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — It’s back to the 1990s for Darlington Raceway’s latest throwback weekend.
  Track officials announced Tuesday the track “Too Tough To Tame” will honor the NASCAR period from 1990-94 when the Southern 500 is run on Sept. 1. Darlington has honored historic periods in NASCAR for the past four years.
  Racers, crew members and fans often wear clothes of the era and the cars will have special paint schemes.
  Darlington Raceway president Kerry Tharp say
  
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• Pence misses launch but treated to new SpaceX crew capsule

  18-12-2018 21:11
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence missed seeing a SpaceX rocket soar. But he still got to view the company’s new crew capsule, designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station as soon as next year.
  Pence joined members of the Air Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday to witness the launch of the most powerful GPS satellite ever built. But a last-minute abort kept the Falcon rocket grounded.
  Pence later toured a SpaceX hangar and admired the s
  
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• Guatemala: Body of girl who died in US custody set to return

  18-12-2018 21:11
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities say they have completed documentation needed to clear the way for repatriation of the body of a 7-year-old migrant girl who died in U.S. Border Patrol custody.
  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marta Larra says Jakelin Caal’s cadaver is expected to return to Guatemala on Thursday and then be taken to her hometown of San Antonio Secortez.
  Caal and her father were part of a group of 163 migrants detained Dec. 6 near a border crossing in New Mexic
  
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• Hungary: Opposition vows renewed protests after holiday lull

  18-12-2018 21:07
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Street demonstrations against recent labor law changes in Hungary appeared to wane on their sixth day, but opposition lawmakers are vowing to pursue legal and parliamentary means to thwart the government while allowing for a lull over the Christmas holidays.
  About 150 to 200 people assembled outside the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest Tuesday evening, compared to an estimated 2,000 that confronted police a night earlier at the headquarters of state broadc
  
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• Guatemala pulls diplomatic credentials of UN body’s workers

  18-12-2018 21:04
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala has withdrawn diplomatic immunity from 11 workers with a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission who have investigated cases of alleged corruption — including ones targeting President Jimmy Morales’ son and brother.
  The country’s Foreign Ministry says the investigators’ credentials have been voided and they are being asked to return them. It adds that they no longer “enjoy the privileges and immunities” of the post.
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• Chris Park leaving job as an MLB EVP for esports company

  18-12-2018 20:59
  NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Park is leaving his job as an executive vice president in the baseball commissioner’s office at the end of the month to become chief executive officer of Gen.G, an esports company.
  Park, 39, was a vice president in Major League Baseball’s labor relations department, left and returned in March 2015 as senior vice president of growth and strategy. He was promoted a month later to senior vice president of growth, strategy and international, then promoted agai
  
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• Ex-union official sentenced in federal corruption probe

  18-12-2018 20:57
  DETROIT (AP) — A former United Auto Workers official convicted of accepting bribes from Fiat Chrysler executives has been sentenced to a year in prison.
  The U.S. Attorney’s office says a federal judge in Detroit also ordered Nancy Johnson on Tuesday to pay a $10,000 fine. Johnson pleaded guilty in July to violating the Labor Management Relations Act.
  She and others were charged in a scheme to strip millions from a Detroit worker training center financed by Fiat Chrysler. The leader,
  
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