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• Get Your Dog Washed For A Good Cause - P.S. there is an opp-beer-tunity.

  21-09-2018 23:55
  The Humane Society of Southern Arizona is Partnering with The Tucson Roller Derby this Sunday, Sept. 23, for the semi-annual Tails & Ales fundraising event at Barrio Brewing Co. Members of TRD will wash your dog for $15 for a regular wash, or you can go all out for the $40 VIP wash which will includes not only line cutting privileges, but a VIP bandana, a custom pint glass, and doggie goodies.…
  
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• Investigation finds Maryland culpable in death of player

  21-09-2018 23:54
  TOWSON, Md. (AP) — An independent investigation into the death of University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair has determined that trainers on the scene did not follow proper procedures after he collapsed on the field.
  McNair was hospitalized on May 29 after a team workout and died June 13. The family attorney said the cause of death was heatstroke.
  Dr. Rod Walters, a former college athletic trainer and sports medicine consultant who led the investigation launched by the school fol
  
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• Woman given 74 years for blaze that killed 2 firefighters

  21-09-2018 23:52
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 46-year-old woman who set a fire that resulted in the deaths of two Kansas City firefighters has been sentenced to 74 years in prison.
  Thu Hong Nguyen was sentenced Friday for second-degree murder, arson and assault. She was convicted in July of setting a fire to her nail salon in October 2015.
  Firefighters Larry Leggio and John Mesh died when a wall near the salon collapsed on them. Two other firefighters were seriously wounded.
  Ngyuen’s sentencing was brie
  
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• Navy Times: Navy SEAL detained in ISIS death probe

  21-09-2018 23:48
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy SEAL is being held in a military brig while authorities investigate the stabbing death of an Islamic State combatant while he was subdued in Iraq last year.
  The Navy Times reported Friday the unidentified SEAL based in California was being held in the brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, though he has not been charged with a crime. Such confinement is allowed in the military justice system.
  Naval Special Warfare spokeswoman Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence co
  
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• Vikings’ Sendejo fined $53,482 by NFL for hit vs. Packers

  21-09-2018 23:46
  NEW YORK (AP) — Vikings safety Andrew Sendejo has been fined $53,482 by the NFL for his hit during a play in Minnesota’s tie at Green Bay last Sunday.
  Sendejo was penalized 15 yards for unnecessary roughness after tackling Packers wide receiver Davante Adams in the third quarter. The safety knocked into Adams with his right shoulder just after Xavier Rhodes made initial contact.
  Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said during his weekly radio show Wednesday that Sendejo was told by an official
  
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• Uber rider jumps from car; driver charged with kidnapping

  21-09-2018 23:46
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida woman jumped from a moving Uber car after the driver refused to let her out.
  News outlets report that 30-year-old Destiny Green was arrested Wednesday and charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.
  The passenger told police she had been out drinking with friends in Tallahassee and ordered the Uber around 3 a.m. At some point, the passenger asked to be let out, and Green refused. Green told the woman she was taking her to a hospital, d
  
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• Funerals held for 2 women allegedly killed by border agent

  21-09-2018 23:46
  LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Friends and family gathered for funerals in Laredo, Texas, for two of the women authorities say were killed by a Border Patrol agent who has been described as a serial killer.
  Funerals were held Friday for 42-year-old Claudine Luera and 28-year-old Janelle Ortiz, a transgender woman whose birth name was Humberto Ortiz.
  Authorities say Border Patrol supervisor Juan David Ortiz is accused of killing four women this month. He was arrested Sept. 15 and remains jailed on se
  
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• Independent investigation finds University of Maryland culpable in death of Terrapins football player Jordan McNair

  21-09-2018 23:44
  TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Independent investigation finds University of Maryland culpable in death of Terrapins football player Jordan McNair.
  The post Independent investigation finds University of Maryland culpable in death of Terrapins football player Jordan McNair appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Fugitive accused of threatening Trump arrested in Ohio

  21-09-2018 23:34
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a Pennsylvania man accused of threatening President Donald Trump and law enforcement officials has been arrested in Ohio.
  They say Shawn Richard Christy was arrested at 4:45 p.m. Friday in Mifflin Township, near Columbus, by marshals and task force members from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
  A federal warrant was issued June 19 for the 27-year-old McAdoo man in connection to Facebook posts threatening to shoot Trump and a district attorney in Pe
  
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• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to be deposed in census case

  21-09-2018 23:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned under oath by lawyers challenging a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
  U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled Friday, saying Ross’s testimony was necessary because his intent and credibility are directly at issue.
  The judge also said aggressive efforts to shield Ross from answering questions were “surprising, if not unsettling.”
  Furman says it wasn’t a close call as
  
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• Pennsylvania dioceses consider victims’ compensation fund

  21-09-2018 23:30
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses say they are willing to set up a victims’ compensation fund as they face the prospect that state lawmakers will give victims of decades-old child sexual abuse another chance to sue the church.
  The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference issued a statement for the dioceses late Friday saying they were discussing a possible fund. They warn that if a window opens for litigation of old cases, it could force the dioceses into bankr
  
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• Shirley Day Smith, fixture among racing media, dies at 99

  21-09-2018 23:18
  NEW YORK (AP) — Shirley Day Smith, who spent more than 60 years as an assistant in the press office of the New York Racing Association and its predecessors, has died. She was 99.
  Friends and colleagues say she died Thursday after a brief illness at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside.
  Smith retired from NYRA in the mid-1990s. She was the backbone of the New York Turf Writers Association and was popular nationwide among horse racing media. She received the National Turf Writers A
  
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• Popular beagle Uno, a Westminster champion, dies at 13

  21-09-2018 23:18
  Uno, the sweet, baying beagle who became perhaps the most popular show dog ever, has died. He was 13.
  Longtime dog expert David Frei says Uno died Thursday at the ranch where he lived in Austin, Texas.
  Uno was the first beagle to win the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, barking his way to the prized silver bowl in 2008. He was clearly the crowd favorite that night at Madison Square Garden. Fans exulted when he won, giving the 15-inch champ a rousing, standing ovation.
  Uno soon was the first Wes
  
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• West Virginia chief justice wants impeachment delayed

  21-09-2018 23:16
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Supreme Court’s chief justice is asking the court to delay impeachment proceedings against her by the state Senate.
  Chief Justice Margaret Workman filed a petition Friday morning arguing the state Senate’s articles of impeachment are not constitutional.
  The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Workman is asking to delay impeachment proceedings in the Senate until the case is resolved.
  She argues in the filing that the articles of impeachmen
  
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• Falcons RB Freeman, DE McKinley to sit Sunday vs. Saints

  21-09-2018 23:14
  FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Atlanta running back Devonta Freeman will miss his second straight game with a knee injury, and the Falcons also will be without starting defensive end Takk McKinley when they host the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
  Coach Dan Quinn declared both players out Friday, extending a rash of injuries that have plagued the Falcons (1-1) already this season.
  Freeman went down with a bruised knee in a Week 1 loss to Philadelphia, while McKinley sustained a groin injury that
  
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• Biden to hit Georgia campaign trail for Abrams for governor

  21-09-2018 23:09
  ATLANTA (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to hit the Georgia campaign trail next week, making an appearance with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
  Abrams’ campaign spokeswoman Caitlin Highland confirmed the visit Friday. Highland said Biden would join Abrams for an event Thursday, though the location was not immediately clear.
  Biden’s visit comes after his old boss, former President Barack Obama, endorsed Abrams in August. He’ll be the second v
  
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• Immigration judges say new quotas undermine independence

  21-09-2018 23:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the union representing immigration court judges says they are anxious and stressed by a quota system pushing them to close 700 cases a year.
  Ashley Tabaddor presides in Los Angeles. She says she has more than 2,000 active immigration cases right now, and many of her clients are juveniles. She says quotas imposed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions encourage judges to rush complicated cases and that can lead to bad judgment.
  Immigration judges are employees of th
  
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• Stuttgart again fails to score in draw with Duesseldorf

  21-09-2018 23:03
  STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Stuttgart again failed to score Friday in a 0-0 draw against promoted Fortuna Duesseldorf in the Bundesliga.
  Former Germany goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler was on form for Stuttgart, producing a fine reflex reaction to deny a deflected effort from American midfielder Alfredo Morales late on, having already done well to stop the visitors taking the lead.
  Stuttgart’s main problems are at the other end of the pitch. It was the fourth match in five competitive game
  
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• Shardonee Hayes and Arizona Volleyball Sweep Arizona State in Pac-12 Opener

  21-09-2018 23:00
  A boisterous crowd in excess of 2,500 did everything it could to boost the Arizona Wildcats' chances against in-state rival Arizona State on Thursday night. The Wildcats (12-1, 1-0) responded to their efforts, sweeping their longtime rivals from Tempe in straight sets to pick up a win in their Pac-12 opener—25-18, 25-21 and 25-18.…
  
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• The Latest: Report: Trainer accused of abuse says he’s sorry

  21-09-2018 22:55
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a former Montana high school athletic trainer being sued for sexually abusing athletes (all times local):
  2:50 p.m.
  A former Montana high school athletic trainer has apologized to student-athletes via media interviews after they accused him of sexual abuse in the community of Miles City that lasted for decades.
  KULR reports 78-year-old James E. ‘Doc” Jensen said he was sorry Friday in a telephone interview hours after The Billings Gazette re
  
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• Sassuolo 2nd in Serie A after 3-1 win over Empoli

  21-09-2018 22:55
  Sassuolo moved into second place in Serie A with a 3-1 comeback win over Empoli on Friday.
  After Empoli’s Francesco Caputo scored just 18 seconds in, Sassuolo responded with goals from Kevin-Prince Boateng — his third in five matches — Gianmarco Ferrari and Federico Di Francesco.
  Sassuolo is two points behind Juventus, which will look to extend its perfect record at Frosinone on Sunday, and one point ahead of Spal and Napoli.
  Spal visits Fiorentina on Saturday and Napoli plays
  
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• Slain Texas police officer remembered as devoted family man

  21-09-2018 22:45
  DALLAS (AP) — An undercover Fort Worth police officer fatally shot while pursuing robbery suspects has been remembered as a devoted family man and colleague.
  The funeral for 40-year-old Garrett Hull was Friday in Fort Worth. Chad Mills, a former partner, says Hull “was an example in the right way of what an officer should be on and off duty.”
  Mills says that while on duty, Hull was “a protector” of citizens and the police department. Mills says while off duty, Hull
  
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• Sheriff: Boy found naked, chained in Alabama home; 3 charged

  21-09-2018 22:44
  PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy has been found naked and chained at an Alabama home.
  Autauga County Sheriff Joe Sedinger tells news outlets authorities responded to an anonymous call of child abuse Thursday afternoon. Deputies found the child naked with chains padlocked around his ankles. The chains were attached to a door, preventing the boy’s normal movement.
  Records show the boy’s mother, stepfather and grandmother have all been arrested.
  Investigat
  
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• Bourbon maker Four Roses reaches deal to settle strike

  21-09-2018 22:36
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A union leader says striking workers at Four Roses will return to work next week after the Kentucky bourbon maker and union officials reached a tentative agreement to end a two-week walkout.
  More than 50 hourly employees walked off the job Sept. 7 over a dispute dealing mainly with sick leave policy.
  Union leader Jeff Royalty said Friday that the two sides agreed to language giving workers the option to keep current sick leave policy or sign up for a short-term disab
  
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• Jack White donates $30K for Oklahoma house in ‘Outsiders’

  21-09-2018 22:35
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Grammy winner Jack White is helping preserve a piece of 1980s movie history.
  Management for the former White Stripes singer confirmed Friday he donated $30,000 to help restore a house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was featured in “The Outsiders.”
  Danny O’Connor is leading an effort to turn the house into a museum about the Francis Ford Coppola film that’s based on S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel of the same name. O’Connor tells reporters White&rs
  
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• Cost of Georgia nuclear plant draws scrutiny from lawmakers

  21-09-2018 22:34
  ATLANTA (AP) — A group of Georgia lawmakers wants a “cost cap” in the construction of a nuclear power plant near Augusta, seeking to protect blown budgets from being passed on to consumers.
  Two reactors being built at Plant Vogtle are billions of dollars over budget.
  The plant’s owners recently learned another $2.3 billion was needed. That initiated a clause in the ownership agreement under which ninety percent of the ownership must agree to move forward or the project wo
  
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• 14-second clock after offensive rebound among new NBA rules

  21-09-2018 22:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — The shot clock will be reset to 14 seconds after offensive rebounds next season, down from 24, and the NBA has made alterations to two other rules.
  The clear-path foul was simplified and the definition of a hostile act expanded for purposes of triggering an instant replay review.
  The changes were approved unanimously by NBA owners Friday.
  A team grabbing the rebound of its own missed shot has been given the full shot clock. Under the new rule — in effect in the NBA G
  
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• Body of second drowned man north of Arizona-Mexico border

  21-09-2018 22:29
  NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say they have discovered the body of a second man who was swept away by heavy flooding in the twin border cities of Nogales earlier in the week.
  Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said Friday that search crews discovered the body Thursday afternoon about 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) upstream, two days after the Nogales Police Department was alerted by Mexican authorities.
  The body of the first man was found Wednesday north of the border near downtown Nog
  
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• Titans’ QB situation for Jaguars game remains uncertain

  21-09-2018 22:26
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans still don’t know who will start at quarterback Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
  Marcus Mariota was limited all week with an arm injury and is questionable for the second straight game. Blaine Gabbert started in place of Mariota in Tennessee’s 20-17 victory over the Houston Texans .
  Titans coach Mike Vrabel said a decision could come in the next 24 hours.
  The Titans will have left tackle Taylor Lewan back Sunday now that he&rs
  
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• Maliek Collins out, Randy Gregory in for Cowboys at Seahawks

  21-09-2018 22:25
  Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Maliek Collins has been ruled out of Sunday’s game at Seattle with a knee injury and pass rusher Randy Gregory is set to return after missing a week with a concussion.
  Collins missed the preseason recovering from surgery for a broken foot sustained during offseason workouts. He injured the knee in last week’s win over the New York Giants.
  Gregory had missed 30 of the previous 32 games because of substance-abuse suspensions before sustaining a concussio
  
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• Umbrella mistaken for gun prompts store evacuation

  21-09-2018 22:19
  MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an umbrella was mistaken for a gun and prompted an evacuation at a Florida supermarket. Florida Today reports that someone called 911 Friday morning saying a man had entered a Merritt Island Publix with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
  About 10 Brevard County deputies responded to the store. A sheriff’s office spokesman says the deputies quickly identified the man and realized there was no threat.
  The store returned to normal business after
  
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• Zona Politics: Talking Congressional and Legislative Races with Journalists Dylan Smith and Hank Stephenson

  21-09-2018 22:15
  On this week's edition of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel: Dylan Smith of the Tucson Sentinel and Hank Stephenson of the Arizona Daily Star discuss Southern Arizona's congressional races, legislative races, recent controversies with charter schools and more. Tune in online or watch tonight at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday morning at 9 a.m. on the Creative Tucson network, Channel 20 on Cox Cable or Channel 74 on the Xfinity/Comcast system.
  
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• County releases initial report on Arizona voting issues

  21-09-2018 22:08
  PHOENIX (AP) — An initial report examining voting problems in the Phoenix area during the August primaries faults the Maricopa County recorder for not having a backup plan, proper monitoring of lines and an efficient system for setting up voting machines.
  Recorder Adrian Fontes has disputed many of the claims but says he is addressing the issues.
  An additional outside audit is pending.
  Dozens of polling locations didn’t open on time during the primary election on Aug. 28, leaving vot
  
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• Police sought video in case of Dallas man shot in own home

  21-09-2018 21:49
  DALLAS (AP) — Court documents show search warrants have been issued for video from addresses near the apartment complex where a white Dallas police officer killed her black neighbor inside his home this month.
  The search warrants obtained by The Associated Press on Friday are tied to the slaying of 26-year-old Botham Jean, who was fatally shot inside his apartment on Sept. 6 by off-duty Dallas Officer Amber Guyger. She told investigators she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own.
  One
  
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• Celebrate National Public Lands Day

  21-09-2018 21:49
  Sept. 22 is National Public Lands Day! National monuments, national parks including the historical ones, national recreation areas and national memorials all fall under the umbrella of what are considered public lands.Free admission to various lands is a great way of celebrating, so head out to Saguaro National Park for instance, a close to home classic.…
  
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• Naval Academy’s cybersecurity program receives accreditation

  21-09-2018 21:43
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy’s cyber operations program has been formally accredited.
  The academy said Friday the program was accredited recently by ABET, a leading nonprofit accrediting agency. Three other universities also were accredited under the new cybersecurity criteria: the U.S. Air Force Academy, Towson University and Southeast Missouri State University.
  A cyber operations major was established in 2013 at the academy. The academy also requires all midshipmen
  
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• Sheriff recorded making racial remarks resigns

  21-09-2018 21:41
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey sheriff has resigned after being heard in a recording making disparaging comments about blacks and alleging the state’s first Sikh attorney general got his job only because of “the turban.”
  A spokesman for Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino announced the resignation Friday along with the resignations of four undersheriffs.
  Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and others had called for Saudino to step down Thursday when the recording was publishe
  
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• Jury recommends 40 years in teen’s death

  21-09-2018 21:39
  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has recommended 40 years in prison for a former Virginia Tech student found guilty for her role in the death of a 13-year-old girl.
  News outlets report that the jury recommended the sentence for Natalie Keepers on Friday after convicting her Thursday. A judge will consider the recommendation with a presentencing report when determining her punishment on Nov. 27.
  Keepers was charged as an accessory in the 2016 fatal stabbing of Nicole Lovell. Keepers and fr
  
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• Thiem, Wawrinka reach St. Petersburg semifinals

  21-09-2018 21:37
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Top-seeded Dominic Thiem and fit-again Stan Wawrinka won their quarterfinal matches at the St. Petersburg Open on Friday.
  Austrian player Thiem came through a tough encounter against Daniil Medvedev of Russia, firing 10 aces on his way to a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (2) victory.
  His reward is a semifinal with Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain, who won 7-6 (0), 6-3 against Marco Cecchinato.
  Experienced Swiss Wawrinka, aiming for his first title since sustaining a severe knee
  
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• The Latest: Prison term for crash that killed Colts player

  21-09-2018 21:34
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a Guatemalan man who pleaded guilty in a drunken driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver(all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  A man from Guatemala living illegally in the U.S. has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver.
  A Marion County judge sentenced Manuel Orrego-Savala to the maximum possible se
  
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• N4T Investigators: Records indicate Clements guided detectives to Celis remains

  21-09-2018 21:27
  The remains of 6-year-old Isabel Celis were found in March 2017.
  The body of Maribel Gonzales was discovered in June 2014.
  TUCSON – Christopher Clements rode with FBI agents and led them to the remains of Isabel Celis, according to court documents that were recently made public.
  The 6-year-old girl went missing in April 2012. Investigators found her remains in March 2017.
  Clements’ girlfriend told FBI agents Clements knew where to find Celis, according to the court records.
  Clements
  
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• Colombia retires sniffer dogs in emotional ceremony

  21-09-2018 21:27
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Fourteen police dogs have been given medals and diplomas in an emotional ceremony in Colombia as they were retired after years of service sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
  Some of the group of aging German shepherds, pit bulls and golden retrievers were treated to special scented baths on Friday before they were retired by the Chief Prosecutor’s Office in an auditorium in the capital, Bogota.
  Among the retired dogs was “Canela,” a 12-year-old L
  
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• Colombia honors 14 sniffer dogs at emotional retirement

  21-09-2018 21:27
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Fourteen police dogs received medals and diplomas during an emotional retirement ceremony in Colombia’s capital Friday as they wrapped up years of service sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
  Some of the German shepherds, pit bulls and golden retrievers were treated to special scented baths before they were retired during the event in an auditorium at the Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
  Among the retired dogs was “Canela,” a 12-year-old Labrador
  
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• Out-of-favor Cahill says he may have to quit Chelsea

  21-09-2018 21:22
  LONDON (AP) — Former England defender Gary Cahill, who has won every major club trophy since joining Chelsea from Bolton in 2012, is likely to ask the London team for a move in the January transfer window unless he gets back in the side.
  The 32-year-old center back is out of contract at the end of the season and is yet to play under new coach Maurizio Sarri, who has led Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table with five wins from as many matches.
  “I don’t want to jump the
  
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• Hooters to sponsor Chase Elliott for 3 races in 2019-2021

  21-09-2018 21:22
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports and Hooters have reached a three-year agreement to extend the restaurant chain’s primary sponsorship of Chase Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet for three races per year in NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup Series.
  The contract covers the 2019-2021 seasons. Hooters joined Hendrick as a two-race primary sponsor for Elliott in 2017.
  The 22-year-old Elliott earned his third playoff berth in as many seasons this year, and his first career Cup victor
  
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• Parents of Wisconsin teen who died in Rome come for trial

  21-09-2018 21:19
  ROME (AP) — The parents of a 19-year-old Wisconsin student whose body was found in the Tiber River in Rome have testified in the Italian capital at a homeless man’s manslaughter trial.
  Jody and Nick Soloman told Italian RAI state TV they testified Friday at the latest hearing in the trial that began in May.
  An Italian man in his 40s has been accused of pushing Beau Solomon into the river in 2016, shortly after the teen began a study program at an English-language university in Rome.
  
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• Prosecutor: More possible victims of California doctor found

  21-09-2018 21:16
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California prosecutor says his office has received leads to more than 12 possible additional victims in the investigation of a surgeon and a female companion already charged with drugging and raping two women.
  Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Friday the leads came in after the announcement earlier this week of the charges against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and his companion, Cerissa Riley.
  The district attorney has said the two victims in t
  
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• 2 Wyoming bull elk, locked in battle, get help from humans

  21-09-2018 21:14
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two bull elk fighting for herd dominance in southern Wyoming got more than they bargained for when their antlers became entwined.
  Thanks to two humans, the animals are free to fight another day.
  Game warden Kim Olson said Friday she got a Sept. 5 call about the elk on a desert ridge. Olson shot video of biologist Patrick Burke shooting the exhausted elk with tranquilizers.
  They then sawed off some of both elks’ antlers to free the pair.
  They marked each elk with
  
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• First black female White House reporter gets Newseum statue

  21-09-2018 21:13
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The first black woman to be accredited to cover the White House now has a statue in the Newseum.
  Alice Allison Dunnigan made history when she received White House press credentials in 1947 and became part of the White House traveling press corps covering President Harry Truman’s re-election campaign in 1948.
  Dunnigan, as Washington bureau chief for the Associated Negro Press, would go on to cover Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy before taking a jo
  
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• The Latest: Arizona crash driver had smuggling record

  21-09-2018 21:12
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a fatal crash that left eight dead including four Guatemalans (all times local):
  12:10 p.m.
  Court records show the driver and passenger of an SUV involved in a deadly head-on crash that left them and four Guatemalan men dead had been previously convicted of immigrant smuggling charges.
  Federal court records show 45-year-old driver Rodney Palimo pleaded guilty in March 2008 to a misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting an alien.
  He was initially charged with a f
  
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