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• Tiger Woods wins Tour Championship for 80th PGA Tour title and first in more than five years

  23-09-2018 23:58
  ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods wins Tour Championship for 80th PGA Tour title and first in more than five years.
  Tiger Woods is a winner again, capping off one of the most remarkable comebacks in golf history.
  More than five years after his last win, after four surgeries on his lower back that left him wonder if he could ever play again, Woods ended his comeback season with a dominant victory at the Tour Championship.
  He nearly won the FedEx Cup, too, until Justin Rose survived a late meltdown
  
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• Wake Forest fires defensive coordinator after ND loss

  23-09-2018 23:48
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Wake Forest has fired defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel.
  Coach Dave Clawson announced the move Sunday, a day after the Demon Deacons’ 56-27 loss to No. 8 Notre Dame , while saying it was “not a spur of the moment decision.”
  Wake Forest (2-2) has allowed 97 points in its past two games, and in four games has given up 10 touchdowns covering at least 20 yards. The Demon Deacons rank 114th in the nation, allowing 484 yards per game, and give up an av
  
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• Minnesota safety Winfield out for season with foot injury

  23-09-2018 23:48
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota sophomore safety Antoine Winfield Jr. is out for the rest of the season after injuring his left foot in the first quarter of the Big Ten opener at Maryland.
  Coach P.J. Fleck said Sunday the Gophers were “heartbroken” for Winfield, who suffered a season-ending injury for the second straight year in the 42-13 loss Saturday. The Terrapins rushed for 315 yards in the game.
  Last season, Winfield played in only four games and was granted a medical redshir
  
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• Cardinals sweep Giants with 9-2, stay on track for wild card

  23-09-2018 23:46
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Miles Mikolas won his fourth straight start, Matt Carpenter hit his NL-leading 36th homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 9-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep and remain on track for the NL’s second wild card.
  St. Louis (87-69) has won three straight games and six of seven. The Cardinals began the day 1½ games ahead of Colorado, which played later Sunday, and remained two games behind Milwaukee, the wild card leader. St. Louis
  
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• Virginia school district’s bid to arm teachers rejected

  23-09-2018 23:43
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A state agency has rejected an application from a rural Virginia school district that voted to arm teachers and other employees as protection against a school shooting.
  The Washington Post reports that the Department of Criminal Justice Services turned down Lee County Superintendent Brian Austin’s application to register as an armed special conservator of the peace. The school district had hoped the designation would allow school employees to carry guns in school
  
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• Gallagher, Keller leads Royals to series split with Tigers

  23-09-2018 23:35
  DETROIT (AP) — When the Kansas City Royals acquired Brad Keller during last winter’s Rule 5 draft, they committed themselves to keep him on the roster all season.
  As it turned out, that hasn’t been a problem.
  Keller pitched seven strong innings as the Royals held on to beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Sunday.
  Keller (9-6) allowed one run on three hits, walking three and striking out two. He improved to 5-1 with a 2.25 ERA in his last eight starts.
  “The first three or four i
  
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• Carson Wentz leads Eagles to 20-16 comeback win over Colts

  23-09-2018 23:33
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carson Wentz shook off rust and defenders.
  Wentz threw a touchdown pass on his first drive in nine months, Wendell Smallwood ran in from the 4 for the go-ahead score and the Philadelphia Eagles held on for a 20-16 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.
  “It was a long time coming,” Wentz said after playing his first game since he tore two ligaments in his left knee last Dec. 10. “It felt great.”
  Adam Vinatieri tied Morten Andersen’s
  
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• Schwarber homers as Cubs beat White Sox 6-1

  23-09-2018 23:32
  CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Schwarber homered and drove in two runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the crosstown White Sox 6-1 on Sunday to lower their magic number for clinching the NL Central title to five.
  Ben Zobrist had three hits and Kyle Hendricks dazzled again as the Cubs took the rubber game of the weekend series. They also stayed 2½ games ahead of second-place Milwaukee, which cruised to a 13-6 victory at Pittsburgh.
  Playing the field for the first time since being sidelined with a ba
  
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• Deputies seek driver in fatal hit-and-run near Somerton

  23-09-2018 23:20
  SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) — Yuma County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a hit-and-run suspect who fled the scene after striking and killing a pedestrian in front of a casino on South Highway 95 near Somerton.
  The victim was identified Sunday as 68-year-old Rafael Mesta Beltran of San Luis.
  Investigators say he was crossing the highway at the entrance to the Cocopah Casino at about 11:40 p.m. Saturday when he was hit be a southbound blue Toyota truck.
  The driver of the truck continued s
  
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• Boston officer shot, 3 suspects taken into custody

  23-09-2018 23:09
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say an officer has been shot in the city’s South End but does not have life-threatening injuries.
  Boston Police Commissioner William Gross told reporters that officers came across a group of men in their 20s Sunday afternoon, suspecting they had firearms. He says one officer was shot in the calf when he tried to follow the men into an apartment building.
  Gross says police then received reports that one suspect had barricaded himself in an apartment, requir
  
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• Gaza officials say Palestinian killed in overnight protest

  23-09-2018 23:07
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry says a Palestinian has been killed and 20 injured by Israeli gunfire in east Gaza.
  A ministry statement said Sunday that the 21-year-old died in overnight skirmishes between dozens of protesters and Israeli forces.
  Israel’s army said a drone fired at Palestinians who flew armed kites toward Israel.
  Sami Abu Zuhri, an official in Gaza’s Hamas government, said Sunday that Hamas is stepping up protests along the fence betwe
  
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• Drew Brees’ TD run in OT lifts Saints past Falcons 43-37

  23-09-2018 23:05
  ATLANTA (AP) — Drew Brees’ 1-yard run capped an 80-yard touchdown drive to open overtime that lifted the New Orleans Saints to a 43-37 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
  Brees’ score came after his apparent 3-yard TD pass to Alvin Kamara was overturned on a review that determined Kamara’s knee was down before the goal line. Brees scored on a keeper on the following play, giving the Saints (2-1) the win on the day the 39-year-old quarterback set the NFL record for car
  
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• Suspect arrested in shooting of man in south Phoenix

  23-09-2018 22:57
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a 39-year-old man suspected of shooting another man in south Phoenix.
  Francisco Nunez Carillo was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and other felony charges for the shooting of a 30-year-old man Friday night at a home on the 300 block of West Southern Avenue.
  Phoenix police spokeswoman Sgt. Mercedes Fortune says Nunez Carillo and the victim were arguing before the shooting.
  The victim was reported in critical condition Saturday but is e
  
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• Georgia jury awards $31M over boy’s botched circumcision

  23-09-2018 22:54
  JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — A law firm says a Georgia jury has awarded $31 million to a boy for a botched circumcision he received as a newborn.
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the award was handed down Friday in northern Georgia’s Clayton County.
  A lawsuit filed by the boy’s family says he was 18 days old in October 2013 when part of his penis was severed during a circumcision at Life Cycle Pediatrics in Riverdale.
  The family’s attorney, Neal Pope, says nobody recomme
  
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• Reserves lead Braves to 5th straight win, eliminate Phillies

  23-09-2018 22:45
  ATLANTA (AP) — Lane Adams homered and drove in two runs, Anibal Sanchez won for the first time in nine starts and the Atlanta Braves used a lineup of reserves to win their fifth straight game, 2-1 over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
  The loss dropped Philadelphia from postseason contention. Atlanta, the first NL team to qualify for the playoffs, eliminated the Phillies from the NL East race on Saturday. The Braves have the second-best record in the NL at 88-68 and could earn home-fiel
  
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• Trick plays help unbeaten Dolphins beat Raiders 28-20

  23-09-2018 22:30
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Receiver Albert Wilson threw a 52-yard touchdown pass to put the Miami Dolphins ahead midway through the fourth quarter, and then turned a short reception into a 74-yard score that sealed a 28-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.
  Miami coach Adam Gase used creative play-calling to overcome a wave of injuries and penalties, and a 17-minute deficit in time of possession. The Dolphins scored on a pair of shovel passes by Ryan Tannehill that each traveled l
  
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• Snell wins 21st, 9th in row, as Rays beat Blue Jays 5-2

  23-09-2018 22:30
  TORONTO (AP) — Blake Snell won his ninth straight start to increasing his major league-leading victories total to 21, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 on Sunday to stave off elimination.
  Tampa Bay began the day 7½ games behind Oakland for the AL’s second wild card and would be eliminated with one more loss or win by the Athletics, who hosted Minnesota later in the day.
  Snell (21-5) struck out 11 in 6 2/3 shutout innings, broke the Rays season record for wi
  
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• Patrol: Teen driving stolen SUV kills 3 in Minneapolis crash

  23-09-2018 22:29
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota State Patrol says three people were killed when a stolen SUV driven by a teenager crashed into their pickup at an intersection in south Minneapolis.
  The crash happened around 1:15 a.m. Sunday. The patrol says the Ford Escape was being chased earlier by troopers, but the pursuit ended before the Escape collided with the pickup.
  Killed were the pickup’s driver, 64-year-old Kenneth Carpentier of Bullhead City, Arizona; his wife, 65-year-old Sheryl Carpen
  
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• Massachusetts man to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal

  23-09-2018 22:26
  SHREWSBURY, Mass. (AP) — More than 70 years after the end of World War II, a Massachusetts man is being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
  During the war, Ed Daley served in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency. U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern will present Daley with the medal Monday in Shrewsbury.
  In 1942, Daley was assigned to Kunming, China, where his OSS unit earned the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism.
  After the war, Daley served
  
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• Actor locked out of Twitter over tweet that violated rules

  23-09-2018 22:26
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Actor James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account over a tweet that was found to be in violation of its rules.
  Woods posted a tweet in July that included a meme from a hoax campaign that encouraged men not to vote in the midterm elections. In the tweet, Woods acknowledged the meme likely wasn’t real.
  Woods got an email from Twitter Thursday saying the tweet “has the potential to be misleading in a way that could impact an election.” The email
  
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• Game paused as soccer fans protest esports

  23-09-2018 22:18
  BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Soccer fans in Switzerland held up play by throwing tennis balls and games consoles on the field in an unusual protest against esports on Sunday.
  The referee stopped the Swiss league game between host Young Boys and Basel for two minutes early on at Stade de Suisse while the pitch was cleared.
  Young Boys fans held up a giant banner with the symbol of a pause button and television pictures showed a black games console on the pitch with a slogan opposing electronic g
  
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• Manning throws 2 TDs as Giants beat Texans 27-22 for 1st win

  23-09-2018 22:16
  HOUSTON (AP) — Eli Manning threw for 297 yards and two touchdowns and rookie Saquon Barkley added a score as the New York Giants got their first win with a 27-22 victory over the struggling Houston Texans on Sunday.
  The Giants (1-2) were up by 14 at halftime but had trouble moving the ball in the second half and the Texans (0-3) had cut the lead to five before Manning threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Sterling Shepard with about two minutes left.
  Deshaun Watson threw a 4-yard touchdown pass
  
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• Jeter’s Marlins finish as poorest home draw since 2004 Expos

  23-09-2018 22:15
  MIAMI (AP) — The Marlins became the first major league team to draw fewer than 1 million fans at home since the 2004 Montreal Expos, beating the Cincinnati Reds 6-0 Sunday before 13,595 to complete the Miami portion of their schedule in Derek Jeter’s first season as chief executive officer.
  After trading star slugger Giancarlo Stanton to Jeter’s former team, the New York Yankees, during an offseason payroll purge, the Marlins went 38-43 at home and drew 811,104 for an average o
  
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• UNR wins $5 million USDA grant to study changing snowpack

  23-09-2018 22:07
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the University of Nevada, Reno a $5 million grant to lead a study on changing snowpack.
  UNR scientists will conduct the five-year study with researchers at the Desert Research Institute, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University.
  The study is intended to examine how changes in mountain snowpack are affecting the agriculture industry.
  UNR professor Kim Rollins says the impacts of shrinking snowpack have a profou
  
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• BREAKING: Tucson Fire Department working a house fire on E. Flowers Street

  23-09-2018 22:05
  TUCSON — Tucson Fire Department is working a house fire in the 4300 block of E. Flowers Street.
  Officials tell News 4 Tucson there were smoke and flames when firefighters arrived on scene.
  A crew is heading to the scene to gather more information.
  This is a developing story. Stay with News 4 Tucson for updates.
  The post BREAKING: Tucson Fire Department working a house fire on E. Flowers Street appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Passenger airlifted from cruise ship off Nantucket island

  23-09-2018 21:37
  NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — A passenger suffering a possible stroke aboard a cruise ship had to be evacuated by helicopter off Nantucket.
  Coast Guard video shows an aircrew from Coast Guard Station Cape Cod hoisting the 78-year-old man, strapped onto a stretcher, from the Norwegian Escape and up into a Jayhawk helicopter. The ship’s crew notified the Coast Guard about the man’s condition Saturday evening. The unnamed man and a nurse were air-lifted and transported to Rhode Island H
  
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• The Latest: Woods headed for victory, Rose headed for Cup

  23-09-2018 21:33
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the Tour Championship (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was on the first tee at East Lake knowing exactly how big a day it might be for the PGA Tour.
  And an awkward one for the tour.
  Tiger Woods had a five-shot lead after six holes of the final round, and there is no other player that generates interest in the sport, especially after the back surgeries he has overcome. Crowds were huge. TV ratings were at 15-year highs.
  Also at stak
  
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• The Latest: Woods a winner again for 1st time since 2013

  23-09-2018 21:33
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the Tour Championship (all times local):
  5:58 p.m.
  Tiger Woods is a winner again, capping off one of the most remarkable comebacks in golf history.
  More than five years after his last win, after four surgeries on his lower back that left him wonder if he could ever play again, Woods ended his comeback season with a dominant victory at the Tour Championship.
  He nearly won the FedEx Cup, too, until Justin Rose survived a late meltdown with a birdie on the final h
  
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• Simpson scores 2 goals, Union beat Sporting KC 2-0

  23-09-2018 21:32
  CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Jay Simpson scored his first two goals of the season to help the Philadelphia Union beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0 on a rainy Sunday.
  Philadelphia (14-12-4) has won six of its last eight games, which include a loss and draw. Sporting KC (15-8-6) had won three of its prior four road games.
  Simpson, a 29-year-old English forward making his first start this season, scored on a volley in the 71st minute after Alejandro Bedoya headed a free kick to the penalty spot. Bedoya go
  
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• Chicago archbishop removes priest who burned rainbow banner

  23-09-2018 21:18
  CHICAGO (AP) — The archbishop of Chicago has removed a priest as head of a North Side church after he burned a rainbow banner, angering the LGBT community.
  The Chicago Tribune reports that Cardinal Blase Cupich (BLAYZ’ SOO’-pich) announced Rev. Paul Kalchik’s removal in a recent letter to parishioners and staff at the Resurrection Catholic Church.
  Cupich said he acted “out of concern” for Kalchik and parishioners. He said the 56-year-old priest needed “t
  
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• Tiger Woods on the verge of capping comeback with a win

  23-09-2018 21:16
  ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods has gone from not knowing if he would ever play golf again to the verge of winning.
  Woods started out with a three-shot lead Sunday in the Tour Championship, and it took only four holes for him to stretch the lead to five over Justin Rose. The gallery at East Lake was enormous in anticipation of Woods winning for the first time in more than five years.
  It would be his 80th title on the PGA Tour and hold a special place as his first trophy after four back surgerie
  
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• Drugs disguised as candy found in Hapeville bust | Officers put out warning to parents

  23-09-2018 21:11
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  The pills were just part of a Friday drug bust that also uncovered a stolen firearm, suspected marijuana, cannabis lollipops  and even what police believe was cocaine in powder form.
  HAPEVILLE, Ga. – They’re characters that any child would recognize – Homer Simpson, Hello Kitty and even the Minions from the Despicable Me. But candy-like drugs confiscated by the Hap
  
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• Cosby accusers say they hope he is sentenced to jail time

  23-09-2018 21:09
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault decades ago say they hope he will be sentenced to prison time this week.
  Lise-Lotte Lublin and Chelan Lasha appeared with attorney Gloria Allred in Philadelphia on Sunday, the day before a two-day hearing begins to sentence Cosby on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault.
  Cosby was convicted in the spring of drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became t
  
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• Congress considering nearly $1.7B Florence relief package

  23-09-2018 21:00
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is starting to consider almost $1.7 billion in new money to aid recovery efforts from Florence.
  Lawmakers already are facing a deadline this week to fund the government before the start of the new budget year Oct. 1, and members of Congress will try to act on the disaster relief along with separate legislation to fund the government.
  The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee says the money would be available as grants to states to help rebuild housing an
  
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• Amid furor, Trump pushes pause on deciding Rosenstein’s fate

  23-09-2018 20:56
  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — A big story had broken, and President Donald Trump was seeking opinions about what to do.
  Reports said the second-ranking Justice Department official had suggested wearing a wire to secretly record Trump, and also raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment, which deals with removing a president from office.
  On Air Force One flights to and from a Missouri rally last week, Trump polled his staff on the plane, called his outside network of advisers and kept a careful
  
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• Pompeo: No end to NKorea sanctions until ‘denuclearization’

  23-09-2018 20:50
  NEW YORK (AP) — Top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo says economic sanctions on North Korea won’t be reduced until it completes “denuclearization” after leader Kim Jong Un offered to close the North’s main nuclear site in exchange for U.S. concessions.
  Kim said last week he was willing to dismantle the Nyongbyon nuclear complex in the presence of outside inspectors if the U.S. takes unspecified “corresponding measures.” He also promised to dismantle the North&r
  
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• Virginia Tech dismissed DE Trevon Hill from team

  23-09-2018 20:33
  BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech has dismissed junior defensive end Trevon Hill from the football team.
  Coach Justin Fuente made the announcement Sunday, saying Hill has failed to uphold “the high standards that we have for our student-athletes.”
  Hill had 11 tackles in three games for the Hokies (2-1), including six tackles and 1½ sacks on Saturday night in their 49-35 loss at Old Dominion.
  Hill is the third defensive stalwart dismissed from the program since last se
  
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• German interior minister says leaders of governing coalition have reached deal to resolve dispute over spy chief

  23-09-2018 20:21
  BERLIN (AP) — German interior minister says leaders of governing coalition have reached deal to resolve dispute over spy chief.
  The post German interior minister says leaders of governing coalition have reached deal to resolve dispute over spy chief appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• The Latest: Panama pulls migrant rescue boat’s registration

  23-09-2018 20:09
  MADRID (AP) — The Latest on Europe’s migrant crisis (all times local):
  8:10 p.m.
  Panama says that it has withdrawn the registration of the only private migrant rescue boat still operating in the central Mediterranean after complaints from Italy, which is cracking down on migrant arrivals.
  Panama’s maritime authority said in a statement that Italy contends that the captain of Aquarius 2 defied instructions to return migrants to Libya that it had rescued from unseaworthy vessels
  
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• AP Top 25: Kentucky enters rankings for 1st time since ’07

  23-09-2018 20:07
  After a season-high seven ranked teams lost, the back half of the AP college football poll got a makeover. Five teams entered the Top 25 on Sunday, including No. 17 Kentucky for the first time since 2007.
  At the top it was mostly status quo, with Alabama, Georgia, Clemson and Ohio State staying Nos. 1-4. LSU moved up to No. 5, swapping places with Oklahoma after the Sooners needed overtime to get by Army. Alabama received a season-high 60 first-place votes . Clemson had one.
  Kentucky is unbeaten
  
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• AP POLL ALERT: LSU climbs to No. 5 in Top 25; Kentucky ranked for 1st time since 2007, Texas, Duke, Cal, Texas Tech in

  23-09-2018 20:05
  NEW YORK (AP) — AP POLL ALERT: LSU climbs to No. 5 in Top 25; Kentucky ranked for 1st time since 2007, Texas, Duke, Cal, Texas Tech in.
  The post AP POLL ALERT: LSU climbs to No. 5 in Top 25; Kentucky ranked for 1st time since 2007, Texas, Duke, Cal, Texas Tech in appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• OPEC, allies agree not to further increase oil production

  23-09-2018 20:02
  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A meeting of OPEC and its allies ended without any decision to further increase oil output despite President Donald Trump’s call for lower prices.
  Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries met on Sunday in Algiers with non-members including Russia.
  The committee said in a statement that it was satisfied “regarding the current oil market outlook, with an overall healthy balance between supply and demand.”
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• Average US price of gas drops a penny per gallon to $2.90

  23-09-2018 20:02
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has dropped a penny per gallon over the past two weeks, to $2.90.
  Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says that’s 28 cents higher than at this time last year.
  Lundberg said Sunday it’s likely that gas prices will continue to drop slightly.
  The highest average price in the contiguous 48 states is $3.69 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  The lowest average is $2.50 in Jackson, Mississippi.
  The ave
  
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• The Latest: German coalition reaches deal on spy chief

  23-09-2018 19:45
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on a standoff in Germany’s governing coalition over the future of the country’s domestic intelligence chief (all times local):
  8:25 p.m.
  Germany’s interior minister says leaders of the governing coalition have reached a deal to resolve a dispute over the future of the country’s domestic intelligence chief.
  Horst Seehofer said Sunday that Hans-Georg Maassen, currently the head of the BfV spy agency, will become a “special adviser”
  
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• Kavanaugh accuser reaches deal to testify Thursday

  23-09-2018 19:43
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  “Dr. Ford accepts the Committee’s request to provide her first-hand knowledge of Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct”
  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school, have reached a tentative agreement for her to publicly testify on Thursday, three sour
  
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• Cosby sentencing reveals generational divide over his legacy

  23-09-2018 19:36
  When Bill Cosby is sentenced Monday for drugging and molesting a woman, it will be a final chapter in downfall that leaves some blacks pained and others proud.
  Those who grew up viewing Cosby’s NBC show struggle to reconcile the conviction with the wise, warm television father they knew. But many millennials see him as long-irrelevant figure. And the #MeToo era has cast him as someone who was deservingly vanquished, like so many other misbehaving men in power.
  Observers of black pop cultur
  
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• Ex-OpenTable worker charged in bogus reservations scheme

  23-09-2018 19:33
  CHICAGO (AP) — A former OpenTable employee has been charged with wire fraud for allegedly making hundreds of bogus reservations at Chicago restaurants to undermine a rival booking service.
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports that prosecutors allege in charging documents that 30-year-old Steven Addison booked more than 300 reservations at at least 45 Chicago restaurants using Reserve, aiming to hurt the company’s reputation.
  They say Addison, of Chicago, allegedly booked some 1,200 seats in
  
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• 3 Greek journalists set free after minister’s complaint

  23-09-2018 19:30
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three journalists have been released from custody following a complaint against them by Greece’s defense minister.
  The publisher, editor-in-chief and political editor of daily paper “Fileleftheros” (Liberal) had voluntarily turned themselves in Saturday after Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said an article in the paper’s Friday edition had defamed him.
  The article alleged large-scale mismanagement of European Union funds provided to improve the
  
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• CORRECTS: Senate Judiciary Committee confirms public hearing Thursday on sexual assault claim made against Kavanaugh.

  23-09-2018 19:28
  WASHINGTON (AP) — CORRECTS: Senate Judiciary Committee confirms public hearing Thursday on sexual assault claim made against Kavanaugh. (Corrects APNewsAlert misspelling to Kavanaugh. )
  The post CORRECTS: Senate Judiciary Committee confirms public hearing Thursday on sexual assault claim made against Kavanaugh. appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Court to hear arguments over 1966 Spain H-bomb accident

  23-09-2018 19:27
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments involving U.S. veterans who say they were denied disability benefits after becoming ill from radiation exposure while responding to a 1966 accident involving American hydrogen bombs in Spain.
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is scheduled to hear the case Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
  At issue is whether a class-action lawsuit can be filed against the Veterans Affairs Department for denying disability claims
  
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