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• Mississippi police took property without legal authority

  09-10-2018 23:58
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police agencies have been seizing cash, guns and vehicles without legal authority for months after a state law changed and police didn’t notice.
  A Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics database shows more than 60 forfeitures of nearly $200,000 in property taken by state and local agencies under a law that lapsed on June 30.
  That law allowed police to take property associated with illegal drugs, if an owner didn’t go to court. Now, Mississippi agencie
  
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• Stolen Stradivarius found after decades comes to life again

  09-10-2018 23:55
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Stradivarius stolen from the late violinist Roman Totenberg and miraculously found more than three decades later has a new life — under the chin of a budding 18-year-old virtuoso.
  On Tuesday in New York, his three daughters presented the multimillion-dollar instrument on loan to Juilliard student Nathan Meltzer.
  The 18th century violin was snatched in 1980 from Totenberg’s dressing room after a concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was recovered in 2015, a
  
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• Donations collected for immigrant intake centers

  09-10-2018 23:54
  TUCSON – City Council Member, Steve Kozachik, is collecting donations for immigrants who are being dropped off at local community-based intake centers.
  Kozachik said ICE has released over 1,000 immigrants from detention centers after they were held for the maximum amount of time, which is determined by law.
  He said the local intake centers need donations to continue their humanitarian work.
  His office is collecting new undergarments, socks, backpacks, travel blankets and Gatorade which wil
  
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• Border Patrol agent sentenced for Sawmill fire

  09-10-2018 23:52
  TUCSON – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was sentenced Tuesday morning for starting the Sawmill fire on state lands back in April 2017.
  Dennis Dickey appeared in federal court where he was sentenced to pay $100,000 up front following $500 every month for the next 20 years.
  Dickey said the fire started at his baby’s gender reveal party. A gender reveal party is a new trend where parent’s reveal the sex of their baby. News 4 Tucson spoke with Dickey’s attorney Sean Chapman
  
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• Crews search for missing injured hiker on Mount Hood

  09-10-2018 23:49
  MOUNT HOOD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are searching on Mt. Hood for a 30-year-old injured hiker from Phoenix, Arizona, who was last seen on Monday.
  The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that David Yaghmourian was hiking the Timberline Trail with a companion when he injured his leg.
  The sheriff’s office says on the last day of their hike on Monday Yaghmourian stopped to rest while his friend continued to Timberline Lodge.
  The sheriff’s office says the friend wai
  
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• Pet Supply Shop Opens at PACC

  09-10-2018 23:41
  The Pima Animal Care Center in partnership with Friends of the PACC nonprofit has opened a pet supply store in the lobby of PACC.
  The store, named “Central Pet: Adopt.…
  
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• Michigan State’s Hartbarger likely done for the season

  09-10-2018 23:41
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio says punter Jake Hartbarger’s leg injury from last month is likely to end his season.
  Hartbarger hurt his lower leg Sept. 8 at Arizona State. Shortly after that, Dantonio said the fifth-year senior would be out six to eight weeks, but on Tuesday, he said Hartbarger was unlikely to return in 2018.
  The plan for now is for Hartbarger to get a medical redshirt and play again next year.
  The Spartans are also expected to be with
  
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• Not guilty plea from Scottsdale gym owner accused of assault

  09-10-2018 23:39
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A man who owns and operates a Scottsdale gymnasium who was arrested last month on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman has pleaded not guilty.
  Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Tevin Terrell Favor was arraigned Tuesday.
  His next scheduled court date is a Nov. 26 initial pretrial conference.
  The 26-year-old Favor was arrested on Sept. 22.
  According to a police report, Favor gave a business card to a woman and requested a date and the two went to a few
  
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• Chiefs put Duvernay-Tardif, Watts on IR, sign Zombo

  09-10-2018 23:33
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs placed right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and safety Armani Watts on injured reserve Tuesday and signed outside linebacker Frank Zombo to provide depth at that depleted position.
  Duvernay-Tardif broke a bone in his left leg with a few minutes left in Sunday’s 30-14 victory over Jacksonville. Watts had his promising rookie season cut short after hurting his groin in the game.
  Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday that he doesn’t think Duvernay-Ta
  
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• After 1st postseason cycle, Holt returns to Boston’s bench

  09-10-2018 23:30
  NEW YORK (AP) — Becoming the first player to hit for a postseason cycle earned Brock Holt a return to the Boston Red Sox bench.
  Ian Kinsler was back at second base for Game 4 of the AL Division Series on Tuesday night against the New York Yankees and left-hander CC Sabathia.
  Holt, a left-handed batter, had four hits and five RBIs in Boston’s 16-1 rout on Monday night, his first game of the postseason. His cycle came in the major leagues’ 1,562nd postseason game, according to th
  
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• Marion Marauder of Canada is early favorite for Yonkers Trot

  09-10-2018 23:05
  NEW YORK (AP) — Marion Marauder of Canada drew the first post position and was installed the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the $1 million Yonkers International Trot.
  A field of 10 trotters from seven countries will go in the 1 1/4-mile race on Saturday at Yonkers Raceway.
  A 5-year-old, Marion Marauder is the leading money earner with more than $3 million in lifetime earnings on the strength of 20 wins in 48 career starts.
  Ariana G., representing the United States, will try to become only t
  
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• Michael strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph as it heads toward the Florida Panhandle

  09-10-2018 23:02
  MIAMI (AP) — Michael strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph as it heads toward the Florida Panhandle.
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• No pre-trial release for congressional doxing suspect

  09-10-2018 22:56
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting a pre-trial release for a former congressional staffer accused of posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
  Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson on Tuesday ordered that Jackson Cosko remain in custody pending trial. Prosecutors had argued that Cosko, 27, posed a flight risk.
  Cosko was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with illegally accessing the personal informatio
  
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• Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona receives $5K donation

  09-10-2018 22:56
  TUCSON – The Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona has received a $5,000 donation.
  Larry H. Miller Dealerships presented a check to the diaper bank Tuesday.
  Diapers and incontinence supplies can cost $100 a month, an expense many families cannot afford.
  Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona receives $5K donation. Courtesy: NBC
  The Diaper Bank says the average child or adult uses an average of 6 – 10 diapers a day. “There are millions needed every year. We provide about 1 million every year
  
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• New motorcycles for Casa Grande Police

  09-10-2018 22:53
  Casa Grande – The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (AZGOHS) has awarded $58,000 to the Casa Grande Police Department.The money will go towards purchasing two new police motorcycles. CGPD has elected to buy two BMW police package motorcycles, with “ghost” decals. The Ghost decals have a low profile during the day and are highly reflective at night.
  The motorcycles will be used in high traffic areas, including DUI Task Force details and school zones.
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• Couple found with stroller full of body parts, accused of killing 10 women in Mexico

  09-10-2018 22:53
  MEXICO CITY (AP) – Police said Friday they have detained a couple on the outskirts of Mexico City on suspicion they may have killed as many as 10 women and sold a dead woman’s baby.
  Officers had placed the couple under surveillance and caught them coming out of a house with a baby carriage on Thursday. Inside the carriage, they found dismembered human body parts the pair intended to dispose of in a nearby vacant lot, Mexico State police said Friday.
  Police said they went to the lot a
  
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• Unsealed emails reveal tiff over ex-Trump aide Gates

  09-10-2018 22:45
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed emails are shedding more light on behind-the-scenes discussions that led lawyers for former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates to withdraw from his case.
  The emails were made public by a judge Tuesday after The Associated Press and other news organizations sued for their release.
  In one message, Shanlon Wu, a former lawyer for Gates, told two attorneys on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that they had been meeting behind his back with a different law
  
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• The Latest: Closing arguments set in W.Va. justice’s trial

  09-10-2018 22:45
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on the federal criminal trial of suspended West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  A jury is close to deliberating the fate of a suspended West Virginia Supreme Court justice accused of using his office for his own benefit.
  The defense rested its case Tuesday after Justice Allen Loughry was questioned for more than six hours over two days about trips he took and the use of state-owned property from which the federal
  
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• Author defends Humboldt Broncos book amid families’ protests

  09-10-2018 22:38
  SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — The author of a book about the Humboldt Broncos and the deadly bus crash that rocked the junior hockey team says he had good intentions in choosing to publish the story.
  The crash in April killed 16 people and injured 13 more when the team bus collided with a semi-truck at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan.
  “Humble Beginnings of the Humboldt Broncos and the 2017-2018 Team,” written by Barry Heath, came out last month. Several people who lost lo
  
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• Tohono O’Odham Nation Rosa recovery

  09-10-2018 22:37
  Dozens of evacuees on the Tohono O’Odham Nation remain at emergency shelters after their homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Rosa.
  The Tohono O’Odham Nation Office of Emergency Management said 50 homes were assessed for damage related to Rosa over the weekend. Home and road assessments will continue this week.
  Sandbags at Menegers Damn .
  Officials have been keeping an eye on Meneger’s Dam. It has remained intact despite the heavy rains and flooding from Rosa. Equipment is bein
  
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• Pregnant women push when fully dilated

  09-10-2018 22:35
   Pregnant women in labor may have better childbirth outcomes, if they start pushing right when they’re fully dilated.
  Some doctors recommend delaying the pushing until the woman feels and uncontrollable urge to push. The thought is that this practice will decrease the need for a C-section.
  A new study compares the two pushing methods and found no difference in C-section rates. It also found that women who were able to push as soon as fully dilated were less likely to have postpartum b
  
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• Learn How To Juggle at Tucson Meet Yourself

  09-10-2018 22:35
  Want to try your hand at juggling or acrobatics with experts available for hands-on instruction? Look for the circus performers at Tucson Meet Yourself Folk Festival on October 12-14 in downtown Tucson.…
  
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• The Latest: Attorney General blasts report as political jab

  09-10-2018 22:32
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the release of a State Grand Jury report on corruption in South Carolina (all times local):
  4:25 p.m.
  After a State Grand Jury report was released saying South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson impeded a Statehouse corruption investigation, Wilson is calling it a political attack and “repackaged and recycled garbage.”
  Wilson tells The Associated Press that the grand jury and investigators had a duty to bring charges against him if they th
  
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• Convicted Chicago officer moved to Western Illinois jail

  09-10-2018 22:24
  CHICAGO (AP) — The white Chicago Police officer convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald has been moved to a Western Illinois jail and will remain there while he awaits sentencing.
  Rock Island County Sheriff Berry Bustos tells the Chicago Tribune that Jason Van Dyke arrived Tuesday afternoon to the jail along the Mississippi River.Bustos says Van Dyke will be held in protective custody out of the jail’s general population.
  High-profile detainee
  
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• Inflatable sea monster takes over a rusting warehouse

  09-10-2018 22:23
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A giant sea monster has taken over a building at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, but only temporarily.
  The inflatable sculpture titled “Sea Monsters HERE” is at a rusting warehouse called Building 611. It features huge purple tentacles bursting out of windows and reaching from the rooftop. The 40-foot-long creations sway in the breeze, creating the sense of a huge living creature.
  It was created by U.K.-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas. They we
  
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• Los Angeles dealer gets probation for selling illegal ivory

  09-10-2018 22:14
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles antiques dealer has been sentenced to three years of probation after being convicted of selling ivory tusks in violation of state law.
  City Attorney Mike Feuer says Tuesday that Anthony James Buccola was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
  Buccola’s company, Antonio’s Bella Casa, was also placed on 36 months of probation and ordered to pay the same fine.
  Prosecutors said Buccola sold two illegal narwhal tusks — measuring 79 and 87 inches &
  
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• Sports court to rule on disputed Olympic boxing election

  09-10-2018 22:10
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it aims for a first ruling within days on a Kazakh official’s urgent request to be an International Boxing Association presidential candidate.
  Serik Konakbayev wants to challenge AIBA interim president Gafur Rakhimov, who is defying IOC warnings not to stand in the Nov. 3 vote despite being implicated by U.S. federal authorities in heroin trafficking.
  The U.S. Treasury Department has said Rakhimov is “one of U
  
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• George Taliaferro, 1st black drafted by NFL team, dies at 91

  09-10-2018 22:10
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — George Taliaferro, the star running back for Indiana who in 1949 became the first black player drafted by an NFL team, has died at 91.
  Senior associate athletic director Jeremy Gray said Tuesday the Hoosiers had spoken with Taliaferro’s family about his death in Mason, Ohio. Other details were not disclosed.
  Taliaferro was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. He was the leading rusher on Indiana’s 1945 Big Ten championship team.
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• Mexico’s Pemex: 2 new wells have 180 million barrels 3P oil

  09-10-2018 22:01
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company says two wells in shallow Gulf of Mexico waters have found about 180 million barrels of proven, probable and possible oil and gas reserves.
  The Manik well is about 52 miles (85 kilometers) offshore, and the Mulach is about 11 miles (17 kilometers) offshore.
  In April, Manik found two separate reserves, and Mulach found five oil pockets.
  The Pemex oil company said Tuesday four other shallow-water fields discovered between 2011 and 201
  
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• Arizona tribe still doing damage assessments following storm

  09-10-2018 21:55
  SELLS, Ariz. (AP) — A Native American tribe in southern Arizona says damage assessments continue after last week’s heavy rainfall threatened a 22-foot-high earthen dam and forced some evacuations.
  The Tohono O’odham (TOH’-oh-no OH’-tum) Indian Nation said Tuesday that the status of Meneger’s Dam is being closely monitored by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  Tribal officials say equipment is being deployed to pump the lake behind the dam and lower the water l
  
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• Gecko butt-dials ‘bazillion’ times from Hawaii seal hospital

  09-10-2018 21:53
  HONOLULU (AP) — If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed.
  Or, more specifically, foot-dialed.
  By a gecko.
  Marine mammal veterinarian Claire Simeone was getting lunch when she got a call from the Big Island hospital where she’s director. There was silence on the other end. Nine more silent calls followed. Fearing a seal emergency, she rushed back.
  She wasn’t the only one getting calls, and people started
  
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• Voter registration spikes on heels of Taylor Swift political Instagram post

  09-10-2018 21:52
  Taylor Swift at her Reputation Stadium Tour at Nissan Stadium on Aug. 25 in Nashville.John Shearer / Getty Images for TAS file / Courtesy: NBC News
  They’re ready for it.
  Vote.org reported a surge in registrations, especially among young people, within a couple days of an Instagram post from Taylor Swift directing her fans to the site.
  In the Sunday post, Swift warned her followers in Tennessee that if they missed the Oct. 9 voter registration deadline, there would be “troub
  
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• Determined runner struck by deer finishes half marathon

  09-10-2018 21:49
  SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) — A runner who was struck by a deer during a half marathon in New Jersey still managed to cross the finish line.
  Christina Sanchez tells the Asbury Park Press that she was on Mile 10 of the Jersey Shore Half Marathon at Sandy Hook on Sunday when a large buck took her out.
  Sanchez says the deer came dashing out of the woods and struck her in a “blur of brown and white fur.”
  The Fair Haven woman was knocked down before the deer sprinted back into a wooded ar
  
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• Motocross headed to Florida for the 1st time since 1997

  09-10-2018 21:46
  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Major motocross racing is headed back to Florida for the first time in 21 years.
  The 2019 schedule for the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship was announced Tuesday and will include a June 22 race at WW Ranch Motocross Park in Jacksonville.
  The series starts May 18 at the Hangtown Motocross Classic in Rancho Cordova, California, and concludes at Ironman Raceway in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on Aug. 24.
  Eli Tomac is the two-time reigning 450cc champion in outdoor mot
  
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• Hurricanes forward Dewan Huell changes name to Hernandez

  09-10-2018 21:46
  CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami Hurricanes forward Dewan Huell says he has legally changed his last name to Hernandez in honor of his mother, Christina Hernandez.
  The 6-foot-10 Hernandez averaged 11.4 points and 6.6 rebounds as a sophomore last season and started all 32 games. He declared for the NBA draft in April but later decided to return for his junior season.
  The Hurricanes have started practice and open the season Nov. 9 against Lehigh.
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• Broncos’ Johnson pleads to 2 counts; DUI charge dropped

  09-10-2018 21:46
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Denver Broncos linebacker Alexander Johnson has pleaded guilty to simple possession and failure to exercise due care while driving and had a DUI charge against him dismissed.
  Johnson agreed to a judicial diversion program enabling the charges to be dropped if he pays court costs and successfully completes 363 days of unsupervised probation.
  The Knoxville News-Sentinel first reported the news.
  Johnson was charged with a DUI and cited for simple possession in July 201
  
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• Animal sanctuary, farm team up to save pig from slaughter

  09-10-2018 21:46
  HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — An animal sanctuary and a farm are working together to spare a young slaughterhouse-bound pig to promote local agriculture in New Hampshire.
  Beans and Greens Farm of Gilford is hoping to send the pig named Grover to the Tomten Farm and Sanctuary in Haverhill where it will live out its days.
  The Caledonian-Record reports Grover, described as the “runtiest of runts,” has touched the lives of people who know him via the farm stand’s petting zoo. Sanctu
  
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• Crash that killed 20 highlights safety problems with stretch limousines

  09-10-2018 21:45
  The horrific limousine crash that killed 18 people celebrating a birthday and two pedestrians over the weekend in upstate New York renewed questions over the safety and regulation of the stretch vehicles.
  The 2001 Ford Excursion limousine involved in the deadly crash was “a chopped vehicle,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, meaning it had been cut from a passenger vehicle and extended.
  The limousine also did not have a certification that it had been extended “i
  
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• Arizona authorities freeing migrant families from detention

  09-10-2018 21:43
  PHOENIX (AP) — Immigration authorities say they are releasing some asylum-seeking migrant families held in detention in Arizona because they don’t have the resources to handle a new influx of adults with children asking to stay in the U.S.
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials did not say how many migrants were released beginning Sunday, but KTAR news radio reports more than 400 people have been freed to await their amnesty claims. A spokeswoman at Shadow Rock United Chu
  
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• Padres fire hitting coach Matt Stairs after lackluster year

  09-10-2018 21:39
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have fired hitting coach Matt Stairs after one year on the job as the team continued to rank at the bottom of the majors in key offensive stats.
  General manager A.J. Preller confirmed the move Tuesday, saying in a text to The Associated Press: “We made the change.”
  The rebuilding Padres finished last in the NL West at 66-96, five losses worse than 2017.
  Stairs’ replacement will be the Padres’ 10th hitting coach since Petco Park
  
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• Eegees claps back at Dutch Bros’ coffee offer with free Eegee’s

  09-10-2018 21:33
  TUCSON – With hundreds of people lining up at Dutch Bros. Coffee for a free beverage this morning, Eegee’s is making it clear whose turf the Oregon coffee chain is operating in.
  For a special promotion on Dutch Bros. Coffee’s Tucson grand opening, the local coffee chain will be offering a free small Eegee’s with any food purchase. According to the offer, the offer is only good for Oct. 9.
  Dutch Bros, you may have one store opening today, but we have 24 locations in Tucson
  
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• Pac-12 Power Rankings: No Stopping Chris Petersen and the Washington Huskies

  09-10-2018 21:32
  Welcome to another week of action-packed college football in the land of In-N-Out and bad officiating, better known as the Pac-12. We were treated to several tantalizing contests last Saturday, with Arizona's defense saving the day against Cal, while Colorado outlasted ASU in Boulder and Washington and Washington State survived stiff challenges by conference lightweights, UCLA and Oregon State.…
  
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• West Virginia justice concludes testimony in own trial

  09-10-2018 21:23
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A suspended West Virginia Supreme Court justice has concluded his testimony in his federal criminal trial.
  Justice Allen Loughry was grilled by a federal prosecutor for a second day Tuesday over receipts and the use of state-owned property that the government contends was for his own benefit.
  Defense attorney John Carr asked Loughry about odometer readings for some state vehicles he drove that were lower than previous readings for the same car driven on the same da
  
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• Renewed effort begins for St. Louis MLS franchise, stadium

  09-10-2018 21:16
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis is back in the hunt for a Major League Soccer expansion franchise after the family behind rental car company Enterprise Holdings announced a bid that calls for a new stadium built mostly with private funding.
  Members of the Taylor family said Tuesday that the franchise would be majority-owned by women, a first in MLS and a rarity in professional sports. The group also includes Jim Kavanaugh of St. Louis-based World Wide Technology.
  St. Louis hopes to become a thr
  
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• Russia to resume gas imports from Turkmenistan

  09-10-2018 21:15
  ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — The head of Russia’s giant state-controlled gas company says it plans to resume imports from Turkmenistan after a three-year break over a pricing dispute.
  Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said in televised remarks while visiting Turkmenistan that the company expects to start buying gas from the Central Asian country starting Jan. 1.
  Miller said he discussed the prospect of renewed imports with Turkmen officials on Tuesday, but volumes and other details are ye
  
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• Jaguars sign Jamaal Charles to help while Fournette’s out

  09-10-2018 21:10
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed former Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles to help during Leonard Fournette’s absence.
  The 31-year-old Charles worked out for the team Tuesday morning and signed a one-year contract in the afternoon.
  The Jaguars (3-2) lost third-string running back Corey Grant (foot) for the season and don’t expect to have Fournette back for several more weeks. They promoted first-year back Brandon Wilds from the practice
  
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• Fox News draws a big audience for final Kavanaugh vote

  09-10-2018 21:07
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Senate’s vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a time to celebrate at Fox News Channel.
  The network recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade.
  The Nielsen company said Fox reached 4.34 million viewers for the Senate vote, the biggest Saturday audience since Hurricane Katrina coverage in 2005.
  Saturday’s prime-time lineup did even better, drawing Fox’s largest crowd since the Iraq War in 2003.
  CNN and MSNBC vi
  
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• Officials: Power lines ignited fatal blaze in California

  09-10-2018 20:53
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California fire officials say two sagging Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power lines made contact and ignited a blaze last year that killed four people and injured a firefighter.
  The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Tuesday strong winds caused the lines to touch, creating an electrical arc that sent molten material onto dry vegetation below.
  The blaze in Yuba County that started on Oct. 8, 2017, scorched 15 square miles (39 square kilometer
  
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• Ex-educators to begin prison time in Atlanta cheating case

  09-10-2018 20:51
  ATLANTA (AP) — Two former educators convicted in a major test-cheating scandal in Atlanta say they plan to begin their prison sentences after they were convicted of racketeering.
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson will be the first to go to prison for participating in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating conspiracy. Several former teachers and administrators changed students’ answers on tests to get bonuses and raises based on the phony s
  
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• Penguins G Matt Murray out indefinitely with a concussion

  09-10-2018 20:48
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray is out indefinitely with a concussion.
  Coach Mike Sullivan said Murray suffered the concussion during practice Monday and reported potential symptoms immediately afterward. Sullivan did not offer specifics on the nature of the contact that led to the injury.
  This is the third time in his NHL career the 24-year-old Murray has been diagnosed with a concussion.
  He struggled during the opening week of the season. He allowed six goals
  
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