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• Judge: No insanity defense for man charged in police attack

  11-10-2018 23:50
  UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a man charged in a deadly shooting at a Maryland police station is not qualified to pursue an insanity defense.
  The Washington Post reports the ruling by a Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge did acknowledge that 25-year-old Michael Deandre Ford has serious mental-health issues. Ford’s attorney, Antoini M. Jones, said at Thursday’s hearing that doctors assessed Ford but determined his challenges stemming from childh
  
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• 2 men banned from Texas gun range after selfie with firearm

  11-10-2018 23:47
  HOUSTON (AP) — Two men have been banned from a Houston gun range for life after one pointed an unloaded gun at the other while taking a picture.
  Top Gun Range manager Kyle Harrison tells television station KTRK he was alarmed when he saw the one man point the handgun at himself then at his friend’s head while he took a selfie. The safety officer broke it up and ejected the pair, and the gun range posted surveillance video of the incident on Twitter.
  Harrison calls the act “a ca
  
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• New recording of Sinema implying Arizona produces: ‘Crazy’

  11-10-2018 23:46
  PHOENIX (AP) — Republican activists are releasing a secret recording Thursday of Democratic Arizona Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema criticizing her state to liberal activists in 2011.
  In the recording Sinema said “there’s something wrong” with Arizona’s political leaders. She noted they were Republican. Finally, she joked that Arizona could now be known for more than producing copper and cattle — it could be known for producing “crazy.”
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• AP Exclusive: Costly plan aims to stem inmate overdoses

  11-10-2018 23:39
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal official who controls medical care in California prisons wants as much as a quarter-billion dollars a year to provide medication intended to ease a record increase of fatal drug overdoses among inmates.
  The plan by Clark Kelso released to The Associated Press Thursday calls for the state to eventually provide drugs to 13,000 inmates to reduce craving and euphoria while weening them off opioids.
  It’s the latest in years of attempts to stem overdoses
  
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• No jury verdict in West Virginia justice’s criminal trial

  11-10-2018 23:35
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal jury has deliberated for a second day without reaching a verdict in the criminal trial of a suspended West Virginia Supreme Court justice.
  The jury was sent home Thursday evening and is expected to resume deliberations Friday. Jurors began deliberating Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Charleston.
  Loughry is accused of driving state cars and buying gasoline with a state credit card for his own benefit. Most of the 22 counts are for wire fraud.
  
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• Late Mbappe double earns France draw against Iceland

  11-10-2018 23:31
  GUINGAMP, France (AP) — Kylian Mbappe salvaged a 2-2 draw for world champion France with a last-minute equalizer in Thursday’s friendly against Iceland.
  Iceland was 2-0 up with five minutes left at the Roudourou stadium in Brittany and looked set to hand France its first loss since winning the World Cup in July.
  Mbappe, who went on as a substitute for the last half an hour, was the home team’s savior though.
  The Paris Saint-Germain forward pulled a goal back when he fired in fr
  
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• UA engineering students test out solar ovens

  11-10-2018 23:30
  TUCSON – University of Arizona engineering students tested out their homemade solar ovens on the campus mall, on Wednesday.
  The freshman students teamed up for the project and constructed the ovens from scratch. The goal was for students to calculate the temperatures of their designs.
  “We’re grading them on how well they were able to model an oven and predict how it will perform,” Ted Trouard, UA engineering professor. “Not necessarily the hottest oven, but how wel
  
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• JCPenney looking to hire 200 in Tucson this holiday season

  11-10-2018 23:27
  TUCSON – Looking for a new job to help lessen the expenses this holiday season?
  JCPenney is looking to hire about 200 seasonal associates throughout Tucson. To help a variety of different positions in the Old Pueblo, JCPenny will host its second annual National Hiring Day event this Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m.
  During the job fair, store management will hold in-person interviews and will be hiring qualified candidates at the event itself.
  To help encourage people to apply, the company will be
  
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• Border Patrol arrests two people who fled I-19 checkpoint

  11-10-2018 23:25
  TUCSON – Two people are facing criminal charges, after authorities said they tried to smuggle five Mexican nationals through an immigration checkpoint south of Tucson.
  The incident happened last Tuesday night, at the Interstate 19 checkpoint.
  Authorities said the driver of a Chrysler 300 was flagged for additional screening, after a Border Patrol canine alerted to the vehicle.
  Agents said the driver, a 36-year-old U.S. citizen, then took off, but she ultimately stopped the vehicle.
  The 28-
  
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• US pastor detained in Turkey may soon be released

  11-10-2018 23:24
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An American pastor may soon be released after two years of captivity in Turkey.
  A person involved in efforts to free Andrew Brunson say the 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina could be freed at his next court appearance on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because officials had not yet reached a final agreement on the release and it could still fall through.
  Brunson was among thousands of people arrested in Turkey in police sweeps following
  
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• Official exoneration for man freed last year in 1973 rape

  11-10-2018 23:21
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A legal ordeal that has dragged on for close to half a century is finally over for a man wrongfully convicted in a 1971 rape.
  The advocacy group Innocence Project New Orleans said Thursday that prosecutors in Baton Rouge officially dismissed charges against Wilbert Jones in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse at Baton Rouge General Hospital.
  Jones was released from the state prison at Angola last November after spending nearly 46 years behind bars. A state judge said that
  
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• Early Voting Site on the University of Arizona Campus

  11-10-2018 23:21
  TUCSON — The University of Arizona will be hosting an early voting site on the UA campus from Monday, Oct. 15, through Friday, Nov. 2.
  Anyone who is registered to vote in Pima County can drop off their ballots at the office of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. The office is located in room 325W on the third floor of the Student Union Memorial Center.The office will be open weekdays only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and signs will direct voters to the exact location.
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• 5 dead, 12 missing in collapse of northern Mexico mall

  11-10-2018 23:21
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least five people are dead after the collapse of a shopping mall under construction in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey.
  The civil defense office in the state of Nuevo Leon, where Monterrey is located, said that two people had been pulled alive from the rubble and 12 were listed as missing.
  Photos taken by the office showed emergency personnel hauling the injured men out of the rubble. About 100 emergency personnel were looking for more people who may be trapped.
  
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• Portugal keeps winning in Nations League without Ronaldo

  11-10-2018 23:19
  MADRID (AP) — No Cristiano Ronaldo, no problem.
  European champion Portugal sparkled on Thursday despite the absence of its star forward, defeating Poland to move a step closer to the last four of the UEFA Nations League.
  With young Sevilla striker Andre Silva scoring again, Portugal won 3-2 in Chorzow to take control of Group 3 of the top-tier League A in Europe’s newest competition.
  Portugal now has six points from two games, five points ahead of Poland and Italy. Only the group win
  
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• Izzo says he never tried to cover up sex assault allegations

  11-10-2018 23:19
  ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo insists he was never part of an effort to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct within the school’s athletic department.
  The Hall of Famer says the idea that he would be involved “makes me sick.”
  Izzo says his “lowest point” was an ESPN report last winter that he felt lumped him and Spartans football coach Mark Dantonio in with Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State and Team USA sports doctor imprisoned
  
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• Rare baby okapi born at Florida zoo dies

  11-10-2018 23:14
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida zoo says an endangered distant relative of a giraffe has died, less than two months after its birth.
  ZooTampa at Lowry Park said Thursday that laboratory tests suggest the female okapi (oh-COP-ee) had a condition similar to diabetes and died from acute renal failure.
  The Tampa Bay Times reports that the calf had reached milestones, including standing on her own.
  Zoo veterinarian Ray Ball says staff left the baby in the okapi habitat area of the zoo with her mot
  
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• Ranger involved in shooting at the Grand Canyon

  11-10-2018 23:11
  Authorities are investigating a shooting involving a park ranger at the Grand Canyon.
  Officials said it happened on the South Rim of the national park around 1 a.m., on Thursday.
  Park officials said the suspect is in custody and has been taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
  The ranger also suffered minor injuries, according to a news release.
  Details regarding what lead up to the shooting have yet to be released.
  The National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch is looking int
  
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• Lochte’s lawyer to AP: Swimmer counseled for alcohol use

  11-10-2018 23:00
  Ryan Lochte’s attorney says the swimmer is undergoing counseling for alcohol use, but the 12-time Olympic medalist is not in a treatment facility and is training in his bid to make the 2020 Tokyo Games.
  Jeff Ostrow tells The Associated Press on Thursday that Lochte’s decision to pursue counseling has nothing to do with incidents in California and Florida last week.
  Asked if Lochte plans to give up alcohol, Ostrow says, “Ryan will make that decision.”
  Ostrow says the 34-ye
  
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• 4 arrested over shooting of youth football coach near school

  11-10-2018 23:00
  MILLVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Four people have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a New Jersey youth football coach who was gunned down in a school parking lot after practice last summer.
  Thirty-seven-year-old Joseph Jones was shot and killed Aug. 9 in the parking lot at Lakeside Middle School in Millville.
  Prosecutors say the Millville youth football league had just wrapped up practice and many children were nearby when shots rang out.
  Cumberland County prosecutors announced
  
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• Body found on Mount Hood identified as missing Arizona hiker

  11-10-2018 22:50
  MOUNT HOOD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a body found on Mount Hood has been identified as a 30-year-old Arizona hiker who had been reported missing on Monday.
  The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says a climber happened to spot the body of Phoenix resident David Yaghmourian Thursday morning at about 8,300 feet (2.6 kilometers) on the mountain.
  The sheriff’s office says there was snow in the area and that his body was found outside the search area and at a higher level than exp
  
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• Body found on Mount Hood amid search for missing hiker

  11-10-2018 22:50
  MOUNT HOOD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a body was found on Mount Hood amid a search for a missing Arizona hiker.
  Sgt. Sean Collinson of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says a climber happened to spot the body Thursday morning at about 8,300 feet (2.6 kilometers) on the mountain.
  Authorities haven’t confirmed whether the body belongs to 30-year-old Phoenix resident David Yaghmourian, who was reported missing on Monday.
  Collinson says the person appeared hypothermic and he
  
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• Abortion clinic, other groups seeking $1.5M from Kentucky

  11-10-2018 22:45
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s only abortion clinic and two groups are asking for almost $1.5 million in legal costs from the state after winning a federal case over the clinic’s existence.
  The Courier Journal reports that lawyers for EMW Women’s Surgical Center of Louisville, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and the American Civil Liberties Union filed motions Thursday seeking legal expenses.
  Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration didn’t immediately re
  
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• Duke LB Quansah has surgery on broken bone in left foot

  11-10-2018 22:40
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke linebacker Koby Quansah is out indefinitely with a broken bone in his left foot.
  Team spokesman Art Chase said Quansah had surgery Thursday to repair his fractured fifth metatarsal.
  Quansah has 14 tackles in five games with nine coming in the opener against Army. The junior has made four career starts.
  Duke (4-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) visits Georgia Tech (3-3, 1-2) on Saturday.
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• US asks Central America to do more on illegal immigration

  11-10-2018 22:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has told leaders of three Central American countries that the U.S. is ready to do more to help their economies if they make a greater effort to fight illegal immigration.
  Pence addressed President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala and Vice President Oscar Ortiz of El Salvador as he opened a conference in Washington on Thursday.
  Hernandez replied he would like more certainty about what to expect from the Unit
  
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• Brewers going with lefty Gio Gonzalez in Game 1 of NLCS

  11-10-2018 22:36
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gio Gonzalez will start for the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
  The Brewers have chosen Wade Miley to start in Game 2 on Saturday, meaning that Milwaukee will open up the NLCS with two straight lefties. Right-hander Jhoulys Chacin will go in Game 3 on Monday in Los Angeles.
  Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced his rotation on Thursday.
  Gonzalez was 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA in five starts for the Brew
  
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• APNewsBreak: Louisiana pays $149K to settle harassment suit

  11-10-2018 22:36
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is paying $149,075 to end a sexual misconduct lawsuit against former Secretary of State Tom Schedler that was filed by one of his former employees.
  Schedler will personally pay $18,425 on top of the taxpayer-financed amount.
  Details of the settlement were provided Thursday to The Associated Press by the Division of Administration. The payments will resolve legal claims that Schedler sexually harassed a woman who worked for him.
  A state district judge has s
  
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• Argentina routs Iraq 4-0 despite Messi’s absence

  11-10-2018 22:35
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina, without rested Barcelona striker Lionel Messi, thrashed Iraq 4-0 in a friendly on Thursday with goals from Lautaro Martinez, Roberto Pereyra, German Pezzella and Franco Cervi.
  Inter Milan striker Martinez’s 18th-minute goal at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd stadium was his first for his country.
  The friendly marked the return of goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who was forced out of the 2018 World Cup with a knee injury.
  Argentina next plays Brazil at t
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen switches to Democratic Party

  11-10-2018 22:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — Republican President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has returned to the Democratic Party.
  Cohen attorney Lanny Davis said Thursday on Twitter that his client has changed his registration from Republican to Democrat. He says Cohen made the change to distance “himself from the values of the current” administration.
  The switch came on the eve of Friday’s deadline for New Yorkers to register to vote in the November election.
  Cohen pleaded gui
  
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• National Park Service ranger shoots suspect at Grand Canyon

  11-10-2018 22:26
  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a National Park Service ranger shot a suspect at Grand Canyon National Park.
  They say both the ranger and suspect sustained minor injuries in the incident at the canyon’s South Rim about 1 a.m. Thursday.
  Park officials say the suspect is in custody and taken to a hospital.
  Details of the shooting weren’t immediately released and authorities didn’t identify the suspect or the ranger.
  Park officials say the FBI has be
  
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• Correction: Grand Canyon-Shooting story

  11-10-2018 22:26
  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — In a story Oct. 11 about an incident at Grand Canyon National Park, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a park ranger shot a suspect. While the ranger’s weapon was fired, authorities said the suspect’s injuries were due to a scuffle with the ranger.
  A corrected version of the story is below:
  Ranger fires shot during scuffle with suspect at Grand Canyon
  Authorities say a Grand Canyon National Park ranger fired a shot while scuf
  
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• Social Security money rise

  11-10-2018 22:23
  Social Security benefits will rise 2.8% next year.
  That’s under the cost-of-living adjustment. That’s the biggest jump in 7 years. For the average retired worker it will mean roughly $39 more each month. The cost-of-living adjustment is based on a board index of consumer prices calculated by the government.
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• Pacers put 2 players on waivers with regular season looming

  11-10-2018 22:21
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers have placed Omari Johnson and Elijah Stewart on waivers.
  The moves came less than a week before Indiana’s regular season opener against Memphis.
  Johnson is a 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward who made his NBA debut in 2017. The Oregon State alum did not appear any preseason games with Indiana.
  Stewart is a 6-5, 194-pound guard from Southern California. He was averaging 3.5 points and 1.5 rebounds during the preseason.
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• Higher rates both a sign of US economic might and risk to it

  11-10-2018 22:21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s dizzying sell-offs in the financial markets have been a rude reminder that the U.S. economy is no longer relying on ultra-low interest rates to fuel growth.
  Borrowing costs are rising for companies, homebuyers and the U.S. government — all of which could eventually dampen economic growth.
  Yet the climb in interest rates also reflects an economy that’s still managing to accelerate on the energy of an expansion now in its 10th year — the
  
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• ‘Apocalyptic:’ One Florida town demolished by Michael

  11-10-2018 22:20
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The small Gulf Coast community of Mexico Beach was known as a slice of old Florida.
  Now it lies in splinters.
  Hit head-on by Hurricane Michael, homes in the town of about 1,190 people were shattered or ripped from their foundations. Boats were tossed like toys. The streets closest to the water looked as if a bomb had gone off.
  What the 9-foot storm surge didn’t destroy, the 155 mph (250 kph) winds finished off.
  Now, rescuers and residents are struggling to g
  
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• Olympic speedskating medalist Jeanne Ashworth dies at 80

  11-10-2018 22:14
  WILMINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — Jeanne Ashworth, the first American woman to win an Olympic speedskating medal, has died. She was 80.
  The website of the Heald Funeral Home in Elizabethtown, New York, says she died at home Oct. 4 of pancreatic cancer.
  Ashworth competed in three Olympics and captured 14 North American championships.
  She won the 500-meter bronze at Squaw Valley, California in 1960, finishing two-tenths of a second behind winner Helga Haase. She also skated at the 1964 Games in Innsbr
  
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• Trump steps up his attacks on Federal Reserve’s rate hikes

  11-10-2018 22:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has escalated his attack on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases, asserting that “the Fed is out of control” and blaming it for this week’s plunge in stock prices.
  “It’s a correction that I think is caused by the Federal Reserve with interest rates,” Trump said when asked by reporters in the Oval Office about the stock market swoon.
  He added, “We have interest rates going up at a clip that&rsq
  
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• Steelers WR Brown to fight civil lawsuits

  11-10-2018 22:03
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown is planning to fight a pair of lawsuits filed against him stemming from an incident at a Florida apartment complex last spring.
  Ophir Sternberg is seeking damages against Brown, claiming that objects thrown by Brown from the 14th floor of an apartment building came close to striking Sternberg’s father and Sternberg’s 22-month-old son in April. The lawsuit claims Sternberg’s son was “extremely traumati
  
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• Dow drops 545 points as selling is widespread; two-day loss of 5.3 percent is largest since February

  11-10-2018 22:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dow drops 545 points as selling is widespread; two-day loss of 5.3 percent is largest since February.
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• Staying warm this winter may cost more for American families

  11-10-2018 21:57
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Energy Information Administration says the cost of staying warm is going to grow this winter for the average American — and especially those who rely on heating oil.
  The federal agency is predicting a 20 percent increase in spending for heating oil but more modest increases of 3 percent for electricity and 5 percent for natural gas. It says propane expenditures are expected to be roughly on par with last year.
  The figures, which vary by region, are based on
  
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• Poland vetoes EU rights report not citing Christians, Jews

  11-10-2018 21:49
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says it is vetoing the adoption of an annual report on the European Union’s guiding civil rights document because it did not call for protecting Christians and Jews from religious discrimination.
  Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro’s decision on Thursday to oppose the latest update on the application of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights meant the report lacked the unanimity required for approval.
  The veto adds to a series
  
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• Make Food Count at Tucson Meet Yourself

  11-10-2018 21:49
  At this weekend's Tucson Meet Yourself Festival, the Food Justice Expo will be featuring different organizations, food businesses and non profits from Southern Arizona. Through sampling, interactive displays and demonstrations, the expo will shed light on the many food initiatives that Tucson has to offer.…
  
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• UN urges action on marking disputed Sudan-South Sudan border

  11-10-2018 21:48
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border for the last time unless both countries demonstrate “measurable progress” on marking their border.
  A resolution adopted by the U.N.’s most powerful body on Thursday sets out seven specific measures that Sudan and South Sudan must take in the next six months for the force to remain, at a reduced level of just un
  
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• West Virginia court blocks justice’s impeachment trial

  11-10-2018 21:46
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A group of judicial stand-ins has granted a petition sought by West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman to block her upcoming impeachment trial.
  Five acting justices on the Supreme Court ruled in an opinion issued Thursday that the prosecution of Workman in the state Senate would violate the state constitution’s separation of powers clause.
  Workman had filed the petition against the state Senate and its leaders, acting as the court of impeachment.
  
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• More cases potentially tainted by high lab worker tossed out

  11-10-2018 21:46
  BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts has ordered the dismissal of more drug cases potentially tainted by a former chemist authorities say was high almost every day for the eight years she worked at a state drug lab.
  The Supreme Judicial Court said Thursday the state must dismiss the cases of all people whose convictions were based on evidence at the Amherst lab between Jan. 1, 2009, and when the lab closed on Jan. 18, 2013.
  Thousands of cases that relied on analyses performed b
  
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• Overpressurized lines caused deadly gas explosions, feds say

  11-10-2018 21:43
  LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — Federal investigators are confirming overpressurized natural gas lines were the source of the deadly explosions and fires in communities north of Boston last month.
  Thursday’s preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says Columbia Gas workers failed to account for the location of critical gas pressure sensors in Lawrence on Sept. 13. It caused high-pressure gas to flood a low-pressure distribution system at excessive levels.
  The excessiv
  
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• Facebook says it purged more than 800 spam accounts, pages

  11-10-2018 21:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it has purged more than 800 U.S. pages and accounts for spamming users with garbage links and clickbait.
  Facebook accuses their backers of “coordinated inauthentic behavior” for setting up networks of pages and accounts designed to mislead users about who they are and what they’re doing.
  The social network says these accounts spread “sensational political content” designed to drive people to ad-laden websites outside Facebook. In
  
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• Mudslide kills 12 people in central Colombia

  11-10-2018 21:21
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian disaster officials say at least 12 people have died in a mudslide that swept through their mountainside homes.
  Officials say the slide occurred at about 2 a.m. Thursday in the central Colombian town of Marquetalia and caught the victims during their sleep.
  Four children were killed by the mudslide and 53 people were rescued.
  Heavy rains cause floods and mudslides that kill dozens of people every year in Colombia.Rescue workers say the latest mudslide destr
  
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• Economy, energy and Trump dominate Colorado governor’s race

  11-10-2018 21:21
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is banking on his wealth, entrepreneurial experience and anti-Donald Trump sentiment in his quest to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November.
  His Republican opponent, state Treasurer Walker Stapleton, argues Polis’ ideas for tackling underfunded schools and roads and adopting green energy standards will jeopardize the state’s strong economy.
  Colorado hasn’t had a Republican governor since 2
  
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• Advocate demands election system review in Tennessee county

  11-10-2018 21:21
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An elections integrity advocate is demanding that Tennessee officials subject voting systems in the state’s largest county to a rigorous security review and overhaul.
  Attorney Carol Chumney asked Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and Shelby County Election Commission officials to seek risk and vulnerability assessments of county voting systems by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ahead of the Nov. 6 elections.
  Chumney wants a voting system that use
  
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• Saudi crown prince’s carefully managed rise hides dark side

  11-10-2018 21:15
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stands out as the youthful face of a youthful nation, and is next in line to the throne. But behind the public-relations campaign pushing images of the smiling prince meeting with the world’s top leaders lurks a darker side.
  While pushing for women to drive, he has overseen the arrest of women’s rights activists. While calling for foreign investment, he has imprisoned businessmen and others in a corruptio
  
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