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• Athletic Bilbao winless streak in Liga ends on late penalty

  10-12-2018 23:57
  MADRID (AP) — Veteran striker Aritz Aduriz converted a penalty kick in stoppage time to end Athletic Bilbao’s 13-game winless streak in the Spanish league on Monday.
  Aduriz calmly converted his shot from the spot to give the hosts their first league win — 1-0 over Girona — since the first round in August.
  Athletic seemed headed to another draw until Jonas Ramalho fouled Iker Muniain inside the area.
  The result moved the Basque Country club even on points with Villarreal,
  
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• US judge tosses bulk of suit against Trump immigration move

  10-12-2018 23:53
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family members in the U.S.
  U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler on Monday threw out the bulk of a lawsuit that argued the termination of the Obama-era Central American Minors program was arbitrary and violated the U.S. Constitution.
  The International Refugee Assistance Project, a l
  
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• Italy’s Salvini says fears about new migrant law ‘surreal’

  10-12-2018 23:45
  ROME (AP) — Italy’s interior minister is defending a new government-backed law eliminating the category of “humanitarian protection” for migrants, saying it will actually provide more protections to real refugees.
  Matteo Salvini dismissed as “fake news of epic proportions” the alarm raised by Amnesty International and other human rights groups that thousands of migrants could be out on the streets as a result of the law.
  Salvini said at a news conference Monda
  
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• Jaguars: Fournette yelled at fan in response to racial slur

  10-12-2018 23:44
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone says running back Leonard Fournette was responding to racial slurs while yelling at a fan in Nashville, Tennessee last Thursday night.
  Fournette declined to address the accusation in the locker room Monday on the advice of his agent.
  Teammate and fellow running back T.J. Yeldon, however, said several fans directed racial slurs at Jacksonville players.
  “Did I hear it? Yeah,” Yeldon said. “All the running bac
  
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• Voters send decisive message against corruption in Peru

  10-12-2018 23:41
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Voters in Peru have sent a decisive message to the nation’s politicians: Push through measures to stamp out corruption.
  Official returns released Monday show that voters overwhelmingly favored three of the four proposals in a referendum on anti-corruption measures.
  Over 12 million Peruvians voted Sunday in favor of prohibiting legislators from seeking immediate re-election, tightening campaign finance rules and empowering the public to select members of a powerful j
  
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• Ex-sailing chief questions voting on class for 2024 Games

  10-12-2018 23:32
  The former head of sailing’s governing body has joined other sailing officials in questioning the results of a vote to add a mixed-gender offshore class to the 2024 Olympics.
  Paul Henderson of Toronto, who headed sailing’s governing body from 1994-2004 and also is a former member of the International Olympic Committee, said in a letter to World Sailing President Kim Andersen of Denmark that some votes were recorded incorrectly during the recent annual conference in Sarasota, Florida,
  
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• Thousands of mailed ballots in Florida were not counted

  10-12-2018 23:22
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices.
  The Department of State last week informed a federal judge that 6,670 ballots were mailed ahead of the Nov. 6 election but were not counted because they were not received by Election Day. The tally prepared by state officials includes totals from 65 of Florida’s 67 counties.
  Three statewide Florida races, including the contest for
  
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• Suspicious device reported near Alvernon Way, Grant

  10-12-2018 23:22
  TUCSON – Tucson Police Department bomb squad crews were dispatched to the intersection of Alvernon Way and Grant Road Monday afternoon in reference to a suspicious device located in a vehicle.
  According to TPD, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a search warrant at the home of a suspect last week. The suspect was not home when the warrant was executed.
  On Monday, surveillance video located the suspect and an arrest warrant for federal firearms violations wa
  
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• UN: 20 million Yemenis are hungry, 250,000 face catastrophe

  10-12-2018 23:21
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief says 20 million people in Yemen are hungry — a 15 percent increase from last year. And he says that for the first time, 250,000 face “catastrophe,” which means starvation, death and destitution.
  Mark Lowcock recently returned from Yemen and told reporters Monday that there has been “a significant, dramatic deterioration” of the situation in Yemen.
  There are five levels on the global scale for classifying the se
  
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• Northern Arizona hires Chris Ball as next football coach

  10-12-2018 23:21
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Northern Arizona has hired Memphis defensive coordinator Chris Ball as its next football coach.
  Ball’s hiring was announced by the school Monday.
  Ball replaces Jerome Souers, who stepped down after 21 years to take another position within the athletic department.
  Ball spent the past three seasons as the Tigers defensive coordinator under Mike Norvell. He led a defense that forced the fifth-most turnovers in the FBS over a three-year span and was third national
  
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• Border Patrol handcuffs demonstrators supporting migrants

  10-12-2018 23:21
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents have handcuffed about a dozen people participating in a demonstration organized by a Quaker group at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling for the end of the detention and deportation of immigrants and the militarization of the border.
  A photographer for The Associated Press saw about a dozen people being handcuffed Monday after they were told by agents to move back away from a wall.
  US Customs and Border Protection spokesman Theo Francisco says he had
  
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• Study: Social media surpasses newspapers as news source

  10-12-2018 23:20
  NEW YORK (AP) — A survey says Americans today are more likely to get news from social media web sites than newspapers.
  The Pew Research Center said Monday that 20 percent of Americans cited social media as a frequent news source, compared to 16 percent that credited newspapers. It’s the first time since Pew has found sites like Facebook and Twitter outpacing newspapers.
  Pew has been asking about news consumption, with a slight change in wording, since 1991. That year, 56 percent of A
  
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• Polygamous group lets go of sprawling Arizona worship center

  10-12-2018 23:17
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous group at the Utah-Arizona border is letting go of the sprawling building where it worshipped in the latest sign that the sect run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs is crumbling and losing control of the community it ruled for a century.
  Jeff Barlow says the nearly 53,000 square-foot (4,900 square-meter) meetinghouse in the remote red rock community hadn’t been used for at least six months and the utilities had been turned off for about a month.
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• California family finds cat alive a month after deadly blaze

  10-12-2018 23:15
  PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A family has been reunited with their cat after it stayed behind during a deadly wildfire last month that leveled their home in Northern California.
  Courtney Werblow and her family returned to her parents’ burned home in Paradise over the weekend and found their beloved cat, Timber, standing near the ruins.
  Werblow recorded a video of the emotional moment when she spots the beige cat with a brown face looking at them from a distance.
  She starts to cry as she c
  
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• Digne’s last-gasp free kick earns Everton 2-2 draw v Watford

  10-12-2018 23:13
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Lucas Digne curled home a free kick in the sixth minute of injury time to earn Everton a 2-2 draw with the Watford after a wild second half featuring three goals and a saved penalty in the English Premier League on Monday.
  Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster kept out a penalty from Gylfi Sigurdsson with the score at 2-1, but barely moved when Digne whipped his free kick into the top corner from the edge of the area in the final minute of stoppage time.
  The match started
  
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• The Latest: Teen charged with killing pregnant schoolmate

  10-12-2018 23:12
  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of pregnant teen in northern Indiana (all times local):
  5:10 p.m.
  Authorities say an Indiana high school football player told investigators that he killed a 17-year-old schoolmate because she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion.
  Sixteen-year-old Aaron Trejo was charged as an adult with murder on Monday in the Sunday killing of Breana Rouhselang and the fetus. He was arrested Sund
  
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• NASA’s first look: Tiny asteroid is studded with boulders

  10-12-2018 23:10
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.
  Scientists on Monday released the first morsels of data collected since their spacecraft Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs about 80 million tons (73 million metric tons). Bennu regularly crosses Earth’s orbit and will come perilously close to Earth in about 150 years.
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• Meek Mill, Fat Joe attend DJ Khaled’s Miami birthday bash

  10-12-2018 23:07
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Meek Mill, Busta Rhymes and Fat Joe were among the rappers who came out to celebrate DJ Khaled’s birthday at an over-the-top party at the Perez Art Museum to close out Art Basel in Miami Beach.
  The Haute Living party celebrated birthdays for both DJ Khaled and his wife Nicole with a 60-person dinner Sunday night. Swizz Beatz gave a special DJ set, getting guests pumped up when he played “This Is How We Do It.” He toasted the birthday couple, sayin
  
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• N4T Cooks: Tenderloin tails

  10-12-2018 23:05
  Name of Restaurant: Bob’s Steak and Chop House Tucson
  Name of Dish: Tenderloin tailsIngredients for dish:Prime tenderloin beef
  “True Love” honey
  bleu cheesePreparation Instructions:
  4 oz. prime tenderloin, cut into ½ inch cubes, pan seared until medium rare (approximately 2 minutes); plate the tenderloin and drizzle 1 tablespoon of the “True Love” honey, and crumble ¼ cup of bleu cheese over top of the dish
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• Prescott Valley woman reported missing

  10-12-2018 22:54
  TUCSON – Prescott Valley Police Department is on the lookout for a woman who suffers from dementia.
  Debra Dehart was last seen leaving her residence in her vehicle Sunday at 8 p.m. Her vehicle was described as a silver, four-door 2019 Kia station wagon with the Arizona license plate B055693.
  Debra Dehart left her residence, in her Silver 2019 Kia 4D SW with AZ temporary plate B055693/ Prescott Valley PD
  Police say the woman failed to return home that evening.
  Anyone with information is adv
  
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• Puerto Rico to hire crews to fix streetlights after Maria

  10-12-2018 22:53
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s power company says it plans to hire private firms to repair some 106,000 streetlights across the U.S. territory that remain in the dark more than a year after Hurricane Maria.
  Technical operations chief Carlos Alvarado says the island’s Electric Power Authority does not have enough employees to do the job. He says he expects to contract companies starting in mid-January for repairs that would otherwise take up to eight months.
  Alvarado
  
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• No party of ‘no’ here: House Dems like governing

  10-12-2018 22:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As House control is about to switch, it’s serving as a reminder about Democrats: They like government. And governing.
  While tea party Republicans swept to power to stop things — repeal Obamacare, roll back environmental regulations and decrease the size and scope of government — Democrats are marching into the majority to build it back up. And after spending eight downcast years in the minority, they can’t wait to get started.
  Democrats say the goa
  
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• Adoptable Pet: Hazelnut Needs a Home

  10-12-2018 22:49
  “I am a sweet girl who loves hot dogs and frisbees!”
  - Hazelnut
  Hazelnut is a 2-year-old girl who has graduated from the HSSA New Beginnings Canine Program.…
  
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• Hawks C Miles Plumlee out at least a week with injured knee

  10-12-2018 22:45
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks center Miles Plumlee will be out for at least a week because of an injured left knee.
  The team said in a release that Plumlee began experiencing pain before a practice last week. He underwent an MRI at Emory Sports Medicine Complex, which led to a non-surgical procedure on Monday.
  Plumlee will be re-evaluated Dec. 18.
  He has played sparingly for the Hawks, averaging 4.8 points in 16 games.
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• Hawks C Mile Plumlee out at least a week with injured knee

  10-12-2018 22:45
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks center Miles Plumlee will be out for at least a week because of an injured left knee.
  The team said in a release that Plumlee began experiencing pain before a practice last week. He underwent an MRI at Emory Sports Medicine Complex, which led to a non-surgical procedure on Monday.
  Plumlee will be re-evaluated Dec. 18.
  He has played sparingly for the Hawks, averaging 4.8 points in 16 games.
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• Chicago man campaigning for local candidate shot in the leg

  10-12-2018 22:43
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say a volunteer for a City Council candidate was shot in the leg as he was speaking on Facebook Live while campaigning in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.
  Police say that Maxwell Omowale Justice was speaking to the camera as he was handing out flyers and trying to get signatures for a candidate on Sunday afternoon in the West Englewood on the city’s South Side when shots could be heard. Justice drove himself to an area hospital. He was
  
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• Man with backyard bomb pleads guilty to explosives charge

  10-12-2018 22:37
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused of setting off a pipe bomb in his backyard has pleaded guilty to an explosives charge.
  Court records show that 61-year-old Joseph Caltagirone pleaded guilty Monday in Tampa federal court to possessing an unregistered destructive device. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
  Tampa police say the bomb squad happened to be conducting training in April when they heard a loud explosion. They followed a greyish-white smoke plume to Caltagirone’s home,
  
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• Researchers: Lanza documents may boost study of mass killers

  10-12-2018 22:36
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The disclosure of Adam Lanza’s writings and other documents offer little toward understanding why he carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, but researchers say the detail on the gunman’s mental decline could offer insights into the mind of a mass killer.
  Some relatives of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at the school on Dec. 14, 2012, said they welcomed the release of the long-withheld records, although they wish it had not c
  
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• Crew member of Starz series ‘Power’ hit, killed at shoot

  10-12-2018 22:36
  NEW YORK (AP) — A production assistant on the Starz network drama series “Power” has been struck and killed by a vehicle while setting up traffic cones for a film production in Brooklyn.
  Police say 63-year-old Pedro Jimenez, of Manhattan, was pronounced dead at a hospital following the accident just before 4:30 a.m. Monday in the Boerum Hill neighborhood.
  Police say the 64-year-old driver of the vehicle remained at the scene. There have been no arrests.
  A Starz spokeswoman says
  
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• Bills linebacker Matt Milano out with broken left leg

  10-12-2018 22:35
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills starting linebacker Matt Milano has had surgery to repair a broken left leg and will miss the remainder of the season.
  Coach Sean McDermott provided the update on Monday, a day after Milano broke his fibula in a 27-23 loss to the New York Jets. Milano was hurt when his leg became twisted in a pile after he stopped quarterback Sam Darnold from scoring at Buffalo’s 1 on third-and-goal from the 4 with 1:22 remaining.
  Milano was examined by team do
  
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• Historic Arizona mining hotel for sale for $6.2M

  10-12-2018 22:34
  JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — A century-old hotel linked to Arizona’s mining history is on the market.
  The Arizona Republic reports owners of the 100-year-old former Little Daisy Hotel in Jerome, which was later turned into a single-family home, is for sale at the asking price of $6.2 million.
  The fully renovated house, situated on 3.45 acres, has 12,000 square feet of living space, 2,900 square feet of interior porches and a 9,000-square-foot rooftop garden. It has eight bedrooms and seven b
  
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• SILVER ALERT: 68-year-old last seen crossing San Luis border

  10-12-2018 22:28
  TUCSON – A Silver Alert has been issued for a 68-year-old man from San Luis.
  Pedro Quintero was last seen at 5 p.m. Sunday waiting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border from San Luis, Mexico to San Luis, Ariz. The 68-year-old allegedly left his vehicle and traveled on foot. He was seen crossing the border at about 8:20 p.m. that day.
  Pedro Quintero 68 years of age/ San Luis Police Department
  Police say he suffers from mental conditions and currently does not have his medication on his person.
  Qu
  
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• Many parents will be sleep deprived over the holidays due to stress

  10-12-2018 22:28
  TUCSON – The holidays can be extremely stressful, especially for parents who celebrate Christmas.
  A new survey from sleepcycle.com shows American parents will sleep less, drink more, and generally deal with more “holiday stress” than couples without children.
  According to the survey, 70% of parents will get fewer than six hours of sleep on Christmas Eve.
  44% will stay up until after 11 pm to put gifts under the tree and 66% will be up by 7 am on Christmas morning to open gifts.
  
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• Cardinals’ DT Nkemdiche goes on IR with knee injury

  10-12-2018 22:26
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals are placing defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche on injured reserve with a knee injury.
  Nkemdiche, the Cardinals’ first-round draft pick (29th overall) in 2016, was injured in Arizona’s 17-3 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
  Coach Steve Wilks said Monday that the knee would require surgery but wouldn’t give any other details.
  Nkemdiche is the 15th Cardinals player to go on injured reserve this season.
  After struggling with injurie
  
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• Dems: Pelosi foes seek term limits on leaders, panel chairs

  10-12-2018 22:20
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say lawmakers who have opposed Nancy Pelosi’s effort to become speaker next year want her to commit to limiting how long people could serve as House party leaders or committee chairs.
  Should the California Democrat and her foes reach agreement, it could move her toward the support she’ll need when the new House convenes Jan. 3 and votes on its new speaker.
  Her opponents have complained that Democratic leaders are entrenched and there is no chance for
  
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• Even without proof, CBD is finding a niche as a cure-all

  10-12-2018 22:16
  Editor’s note: This article was written by Linda Carroll, John Torres, M.D. and Ali Galante from NBC News.
  Touted as a treatment for a wide range of conditions – including anxiety, pain, inflammation and even cancer – CBD may be the latest version of snake oil. Or perhaps a real relief for numerous ailments.
  Nobody really knows which is true because there has been so little solid research on CBD’s effect on humans, experts say.:Courtesy GW Pharmaceuticals
  CBD, or can
  
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• Judge: Earlier rulings over inmate care to remain in place

  10-12-2018 22:15
  PHOENIX (AP) — A judge who took over supervision of a settlement over the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons says the rulings of another judge who previously presided over the lawsuit will remain in place.
  Lawyers for the state had previously argued that U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan, who presided over the settlement for several years before retiring in June for health reasons, should be pulled off the case because he didn’t have jurisdiction.
  The state’s re
  
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• Angel Ball celebrates 18 years of aiding community

  10-12-2018 22:15
  TUCSON –Angel Charity for Children, Inc. hosted its annual Angel Ball “A Night in Napa” on Saturday.
  Angel Charity’s mission is to raise funds for local charities. The 2018 main beneficiary was Tucson Village Farm.
  This year’s proceeds will go towards helping the farm build a culinary kitchen, where kids can learn about nutrition and cooking.Congratulations to Carla Keegan and Wendy Marquez on leading Angel Charity in 2018! Angel Charity raised over $700,000 t
  
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• Markets Right Now: US stocks end a bumpy day slightly higher

  10-12-2018 22:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  4 p.m.
  Stocks ended another bumpy day slightly higher as gains by big technology companies helped the market erase an early plunge.
  Facebook added 3.2 percent and Microsoft rose 2.6 percent Monday.
  Chipmaker Qualcomm rose 2.2 percent after a Chinese court banned some Apple phones as part of a long-running dispute over patents.
  Energy companies fell as the price of crude oil dropped 3 percent, to give up its
  
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• Church says nuns embezzled from school to cover Vegas trips

  10-12-2018 22:10
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Church officials say a pair of nuns embezzled a “substantial” amount of money from the Southern California Catholic school where they worked for decades and used it to pay for gambling trips to Las Vegas casinos.
  Adrian Alarcon, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said Monday the embezzlement appears to have gone on for about 10 years.
  During that time Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper was principal of Saint James Catholic School in Redondo Beach. Si
  
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• Jury deciding sentence for man who rammed rally protesters

  10-12-2018 22:09
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Several people who were severely injured when a man drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last year described devastating physical and psychological effects to a jury tasked with making a sentencing recommendation Monday.
  The man’s lawyers argued he acted in self-defense and out of fear, and a psychologist testified that he has a long history of mental health issues. The jury began deliberating the sentence shortly after 3 p.m.
  
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• Redskins coach Gruden says Jordan Reed’s year could be done

  10-12-2018 22:08
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Redskins tight end Jordan Reed could be done for the season because of a strained toe muscle.
  Redskins coach Jay Gruden said Monday that he thinks Reed was hurt on Mark Sanchez’s high throw on his first pass of a 40-16 loss to the New York Giants a day earlier.
  Gruden said “there is a level of concern” with Reed, who leads the team with 54 catches and 558 receiving yards.
  Gruden added that the Redskins will have to wait to see “if it&rsq
  
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• Serial rapist sentenced to 15.75 in prison

  10-12-2018 22:07
  TUCSON – The man arrested in 2016 in connection to four sexual assault cases in Pima County was sentenced Monday.
  According to court documents, 43-year-old Christopher Garcia pleaded guilty Sept. 5 for several charges in relation to four rape incidents in 2016 – two in Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s jurisdiction, two with Tucson Police Department.
  Christopher Garcia, 43, remains behind bars on several felony counts, including sexual assault and armed robbery.
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• Even the dogs get snow boots at this police department

  10-12-2018 22:04
  RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A police dog in South Dakota is learning how to walk a beat in snow boots. Video posted by the Rapid City police department shows Jary trying to adjust having the boots on its paws. The dog awkwardly lifts its legs while getting used to the new boots.
  The department says it equips its officers for the chilly weather, “even the furry ones!”
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• Google accelerates Plus closure after another privacy lapse

  10-12-2018 21:56
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is still having trouble protecting the personal information on its Plus service, prodding the company to accelerate its plans to shut down a little-used social network that it created to compete against Facebook.
  A privacy flaw that inadvertently exposed the names, email addresses, ages and other personal information of 52.5 million Google Plus users last month convinced Google to close the service in April instead of August, as previously announced. Goo
  
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• Barcelona backs down on plan to play in US

  10-12-2018 21:53
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Spanish league’s plan to play a regular-season match in the United States in January took a major hit when Barcelona backed down from its commitment.
  The club’s board of directors said on Monday it agreed to withdraw the team’s intention to play the game against Girona near Miami. The board said Barcelona remains behind the idea of the game aboard, but considered the “project will not prosper until there is an agreement between all partie
  
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• Police, FBI probe suspected white supremacist attack on DJ

  10-12-2018 21:50
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the FBI is helping investigate an attack by several suspected white supremacists on a black disc jockey at a tavern in Washington state over the weekend.
  The Snohomish County Sheriff’s office said Monday that seven men and one woman were arrested for investigation of assault, hate crimes and other charges early Saturday in Lynnwood. Investigators said the group tried to take over the DJ’s equipment, then beat him and stomped him while shout
  
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• ‘Fearless Girl’ statue finds permanent home at New York Stock Exchange

  10-12-2018 21:43
  Editor’s note: This article was written by NBC News writer Farnoush Amiri.
  The “Fearless Girl” has found a permanent place to call home.
  The bronzed statue and symbol of female empowerment, which was first installed in March 2017 across from Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” was moved Monday to a new spot in front of the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan.
  “Now, instead of starring down the bull, she’s going to be staring down all of business
  
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• Imagine Dragons to perform during halftime of CFP champ game

  10-12-2018 21:39
  Grammy Award winners Imagine Dragons will perform at halftime of the College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 7.
  ESPN and Interscope Records announced the performance Monday.
  For the second consecutive season, the College Football Playoff will feature a Super Bowl-type halftime performance for the television audience. The school bands will still perform at halftime of the game in Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
  Imagine Dragons will headline the halftime telecast and pe
  
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• USOC fires official over his silence in Larry Nassar case

  10-12-2018 21:32
  The U.S. Olympic Committee has fired chief of sport performance Alan Ashley in the wake of an independent report that said neither he nor former CEO Scott Blackmun elevated concerns about the Larry Nassar sexual abuse allegations when they were first reported to them.
  The 233-page independent report was released Monday. It detailed an overall lack of response when the USOC leaders first heard about the Nassar allegations from the then-president of USA Gymnastics, Steve Penny.
  Blackmun resigned i
  
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