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• NCAA’s Emmert expresses concern over wagering, esports

  24-01-2019 23:53
  NCAA President Mark Emmert told his group’s annual convention that it must stick to what he calls “values-based bold leadership” when dealing with issues such as improving diversity in college sports, the legalization of sports wagering and the addition of esports as an offering at many schools.
  Emmert, speaking Thursday in Orlando, Florida, says he isn’t sure what the best course of action is for the NCAA when it comes to esports. Earlier this week, Marquette announced t
  
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• Arizona Basketball: Sean Miller Leads the Wildcats Into Los Angeles to Face USC

  24-01-2019 23:51
  The Arizona Wildcats are headed to the City of Angels for a two-game road trip that'll see them play USC and UCLA. The Wildcats (14-5, 5-1) start their SoCal trek with a 7 p.m. local time tip against the Trojans (10-8, 3-2) tonight, who they've beaten five-straight times.…
  
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• US orders some diplomats out of Venezuela for security reasons; embassy to remain open

  24-01-2019 23:47
  WASHINGTON (AP) — US orders some diplomats out of Venezuela for security reasons; embassy to remain open.
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• Ron Howard to make doc about town devastated by wildfires

  24-01-2019 23:47
  PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Director Ron Howard is planning to make a documentary about a Northern California town’s attempt to rebuild after a devastating wildfire last year
  National Geographic Documentary Films announced the project Thursday which will focus on the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise, California. In November of 2018, flames destroyed nearly 15,000 homes and displaced over 50,000 people. Its working title is “Rebuilding Paradise.”
  Howard said he has rela
  
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• Elections board nominees made amid undecided Congress race

  24-01-2019 23:47
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans have nominated members for a reconstituted North Carolina elections board tasked with resolving the nation’s last undecided congressional election.
  The state parties’ leaders this week each provided four nominees to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who makes the appointments. There will be three Democrats and two Republicans on the board.
  A new law creates the five-member board Jan. 31 that succeeds a nine-member board struck down by a
  
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• Jarvis in a Mazda takes pole in star-studded Rolex 24 field

  24-01-2019 23:46
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Oliver Jarvis broke a 26-year-old record at Daytona International Speedway in putting the Mazda DPi from Team Joest on the pole for the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
  Jarvis went to the top of the scoring chart early in Thursday’s qualifying session with a lap at 1 minute, 33.685 seconds. It broke the mark by two-tenths of a second set by P.J. Jones in 1993 in a GTP-class Toyota.
  The Englishman spoiled a strong run by Team Penske, which qualified second and third for
  
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• Carolina QB Cam Newton has surgery on throwing shoulder

  24-01-2019 23:40
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has had arthroscopic surgery on his right throwing shoulder.
  The team announced Newton’s rehabilitation process will begin immediately and no timetable listed for when he can begin throwing again.
  The procedure was successfully performed by Panthers team physician Pat Connor.
  Carolina still has not disclosed the exact nature of Newton’s shoulder injury. The quarterback also had surgery in March of 2017 to repair a partially
  
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• Insanity defense planned in gruesome Indiana slaying

  24-01-2019 23:05
  JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys for an Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body plan to argue he was insane at the time. The (Louisville, Kentucky) Courier-Journal reports court documents show two psychiatrists will examine 37-year-old Joseph Oberhansley to determine whether he was legally insane. The same psychiatrists are required to testify at his trial, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 19.
  Prosecutors say Oberhansley broke into the Jeffersonvi
  
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• U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran: “Ending This Shutdown Must Be a Priority”

  24-01-2019 22:54
  U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran released a statement regarding the current government shutdown:As we begin the new year and a new Congress, I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass bipartisan legislation that invests in rural communities and holds elected leaders accountable to the American people. For too long, partisanship and political games have been the norm in Congress, and I want to see that end.…
  
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• The Latest: Gov. Newsom said bankruptcy filing up to PG&E

  24-01-2019 22:32
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the cause of a 2017 California wildfire that killed 22 people (all times local):
  4:15 p.m.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom says more than half of the debt PG&E says it might owe stems from a fire that investigators said Thursday the utility did not cause, putting its bankruptcy plans into doubt.
  State fire investigators released a report saying that the deadly 2017 Tubbs Fire that scorched Napa and Sonoma counties was caused by privately maintained electric li
  
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• The Latest: Experts: PG&E bankruptcy still likely

  24-01-2019 22:32
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the cause of a 2017 California wildfire that killed 22 people (all times local):
  4:50 p.m.
  Legal experts say a determination that Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. equipment was not to blame for a deadly 2017 California wildfire will probably not stop the utility from going ahead with its planned bankruptcy.
  The company still faces billions of dollars in potential damages from other wildfires, including a 2018 blaze that took at least 86 lives and bec
  
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• Louisiana man pleads guilty in livestreamed killing

  24-01-2019 22:22
  SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend while she was livestreaming on Facebook.
  News agencies report that 37-year-old Johnathan Robinson of Shreveport pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder of 27-year-old Rannita Williams.
  The plea agreement means he cannot be sentenced to death and must be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
  Prosecutors tell KTBS-TV Robinson also will get a concurrent 100-year sentence for shooting at p
  
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• Service held for Houston native killed in Nairobi attack

  24-01-2019 22:08
  HOUSTON (AP) — Family and friends gathered at a Houston cemetery to remember Jason Spindler, one of the 21 people killed in an extremist attack last week in Nairobi at a luxury hotel and shopping complex.
  The Houston Chronicle reports the 40-year-old was remembered as a compassionate person who was close to his family at the burial service Thursday at Beth Yeshurun Cemetery.
  Childhood friend Justin Esch said, “People like Jason do not just happen — they’re made.”
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• Could love be the key to reducing stress?

  24-01-2019 22:08
  TUCSON – A new study finds that love might be the key to reducing stress.Researchers at the University of Arizona recruited romantic couples for a series of experiments. Participants had to dunk their feet in freezing cold water for several minutes. This made everyone’s blood pressure spike. Individuals that were able to have their partner in the room with them had lower spikes, than couples separated.
  The results were true for couples who simply imagined their partners face.
  The pos
  
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• Police: Teen attacks mother with fire, baseball bat

  24-01-2019 22:07
  DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida teen set his mother on fire with a Molotov cocktail and beat her with a baseball bat after she scolded him about sneaking out at night and using social media. The Sun Sentinel reports that the woman was treated for severe burns following the Tuesday morning attack at a Davie home. She remained hospitalized Thursday in stable condition.
  Police say the 17-year-old boy filled a glass bottle with alcohol, capped it with a rag and threw it into his s
  
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• Man accused of killing officer found incompetent for trial

  24-01-2019 22:02
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man charged with murder in the 2017 shooting of a New Orleans police officer has been found mentally incompetent for trial.
  News outlets report Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Franz Zibilich ruled Thursday that 31-year-old Darren Bridges is incompetent to proceed. Bridges is accused of killing Officer Marcus McNeil.
  Zibilich ordered Bridges sent to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System. Doctors who testified at the hearing Thursday said Bridges’
  
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• Doomsday clock has world at two minutes from Armageddon

  24-01-2019 21:57
  Humanity is just two minutes from Armageddon, the same as last year but still the closest the world has inched to symbolic doom since 1953, at the height of the Cold War.
  That was the bleak outlook from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Doomsday Clock — the symbolic timepiece that represents humanity’s perceived proximity to a human-caused apocalypse.Citing nuclear arms races, threats of cyberattacks and ongoing cl
  
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• Witness: El Chapo shooting victim was buried alive

  24-01-2019 21:53
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former drug dealer says that a shooting victim of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo was buried alive.
  Isaias Valdez Rios testified Thursday at a New York trial that he witnessed Joaquin Guzman (wah-KEEN’ gooz-MAHN’) order his men to dig a hole before he shot the victim. He said the man was still gasping for air when he was dropped in the hole and buried.
  Valdez also claims Guzman executed two other kidnapping victims whose bodies were incinerated. He say
  
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• Packers hire Ravens’ Hendrickson as football ops director

  24-01-2019 21:52
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers hired Ravens front office veteran Milt Hendrickson as director of football operations on Thursday.
  Hendrickson has spent the past 14 seasons in the personnel department with Baltimore, a span that includes four division titles and a Super Bowl victory. He was promoted to national scout after the 2016 draft.
  The position is the result of a front office restructuring. Ted Thompson once held titles of executive vice president, general manager and d
  
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• Hinton to return to Wake Forest for final season, to play WR

  24-01-2019 21:52
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Wake Forest says Kendall Hinton will return for his final season and is expected to play only at wide receiver.
  Coach Dave Clawson on Thursday announced that Hinton would be back for his redshirt senior season.
  Hinton played both receiver and quarterback last season, catching six passes for 61 yards. He also rushed for two scores in 2018.
  Hinton made four starts at quarterback from 2015-17 and received a medical redshirt for his injury-shortened 2016 season. He w
  
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• Italy ordered to pay Amanda Knox damages over police questioning

  24-01-2019 21:50
  MILAN — Europe’s human rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox financial damages for police failure to provide legal assistance and a translator during a long night of questioning following the Nov. 1, 2007 murder of her British roommate. But the court said there was insufficient evidence to support claims of psychological and physical mistreatment at the hands of police.
  The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, said in its ruling that Italy hadn&rsquo
  
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• Arizona bill would ban holding a cellphone while driving

  24-01-2019 21:46
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers are considering making it illegal for drivers to hold a cellphone.
  A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday called for approval of a bill requiring the use of hands-free devices while behind the wheel of a car.
  Lawmakers voted in 2017 to ban cellphone use by teenagers with a learner’s permit or during the first six months after they get a regular license. And school bus drivers are not allowed the text. But other efforts to restrict cellphone use m
  
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• Agency: Deadly California fire caused by homeowner equipment

  24-01-2019 21:46
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators say a deadly 2017 wildfire that killed 22 people in Northern California wine country was caused by a private electrical system, not equipment of embattled Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
  The state’s firefighting agency said Thursday that the fire started next to a residence. The agency did not find any violations of state law.
  The fire was one of more than 170 fires that torched the state in October 2017. It destroyed more than 5,600 structures
  
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• State opposes condemned man’s request to delay execution

  24-01-2019 21:45
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to reject a condemned man’s request to delay his execution set for next month.
  Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien says death row inmate Warren Keith Henness’ motion is an abuse of the court system.
  The 55-year-old Henness is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 13. His attorneys want a delay based on a federal judge’s finding that Ohio’s three-drug injection process “will certai
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr. family home is added to national park

  24-01-2019 21:38
  ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family home on Atlanta’s west side will now become part of the federal park in Atlanta that includes sites such as the church where he preached and King’s birth home.
  The National Park Foundation on Thursday announced that the home in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood will be accessible to the public as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
  The foundation purchased the home from Coretta Scott King&rsq
  
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• Papa John’s to donate $500,000 to historically black college

  24-01-2019 21:37
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The chief executive of the Papa John’s pizza chain says the company is giving $500,000 to a historically black North Carolina women’s college trying to avoid losing its accreditation.
  CEO Steve Ritchie announced the gift to Bennett College Thursday on his Twitter page. The college is trying to raise more than $5 million by Feb. 1 to stave off losing its status with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
  In a news release
  
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• In second vote, Senate Republicans scuttle Democratic plan to reopen federal government through Feb. 8

  24-01-2019 21:37
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In second vote, Senate Republicans scuttle Democratic plan to reopen federal government through Feb. 8.
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• Investigators say homeowner’s wiring, not utility equipment, caused deadly 2017 California wine country wildfire

  24-01-2019 21:36
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators say homeowner’s wiring, not utility equipment, caused deadly 2017 California wine country wildfire.
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• Death toll in Mexico pipeline fire nears 100

  24-01-2019 21:32
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 99 after four more injured people died at hospitals.
  The Mexican Social Security Institute said Thursday that four victims who were severely burned died between late Wednesday and early Thursday.
  The institute continues to treat 11 injured victims, and another 28 are being treated at other hospitals. Many are in extremely poor condition.
  The victims were gathering gasoline from an ill
  
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• Florida elections chief resigns when blackface photos emerge

  24-01-2019 21:30
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s top elections official has abruptly resigned after a newspaper obtained pictures of him in blackface posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim.
  Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigned Thursday afternoon just hours after he testified about election lawsuits before a state legislative committee.
  The Tallahassee Democrat obtained pictures taken at a Halloween party 14 years ago that show Ertel dressed in blackface. The photos were taken two months after t
  
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• The Latest: Dems block Trump wall as govt shutdown continues

  24-01-2019 21:26
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump, Congress and the partial government shutdown (all times local):
  3:15 p.m.
  Senate Democrats have blocked President Donald Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to construct his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border, as a partial government shutdown continues for a 34th day.
  The partisan 51-47 tally fell well short of the 60 votes required to advance the measure over a Democratic filibuster. The $350 billion-plus government-wide
  
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• Florida’s secretary of state resigns after photos emerge of him wearing blackface as Katrina victim at Halloween party

  24-01-2019 21:25
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s secretary of state resigns after photos emerge of him wearing blackface as Katrina victim at Halloween party.
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• Woman sentenced in death of infant in hot Michigan home

  24-01-2019 21:23
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A 23-year-old western Michigan woman charged in the death of her 6-month-old son who was left in a car seat in a sweltering home will serve at least 20 years in prison.
  Lovily Johnson of Wyoming, Michigan, was sentenced Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court in Grand Rapids.
  Johnson pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder.
  Police have said Noah Johnson was ignored for parts of three days in 2017 in an attic bedroom that was 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 deg
  
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• Maduro orders all Venezuelan diplomats home from the United States

  24-01-2019 21:23
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Maduro orders all Venezuelan diplomats home from the United States.
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• Senate Democrats block Trump-backed measure that would have funded border wall, reopened federal government

  24-01-2019 21:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats block Trump-backed measure that would have funded border wall, reopened federal government.
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• Judge upholds permit for oil refinery near national park

  24-01-2019 21:10
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has upheld a state permit allowing for construction to begin on an oil refinery just 3 miles (5 kilometers) from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
  Judge Dann Greenwood ruled the Health Department effectively supported its position that the $800 million Davis Refinery being developed by Meridian Energy Group won’t be a major pollution source.
  The National Parks Conservation Association, Environmental Law and Policy Center and Dakota Resource
  
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• NFL says concussions down 29 percent in regular season

  24-01-2019 21:09
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL says the number of concussions has dropped 29 percent in the 2018 regular season from the previous season, according to preliminary data.
  Of the 538 evaluations for concussions, the league says, 75 percent ultimately showed no concussions.
  The league also says the number of anterior cruciate ligament tears increased by three to a total to 57. And medial cruciate ligament injuries that caused players to miss playing time were down by 12.
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• Rapper C-Murder denied chance for retrial in 2002 slaying

  24-01-2019 21:08
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The rapper known as C-Murder failed to have his conviction in a 2002 fatal shooting in a New Orleans area nightclub thrown out or retried.
  The New Orleans Advocate reports Judge Steven Enright ruled Wednesday that Corey Miller didn’t meet the burden of proof for post-conviction relief. Miller’s attorneys had asked that his 2009 conviction in Steven Thomas’ death be thrown out.
  Miller petitioned the court with sworn affidavits from eyewitnesses Kenneth a
  
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• US to play Chile in exhibition on March 26 at Houston

  24-01-2019 20:56
  CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. soccer team will play Chile in an exhibition on March 26 at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston.
  The game announced Thursday is likely to follow a home friendly on March 22. The two matches would be the first time new U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter has his full player pool available.
  Berhalter’s first two games will involve only players from Major League Soccer. The Americans play Panama on Sunday at Glendale, Arizona, and Costa Rica on Feb. 2 at San Jose, California.
  
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• Navy denies claims linked to contaminated water

  24-01-2019 20:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy secretary says he is denying thousands of claims from veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated drinking water decades ago at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
  Secretary Richard Spencer says at least 4,400 claims totaling $963 billion are being denied because there is no legal basis for paying them. He says it was a difficult decision but suggested that claimants can go to Capitol Hill to seek legislation providing restitution.
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• Iconic Sky Bar, once thought gone forever, is coming back

  24-01-2019 20:47
  SUDBURY, Mass. (AP) — An iconic candy bar that many fans thought was gone forever when the New England Confectionary Co. closed its doors last year is coming back.
  Louise Mawhinney, owner of a Duck Soup, a gourmet food store in Sudbury, Massachusetts, said Thursday she had won an online auction for the rights to the Sky Bar.
  The Sky Bar, introduced in 1938, is divided into four sections each filled with a different flavor — caramel, vanilla, peanut and fudge.
  Mawhinney says she was d
  
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• Tucson Fire extinguishes fire on east side home

  24-01-2019 20:46
  TUCSON – Tucson Fire Crews responded to a fire at a home on the east side Thursday morning.
  According to officials, TFD received a report of smoke from a home in the 3700 block of South Sarnoff Road near Escalante at around 9 a.m. The blaze was contained in seven minutes, requiring 25 firefighters.
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  TFD said two people and two dogs were inside the home during the incident, but they were safely evacuated. They did not require American Red Cross services.
  No injuries we
  
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• High heat but no record: 2018 was 4th warmest year on Earth

  24-01-2019 20:41
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new analysis shows that while Earth was a tad cooler last year than the last couple of years, it was still the fourth warmest year on record.
  With the partial U.S. government shutdown, federal calculations for last year’s temperatures are delayed. But independent scientists at Berkeley Earth calculate it at 58.93 degrees (14.96 degrees Celsius).
  That’s about 1.39 degrees (0.77 degrees Celsius) warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.
  Berkeley Earth climate
  
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• Tennessee athletics reports deficit of nearly $6.5 million

  24-01-2019 20:40
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s athletics department has reported a budget deficit of nearly $6.5 million for the 2018 fiscal year, thanks partly to hefty buyouts for former football coach Butch Jones and athletic director John Currie.
  The school reported revenues of $143.55 million and expenses of just over $150 million for the period stretching from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018. The information was obtained through a public records request and first reported by the Knoxv
  
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• California GOP lawmaker switches parties, criticizes Trump

  24-01-2019 20:39
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A moderate California Republican state lawmaker is switching parties while criticizing President Donald Trump’s policies and leadership.
  Assemblyman Brian Maienschein announced Thursday that he is becoming a Democrat, saying he and the Republican Party have moved in different directions since he was elected in 2012.
  He says Trump has led the party “to the extreme.”
  Maienschein represents the border city of San Diego. He says he differs with the R
  
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• Strain on nation’s air travel system emerging

  24-01-2019 20:36
  The strain of a 34-day partial government shutdown is weighing on the nation’s air-travel system, both the federal workers who make it go and the airlines that depend on them.
  Air traffic controllers and airport security agents continued to work without pay — they will miss a second biweekly paycheck on Friday — but high absentee rates raise the threat of long airport lines, or worse.
  Unions that represent air traffic controllers, flight attendants and pilots are growing concer
  
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• Judge: Baltimore police timid when confronting corruption

  24-01-2019 20:36
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The judge enforcing a federal oversight program requiring sweeping police reforms in Baltimore says the city’s troubled force has a “culture of timidity” in confronting corruption within its ranks.
  U.S. District Judge James Bredar says the Baltimore Police Department has been greatly harmed by “pockets of corruption.” He says encouraging whistleblowers within the force and breaking a code of silence is critical.
  At a Thursday court hearing to
  
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• Florida university sends 430 erroneous acceptance letters

  24-01-2019 20:36
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida university says it’s changing its admissions system after mistakenly sending 430 erroneous acceptance letters to high school seniors.
  The Tampa Bay Times reports officials at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg have called every person who received a letter to apologize for the error and discuss future options for admission. The erroneous acceptance emails went out last week.
  Chancellor Martin Tadlock said Thursday that the school will
  
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• Stranger Danger: Vail School District issues warning after two incidents

  24-01-2019 20:20
  TUCSON – The Vail Unified School District has issued a stranger danger warning to parents after two separate incidents were reported this month.
  The first stranger danger warning letter was sent out to Desert Sky Middle School parents last Friday after a student was approached by a woman after school.
  The letter said the woman attempted to pick-up the student Jan. 17. While she knew the student’s name, the student did not recognize the woman. The letter said the child asked the woman
  
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• Cabrera, Fulmer sound optimistic about their health

  24-01-2019 20:19
  DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera and Michael Fulmer expect to be ready for the start of spring training.
  The two Detroit standouts sound pleased with their progress after injuries interrupted the 2018 season. Cabrera played only 38 games before season-ending biceps surgery. Fulmer has dealt with knee issues.
  The Tigers are holding their annual winter caravan this week, and both Cabrera and Fulmer were in attendance Thursday. The 35-year-old Cabrera says he’s feeling great and hopes he c
  
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