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• Michigan trio declaring for NBA draft, but can still return

  09-04-2019 23:59
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Charles Matthews, Iggy Brazdeikis and Jordan Poole are declaring for the NBA draft, although they can still come back to the Wolverines.
  The school announced Tuesday that the three players intend to sign with agents, but under new NCAA rules, they are allowed to have agents during the evaluation process for the draft. They can return to school without losing their eligibility.
  Matthews has been considered the most likely candidate to leave Michigan,
  
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• OAS recognizes opposition envoy as Venezuelan ambassador

  09-04-2019 23:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Organization of American States is recognizing a Venezuelan opposition envoy as his nation’s representative to the regional group until new elections are held in the South American country.
  Gustavo Tarre was accepted by the OAS on Tuesday. It came a day after another envoy designated by opposition leader Juan Guaidó was recognized by President Donald Trump as Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.S.
  The OAS adopted the resolution recognizing Tarre with 18
  
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• Caliber Collision hosts annual food drive for students in need

  09-04-2019 23:53
  TUCSON – Food plays a big role in a child’s health and nutrition. However, many children get that nutrition through school lunch. With summer right around the corner, those children will not be getting the food they need.
  To ensure these children are getting proper meals during summer vacation, various Caliber Collision locations around Pima County are hosting the eighth annual Rhythm Restoration Food Drive.
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  The drive starts Tuesday through May 10. There are four collecti
  
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• Wind Advisory issued April 9 at 1:50PM MST until April 10 at 9:00AM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-04-2019 23:50
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a High WindWarning, which is in effect from 9 AM to 7 PM MST Wednesday. AWind Advisory has also been issued. This Wind Advisory is ineffect from 4 AM to 9 AM MST Wednesday.
  * IMPACTS…Difficult driving conditions, especially for largervehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,unsecured objects may become airborne. Minor tree damagepossible.
  * TIMING…Gusty winds continuing into Wednesday, with thestrongest speeds late toni
  
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• Wind Advisory issued April 9 at 1:50PM MST until April 10 at 7:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-04-2019 23:50
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a WindAdvisory, which is in effect from 9 AM to 7 PM MST Wednesday.
  * IMPACTS…Difficult driving conditions, especially for largervehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,unsecured objects may become airborne. Minor tree damagepossible.
  * TIMING…Gusty winds continuing into Thursday. The strongestspeeds should occur Wednesday morning into Wednesday evening.
  * WINDS…West to northwest 25 to 35 mph with gusts near 45
  
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• High Wind Warning issued April 9 at 1:50PM MST until April 10 at 7:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-04-2019 23:50
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a High WindWarning, which is in effect from 9 AM to 7 PM MST Wednesday. AWind Advisory has also been issued. This Wind Advisory is ineffect from 4 AM to 9 AM MST Wednesday.
  * IMPACTS…Difficult driving conditions, especially for largervehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,unsecured objects may become airborne. Minor tree damagepossible.
  * TIMING…Gusty winds continuing into Wednesday, with thestrongest speeds late toni
  
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• Glover joins Chargers as assistant defensive line coach

  09-04-2019 23:47
  COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — La’Roi Glover is joining the Los Angeles Chargers as an assistant defensive line coach. The team announced the hire on Tuesday.
  Glover held the same position with the New York Jets the past two years. He played 13 years, making 81½ sacks and had six straight Pro Bowl appearances from 2000 -05. Glover replaces Eric Henderson, who left to become the Los Angeles Rams defensive line coach.
  The Chargers also announced that Chris Caminiti has joined the sta
  
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• Feds subpoena W.Va., seeking records on governor’s resort

  09-04-2019 23:47
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have issued a sweeping subpoena for records related to a resort owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice.
  A spokeswoman for the state commerce department provided a copy of the subpoena to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
  The subpoena requests contracts, communications and financial records from the state relating to The Greenbrier resort and its annual PGA golf tournament. It names Justice as well as his son and daughter.
  Justice has issued a st
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued April 9 at 1:44PM MST until April 10 at 7:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-04-2019 23:44
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a Red FlagWarning, which is in effect from 9 AM to 7 PM MST Wednesday.
  * AFFECTED AREA…Fire weather zone 150.
  * TIMING…9 AM to 7 PM MST.
  * 20-FOOT WINDS…Sustained 20-foot winds of 15 to 25 mph withgusts to 35 mph.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…Minimum relative humidity values willrange between 6 to 13 percent.
  * IMPACTS…Any fires that develop or are ongoing will have thepotential to spread rapidly.
  * FOR A DETAILED VIEW O
  
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• Neo-Nazi website founder refuses to be in US for deposition

  09-04-2019 23:44
  A neo-Nazi website operator says he refuses to be present in the U.S. for questioning under oath in a lawsuit that accuses him of unleashing an anti-Semitic “troll storm” against a Montana real estate agent’s family.
  The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin says he lives abroad and claims it’s too dangerous for him to travel to the U.S. But a federal magistrate judge ruled last Friday he must be present in the U.S. for a deposition by Tanya Gersh’s attorneys from the
  
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• Fire Weather Watch issued April 9 at 1:44PM MST until April 11 at 7:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-04-2019 23:44
  * AFFECTED AREA…Fire weather zones 151 and 152.
  * TIMING…Red Flag Warning from 9 AM to 7 PM MST Wednesday andFire Weather Watch Thursday morning through early Thursdayevening.
  * 20-FOOT WINDS…Sustained 20-foot winds 25 to 40 mph with guststo near 50 mph Wednesday and 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mphThursday.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…Minimum relative humidity values willrange between 7 to 13 percent both Wednesday and Thursday.
  * IMPACTS…Any fires that develop or ar
  
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• Man shot dead after picking up strangers’ tabs at Florida Waffle House

  09-04-2019 23:39
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WTVJ) – A man who was picking up restaurant tabs at a Florida Waffle House was shot and killed during an altercation at the eatery, authorities said.
  Craig Brewer, 41, was killed inside the restaurant on West Newberry Road in Gainesville just after 3 a.m. Sunday, Alachua County Sheriff’s Office officials said.
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  Officials told the Gainesville Sun that Brewer had been paying for other customers&rsquo
  
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• Arkansas lawmakers revive anti-‘sanctuary cities’ measure

  09-04-2019 23:34
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers have revived a proposal to cut off funding to “sanctuary” cities that don’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities despite concerns from the state’s Republican governor that the current measure could open the door to racial profiling.
  The House City, County and Local Affairs Committee approved the bill 14-5 Tuesday, sending the measure to the House. The measure failed before the committee a day earlier and appeared
  
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• South Carolina losing 3 players, including Herbert Harrigan

  09-04-2019 23:33
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Three South Carolina players intend to transfer, including 6-foot-2 junior Mikiah Herbert Harrigan. She started 21 games this season and figured to play a significant role on next year’s team.
  Also leaving, according to team spokeswoman Diana Koval, are reserve sophomores Bianca Jackson and LaDazhia Williams. Jackson is a 5-11 guard who made five starts last year and Williams a 6-4 forward who averaged fewer than seven minutes a game.
  The Gamecocks enter next se
  
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• US warns docs not to abruptly halt opioid pain treatment

  09-04-2019 23:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are warning doctors not to abruptly stop prescribing opioid painkillers to patients who are taking them for chronic pain.
  The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will add new advice on how to taper the medications to all opioid painkiller labels, such as OxyContin, Vicodin and dozens of generic pills.
  U.S. officials and states have been struggling to fight the opioid epidemic, which includes not only legal painkillers, but also illicit drugs
  
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• The Latest: Hawaii lawmakers pass vacation rental tax bills

  09-04-2019 23:32
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on vacation rental tax bills before the Hawaii Legislature (all times local):
  11:30 a.m.
  Hawaii lawmakers have passed legislation that would require websites like Airbnb to collect and pay taxes on behalf of short-term rental hosts. Lawmakers are eager to gather tax revenue from the state’s flourishing but mostly unpermitted vacation rental sector.
  The House and Senate both approved separate bills on Tuesday. Senators and representatives will meet later thi
  
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• Voter fraud alleged in Arizona town home to polygamous sect

  09-04-2019 23:26
  LAKE HAVASU CITY, Arizona (AP) — An Arizona county attorney wants to investigate allegations of unspecified voter fraud during last year’s municipal elections in a rural community on the Arizona-Utah border that is home to a polygamous sect.
  Today’s News-Herald in Lake Havasu City reports that Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith is requesting $8,000 in county funds to investigate. Smith declined to provide specifics about the allegation but says he’ll share more at a county
  
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• Settlement talks fail in soybean seed lawsuit in Tennessee

  09-04-2019 23:26
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers have failed to reach a settlement in a federal lawsuit claiming a soybean seed company purposely sold faulty seeds to black farmers in Mississippi.
  A court filing by attorneys for Stine Seed Co. says mediation talks did not lead to an agreement to settle the suit. U.S. District Judge John Fowlkes had set a Friday mediation deadline.
  The suit alleges Stine conspired with a seed salesman to sell defective seeds to the soybean farmers because they are black. The
  
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• Marana PD searching for man who exposed himself at park

  09-04-2019 23:25
  TUCSON – The Marana Police Department says a man exposed himself at the splash pad at Heritage River Park located at 12280 N Heritage Park Drive in Marana.
  Officials say that a Caucasian male in his 30s exposed himself on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at approximately 3:45pm.  At least two children at the park observed the act.  Police are still actively investigating.
  The post Marana PD searching for man who exposed himself at park appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Ex-Lady Vol Kellie Harper returns to her alma mater as coach

  09-04-2019 23:17
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kellie Harper is returning to Tennessee with hopes of rejuvenating one of the biggest brand names in women’s college basketball, two decades after playing on three consecutive Lady Vols national championship teams.
  Tennessee announced Tuesday it has hired Harper as coach. She will make $750,000 per year.
  Harper, who just coached Missouri State to a surprise Sweet 16 appearance, was known as Kellie Jolly when she played for Tennessee from 1995-99. She helped th
  
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• Son gives Tottenham CL lead over Man City after Kane injury

  09-04-2019 23:14
  LONDON (AP) — Son Heung-min filled the void left by Harry Kane’s injury-enforced departure by giving Tottenham a 1-0 win over Manchester City on Tuesday in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.
  Twenty minutes after Kane hobbled off with an apparent left ankle injury, Son netted in the 78th minute to give quadruple-chasing City its first loss in any competition since January.
  After receiving a pass on the right from Christian Eriksen, Son’s poor first touch nearl
  
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• Border chaos forces truckers to wait hours, sometimes days

  09-04-2019 23:13
  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The Trump administration has reassigned so many inspectors from Mexico border crossings that truckers are waiting in line for hours and sometimes days to get shipments to the United States.
  Hundreds of Customs and Border Protection officers have been temporarily assigned to deal with a surge of families arriving at the border. The result is that truckers have been sleeping in their vehicles to hold spots in line. The wait times in El Paso, Texas, were so long t
  
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• The Latest: Court says Evers had power to void appointments

  09-04-2019 23:11
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin lame-duck legal fight (all times local):
  4:10 p.m.
  A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had the authority to withdraw appointments that had been approved during a lame-duck legislative session.
  The state’s 3rd District Court of Appeals on Tuesday said his action was not invalidated by a later court ruling that put on hold a decision that allowed him to rescind the appointments.
  Evers voided 82 appointments made du
  
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• Texas Tech medical school to stop using race in admissions

  09-04-2019 23:11
  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Race will no longer be factored into admissions at Texas Tech University’s medical school under an agreement with the Trump administration.
  The resolution is the first of its kind under Education Secretary Betsy Devos. It could preview how other affirmative action complaints are handled by her agency.
  A copy of the resolution obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press shows that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center agreed to “discontinue all consider
  
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• Trident IV to Open on Northwest Side

  09-04-2019 23:08
  Trident Grill is opening a location in northwest Tucson for the first time, joining the Tucson-based chain's three other grill locations and pizza pub.…
  
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• Caliber Collision launches food drive to aid kids during summer

  09-04-2019 23:00
  TUCSON –Caliber Collision launched their 8th Annual Rhythm Restoration Food Drive on Thursday,
  The drive is meant to collect cash and food to help keep kids’ shelves stocked during the summer.
  Donations collected will be donated to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona through May 10.
  “We’re asking our local communities to help us fill local food banks and kids’ tanks, so they do not spend the summer running on empty,” wrote Steve Grimshaw, Chief Executi
  
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• Defense: Man accused of killing Chinese scholar denied care

  09-04-2019 22:58
  CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a former University of Illinois student accused of killing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang say university counselors didn’t offer him adequate care when he sought help for homicidal thoughts months before Zhang went missing.
  In a filing unsealed this week, Brendt Christensen’s attorneys said he entered a campus counseling center in March 2017, saying he’d been “ruminating about how one might go about killing a person and ‘get away wit
  
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• Liverpool builds 2-0 lead over Porto in Champions League

  09-04-2019 22:56
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Different round, same comfortable win. Porto must be sick of the sight of Liverpool in the Champions League.
  Liverpool built a 2-0 lead over Porto heading into the second leg of their quarterfinal thanks to first-half goals by Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino at Anfield on Tuesday.
  A year after beating Porto 5-0 on aggregate in the last 16, Liverpool found similar joy against a Portuguese team which is widely regarded as the biggest outsider left in the competition.
  
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• Wind Advisory issued April 9 at 12:51PM MST until April 10 at 7:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  09-04-2019 22:51
  * WINDS…West 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
  * TIMING…Winds increasing by late morning Wednesday, peakingduring the afternoon hours then tapering off in the earlyevening.
  * IMPACTS…Difficult driving conditions, especially for largervehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,unsecured objects may become airborne.A Wind Advisory means that sustained wind speeds of between30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and58 mph. Winds this strong can m
  
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• NCAA title game, tournament see increases over last year

  09-04-2019 22:50
  An average of 19.6 million people watched as Virginia beat Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament championship game, an increase of 23% over last year.
  The audience peaked at 23.5 million during overtime Monday night, according to Nielsen and CBS.
  Last year’s championship game between Villanova and Michigan averaged 16.5 million on TBS, TNT and TruTV.
  The news was not all good for CBS, however.Monday was the first time since 2009 that a title game averaged less than 20 million on network televi
  
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• Getty Research Institute acquires Claes Oldenburg archives

  09-04-2019 22:49
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archives of artist Claes Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, a prominent artist and curator in her own right.
  The acquisition, announced Tuesday, includes hundreds of diaries, letters, photos and other materials dating to the beginning of the 90-year-old artist’s career.
  It also contains the joint archive compiled by Oldenburg and van Bruggen from 1976 until her death in 2009.
  During that time the pair coll
  
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• Nunes files $150M defamation claim against McClatchy Co.

  09-04-2019 22:48
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California congressman Devin Nunes is suing a media company for $150 million, saying it engaged in “character assassination” with a 2018 story that linked him to a yacht where prostitution allegedly took place.
  A lawyer for Nunes, a central California Republican, filed the lawsuit against The McClatchy Co. and others in a Virginia court on Monday.
  One of McClatchy’s publications is The Fresno Bee, which reported on a 2016 lawsuit alleging prostitution
  
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• Four school districts in Cochise County to receive new bus grants

  09-04-2019 22:47
  COCHISE COUNTY – Gov. Doug Ducey approved the fifth wave of funding for the purchase of 45 new school buses across the state on Monday. Four school districts in Cochise County will receive funds for new buses.
  The districts in Cochise County are Valley Union High School District, San Simon Unified School District, Pomerene Elementary School District, and Benson Unified School District.
  According to the governor’s office, the funds are part of the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation T
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to threatening Planned Parenthood

  09-04-2019 22:43
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 47-year-old St. Louis woman has admitted that she used social media to threaten to “blow up” Planned Parenthood facilities and injure staff.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis on Tuesday announced that Maria Terry pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and transmitting a threatening communication over the internet.
  In a plea agreement, Terry admitted that on Nov. 7 she posted a message on Twitter directed
  
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• Pro swim league to debut in US, Europe

  09-04-2019 22:40
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new professional league for elite swimmers will debut this year with U.S. and foreign-based teams competing in a mixed gender format with athletes being paid.
  Five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky will compete for one of the International Swimming League’s eight teams — four based in the U.S. and four in Europe.
  The league said Tuesday that the season will begin Oct. 4-5, with meets held nearly every weekend through Nov. 24. The top four teams will compe
  
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• Court Documents: Grandmother Admits to Shooting Twin Boys

  09-04-2019 21:34
  On Friday, April 5, police arrested Dorothy Flood, 55, on two counts of first degree murder after two boys were found dead in a home on the 2400 block of West Kessler Place in Flowing Wells.According to court documents recently obtained by Tucson Local Media, Flood admitted to shooting both of her grandchildren twice each, in their heads and torsos, and then attempted to kill herself by taking an unknown quantity of prescription medication.…
  
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• Pence to visit US-Mexico border on Thursday

  09-04-2019 21:30
  (CNN) Vice President Mike Pence plans to visit the US Border Patrol Station in Nogales, Arizona, on Thursday, where he will be briefed by Customs and Border Protection agents and tour the border wall, according to a White House official.
  The trip comes amid controversy surrounding the departure of President Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, reports of additional officials being purged and confusion about Trump’s border security plans and policies.
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• Top-seeded Bencic loses in Samsung Open 1st round

  09-04-2019 21:28
  LUGANO, Switzerland (AP) — Top-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland lost to 182nd-ranked Antonia Lottner in the first round of the Samsung Open in front of her home crowd Tuesday.
  Bencic faltered after forcing the first break of serve, and the 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter) German qualifier took advantage to win 7-5, 6-2.
  The 20th-ranked Bencic was trying to become the first winner of two WTA titles this season. She is among 16 different winners in 16 tour events so far, after her victory at Dubai
  
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• Game in Hawaii highlights NFL preseason schedule

  09-04-2019 21:24
  NEW YORK (AP) — The first NFL exhibition game in Hawaii in 43 years highlights the league’s preseason schedule announced Tuesday.
  Dallas will play the Los Angeles Rams at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu on Aug. 17. The last preseason match there featured the 49ers and Chargers in 1976.
  The Raiders, who are set to move to Las Vegas in 2020, have two preseason home games, though the one against Green Bay in Week 3 has an “undetermined site.” The Oakland Athletics are scheduled to
  
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• Nimes keeps European hopes alive with 3-1 win over Rennes

  09-04-2019 21:22
  PARIS (AP) — Nimes posted a second straight win to get back in the race for a European finish with a 3-1 win over Rennes in a rescheduled French league match on Tuesday.
  With seven games left to play, Nimes leapfrogged its Brittany rival into 10th place, just five points behind fifth-place Marseille.
  The match at Costieres stadium had been postponed to allow Rennes sufficient time to prepare for a Europa League match it lost to Arsenal last month.
  Nimes put on an excellent defensive displa
  
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• Cyprus: Difficulties remain in restarting peace talks

  09-04-2019 21:11
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot government officials say there are “very serious difficulties” in rekindling formal talks to reunify the ethnically split island nation.
  But they insisted Tuesday there will be no easing up in United Nations-assisted efforts to get Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots back to the negotiating table.
  Andreas Mavroyiannis, the chief negotiator for the majority Greek Cypriots, said there’s no other option but to resume talks, although expectation
  
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• South Sudan opposition leader blocked from Vatican meeting

  09-04-2019 21:06
  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar is still waiting for permission to travel to a peace retreat at the Vatican on Wednesday, according to a letter seen by The Associated Press.
  The letter written Tuesday by Machar to the East African regional bloc, which must give him the permission to leave house arrest in neighboring Sudan, says his status had “not yet been determined” and requests approval to go.
  The retreat, also to be attended by South Sudan
  
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• Polish novelist nominated for back-to-back Booker Prize

  09-04-2019 21:06
  LONDON (AP) — Six books from Europe, South America and the Middle East are finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in translation.
  The contenders announced Tuesday include an environmental crime tale, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones Of the Dead,” by the author of last year’s prize- winner, Olga Tokarczuk of Poland.
  Other finalists include “The Shape of the Ruins” by Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez; French writer Annie Ernaux&r
  
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• North Macedonia group complains over Muslim leader’s remarks

  09-04-2019 21:04
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A leading human rights group in North Macedonia has called on the country’s authorities to prosecute the head of the country’s Muslim community for alleged hate speech, over remarks he made last month during a foundation-laying ceremony for a new mosque near the capital Skopje.
  In a rare move, the Macedonian Helsinki Committee on Tuesday accused religious leader Sulejman Rexhepi of inciting “hatred, discord, and intolerance.” It quoted
  
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• Israeli exit polls show contradictory results, making race too close to call

  09-04-2019 21:04
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli exit polls show contradictory results, making race too close to call.
  The post Israeli exit polls show contradictory results, making race too close to call appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• The Latest: Huffman scheduled to plead guilty on May 24

  09-04-2019 21:03
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the case against prominent parents and athletic coaches charged in a sweeping college bribery scam (all times local):
  4:50 p.m.
  Actress Felicity Huffman is scheduled to appear in court next month to plead guilty in the college admissions cheating scam.
  The “Desperate Housewives” star’s plea hearing is set for May 24.
  Huffman announced Monday that she would plead guilty to paying $15,000 to have a proctor rig her daughter’s college entranc
  
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• The Latest: Defense lawyers accuse feds of ‘judge shopping’

  09-04-2019 21:03
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the case against prominent parents and athletic coaches charged in a sweeping college bribery scam (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  Attorneys for a group of parents charged in the college admissions bribery scandal are accusing prosecutors of manipulating the legal process to get the case in front of the judge of their choice.
  The defense lawyers criticized prosecutors Tuesday for adding their clients to an indictment that has already been assigned to Judge Nathaniel G
  
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• Adopt This Pet: Meet Sara Dee

  09-04-2019 20:59
  An eight month old pup looking to be adopted!
  There is a new pet looking to be adopted, meet Sara Dee!
  Sara Dee is looking for her forever home. She is an eight month old pup that is full of energy and loves to play with the water hose. Sara Dee does well with other dogs and would be a great partner in crime to your pet at home.
  If you are interested in Sara Dee you can visit her at HSSA Main Campus at 635 W. Roger Rd. You can also give an adoption counselor a call at 520-327-6088 extension 173.
  
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• CEOs of 7 big banks to appear in front of Congress

  09-04-2019 20:55
  NEW YORK (AP) — The heads of some of the U.S.’ largest banks will appear in front of Congress Wednesday, for a hearing expected to produce political fireworks, but few policy changes.
  Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase will testify, as well as the CEOs of Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The CEOs of State Street and Bank of New York Mellon are also slated to appear.
  It’s the most significant hearing on banks since Democrats took control of the House earl
  
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• The Latest: Mexican national murder suspect found hanged

  09-04-2019 20:53
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on the death of a Mexican national suspected of killing four people in Kansas and one in Missouri (all times local):
  1:30 p.m.
  A Mexican national accused of killing four people in Kansas and one in Missouri in 2016 is dead after being found hanging from a light fixture in his St. Louis jail cell.
  Pablo Serrano-Vitorino was alone in his cell when he was found at 2:02 a.m. Tuesday. St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch th
  
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