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• Segura homers in 14th, Phillies top Marlins 3-1

  14-04-2019 23:59
  MIAMI (AP) — Jean Segura’s two-run homer to left in the 14th inning put Philadelphia on top, and the Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 3-1 on Sunday in the longest game of the young season for either team.
  Andrew McCutchen tripled to the wall in left-center, and Segura followed with his first home run of the season.
  Cesar Hernandez also got his first homer of the season for the Phillies. Brian Anderson hit his second for Miami.
  Wei-Yin Chen (0-1) came on to pitch the 14th, was charged
  
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• Rockies’ Marquez gives up 1st hit in 8th vs Giants

  14-04-2019 23:49
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — German Marquez of the Colorado Rockies has lost his no-hit bid on Evan Longoria’s one-out single in the eighth inning at San Francisco.
  After Gold Glove third baseman Nolan Arenado made a nifty play on a hard one-hopper by Brandon Crawford to begin the eighth Sunday, Longoria followed by grounding a single past Arenado’s dive.
  The Giants had only one runner until Longoria’s hit.
  The 24-year-old Marquez is making his second start since signing a $43 mi
  
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• Berrios sharp, Hildenberger clutch as Twins beat Tigers 6-4

  14-04-2019 23:48
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Berrios pitched into the seventh inning for his first win since opening day, Trevor Hildenberger struck out two with the bases loaded for his first save and the Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 6-4 Sunday to complete a two-game sweep.
  C.J. Cron homered and drove in three, and Eddie Rosario was a triple short of the cycle for the Twins, who have won three of four.
  Blake Parker loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, but Hildenberger came on and got John Hi
  
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• Suspect in Glendale road rage shooting surrenders to police

  14-04-2019 23:41
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A suspect in a fatal road rage shooting in Glendale has turned himself in to police.
  Details weren’t immediately released Monday.
  Police say they received a call about a violent incident around 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
  They found a vehicle that had crashed into a wall outside of a gas station with two 18-year-old victims inside and both appeared to have been shot.
  Police identified the driver as Alexander John Pettygrove of Phoenix, who was pronounced dead at a hosp
  
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• Glendale road rage shooting leaves 1 man dead, another hurt

  14-04-2019 23:41
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead and another injured after a road rage incident in Glendale.
  Glendale police say they received a call about a violent incident around 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
  They found a vehicle that had crashed into a wall outside of a gas station with two 18-year-old victims inside and both appeared to have been shot.
  Police identified the driver as Alexander John Pettygrove of Phoenix, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
  They say the other man is hospi
  
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• 23 rescued in Gulf of Mexico after drifting for days

  14-04-2019 23:11
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it worked with a cruise ship to rescue 23 people adrift for days in the Gulf of Mexico.
  A Coast Guard news statement issued Sunday says 22 Cubans started traveling on a wooden boat from Cuba to Mexico before losing power and drifting three days. A Cuban-Mexican man took them aboard his sports fishing boat, then its engines malfunctioned and the group drifted three more days.
  The Coast Guard says it was contacted early Sunday by a brother of one
  
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• The Latest: Rossi races to second straight Long Beach win

  14-04-2019 23:10
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Grand Prix of Long Beach (all times local):
  3:25 p.m.
  Alexander Rossi has become the first driver in 12 years to win back-to-back on the streets of Long Beach, and the American joined some of the top stars in racing as multiple winners of the second-biggest race on the IndyCar schedule.
  Rossi won the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach from the pole, same as last year, and had the field covered very early. His margin of victory over Josef Newgarden wa
  
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• The Latest: Ericsson penalized for crash on opening lap

  14-04-2019 23:10
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Grand Prix of Long Beach (all times local):
  1:45 p.m
  Marcus Ericsson was assessed a drive-thru penalty for avoidable contact on the first lap of the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  Ericsson was involved in an incident with Spencer Pigot and Jack Harvey in the opening moments of the race through the streets of Long Beach.
  At the same time, Sebastien Bourdais was told by his team it had lost all telemetry and the television monitors were not working on t
  
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• Heredia homers as Rays top Jays 8-4, win 5th straight series

  14-04-2019 23:07
  TORONTO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Guillermo Heredia homered to cap a five-run burst in the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 Sunday for their fifth straight series victory to start the season.
  Tampa Bay improved to 12-4 and matched the 2010 team for the best 16-game start in club history. The Blue Jays have lost seven of nine and haven’t won a series this year.
  On a rainy day in Toronto, the grounds crew placed two buckets on the warning track in center fi
  
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• Anderson’s slam backs Rodón as White Sox top Yankees 5-2

  14-04-2019 22:55
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Anderson hit his first career grand slam and Carlos Rodón pitched the Chicago White Sox to a 5-2 victory over the scuffling New York Yankees on Sunday.
  José Abreu nearly had a grand slam as well — to almost the same spot in the ballpark — but settled for a sacrifice fly when right fielder Aaron Judge made a jumping catch in front of the wall. Held to one hit Saturday in a 4-0 loss, Chicago chased Masahiro Tanaka with nobody out in the fifth and
  
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• Northern Kentucky’s Brannen takes Cincinnati coaching job

  14-04-2019 22:51
  CINCINNATI (AP) — John Brannen has been hired as Cincinnati’s coach after leading Northern Kentucky to two NCAA Tournament appearances in the last three years.
  The Bearcats announced Brannen’s hiring Sunday and said he would be introduced Monday at Fifth Third Arena.
  Brannen replaces Mick Cronin, who left Cincinnati for the UCLA job.
  Brannen guided Northern Kentucky to the 2017 and 2019 NCAA Tournaments, as well as the 2018 NIT. The Norse went 81-51 in Brannen’s four seas
  
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• Martin hits RBI double in 9th, Pirates stop Nationals 4-3

  14-04-2019 22:40
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rookie Jason Martin hit a tiebreaking double in the top of the ninth inning against Washington’s shaky bullpen, then Felipe Vázquez escaped a bases-loaded jam Sunday to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 win over the Nationals.
  The Pirates took two of three and won a series at Nationals Park for the first time since 2013.
  Josh Bell drew a leadoff walk in the ninth from Wander Suero (1-1) and moved to second on Colin Moran’s grounder. With two outs, Marti
  
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• US beats Finland in shootout for gold after OT controversy

  14-04-2019 22:37
  ESPOO, Finland (AP) — Alex Rigsby stopped four of five shots in the shootout and the United States beat Finland 2-1 to win its fifth consecutive gold medal at the women’s world championship Sunday after a questionable goaltender interference review wiped what would have been an overtime goal for the Finns off the board.
  Finland celebrated on home ice after Petra Nieminen scored on a rebound 11:33 into overtime, but officials spent more than 10 minutes reviewing the play before disall
  
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• Bishop asks Nicaraguans to ‘fight for freedom’ in speech

  14-04-2019 22:32
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The auxiliary bishop of Nicaragua’s capital has given an impassioned speech before being transferred to Rome at the request of Pope Francis.
  In one of his final sermons Sunday, Silvio Báez called on Nicaraguans to “fight for freedom” and to remember “the crucified of today: political prisoners, exiles and mothers who mourn those killed by repression.”
  At least 325 people have died during clashes between civilians and government
  
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• Price and Bogaerts carry Red Sox past Orioles 4-0

  14-04-2019 22:26
  BOSTON (AP) — David Price pitched seven stellar innings with seven strikeouts, Xander Bogaerts hit a three-run homer and drove in every run, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-0 on Sunday.
  The teams wrap up their four-game series with Boston’s traditional Patriots’ Day morning game Monday, with first pitch set for 11:05 a.m. The Red Sox are scheduled to play on the holiday for the 60th consecutive year.
  Boston’s big starting foursome of Price, Chris Sale,
  
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• Djokovic eyes French Open final against Nadal as clay begins

  14-04-2019 22:26
  MONACO (AP) — As Novak Djokovic begins his preparations for a fourth straight Grand Slam title, he likes to imagine beating Rafael Nadal in the French Open final.
  “That would be the match of the season, yes,” Djokovic said Sunday at the Monte Carlo Masters. Djokovic and his longtime rival Nadal are starting their clay-court seasons this week at Monte Carlo, their first tuneup on clay ahead of the May 26-June 9 French Open in Paris, and which could see them meet for a 54th time
  
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• Blind man falls on tracks in Washington, D.C. subway

  14-04-2019 22:16
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man visually impaired takes a bad fall off of a D.C Metro platform onto the tracks.
  The incident was captured on surveillance at the Red Line’s Medical Center Line, earlier this week.You can see the man walking along the platform when he steps forward off the edge.
  The manages to get back up on his own. However, nearby passengers, who also saw what happened, came to his aid. And Just in time, as a train pulls up to the station.
  The man was taken to the hospital a
  
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• Rins wins MotoGP in Texas after Marquez crash

  14-04-2019 21:59
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Suzuki’s Alex Rins took his first career MotoGP victory at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday after six-time race champion Marc Marquez crashed out of the lead midway through the race.
  Marquez had been undefeated at the Circuit of the Americas and was well on his way to another easy victory when a mistake through a corner sent his motorcycle tumbling with 11 laps to go.
  Marquez spilled his Repsol Honda after breaking out of the long straight. He tried to ge
  
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• Irving, Morris lead Celtics’ rally past Pacers in Game 1

  14-04-2019 21:49
  BOSTON (AP) — Kyrie Irving and Marcus Morris each had 20 points, and the Boston Celtics rallied in the second half to beat the Indiana Pacers 84-74 on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.
  Jayson Tatum finished with 15 points. Al Horford added 10 points and 11 rebounds, and Gordon Hayward had 10 points. It was the first playoff game since 2017 for Irving and Hayward after each missed last year’s postseason with injuries.
  Game 2 is Wednesday night in Boston.
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• Marc Marquez crashes out of MotoGP in Austin

  14-04-2019 21:44
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Marc Marquez’s undefeated run at the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas ended Sunday when he crashed out of the race with 11 laps to go.
  Marquez was way out in front and in complete control while heading for his seventh consecutive win at the Circuit of the Americas when he fell on the turn out of the track’s long straight. He tried to get back on his motorcycle and restart, but couldn’t. He gave up and fell off and onto his back and had to be driven b
  
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• IOC resists change to Olympic rule limiting athlete sponsors

  14-04-2019 21:30
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Amid IOC resistance to athlete activism, Olympic competitors have been urged to negotiate with national officials directly if they want to gain freedoms to promote their personal sponsors during Summer and Winter Games.
  IOC President Thomas Bach’s comments to an invited audience of athletes on Sunday confirmed the Olympic body will not extend worldwide the concessions won by German athletes in a recent federal government ruling.
  “There is no ‘
  
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• Islanders top Penguins 4-1 to take 3-0 series lead

  14-04-2019 21:09
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The New York Islanders are on the cusp of just their second playoff series win in more than a quarter-century.
  Jordan Eberle scored for the third straight game, Robin Lehner stopped 25 shots and the Islanders rolled to a 4-1 victory over the stunned Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday to take a 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinal.
  Brock Nelson added his second goal of the playoffs and Leo Komarov scored the first postseason goal of his career for the
  
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• Favreau gives ‘Star Wars’ fans 1st look at ‘The Mandalorian’

  14-04-2019 21:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Favreau is giving fans their first look at the “The Mandalorian,” the most anticipated series yet from the galaxy far, far away.
  Favreau’s eight-episode series is debuting on the Disney-Plus streaming service on November 12. It is set in the aftermath of “The Return of the Jedi,” taking place five years after the Rebellion’s victory.
  Favreau premiered behind-the-scenes clips and some finished footage to attendees Sunday at the Star Wa
  
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• Tiger Woods wins his fifth Masters title in his first major victory since 2008

  14-04-2019 20:54
  Tiger Woods won his fifth Masters title on Sunday, marking his first major victory since the 2008 United States Open. Woods, 43, shot 13 under par through the tournament.
  His victory comes after four back surgeries that left him wondering in recent years if he could ever play again.Woods entered the final round tied for second with Tony Finau, two strokes behind Francesco Molinari.
  He finished the tournament with his signature fist pump and hugged his family members.
  Among those watching a
  
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• Infantino holds Kuwait talks on staging 2022 World Cup games

  14-04-2019 20:43
  FIFA President Gianni Infantino has held talks with Kuwaiti politicians and soccer leaders about the country staging games at the 2022 World Cup if the Qatar tournament is enlarged from 32 to 48 teams.
  Infantino was flying to Qatar on Sunday night to talk to the World Cup leadership about his plans to add 16 more teams to the hosting, which requires at least one additional Gulf country being used.
  FIFA and Qatar have until June to come up with a joint proposal, but the concept is mired in comple
  
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• Nation’s new name becomes North Macedonia election issue

  14-04-2019 20:37
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The renaming of Balkan country Macedonia this year has emerged as a hot issue in North Macedonia’s upcoming presidential election.
  Center-left candidate Stevo Pendarovski defended the name change at a campaign rally in the capital of Skopje on Sunday. He reminded the rally crowd that it was part of a deal with Greece that paves the way for NATO membership.
  Conservative candidate Siljanovska Davkova blamed the current government for the “painful&rd
  
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• Teen IndyCar star Colton Herta fastest in Long Beach warmup

  14-04-2019 20:35
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — American teen sensation Colton Herta was fastest in IndyCar’s final warm-up for the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  Herta last month became the youngest winner in IndyCar history with his victory at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The win came in his second race with upstart Harding Steinbrenner Racing, and only his third overall IndyCar start.
  On the temporary street course through downtown Long Beach, Herta showed his Honda is fast by topping the speed
  
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• Red Sox LF Benintendi bruises foot on foul, exits game

  14-04-2019 20:23
  BOSTON (AP) — Andrew Benintendi of the Boston Red Sox has left the game against Baltimore after fouling a ball off his right foot.
  Benintendi went to the ground in pain after the foul in the third inning Sunday. He had trouble putting weight on his foot when he got up and lightly jogged down the first baseline.
  The outfielder then got back in the batter’s box and doubled into the left-fielder corner. He had a noticeable limp heading into second and again when he ran the bases on Mook
  
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• No slip-up this time: Liverpool stays top of Premier League

  14-04-2019 20:15
  Liverpool didn’t slip up this time.
  A 2-0 win over Chelsea — sealed by a stunning long-range goal by Mohamed Salah — preserved Liverpool’s two-point lead in the Premier League over Manchester City, which beat Crystal Palace 3-1 earlier Sunday.
  The victory also meant the Reds partially avenged a memorable 2-0 loss to Chelsea at Anfield near the end of the 2013-14 season that ultimately cost them the title. That defeat was sparked by a slip by Liverpool captain Steven Gerra
  
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• Israeli army probes shooting death of West Bank Palestinian

  14-04-2019 19:57
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it’s investigating the fatal shooting of a Palestinian man by an Israeli civilian earlier this month near the West Bank city of Nablus.
  The inquiry comes the same day as Sunday’s announcement by Israeli rights group B’Tselem saying it found inconsistencies in the initial report that the Palestinian man was armed with a knife.
  On April 3, the Israeli driver shot Mohammed Abdel Fattah, 23, who he said tried to stab him after hurlin
  
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• Mexico deports 204 migrants back to Honduras

  14-04-2019 19:42
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration officials have sent 204 migrants back to Honduras.
  The National Migration Institute said Sunday that the migrants’ stay in Mexico was “irregular” and that they were flown from the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz to San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
  The institute said most of the migrants were families traveling with underage children.
  This year, the Mexican government abruptly stopped issuing humanitarian visas at the border with Guat
  
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• Salah’s stunner helps Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-0 in EPL

  14-04-2019 19:40
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah blasted in a stunning long-range goal to seal Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Chelsea that kept the team top of the Premier League on Sunday.
  Two minutes after Sadio Mane headed Liverpool into the lead at Anfield, Salah collected Virgil van Dijk’s long ball from the back, cut inside off the right wing, and sent a diagonal shot into the top corner from 25 yards (meters) in the 53rd.
  Salah moved level with Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero as
  
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• Westbound I-10 re-opened near Rita Road after crash

  14-04-2019 19:37
  Arizona Department of Transportation has re-opened westbound traffic of I-10 near Rita Road a closure due to a crash.
  There was no further information given about the crash.CLOSED: I-10 westbound is closed in Tucson near Rita Road due to a crash. There is no estimated reopening time. #Tucson #aztraffic pic.twitter.com/Kdg3qW8hHN
  — Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) April 14, 2019The post Westbound I-10 re-opened near Rita Road after crash appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• American Airlines cancels Max flights through mid-August

  14-04-2019 19:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — American Airlines is canceling 115 flights per day through mid-August because of ongoing problems with the Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
  The cancellations represent 1.5% of American’s total flights each day of the summer.
  The U.S. grounded Boeing’s 737 Max plane in mid-March after two deadly plane crashes. Boeing aims to finish fixing the planes in late April, and changes would have to be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration and foreign regulators for app
  
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• White House: Congress not smart enough to assess Trump taxes

  14-04-2019 19:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House spokeswoman says lawmakers aren’t “smart enough” to assess President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
  Press secretary Sarah Sanders tells “Fox News Sunday” she doesn’t think House Democrats are equipped to examine the documents, which a key House committee is demanding under a 1920s law. The panel has given the IRS until April 23 to hand over six years’ worth of Trump’s personal and business filings.
  Trump sai
  
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• Wofford promotes assistant McAuley to head coach

  14-04-2019 19:21
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wofford promoted associate head coach Jay McAuley to take over for Mike Young, the Terriers’ longtime leader who left for Virginia Tech earlier this month.
  The school announced McAuley’s hiring Sunday.
  McAuley was a Terriers assistant under Young from 2008-10 before leaving. He returned to the school two seasons ago. McAuley helped Wofford to its most successful Division I season in history. Wofford went 30-5, including 18-0 in the Southern Conference, and
  
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• Students say gym teacher had black kids research slave games

  14-04-2019 19:16
  SHOREWOOD, Wis. (AP) — A suburban Milwaukee middle school gym teacher has been placed on indefinite leave while district officials look into claims that she separated students in one class by race and assigned the black children to research games that enslaved children played.
  Superintendent Bryan Davis wrote in a letter to parents that the Shorewood Intermediate School teacher was instructing seventh-graders about games from around the world on April 1 when she allegedly gave the assignme
  
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• Foreign governments fed up with social media — threaten prison for tech employees

  14-04-2019 19:16
  Governments on at least four continents are stepping up their calls to regulate Facebook, YouTube and other social media companies after years of frustration with how technology companies have managed violent content on their services.
  With a wave of new and proposed laws in recent weeks, the governments — not including the United States — are making a sweeping challenge to the freewheeling speech rules of the internet that have opened up politics to new voices but also allowed viol
  
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• Tigers’ Matt Moore to have surgery for torn meniscus

  14-04-2019 19:04
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Detroit left-hander Matt Moore will undergo surgery this week to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.
  The Tigers said Sunday they won’t have a definite timetable for Moore’s return until after Wednesday’s scheduled procedure in Dallas, although Moore said he’s hoping for a recovery time of four to six weeks.
  Moore hurt the knee on April 6 when he left in the third inning of his start against Kansas City. Since then, he said, he’s had tw
  
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• Bayern and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer injured again

  14-04-2019 18:59
  DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer faces another spell on the sidelines after going off injured in Bayern Munich’s 4-1 Bundesliga win at Fortuna Duesseldorf on Sunday.
  Neuer injured his calf with no other players seemingly involved and limped off for Bayern replacement goalkeeper Sven Ulreich in the 53rd minute.
  Bayern coach Niko Kovac says, “It’s the same calf that was causing him problems two weeks ago. We have to wait on the MRI examination on
  
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• Snow at Wrigley leads to postponement of Angels-Cubs finale

  14-04-2019 18:40
  CHICAGO (AP) — Snow and rain led to the postponement of Sunday’s finale of a three-game series between the Los Angeles Angels and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
  A makeup date was not immediately announced.
  A steady snow fell throughout the morning and a mix of snow and rain was forecast to continue throughout the afternoon.
  Right-hander Tyler Chatwood (0-0, 6.00 ERA) was scheduled to make his first start of the season on Sunday for Chicago. He will pitch Monday night when the Cubs op
  
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• Active shooter drills are scaring kids. Some schools are taking a new approach.

  14-04-2019 18:40
  Heidi Lee Pottinger’s 4-year-old son was at a football game last fall with his father when, following a touchdown, celebratory fireworks rocketed into the sky. Panicked by the popping sounds, the little boy turned to his dad.
  “Active shooter!” he cried, tears in his eyes.
  Pottinger’s son is one of millions of schoolchildren in America who have done active shooter and lockdown drills. The exercises, a legacy of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School rampage, are intend
  
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• Reports: Widow of Serbia strongman Milosevic dies in Russia

  14-04-2019 18:29
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s state television says that Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has died in Russia. She was 76.
  The RTS report says Markovic died Sunday in a hospital. Milosevic’s SPS party sent condolences to the family.
  There were no details about the cause of death.
  Markovic, who was the leader of a neo-Communist party during Milosevic’s rule in Serbia in the 1990s, was considered to be a power behind the scene with major
  
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• NRA has history of advising gun-rights groups outside US

  14-04-2019 18:28
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Recent revelations that National Rifle Association representatives met with Australian politicians to discuss talking points after a mass shooting isn’t the first time the NRA has exerted its influence on gun debates outside the U.S.
  The lobbying group has sought sway at the United Nations to make it easier to sell American guns overseas. It has on more than one occasion advised gun-rights groups in Brazil, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
  It even advised gun-righ
  
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• The Lyrid meteor shower is back. Here’s how to see April’s shooting stars.

  14-04-2019 18:22
  April brings the return of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Skywatchers may be able to see the shooting stars, though experts say the full moon threatens to upstage this year’s show.
  “The light from the full moon is pretty much going to completely wash out the Lyrids this year,” Bill Cooke, a meteor expert at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in an email.
  The Lyrids — so named because they appear to stream from the const
  
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• Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony still hospitalized

  14-04-2019 18:21
  BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized.
  Friends of the family have started a crowdfunding effort to help with medical bills. The GoFundMe campaign had raised nearly $400,000 as of Sunday morning.
  Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said Sunday that the boy is “still alive and receiving care,” and that the family wants privacy. Children&rsqu
  
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• From Frozen Four to NHL playoffs: Cale Makar signs with Avs

  14-04-2019 18:06
  DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche have signed defenseman Cale Makar to a three-year deal a day after his Massachusetts squad lost in the Frozen Four championship game.
  Makar, who’s from Calgary, could make his NHL debut Monday in Game 3 of a playoff series against the Flames. The series is tied at a game apiece.
  The 6-foot, 192-pound Makar was the fourth overall pick by Colorado in the 2017 draft.
  He just wrapped up a sophomore season in which he led the Minutemen to the title gam
  
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• 3 children, 1 woman killed as powerful storms sweep across southern U.S.

  14-04-2019 18:05
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  Three children and one woman were killed Saturday in powerful storms that swept across the southern U.S., authorities said.
  In Texas two children, ages 8 and 3, died when a tree fell on a car Saturday afternoon, trapping them inside, according to the Angelina County Sheriff’s Department. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
  In West Monroe, Louisiana, a 13-year-old boy drowned in a
  
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• Canada routs Russia 7-0 to win bronze at women’s worlds

  14-04-2019 17:59
  ESPOO, Finland (AP) — Canada routed Russia 7-0 in the bronze-medal game at the women’s world hockey championship on Sunday, bouncing back from the historic semifinal loss to Finland a day earlier.
  Canada, which had played the United States in the final of all 18 previous championships dating back to the first in 1990, claimed the bronze in a one-sided game that was little more than consolation for the perennial title contenders.
  Loren Gabel scored twice and Natalie Spooner had a goal
  
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• Pirates RHP Archer drops appeal, begins serving suspension

  14-04-2019 17:58
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Chris Archer dropped his appeal and began serving a five-game suspension Sunday for setting off a benches-clearing altercation on April 7.
  The impact of Archer’s suspension will be minimal. He ended his appeal a day after allowing one run in seven innings against Washington, getting a no-decision in Pittsburgh’s loss. The Pirates have two days off this week, and Archer will make his next start April 21 against San Francisco.
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