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• Dodgers tie MLB home HRs record in 3-2 win over Reds

  17-04-2019 23:59
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A.J. Pollock hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers tied the major league record by homering in their 32nd consecutive home game during a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.
  Pollock broke open a scoreless game when he connected off Sonny Gray (0-3). Los Angeles has homered in every regular season game at Dodger Stadium since last Aug. 21, including 13 straight this season.
  The Dodgers matched the mark set by the Colorado Roc
  
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• Joe Alleva stepping down as LSU’s athletic director

  17-04-2019 23:58
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU athletic director Joe Alleva is stepping down from that position and will have a new role within the school’s athletic department.
  The school announced Wednesday that Alleva’s new position will be as special assistant to the president for donor relations. He will remain LSU’s athletic director until a successor is announced.
  Alleva has been LSU’s athletic director since April 2008. He said in a statement released by the university that &l
  
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• Road closure for Tucson Earth Day Festival

  17-04-2019 23:57
  Courtesy: Childrens Museum Tucson
  A stretch of Sixth Avenue will be closed for the Tucson Earth Day Festival, on Saturday.
  The Tucson Department of Transportation will shut down Sixth Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.
  TDOT said businesses, parking garages and parking lots will still be accessible.
  Drivers traveling through downtown should expect delays, according to city officials.
  The Children’s Museum Tucson will host the free festival. Tucson
  
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• The boy who cried wolf: Trump’s immigration conundrum

  17-04-2019 23:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump insisted last year that the nation’s southern border was in crisis, his warnings landed with a thud.
  Making unverified claims about “unknown Middle Easterners” and prayer rugs found by ranchers, Trump drew eye rolls from Democrats and many in the media, who derided his tactics as little more than an election-year stunt.
  Now, six months later, Trump’s new cries of alarm are again being met with skepticism, even as the sit
  
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• Pennsylvania agency defends closure of beloved hiking trail

  17-04-2019 23:50
  The Pennsylvania Game Commission says it would cost $1.7 million to make a beloved, well-known hiking trail safe for the public. That’s why the agency plans to close it altogether.
  Game commission spokesman Travis Lau confirms the Glen Onoko Falls Trail will close May 1. He says the trail has proven to be too dangerous, with at least 10 deaths since the late 1970s.
  News of the pending closure has outraged hikers and nature lovers. An online petition to keep it open has drawn more than 12,0
  
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• North Korea test-fires a new tactical guided weapon. Kim Jong Un calls it an “event of very weighty significance.”

  17-04-2019 23:48
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fires a new tactical guided weapon. Kim Jong Un calls it an “event of very weighty significance.”
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• Arizona woman indicted for murder in deaths of 2 grandsons

  17-04-2019 23:43
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman accused of fatally shooting her twin 8-year-old autistic grandsons has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder.
  Pima County prosecutors say 55-year-old Dorothy Lee Flood will be arraigned April 23.
  According to Monday’s indictment, Tucson police say Flood admitted to shooting the 8-year-old boys before attempting suicide by overdosing on a prescription medication.
  Authorities say the twins were found shot multiple times inside a home i
  
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• Americans to spend big this Easter

  17-04-2019 23:42
  Cute little bunny sleeping in the basket and Easter eggs in the meadow / Getty Images
  Easter is right around the corner and Americans are expected to spend big.
  The National Retail Federation estimated about eight in ten adults plan on celebrating the holiday this year.
  The group said the average person will spend about $151 leading to a national total of $18 billion.
  The National Retail Federation anticipates $2.4 billion to be spent on candy.
  Experts said that’s more than what consumers
  
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• Wacha, Cardinals cool off Yelich, beat Brewers 6-3

  17-04-2019 23:33
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Michael Wacha cooled off NL MVP Christian Yelich, Matt Carpenter and Marcell Ozuna each went deep, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 on Wednesday to avoid being swept.
  Yelich came in batting .556 with four home runs and 10 RBIs in the series, but he was 0 for 2 with a strikeout and a walk against Wacha. Yelich did single in a run in the eighth off Andrew Miller.
  Wacha (1-0) bounced back after a tough start Thursday against the Dodgers. He struck ou
  
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• Pirates prospect Ji-Hwan Bae suspended for domestic violence

  17-04-2019 23:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop prospect Ji-Hwan Bae has been suspended for 30 games for violating minor league baseball’s domestic violence policy.
  Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the suspension will start Thursday.
  Bae agreed to a minor league contract in March 2018 for a $1.2 million signing bonus. He was accused by a former girlfriend of domestic violence, South Korean media and The Athletic reported last May.
  The 19-year-old batted .271 with 13 RBIs and
  
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• Father accused abandoning baby in Oregon woods gets at least two years prison

  17-04-2019 23:32
  BEND, Ore. — The father of a 1-year-old boy who was left outside in central Oregon with a broken leg, cracked skull and meth in his system has accepted a plea deal that will send him to prison for over two years.
  Brandon Blouin agreed this week to enter an Alford plea to criminal mistreatment, endangering the welfare of a minor and felon in possession of body armor.
  Brandon Blouin/ Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office
  In exchange, charges of custodial interference, child neglect and aba
  
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• American Pharoah offspring is 3rd in North American debut

  17-04-2019 23:31
  NEW YORK (AP) — The first progeny of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah to start in North America finished third in her debut.
  Tesorina, a 2-year-old filly, gave up the lead in the final furlong and finished third in a $100,000 race at Aqueduct Wednesday.
  Ridden by Joe Bravo, Tesorina was the 4-5 favorite in the 4 1/2-furlong race. She led by 3 1/2 lengths, but was overtaken by Mo Mystery, who went on to win by 3 1/4 lengths. American Pharoah also lost his career debut.
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• Braves closer Vizcaino out for season after shoulder surgery

  17-04-2019 23:30
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Braves closer Arodys Vizcaino will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder.
  Vizcaino had the procedure Wednesday in New York. He pitched in four games this season, getting one save and allowing one run in four innings for the NL East champs.
  Minus Vizcaino, there’s likely to be further speculation the Braves might be interested in Craig Kimbrel — their former closer played for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox las
  
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• Detroit’s Moore out for the season following surgery

  17-04-2019 23:28
  DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers left-hander Matt Moore is expected to miss the rest of the season after right knee surgery.
  Manager Ron Gardenhire updated Moore’s status Wednesday. The 29-year-old pitcher signed with the Tigers in the offseason and did not allow a run in 10 innings this year, but he hurt his knee April 6.
  Moore said last weekend he had a tear in his meniscus, but the severity wasn’t clear.
  An All-Star in 2013 with Tampa Bay, Moore was one of the game’s risi
  
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• Royals hit Anderson after ChiSox SS flips bat; benches clear

  17-04-2019 23:24
  CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox youngster Tim Anderson was drilled by a fastball two innings after emphatically spiking his bat to celebrate a home run, sparking a benches-clearing fracas with the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.
  Anderson chucked his bat toward Chicago’s dugout while admiring his two-run shot off Brad Keller in the fourth. Keller plunked Anderson in the backside with his first pitch leading off the sixth.
  Anderson was quickly restrained by Kansas City catcher Martin Maldona
  
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• Tick, tick, tick: Alaska braces for invading parasites

  17-04-2019 23:20
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska health and wildlife officials are taking steps to track undesirable parasites showing up in the state.
  Researchers plan field work this summer to sample non-native ticks that could gain a foothold because of the warming climate.
  University of Alaska Anchorage assistant professor Micah Hahn says non-native ticks can carry and transmit Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever other diseases.
  She says it’s important to establish what ticks are in the st
  
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• The Latest: Sandy Hook lawsuit goes before appeals court

  17-04-2019 23:15
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit alleging Sandy Hook Elementary School officials failed to order a lockdown before 2012 mass shooting (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  A Connecticut appeals court has heard arguments over whether Sandy Hook Elementary School officials were negligent in failing to order a lockdown before a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in 2012.
  A lawyer for the parents of two children killed in the massacre told the state Appellate Court on Wednes
  
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• Tottenham stuns Man City to reach Champions League semis

  17-04-2019 23:13
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Fernando Llorente sent Tottenham into its first European Cup semifinal in 57 years and ended Manchester City’s quadruple hopes by scoring the decider in a breathtaking Champions League game that produced seven goals and saw an apparent injury-time winner for City ruled out after a video review.
  City won the second leg 4-3 at home but Tottenham advanced 4-4 on aggregate on Wednesday thanks to the away goals rule to set up a meeting with Ajax.
  Llorente, a bac
  
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• Argentina to freeze prices of goods in bid to tame inflation

  17-04-2019 23:09
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s government is freezing the prices of 60 essential products and some services in a bid to tame spiraling inflation.
  President Mauricio Macri announced Wednesday that the goods affected include flour, oil, rice and personal hygiene items. He also said prices for services such as telephone plans will not be raised.
  Macri said in a video message that he is “convinced we are going to win the battle against inflation.”
  The annual infla
  
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• The Latest: Top Democrat says Barr is trying to spin report

  17-04-2019 22:38
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and Donald Trump’s campaign (all times local):
  8:40 p.m.
  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says the attorney general is “taking unprecedented steps to spin” the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
  Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, said Wednesday that Attorney General William Barr “appears to be waging a media campaign” on behalf of
  
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• The Latest: Dems angered about timing of report’s release

  17-04-2019 22:38
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and Donald Trump’s campaign (all times local):
  6:45 p.m.
  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says it is “wrong” that his committee will receive a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report after Attorney General William Barr gives a news conference on it Thursday.
  New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler says in a tweet that the Justice Department has i
  
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• Survivor of Texas tornado describes escape from grass house

  17-04-2019 22:17
  ALTO, Texas (AP) — A survivor of a deadly Texas tornado says he managed to crawl out of a grass house at a Native American historic site before the twister hurled it into the distance with two other people still inside.
  Jeff Williams of Nacogdoches (nak-uh-DOH’-ches) is president of Friends of Caddo (CAD’-oh) Mounds, a historic site in Alto (AL’-toh) that was among areas across the South that was pummeled by storms over the weekend.
  The Oklahoma native told KTRE-TV Tuesda
  
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• Official: Tour bus crash kills 28 people, mostly German tourists, on Portugal’s Madeira Island off northwest Africa

  17-04-2019 21:53
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Official: Tour bus crash kills 28 people, mostly German tourists, on Portugal’s Madeira Island off northwest Africa.
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• Historic US church tests sprinklers in wake of Notre Dame

  17-04-2019 21:51
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A historic U.S. church has tested the sprinklers in its steeple in the wake of the fire that destroyed much of the roof and spire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
  Sheets of water poured from the 196-foot (60-meter) steeple at Philadelphia’s Christ Church during Wednesday’s test as dozens of people watched from the ground below.
  Church leaders wanted to show the building is protected ahead of upcoming renovations. Most of the roof and the spire of Notre Dame
  
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• Mosley says Gase makes it clear: Jets aiming for Patriots

  17-04-2019 21:50
  NEW YORK (AP) — C.J. Mosley says Jets coach Adam Gase’s message in the team’s first meeting last week was that the goal is to beat New England.
  The Jets kicked off their offseason program last Monday at the team’s facility in Florham Park, New Jersey. It was the first time Gase was able to address all of his players since being hired as coach in January.
  Mosley, who signed with New York in March after five seasons with Baltimore, says during a conference call Wednesday th
  
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• 9th Circuit overturns death penalty in Arizona home invasion

  17-04-2019 21:49
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a death sentence issued to a man convicted in a 1987 home-invasion killing in Arizona.
  Theodore Washington was one of three men convicted of forcing their way into the Yuma home of Ralph and Sterleen Hill in search of drugs and cash. Both were shot in the head; Ralph Hill survived.
  Washington said the lawyer who represented him at sentencing was ineffective because he failed to obtain a psychiatric evaluation for Washington and
  
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• Some of Samsung’s folding phones are already breaking

  17-04-2019 21:41
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some of Samsung’s new $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days.
  Journalists who received the phones to review before the public launch say the Galaxy Fold screen started flickering and turning black before completely fizzling out. A couple of journalists say they removed a thin, protective layer from the screens that they thought was supposed to come off, but was meant to stay.
  But Dieter Bohn, executive editor of technology news si
  
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• Trial date set for woman charged with 1990 clown killing

  17-04-2019 21:40
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A trial date has been set in Florida for a woman accused of dressing up like a clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of her future husband.
  A Palm Beach County circuit judge on Wednesday set the first-degree murder trial of 55-year-old Sheila Keen-Warren to begin Jan. 31, 2020. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
  Keen-Warren was arrested in 2017 and extradited from Virginia, where she lived with husband Michael Warren.
  Officials say Warren’s
  
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• Gonzaga forward Brandon Clarke to enter NBA draft

  17-04-2019 21:39
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga forward Brandon Clarke, who led the nation in blocked shots this season, plans to skip his senior year and enter the NBA draft.
  Under new NCAA rules, the junior can sign with an agent and still return to school if he chooses. Clarke has until May 29 to make a final decision.
  Clarke’s 117 blocks were the most in the country. He averaged 16.9 points and 8.6 rebounds per game in his first season with Gonzaga after transferring from San Jose State. Clarke al
  
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• Alliance officially out of business, files for bankruptcy

  17-04-2019 21:34
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Alliance of American Football is officially out of business.
  The eight-team league that folded after eight games of its initial season ceased all business operations and filed for bankruptcy Wednesday.
  “The AAF is committed to ensuring that our bankruptcy proceeds in an efficient and orderly manner,” the league said in a statement. “Pursuant to the bankruptcy laws, a trustee will be empowered to resolve all matters related to the AAF’s remaini
  
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• Watch: Close Call For Cop Making Traffic Stop

  17-04-2019 21:33
  Police in New Jersey are calling for people to slow down and take a look, after a close call for one of their officers during a traffic stop caught on body camera.
  Body camera footage shows the officer’s cruiser get clipped by a passing vehicle, just as the officer is stepping out.
  Thankfully, the officer acted quickly to get out of the way and was not injured.
  That passing car remained on scene, and no one in that vehicle was injured.
  Police say the close call is an opportunity to remind
  
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• Russia denies recovering remains of Israeli spy Cohen

  17-04-2019 21:32
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has strongly rejected Israeli media reports claiming that Russian officials have taken the remains of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen out of Syria, where he was executed more than five decades ago.
  Cohen infiltrated the top echelons of Syria’s leadership in the early 1960s and obtained top-secret intelligence before he was caught and publicly executed in 1965.
  Israeli media reported earlier this week that a Russian delegation took Cohen&r
  
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• Feds seek dismissal of plutonium lawsuit; no quake concerns

  17-04-2019 21:32
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Energy Department is asking a federal judge in Reno to dismiss the state’s lawsuit challenging plutonium shipments to Nevada while an appeals court considers whether to overturn the judge’s earlier refusal to temporarily block the shipments.
  Department officials have also stepped up their explanation of why the site housing the weapons-grade plutonium north of Las Vegas isn’t vulnerable to dangers posed by earthquakes despite concerns raised las
  
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• AP Top 25 Podcast: New coaches facing toughest challenges

  17-04-2019 21:29
  Not all new coaches face the same challenges in college football.
  Who has the toughest task ahead of him in 2019? On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports joins AP’s Ralph Russo to talk about which first-year coaches have their work cut out for them. Louisville’s Scott Satterfield, Kansas’ Les Miles and Maryland’s Mike Locksley are candidates for new coach looking at the most difficult rebuilds.
  Also, which new Group of Five coach coul
  
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• Maine imposes quarantine to combat beetle killing ash trees

  17-04-2019 21:25
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Officials in Maine have announced a formal quarantine to slow the spread of a beetle that has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees since its discovery in North America.
  The emerald ash borer was first found stateside in Michigan in 2002 and has spread to dozens of states and four Canadian provinces. Loggers are cutting down large numbers of ash trees to try to stay ahead of the pest.
  The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said Wednesday tha
  
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• Wisconsin senator proposes tougher asylum requirements

  17-04-2019 21:22
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson says he is working on legislation to help stem the flow of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Johnson wants to toughen the initial standard for asylum seekers to “more than a probable chance” they’ll experience violence or persecution in their home countries. Right now, if people can demonstrate “credible fear,” they’re allowed to stay in the U.S. as their cases progress.
  The Wisconsin Repu
  
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• Lazio revives Champions League chances with win over Udinese

  17-04-2019 21:21
  ROME (AP) — Lazio revived its chances of qualifying for the Champions League with a 2-0 win over relegation-threatened Udinese in Serie A on Wednesday.
  In seventh place, Lazio moved within three-points of fourth-place AC Milan and the final Champions League berth.
  Udinese remained 16th, three points above the drop zone.
  Despite a modest budget, Udinese has remained in Serie A continuously since the 1995-96 season — behind only Inter Milan, Roma, AC Milan, and Lazio in terms of consec
  
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• Pelicans’ Griffin: Gentry staying, and perhaps Davis, too

  17-04-2019 21:19
  METAIRIE, La. (AP) — The Pelicans newly hired top basketball executive says coach Alvin Gentry will be retained and that he won’t rule out the possibility of talking six-time All-Star Anthony Davis into rescinding his trade request and committing to New Orleans long-term.
  David Griffin, who was introduced Wednesday as Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations, is taking over for former general manager Dell Demps, who was fired this past season in the wake of Davis&rs
  
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• The Latest: Utah man in standoff was wanted in shooting

  17-04-2019 21:18
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a police standoff with an armed suspect at a fast-food restaurant in Utah (all times local):
  1:15 p.m.
  Authorities say they had been searching since Saturday for a Utah man who barricaded himself inside a fast-food restaurant during an overnight police standoff.
  Cottonwood Heights Police Lt. Dan Bartlett said Wednesday that 36-year-old Joshua B. Williams is suspected of firing at a woman Saturday who was letting him stay in her house. Bartlett says the w
  
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• Police sergeant loses job after white nationalist probe

  17-04-2019 21:18
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A police sergeant who was investigated for ties to white nationalists has lost his job with Virginia Capitol Police.
  Capitol Police issued a statement Wednesday saying Robert Stamm has been “separated from his employment” with the division, effective immediately.
  In February, the Antifascists of Seven Hills published links to Stamm’s social media accounts suggesting that he follows the Asatru Folk Assembly. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes it
  
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• Former Grand Canyon superintendent returns to San Francisco

  17-04-2019 21:12
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The former superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park is returning to San Francisco.
  Christine Lehnertz oversaw Golden Gate National Recreation Area before taking over at the Grand Canyon less than three years ago. She resigned last month after being cleared of allegations she created a hostile workplace and wasted park resources.
  She’ll start a new job next month in San Francisco as president and chief executive of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
  
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• White Sox pitcher Giolito exits start with tight hamstring

  17-04-2019 21:10
  CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito has left Tuesday’s start against the Kansas City Royals because of tightness in his left hamstring.
  Giolito seemed to feel discomfort throwing a 1-1 pitch to Alex Gordon with two outs in the third inning. He stretched it and took a few warmup tosses before heading to the dugout. Ryan Burr struck out Gordon.
  Giolito did not allow a run or hit in 2 2/3 innings. The 24-year-old right-hander struck out five, walked one and hit a batter.
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• Polar bear gets lost in Russia, hundreds of miles from home

  17-04-2019 21:09
  MOSCOW (AP) — Residents of a village in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have been stunned by the sight of a polar bear prowling for food — hundreds of miles away from its usual habitat.
  Russian media reported Wednesday that the animal, which looks exhausted, has somehow ended up in the village Tilichiki on Kamchatka, some 700 kilometers (about 430 miles) south of Kamchatka.
  Environmentalists say the bear could have lost its bearings while drifting on an ice floe.
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• Georgia Gov. Kemp signs medical marijuana bill

  17-04-2019 21:05
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law a bill that would allow certain patients to access a low-potency cannabis oil they can already legally use.
  Kemp approved what he called a “carefully balanced” measure on Wednesday, saying it would expand access for patients in need without opening the door to recreational drug use.
  The legislation allows the in-state production and sale of the marijuana oil and closes a loophole in a 2015 law that banned gro
  
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• Break in your cowboy boots: New country bar on northwest side expected to open in July

  17-04-2019 21:03
  TUCSON – Break in your cowboy boots and dust off your 10-gallon hat, a new country bar is making its way to the Old Pueblo.
  Two-steppers across Tucson will soon have a new place to show off their moves this summer after the owners of Putney’s Pitstop Sports Bar and Grill announced this week that they will be opening a new country bar at the former location of Romano’s Macaroni Grill at 2265 W. Ina Rd. near La Chola Boulevard.
  According to the owners, the bar, dubbed Whiskey Roa
  
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• Writers guild sues talent agencies in heated Hollywood fight

  17-04-2019 20:58
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Writers Guild of America is suing Hollywood’s four biggest talent agencies in the latest and boldest move in an increasingly bitter fight between the two sides.
  The suit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court claims that agents’ use of so-called packaging fees is illegal under California law because they pose a conflict of interest in representing writers.
  Packaging fees mean agents combine elements of a television series, including writers, script
  
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• California irrigation district challenges river drought plan

  17-04-2019 20:54
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A California irrigation district has filed a legal challenge to a plan designed to protect a water source that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West.
  The drought contingency plan seeks to keep two Colorado River reservoirs from dropping so low they cannot deliver water or produce hydropower.
  The Imperial Irrigation District didn’t sign on to the multi-state plan over concerns about a massive, briny lake southeast of Los Angeles.
  Imperial is alleging anothe
  
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• Justice Department set to release redacted Mueller report

  17-04-2019 20:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller.
  The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and Donald Trump’s campaign, opening up months, if not years, of fights over what the document means in a deeply divided country.
  The nearly 400-page report is not expected to place the president in legal jeopardy. But it is li
  
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• House to mull 3 bills aimed at cellphone use while driving

  17-04-2019 20:49
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona House lawmakers will get to choose between three proposed laws that are designed to deal with distracted driving caused by cellphone use.
  House Speaker Rusty Bowers announced after a closed-door meeting of majority Republicans Wednesday that he would allow votes on all three bills. Two are versions of a total cellphone use ban and another just strengthens the state’s existing distracted driving law.
  Proponents of the cellphone ban point to the death of a police
  
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• Prison activist Mumia Abu-Jamal to get new appeals hearing

  17-04-2019 20:46
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Black Panther and death row activist convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer will get a new appeals hearing after the city prosecutor dropped his opposition to it.
  Sixty-four-year-old Mumia Abu-Jamal is serving a life sentence after spending decades on death row in the 1981 slaying of Officer Daniel Faulkner during a traffic stop.
  A city judge granted him a new hearing in December after the U.S. Supreme Court said a former Pennsylvania justice who he
  
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