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• New assistance grants aim to help vets purchase homes

  26-04-2019 23:59
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  TUCSON – Being given the keys to your new home is a moment one will never forget. And that is no different for those who have served.
  To help area veterans purchase homes across southern Arizona, Tucson and Pima County Industrial Development Authorities have teamed up to offer veterans a non-repayable VA Loan Assistance Grant.
  “The IDAs are pleased to be able to jointly provide this homebuyer assistance with VA loans toour hard-working veterans in Pima County,” 
  
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• Georgia expands internet; protects Confederate monuments

  26-04-2019 23:49
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is expanding internet access to rural areas and making it harder to relocate Confederate monuments under several bills Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law.
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Kemp formally approved the broadband legislation Friday in Dahlonega — a region in North Georgia where residents have struggled with connectivity issues.
  The law will allow electronic membership corporations to sell internet services and telephone cooperatives to
  
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• Vols’ Barnes to earn $26 million over next 5 seasons

  26-04-2019 23:46
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes will make $26 million over the next five seasons as part of a hefty raise he will receive after speaking with UCLA about its coaching vacancy earlier this month.
  Contract details obtained through a public records request show that Barnes will earn $4.7 million in the 2019-20 season and will get a $250,000 raise each of the next four seasons after that.
  Barnes had been scheduled to make $17.75 million over the next five seasons
  
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• Nationals Carter Kieboom for big league debut

  26-04-2019 23:42
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Carter Kieboom’s rapid rise through the Washington Nationals’ minor league system is complete, and perhaps no one is more amazed than the infielder himself.
  The 28th overall pick in the 2016 amateur draft was set to make his major league debut against San Diego on Friday night, batting ninth and playing shortstop.
  “This whole thing’s crazy to me,” Kieboom said. “I was in high school three years ago doing art projects and stuff. It&rsquo
  
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• Tom Pernice Jr.-Scott Hoch lead Legends of Golf

  26-04-2019 23:40
  RIDGEDALE, Mo. (AP) — Tom Pernice Jr. and Scott Hoch teamed to shoot a 9-under 62 on Friday in best-ball play at Ozarks National to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf.
  The teams of Shaun Micheel-Loren Roberts, Ken Tanigawa-Gene Sauers and Roger Chapman-David Frost were a stroke back.
  Micheel-Roberts and Chapman-Frost shot 63 at Ozarks National. Tanigawa-Sauers had an 8-under 46 on the Top of the Rock par-3 course, playing the first nin
  
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• Woods chooses not to enter Quail Hollow

  26-04-2019 23:38
  Masters champion Tiger Woods is not ready to get back to work.
  Woods did not enter the Wells Fargo Championship next week at Quail Hollow, meaning he likely will not play again until the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on May 16-19. The only other tournament before the next major is the AT&T Byron Nelson on a links-style course in Dallas.
  Woods has only played the week before a major when it was the PGA Championship, but that was when the PGA was in August and he played either the Buick O
  
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• Former US defender Jimmy Banks dead at 54

  26-04-2019 23:38
  CHICAGO (AP) — Jimmy Banks, a defender and winger who made two appearances for the United States at the 1990 World Cup, has died. He was 54.
  The U.S. Soccer Federation says Banks died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee.
  Banks had 36 international appearances from 1986-91. He did not play in the opening loss to Czechoslovakia at the 1990 World Cup, then was inserted into the lineup following Eric Wynalda’s red card in the opener and started
  
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• Leverkusen beats Augsburg to stay in Champions League chase

  26-04-2019 23:37
  AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen beat Augsburg 4-1 on Friday to remain in the race for Champions League qualification.
  Kevin Danso gave Augsburg a 12th-minute lead, which was erased three minutes later by Kevin Volland.
  Kai Havertz put Leverkusen in front early in the second half, with Jonathan Tah and Julian Brandt later adding insurance goals.
  Leverkusen moves up to sixth place in the Bundesliga with 51 points, two fewer than fourth-place Eintracht Frankfurt in the final Champio
  
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• California police chief: Driver who plowed into pedestrians targeted victims based on race, believing they were Muslim

  26-04-2019 23:37
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California police chief: Driver who plowed into pedestrians targeted victims based on race, believing they were Muslim.
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• Mets activate Jacob deGrom from injured list

  26-04-2019 23:36
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom was activated from the 10-day injured list and was set to start Friday’s series opener against the Milwaukee Brewers.
  The NL Cy Young Award winner reported soreness in his throwing elbow last week after going 0-2 with a 9.00 ERA in his last two starts.
  The 30-year-old right-hander had an MRI Monday that did not show any problems, according to general manager Brodie Van Wagenen.
  New York also recalled right-hander Corey Oswalt from Syracu
  
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• Titans agree to terms with defensive lineman Urban

  26-04-2019 23:32
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have agreed to terms with veteran defensive lineman Brent Urban, who spent the past five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens.
  Urban started all 16 games for the Ravens last season and had a career-high 27 tackles. The 6-foot-7, 300-pound Urban has career totals of 52 tackles, 3½ sacks and two blocked field-goal attempts.
  The move reunites Urban with Titans defensive coordinator Dean Pees, who worked as the Ravens’ defensive coordinato
  
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• The Latest: Trump confident about new US-Japan trade deal

  26-04-2019 23:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (all times local):
  5:20 p.m.
  President Donald Trump is expressing confidence that a new trade deal can be worked out with Japan.
  Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for meetings at the White House on Friday.
  The president says he believes a deal can be struck “quickly,” perhaps even in time to be signed during his visit to Japan next month for the installat
  
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• California killer accused of beheading, torturing cellmate

  26-04-2019 23:24
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One convicted killer has been accused of beheading another in what authorities call a sadistic torture slaying at a California state prison.
  The Kings County district attorney charged 31-year-old Jaime Osuna with murder in last month’s death of his Corcoran State Prison cellmate.
  A prosecutor said Friday that Osuna removed several body parts from 44-year-old Luis Romero.
  Osuna pleaded not guilty Thursday. His defense attorney didn’t immediately respond
  
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• California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students, staffers under measles quarantine; 131 others cleared

  26-04-2019 23:19
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students, staffers under measles quarantine; 131 others cleared.
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• All Bets Are On: Covering Christian Dawkins' Alleged Ties to Sean Miller, Arizona Softball and Kyler Murray

  26-04-2019 23:19
  Co-hosts Christopher Boan and Tyler Vondrak return to touch on the latest sports information in the Tucson Weekly's only sports podcast.
  This week's show covers the gamut, from the federal court hearing looking into former agent Christian Dawkins' ties to college basketball to Arizona softball's meteoric rise and Kyler Murray's arrival in Phoenix.…
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer: Driver did not intend crash that hurt 8

  26-04-2019 23:16
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a California man accused of intentionally driving into a group of pedestrians (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  The attorney for a California man charged with eight counts of attempted murder says his client did not deliberately drive into a group of pedestrians.
  Chuck Smith says the crash that hurt eight people was the act of a mental disorder or defect.
  Isaiah Joel Peoples, who is an Iraq War veteran, did not enter a plea Friday in Santa Clara County Superio
  
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• Police: Cash, drugs found after fatal Kentucky plane crash

  26-04-2019 23:15
  HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a plane that crashed, killing two North Carolina men, was carrying drugs and cash.
  Authorities believe the plane was stolen or used without permission from the owner. The Bellanca Viking 17-30A crashed early Wednesday or Tuesday night at the Henderson City County Airport.
  The Gleaner in Henderson reports police searched the wreckage and found a duffel bag with cash and suspected cocaine.
  The crash killed 47-year-old Barry Hill and 48-year-old
  
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• Sells 8-year-old located after extensive, joint search

  26-04-2019 23:10
  TUCSON – A missing 8-year-old was located after Border Patrol and Tohono O’odham Police conducted an extensive search for the child in Sells Thursday evening.
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  According to officials, a mother contacted agents from the Three Points Station at 7:30 p.m. to seek assistance in locating her child, who was missing for several hours. The child was found south of the mother’s home by a helicopter nearly two hours into the search.
  The 8-year-old was sa
  
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• CPB canine leads officers to $998,000 worth of pot hidden in semi

  26-04-2019 23:10
  TUCSON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have arrested a Mexican national, after he tried to smuggle nearly a ton of marijuana through the Port of San Luis.
  Officers say the 26-year-old man from San Luis, Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico was stopped for additional inspection on Wednesday, after a CBP canine alerted to the empty tractor trailer the man was driving.
  CBP searched inside the trailer, and found 170 packages of marijuana hidden inside the roof.
  Authorities say the mariju
  
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• Salah, Mane score 2 each, Liverpool beats Huddersfield 5-0

  26-04-2019 23:08
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Beating Manchester City to the title might not be the only thing occupying the minds of Liverpool forwards Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane heading into the final two weeks of the Premier League season.
  Both players scored twice in Liverpool’s 5-0 win over already-relegated Huddersfield that lifted the team back into first place above City on Friday.
  In the process, Mane and Salah became the top two in the league’s scoring charts, leaving behind City strik
  
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• Guerrero wears Expos jersey before debut to honor father

  26-04-2019 23:08
  TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. paid tribute to his Hall of Fame father before his major league debut for Toronto against Oakland, arriving at Rogers Centre dressed in a replica of his dad’s Montreal Expos jersey.
  The 20-year-old was set to bat fifth and play third base Friday.
  “Since I was a kid I was running around with my dad in the clubhouse in Montreal,” Guerrero Jr. said. “I just wanted to bring that back today.”
  Guerrero wore No. 27, the number ret
  
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• Guerrero debuts with hit that sets up Jays’ 4-2 win over A’s

  26-04-2019 23:08
  TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. capped his major league debut with a double leading off the ninth inning for his first hit, and Brandon Drury followed with a winning two-run homer with two outs to lift the Toronto Blue Jays over the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Friday night.
  The 20-year-old son of Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, considered the top prospect in the major leagues, arrived at Rogers Centre in a replica Montreal Expos jersey to honor his father, who was on hand. He grounded o
  
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• Brazil bank ad featuring blacks, transgender taken off air

  26-04-2019 23:02
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A bank commercial that featured a transgender woman and several young blacks has been removed after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro intervened.
  Bolsonaro, a former army captain with a long history of disparaging comments about minorities and gays, took office Jan. 1. Since then, he has frequently weighed into cultural wars.
  In a statement to The Associated Press Friday, Banco do Brasil said the ad was taken off air after Bolsonaro spoke with the state-run bank&rsqu
  
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• German woman injured in amphibious vehicle crash to get $7M

  26-04-2019 22:56
  SEATTLE (AP) — A German woman critically injured in a crash in Seattle that killed five people will receive $7 million in a settlement reached in a civil suit against Ride the Ducks International and Ride the Ducks Seattle.
  The Seattle Times reports Carolin Scholz was a passenger in a Ride the Ducks tour vehicle that plowed into a chartered bus carrying North Seattle College international students on the Aurora Bridge in September 2015. Scholz’s attorney, David Beninger, says his cli
  
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• Gov. Ducey appoints Judge James P. Beene to Arizona Supreme Court

  26-04-2019 22:55
  PHOENIX – Governor Doug Ducey appointed Judge James P. Beene to the Arizona Supreme Court on Friday. Judge Beene is the governor’s fourth appointment to the Court.
  According to Ducey’s office, Beene’s appointment was made to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice John Pelander.
  Judge Beene has served on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One since 2016. He was previously a judge on the Maricopa County Superior Court for 7 years –he presided over c
  
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• Pair of minor leaguers suspended for positive drug tests

  26-04-2019 22:52
  NEW YORK (AP) — San Francisco pitcher Norwith Gudino has been suspended 80 games under baseball’s minor league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Stanozolol, and Tampa Bay outfielder Bryce Brown has been banned 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse.
  Gudino, a 23-year-old right-hander from Venezuela, was 1-0 with a 0.96 ERA for Class A Augusta of the South Atlantic League, striking out 13 and walking three in 9 1/3 innings.
  
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• Half marathon record holder Kiptum suspended in doping case

  26-04-2019 22:41
  LONDON (AP) — Half marathon world record holder Abraham Kiptum has been provisionally suspended for doping two days before he was due to run the London Marathon.
  The Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles doping cases in track and field, says Kiptum was banned under the biological passport program, which involves analyzing blood data.
  London Marathon organizers say the Kenyan runner has left London.
  Kiptum took five seconds off the half marathon record in October when he won in Valencia i
  
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• Family: Boy thrown from mall balcony could be home by June

  26-04-2019 22:37
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a 5-year-old boy who was thrown by a stranger off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota this month says he’s alert and conscious and no longer in critical condition.
  The family issued a statement Friday saying Jesus has “saved our son’s life and is healing him in the most miraculous ways.” They say they’re focused now on additional surgeries, healing and rehabilitation. They hope the boy will be able to retu
  
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• Spoiler Alert: LeSean McCoy tweets out Avengers movie plot

  26-04-2019 22:29
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — If you haven’t done it already, and you’re on social media, mute LeSean McCoy’s account.
  The Buffalo Bills running back proved to be a one-man spoiler in tweeting out a significant occurrence in the newly released movie, “Avengers: End Game,” shortly after it premiered.
  The tweets didn’t go unnoticed, especially among Bills fans. Rather than eagerly trying to search out any possible news on who the Bills might select with their
  
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• Loggerhead sea turtle nesting season begins on Georgia coast

  26-04-2019 22:24
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Rare loggerhead sea turtles are laying eggs along the Georgia coast.
  The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says the first loggerhead nest of the 2019 season was discovered Friday on Cumberland Island. Typically, the season runs from May through August in Georgia and the Carolinas.
  Mark Dodd is the wildlife biologist who oversees Georgia’s sea turtle recovery program. He says he expects more nests this season than the 1,735 found on Georgia beaches last yea
  
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• In unusual move, hastening to release police shooting video

  26-04-2019 21:59
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials’ quick release of videos showing two police officers opening fire on a young unarmed couple last week was highly unusual when compared with police practices around the country.
  The body camera and surveillance videos released Tuesday show a Hamden officer and a Yale University officer shooting at the couple’s car in New Haven on April 16. A 22-year-old woman was struck but survived. Video shows the driver trying to get out of the car
  
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• Former US Interior Secretary Manuel Luján Jr. has died

  26-04-2019 21:59
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former Republican congressman from New Mexico who as U.S. Interior Secretary drew fire from environmentalists for challenging the Endangered Species Act has died. Manuel Luján Jr. was 90.
  New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who was a distant cousin, on Friday announced Luján’s death. He had a long history of heart trouble and underwent triple-bypass surgery after a 1986 heart attack.
  Luján represented New Mexico’s 1st District fr
  
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• The Latest: Chiefs GM vows to ‘make right decision’ on Hill

  26-04-2019 21:57
  OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on developments in the domestic abuse incident involving Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill (all times local):
  3:10 p.m.
  Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach says the franchise is still gathering information about a domestic violence investigation involving suspended wide receiver Tyreek Hill but that “we’ll make the right decision when the time is appropriate.”
  Many are calling for the Chiefs to release their trou
  
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• Portland’s Kanter uncertain for 2nd round with hurt shoulder

  26-04-2019 21:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter’s status for the second round of the playoffs remains uncertain because of a shoulder injury as Portland waits to learn its opponent.
  Kanter says he separated his left shoulder early on during Portland’s deciding Game 5 against Oklahoma City on Tuesday in the opening round. The Blazers returned to practice Friday.
  Kanter was shooting during the workout, although at times he rubbed the shoulder. He said afterward that he was
  
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• Man accused in starving 3-year-old son rejects plea deal

  26-04-2019 21:52
  TUCSON — The man accused of starving his 3-year-old son to death and hiding the body in a toy chest was in court Friday morning.
  Martin Barreras decided not to take a plea deal, and will now go to trial. He rejected a plea to first-degree murder.
  Barreras and his wife, Raquel are accused of killing their son, Roman, in 2014.
  Martin and Raquel Barreras
  Authorities say the child’s remains were left behind when the family moved from their Tucson home. Roman’s body was found insid
  
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• Phoenix man pleads not guilty to killing wife, 2 kids

  26-04-2019 21:51
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix man accused of killing his wife, two young daughters and a family friend because he believed she was having an affair has been arraigned.
  Austin Smith pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court to four counts of first-degree murder and other charges.
  Police say Smith was arrested April 11 as he fled from an apartment complex where officers found the body of 46-year-old Ron Freeman. They also found a woman and another man with gunshot wounds
  
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• Suspect identified in Georgia school pellet gun shooting

  26-04-2019 21:49
  ATLANTA (AP) — Police have identified an individual suspected of shooting 10 students with a pellet gun outside an Atlanta-area elementary school.
  The DeKalb County School District said in a statement Friday that police have searched the suspect’s home and retrieved a pellet gun believed to have been used.
  The 10 students from Wynbrooke Elementary School in Stone Mountain suffered injuries that were not life threatening after being shot while playing on the playground midday Thursday
  
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• Plan with LGBT bans OK’d by United Methodist judicial panel

  26-04-2019 21:47
  NEW YORK (AP) — The United Methodist Church’s judicial council has upheld major portions of a new plan strengthening bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT pastors.
  Conservatives welcomed the decision Friday and said key elements of the policy, called the Traditional Plan, could begin taking effect in January.
  Among liberal and centrist opponents of the plan, there was dismay. One group, Reconciling Ministries Network, called for an upsurge of resistance.
  The Traditional Pl
  
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• IndyCar to debut safety device earlier, at Indy road race

  26-04-2019 21:46
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — IndyCar will start using its new debris deflector at the May 11 road race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, moving up the debut from the Indianapolis 500 two weeks later.
  The 3/4-inch-wide titanium “AFP” piece is bolted to the car just in front of the open cockpit so it can knock away debris moving toward a driver’s head. It was slated to make its debut May 26 during the series’ marquee race. IndyCar President Jay Frye says there is no reason to wa
  
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• Woman removed from plane after complaining about vomit

  26-04-2019 21:44
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman says she was taken off an airplane and handcuffed after complaining about vomit on a seat.
  Rosetta Swinney tells WTVD she was boarding to return from Nevada last weekend when her 14-year-old daughter got someone’s vomit on her shirt and hands.
  The Durham resident said she was taken to jail after verbal exchanges with a flight attendant who said it wasn’t her job to clean up.
  Frontier Airlines says it offered to have a crew clean the vo
  
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• After son was expelled, lobbyist tries to change state law

  26-04-2019 21:42
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lobbyist whose son was expelled from college under a federal sex-discrimination law successfully enlisted a Missouri state lawmaker to introduce a bill that would overhaul how such complaints are handled.
  One opponent called the measure “revenge legislation.”
  Republican Rep. Dean Dohrman says lobbyist Richard McIntosh asked him to sponsor the proposal. It would change how Missouri colleges handle alleged violations of Title IX, the federal law that
  
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• Huge gap in sentences requested in Chicago terrorism case

  26-04-2019 21:41
  CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers have recommended starkly different sentences in a Chicago terrorism case.
  The case involves a 25-year-old man who was arrested in a 2012 FBI sting after trying to detonate what he believed was a real bomb outside a Chicago bar. The bomb was a fake supplied by undercover agents.
  In Friday court filings, prosecutors requested a 40-year prison term for Adel Daoud. But the defense wants him released as soon as a treatment program for his mental he
  
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• Judge to reopen immigration case of spouse of fallen soldier

  26-04-2019 21:37
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix immigration judge will reopen the case of a deported man who was living in the country illegally.
  The Arizona Republic reports lawyer Ezequiel Hernandez learned Thursday that Judge Silvia Arrellano had granted a motion to reopen the immigration case of Jose Arturo Gonzalez Carranza, the spouse of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
  Hernandez, who represents Gonzalez Carranza, says ICE prosecutors did not oppose his motion. ICE officials declined comment.
  A judge earli
  
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• Arizona governor appoints new Supreme Court justice

  26-04-2019 21:34
  PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed a state court of appeals judge to fill a vacancy on the Arizona Supreme Court.
  Ducey on Friday named James P. Beene to the state’s high court. He replaces Justice John Pelander, who retired on March 1.
  Beene has served on the court of appeals since 2016 and was previously a Maricopa County Superior Court judge for 7 years.He’s also served as a county and state prosecutor and as a legislative analyst in the Arizona Senate.
  Ducey chose
  
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• NAACP raises concerns of harassment in small Missouri town

  26-04-2019 21:33
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The NAACP is questioning why a black middle-schooler in a small Missouri town was suspended for fighting a white student who he says called him the N-word and cornered him in a bathroom, while the white student was not.
  Missouri chapter president Rod Chapel says the Boyd family has faced harassment since moving to the Leadwood area in February, where few black families live.
  Margo Boyd says a white student called her 14-year-old son the N-word last week at West County Midd
  
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• Girls’ football lawsuit to gauge interest in school teams

  26-04-2019 21:33
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The question of how many girls would play football for an all-female high school team if given the chance is taking center stage in a Utah lawsuit filed by a teenage female football star.
  A lawyer for 16-year-old Sam Gordon said Friday that 460 girls have joined a league she helped create, more than enough to get started.
  The Utah school districts she’s suing, though, argue that it’s tough to gauge whether there’s enough interest around the state to
  
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• Border Patrol expands fingerprinting of migrant children

  26-04-2019 21:33
  HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. border authorities say they’ve started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 years old and younger, including fingerprints.
  That’s despite privacy concerns and government policy intended to restrict what can be collected from migrant youths.
  Border Patrol officials say they have begun a pilot program to collect the biometrics of children with the permission of the adults accompanying them.
  The Department of Homeland Security has warned of
  
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• Chief of Maryland medical system resigns amid scandal

  26-04-2019 21:32
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The president and CEO of a regional medical system has resigned following revelations of numerous questionable financial arrangements involving board members, including Baltimore’s embattled mayor.
  Robert Chrencik had led the University of Maryland Medical System since 2008 before being sent on a leave of absence in late March. He departed on leave amid allegations of “self-dealing” involving a third of the $4 billion hospital system’s volunteer boa
  
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• VIDEO: Ways drivers can prevent wildfires

  26-04-2019 21:29
  The post VIDEO: Ways drivers can prevent wildfires appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Indiana man sentenced to 100 years for molesting children

  26-04-2019 21:28
  JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to molesting children while working at a YMCA and at an elementary school has been sentenced to 100 years in prison.
  Michael Begin Jr. of Jeffersonville was given his punishment Friday in a Clark County courtroom after the 19-year-old earlier pleaded guilty to 20 counts of child molestation.
  Begin read an apology in court before family members of several victims made statements.
  Authorities say he molested the children b
  
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