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• Local Musicians Fundraising for Community Arts Space

  06-05-2019 23:37
  With both Cans and Galactic Center closing their doors earlier this year, it might seem community spaces for independent music are shrinking around Tucson.
  But a group of local musicians and educators recently started an initiative to build a new community space for artistic expression – and Tucson is responding.…
  
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• Adoptable Pet: Golddie Needs a Home

  06-05-2019 22:20
  I am a laid back 3-year-old boy who enjoys spending my days inside beside my favorite person.…
  
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• As If the Normal Monday Morning Wasn't Bad Enough: UN Report Highlights How We Are Destroying the Planet

  06-05-2019 20:20
  New York magazine sums up the UN's new report on biodiversity: Human beings are more prosperous and numerous than we’ve ever been, while the Earth’s other species are dying off faster than at any time in human history.These two conditions are related. But if the second one persists long enough, we will be following our fellow organisms into the dustbin of geological history.This is the primary takeaway from a new United Nations report on our planet’s rapidly diminishing biodive
  
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• Ex-prosecutors: Trump would’ve been charged if not president

  06-05-2019 20:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 former federal prosecutors say in a new letter that President Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice for his acts if he were anyone other than president.
  The letter was signed by more than 370 ex-prosecutors who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations. It was released by Protect Democracy, a nonprofit organization critical of the Trump administration.
  The former Justice Department prosecutors say special counsel Rob
  
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• Victim tracks down burglar

  06-05-2019 20:08
  (KUSA/NBC News) A burglary unfolded in real time on a surveillance camera for Brighton, Colorado building owner Mike Teater.
  He first saw the man on security cameras, casing the building and trying to get into locked offices. When he couldn’t get in, he left.
  A few days later, Teater said, the man came back and broke into his office while Teater watched on surveillance cameras from his home.
  “I was watching this happen live and I was on the phone with police while he was doing this,
  
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• Search for private plane in northern Mexico

  06-05-2019 20:07
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities are searching for a private executive jet that never arrived to its destination in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.
  A spokesman for the state of Coahuila confirmed the search Monday.
  The jet left Las Vegas Sunday afternoon and had been expected Sunday evening in Monterrey, but never arrived.
  Local media reported that the passengers were returning from a weekend trip that included seeing the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight in Las Vegas.
  Flight c
  
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• Red-legged frogs thriving in Yosemite after long absence

  06-05-2019 20:07
  YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are thriving in Yosemite Valley after a decades-long absence.
  Officials said Monday they have documented the first breeding by the frogs in Yosemite since 2017, when adult red-legged frogs were first reintroduced after a 50-year absence.
  Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Reynolds says ecologists found clusters of eggs in meadows and ponds this spring when it normally takes years to see such results.
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• Thousands of Czechs call on justice minister to resign

  06-05-2019 20:05
  PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of Czechs are rallying in Prague again to demand the resignation of the new justice minister.
  The protesters say the minister might compromise the legal system at a time when prosecutors have to decide whether to indict Prime Minister Andrej Babis over alleged fraud involving European Union funds.
  Babis denies wrongdoing.
  The justice minister has significant control over the prosecution. Marie Benesova was appointed to the post Tuesday. She’s a lawyer and advi
  
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• Business world prepares for new crop of recruits

  06-05-2019 20:02
  (NBC News) As the spring college semester draws to a close, the business world is preparing for a new crop of recruits.
  “There is so much competition for labor out there that hiring managers have had to relax some of the requirements and rethink the ways they are hiring,” said Dawn Fay of Robert Half Management Consulting Firm.
  Experts say that means job applicants should customize their resumes for each prospective employer.
  “Your resume needs to be targeted. Your cover lette
  
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• John McCain’s dog passes away after drowning in pipe

  06-05-2019 19:59
  PHOENIX (AP) – John McCain’s dog, who was always at the senator’s side until his death last year, died after getting stuck in a pipe and drowning on the family’s northern Arizona property.
  Cindy McCain told The Arizona Republic on Monday that Burma died last month when she got trapped in a pipe on their Cornville property.
  She says the Chesapeake Bay retriever had never run into a pipe before. The property includes a series of ponds and a creek.View this post on Instagram
  
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• Texas lawmakers mull tax breaks for disaster-struck property

  06-05-2019 19:57
  HOUSTON (AP) — Lawmakers are considering a bill that could grant Texas homeowners a tax break when their property has been damaged by disasters such as 2017’s Hurricane Harvey.
  The Houston Chronicle reports that bill sponsor Sen. Paul Bettencourt says it would give homeowners an opportunity to challenge unjust property tax bills after a natural disaster.
  The bill would basically remove cities, counties and other governmental agencies from the disaster reappraisal decision-making proc
  
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• Lawsuit asks to end solitary confinement in Virginia prisons

  06-05-2019 19:55
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end the use of solitary confinement at two of the state’s toughest prisons.
  The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that inmates held in solitary confinement for extended periods of time at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge prisons have suffered “severe physical and mental health damage.”
  Both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge are super maximum-security prisons in the southwest cor
  
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• Defending champion Kvitova through to 3rd round in Madrid

  06-05-2019 19:54
  MADRID (AP) — Defending champion Petra Kvitova defeated Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 7-6 (5) to reach the third round of the Madrid Open on Monday.
  The second-seeded Czech outlasted Mladenovic by winning the last three points in the tiebreaker to close out the match in nearly two hours.
  Kvitova, seeking her fourth Madrid Open title, was in control until losing her serve midway through the second set, letting the French qualifier back into the match.
  Kvitova had seven aces at the “Magic B
  
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• Democrats challenge Trump’s UN nominee on climate change

  06-05-2019 19:51
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Democratic senators are calling on President’s Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to clarify that she will put U.S. interests ahead of her own financial interests when it comes to climate change.
  The Democrats say Kelly Craft, who was nominated to the U.N. post last week, has invested more than $60 million in oil companies and other fossil fuel interests. Her husband, Joe Craft, is CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, one of
  
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• Arizona high school students protest classmate’s detention

  06-05-2019 19:51
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — About 120 high school students in southern Arizona have marched to demand the release of their classmate Thomas Torres, who they say is being held by the Border Patrol after a traffic stop.
  Torres was a football player and high school senior about to graduate. Pima County Sheriff’s deputies reportedly took him into custody Thursday and turned him over to the Border Patrol.
  Border Patrol and sheriff’s officials on Monday did not immediately answer requests f
  
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• Pakistani officials: 4 soldiers killed in 2 attacks in north

  06-05-2019 19:47
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security officials say suspected militants have launched two separate gun attacks on security convoys in the country’s northwest, killing four soldiers and wounding 10 others.
  The officials say the ambushes came hours apart Monday in North Waziristan district, a former Taliban stronghold. The attackers then fled toward the border with Afghanistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media on th
  
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• Ex-day laborer pleads guilty in socialite bludgeoning death

  06-05-2019 19:38
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A former day laborer who bludgeoned a socialite to death at her family’s suburban New York estate has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
  The Journal News says Esdras Marroquin Gomez pleaded guilty on Monday and admitted to killing 83-year-old Lois Colley at her 300-acre (1.2-square-kilometer) North Salem estate in November 2015.
  Authorities said Gomez hit Colley with a fire extinguisher during a confrontation. They said he said he had been injured at th
  
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• Deputies: Man shot with wife’s gun at supermarket

  06-05-2019 19:31
  LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (AP) — A man who Florida authorities originally said had accidentally shot himself in a supermarket checkout line was actually shot by his wife’s gun.
  The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office told the Tampa Bay Times on Monday that deputies’ investigation shows that 69-year-old Vernon Messier was shot Sunday when his wife’s purse fell off a counter at a Land O’ Lake Publix, causing the two-shot derringer inside to fire.
  The bullet struck Mes
  
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• Survey shows ongoing rebound for Chesapeake’s blue crabs

  06-05-2019 19:29
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Blue crabs are rebounding in the Chesapeake Bay, with an annual survey showing the highest estimated population in seven years.
  That’s welcome news for fisherfolk and those who love cracking into bushels of the Chesapeake’s iconic crustaceans. Feasts of blue crabs steamed in peppery seasoning are a beloved delicacy and one of last viable fisheries in America’s largest estuary.
  Overall, the bay-wide crab population rose by 60% from last year to reach an es
  
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• Trump wants to restore waiver for service academy athletes

  06-05-2019 19:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is looking into offering a waiver that would allow service academy athletes to play professional sports immediately upon graduation.
  Trump made the announcement Monday while presenting the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy to the U.S. Military Academy football team during a Rose Garden ceremony.
  He says that, under the plan he envisions, athletes would “serve their time after they’re finished with professional sports.”
  But
  
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• Mormons making wedding rule change to be more inclusive

  06-05-2019 19:19
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is changing wedding rules in hopes of preventing family members who aren’t church members from feeling excluded.
  The faith said Monday in a news release that couples who get married in civil ceremonies will no longer have to wait one year to do a temple wedding ceremony that only members in good standing can attend.
  Church leaders say it will allow “families to come together in love and unity,” but does
  
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• Oklahoma, Georgia to play home-and-home series

  06-05-2019 19:18
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Perennial football powers Oklahoma and Georgia have agreed to play in 2023 and 2031.
  The programs have played just once — Georgia won a 54-48 overtime thriller in the College Football Playoff after the 2017 season.
  Oklahoma will host the Bulldogs on Sept. 9, 2023, the same year of the 100-year anniversary of the opening of Oklahoma’s Memorial Stadium. Georgia will host on Sept. 13, 2031.
  Both schools have been filling their future schedules with powerhouse
  
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• McCain family says dog drowned after getting stuck in pipe

  06-05-2019 19:18
  PHOENIX (AP) — John McCain’s dog, who was always at the senator’s side until his death last year, died after getting stuck in a pipe and drowning on the family’s northern Arizona property.
  Cindy McCain told The Arizona Republic on Monday that Burma died last month when she got trapped in a pipe on their Cornville property.
  She says the Chesapeake Bay retriever had never run into a pipe before. The property includes a series of ponds and a creek.
  The family initially said
  
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• The Latest: Truex wins 2nd stage at Dover

  06-05-2019 19:15
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Latest on the NASCAR Cup race at Dover International Speedway (all times local):
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  2:10 p.m.
  Martin Truex Jr. has won the second stage of the NASCAR Cup race at Dover International Speedway. Truex won Dover’s last Monday race in 2007 and entered the final stage on pace to do it again 12 years later.
  Alex Bowman was second, followed by Kevin Harvick and pole sitter Chase Elliott.
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  Joey Logano, the reigning NASCAR champion, has won the first stage
  
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• Buzzed: Swarm of bees forces delay to Giants-Reds game

  06-05-2019 19:11
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A swarm of bees settled above the backstop screen shortly before the first pitch, prompting an 18-minute delay to the start of a game between the Giants and Reds.
  The game began after the swarm moved toward the upper deck.
  It’s the second time the Giants have been involved in a bee delay in Cincinnati. A swarm went into the Giants’ dugout at Riverfront Stadium on April 17, 1976, forcing a 35-minute delay. The Reds won the game 11-0
  There was a 17-minute bee de
  
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• Sen. Moran seeks commitment from Amtrak on train route

  06-05-2019 19:09
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is putting pressure on Amtrak to commit to continue running the Southwest Chief passenger rail service that connects Chicago to Los Angeles with stops in Kansas.
  The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Moran recently delayed confirming three nominees to Amtrak’s board of directors in an effort to push the national rail carrier to offer assurances that the line will operate for at least another year.
  Amtrak’s president, Richard Anderson,
  
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• Banged-up Mets get pitcher Wilmer Font from Rays

  06-05-2019 19:06
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets have obtained right-hander Wilmer Font from the Tampa Bay Rays for a player to be named or cash.
  The 28-year-old was 1-0 with a 5.79 ERA in 10 appearances, striking out 18 in 14 innings.
  New York has three relievers on the injured list: Jeurys Familia with shoulder soreness, and Luis Avila?n and Justin Wilson due to elbow soreness.
  Font is 3-3 with a 6.51 ERA in five starts and 32 relief appearances over five seasons for Texas, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Oak
  
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• Hungarian leader finds main EU exec candidates unsuitable

  06-05-2019 18:50
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says he thinks the main candidates for president of the European Union’s executive arm are unsuitable for the job.
  Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday that he won’t support Manfred Weber from the center-right European People’s Party because Weber insulted Hungary by saying he didn’t want its votes.
  The European People’s Party is the biggest political group in the European Parliament. It recently suspe
  
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• Red Sox put Price on injured list with elbow tendinitis

  06-05-2019 18:48
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price has been placed on the 10-day injured list because of tendinitis in his pitching elbow.
  Boston announced the move Monday, a day ahead of Price’s scheduled start at Baltimore.
  The 33-year-old Price is 1-2 with a 3.75 ERA in six starts and has allowed three runs or fewer in his last four appearances.
  The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner with Tampa Bay, Price was slowed by elbow problems throughout 2017. He did not make his first star
  
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• 4 Your Health: Fitness prevents cancer

  06-05-2019 18:48
  Fitness has been found to help prevent lung and colorectal cancers.
  A new study suggests your fitness level may affect your risk of certain cancers.
  Researchers from Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine tracked nearly 50,000 adults who took a treadmill stress test. Those who were very fit were 77 percent less likely to develop lung cancer and 61 percent less likely to develop colorectal cancer than those the least fit.
  People who did develop one of the cancers had a lower risk of dying from the dise
  
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• The Latest: Election board orders Istanbul election redone

  06-05-2019 18:44
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on disputed mayoral elections in Turkey (all times local):
  7:35 p.m.
  Turkey’s state-run news agency says the country’s highest electoral body has ruled for a rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party challenged the legitimacy of the vote an opposition candidate narrowly won.
  Anadolu Agency said the Supreme Electoral Board on Monday ruled in favor of Erdogan’s conservative and Islamic-based party an
  
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• Spain rescues over 400 migrants at sea in 3 days

  06-05-2019 18:41
  MADRID (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says that it has saved hundreds of migrants during the last three days trying to make the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea.
  The service says on Monday that it pulled 416 people from 10 different boats its rescue craft intercepted starting on Saturday.
  Spain became the leading entry point for migrants to Europe last year, with 60,000 arriving irregularly. Sea arrivals peaked in October with 11,000, but that fell to under 500 in M
  
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• Turkey’s state media say election officials ordered Istanbul’s mayoral election redone, voided opposition candidate win

  06-05-2019 18:35
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state media say election officials ordered Istanbul’s mayoral election redone, voided opposition candidate win.
  The post Turkey’s state media say election officials ordered Istanbul’s mayoral election redone, voided opposition candidate win appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Coffee cup in ‘Game of Thrones’ scene perks up viewers

  06-05-2019 18:35
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Game of Thrones” fans got a taste of the modern world as the fictional series winds down to its final episodes.
  Eagle-eyed viewers Sunday spotted a takeout coffee cup on the table during a celebration in which the actors drank from goblets and horns. Daenerys and Jon did not react to the out of place cup.
  It’s not clear where the coffee cup came from. But some viewers who took to Twitter concluded it was from Starbucks.
  Many viewers complained the show
  
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• Lawyer: Kurdish rebel chief wants hunger strikes to end

  06-05-2019 18:32
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A lawyer says imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on hundreds of hunger-striking prisoners “not to endanger their lives.”
  Lawyer Newroz Uysal said Monday that her colleagues visited Ocalan on a prison island off Istanbul on May 2. It was the first time lawyers were able to see him since 2011.
  Close to 3,000 people have joined a hunger strike in around 90 prisons demanding improved jail conditions for Ocalan, including permission for
  
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• Arkansas police fire officer who fatally shot motorist

  06-05-2019 18:29
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, have fired a white officer who killed a black motorist by shooting at least 15 times through the windshield as the car was moving.
  Police spokesman Michael Ford says Officer Charles Starks was terminated Monday. Prosecutors on April 19 declined to file charges in the death of 30-year-old Bradley Blackshire.
  Police say Starks was responding to a call after a detective confirmed that the car Blackshire was driving was stolen. Video re
  
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• Israeli court rules Palestinians may attend joint memorial

  06-05-2019 18:27
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow 176 Palestinians from the West Bank to enter Israel and attend a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv this week.
  The court upheld an appeal on Monday against Netanyahu’s refusal, as Israel’s defense minister, to grant entry to Palestinians for Tuesday’s event.
  The judges note they rejected a similar move last year to bar Palestinians from attending t
  
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• Court to hear tribe’s appeal in predatory loan lawsuit

  06-05-2019 18:23
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit accusing a small Native American tribe in Michigan of running a predatory loan scheme.
  At least five people from Virginia say they borrowed from BigPictureLoans.com after receiving an enticing loan pitch. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the lawsuit alleges that Big Picture violated Virginia’s usury laws by charging annual percentage rates in some cases of more than 600 percent.
  The Richmond-based 4
  
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• Valpo center Derrik Smits joins Butler as graduate transfer

  06-05-2019 18:20
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Valparaiso center Derrik Smits will play his final college basketball season at Butler.
  The 7-foot-1 center will be eligible immediately. Smits averaged 12.2 points and 5.7 rebounds last season with the Crusaders and shot 56 percent in three seasons — the third-highest mark in school history.
  Smits was a high school star at Zionsville in suburban Indianapolis and is the son of former NBA All-Star Rik Smits.
  Coach LaVall Jordan calls the younger Smits a &ldq
  
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• Feds announce $17M settlement with health care firm in W.Va.

  06-05-2019 18:11
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they’ve reached a $17 million settlement with a health care company accused of Medicaid fraud in West Virginia.
  U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart announced the civil settlement with Acadia on Monday, saying it’s the largest health care fraud settlement in state history.
  Stuart says Acadia, though its subsidiary CRC Health, billed Medicaid for $8.5 million in marked-up costs for blood and urine tests that weren’t done at its drug tr
  
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• 4 killed in wrong-way crash near Green Valley identified

  06-05-2019 18:09
  GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have identified the wrong-way driver and three others killed in a deadly collision near Green Valley.
  Arizona Department of Public Safety officials confirmed Monday that 52-year-old Tamvra Hoskins was traveling the wrong way on Interstate 19 when her car crashed head-on with another vehicle.
  Hoskins, of Green Valley, did not survive the Sunday morning crash.
  DPS spokeswoman Vanessa Sevilla says the driver of the other car, 41-year-old Edith Munoz of T
  
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• Elliott on the pole at Dover for rare Monday NASCAR race

  06-05-2019 18:07
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup race at Dover International Speedway is underway after a rainout forced the first Monday race of the season.
  Chase Elliott, last week’s winner at Talladega, won the pole and led the field to green in Dover’s first Monday race since 2007.
  Elliott topped the speed chart on a blistering qualifying session Friday and set a track record when he hit 165.960 mph. Elliott and William Byron made it a 1-2 front row for Hendrick Motorsports. The 23-year-o
  
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• Claytoon of the Day: Snotty On Snitty

  06-05-2019 18:06
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• Protest held after BP apprehends Desert View student

  06-05-2019 18:02
  TUCSON – About 120 local high school students stepped out Monday morning and marched in the name of a classmate who was reportedly taken into Border Patrol custody last Thursday.
  According to a spokesperson from Sunnyside Unified School District, Thomas Torres, a senior and football player at Desert View High School, was apprehended by Border Patrol agents following a traffic stop by Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
  In response to the incident, students marched from Desert Vie
  
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• Lord & Taylor may be put on the block soon

  06-05-2019 17:51
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor, one of the country’s oldest department stores, may be put up for sale.
  Hudson’s Bay, which owns Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, said Monday that it hired a financial adviser to review Lord & Taylor’s business and that the process may lead to a sale or merger.
  Lord & Taylor traces its origins to more than 190 years ago, when it was founded as a dry goods store in 1826. The store has had several owners. It was acquired by
  
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• 8 trapped ducklings rescued from storm drain

  06-05-2019 17:51
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued eight ducklings from a storm drain on the University of Connecticut campus.
  The school says bystanders walking near the chemistry building called the fire department after noticing a mother duck and two ducklings crying outside the drain on Sunday evening.
  The school says a firefighter attached to a safety rope used a ladder to reach six of the eight ducklings and bring them out.
  The other two had made their way down a drain pipe. Crews lured
  
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• Installation of Nazi-era ‘dejudification institute’ unveiled

  06-05-2019 17:35
  BERLIN (AP) — High-ranking officials of Germany’s Lutheran church have unveiled an installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called “dejudification institute” that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis.
  Lutheran Bishop Ilse Junkermann unveiled the memorial Monday in the eastern German town of Eisenach in conjunction with several members of state Lutheran churches from across Germany
  
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• Protesters chant ‘stop taking bribes’ in Pennsylvania House

  06-05-2019 16:45
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Demonstrators chanted “stop taking bribes” and threw dollar bills from a balcony in Pennsylvania’s House chamber as part of a protest over state law that doesn’t limit the value of gifts that lawmakers may accept from lobbyists and others.
  Capitol police officers led the demonstrators out shortly after they began chanting in the House gallery, several stories above the chamber floor as lawmakers and staff looked on.
  Demonstrators also unfurled
  
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• Pickup flattens California trailer home: 3 killed, 1 hurt

  06-05-2019 16:45
  KNIGHTS LANDING, Calif. (AP) — Police say three family members sleeping in their trailer home have died and a girl was seriously injured after a suspected drunk driver plowed his pickup truck into the home.
  The California Highway Patrol says 33-year-old Ismael Huazo-Jardinez was driving “at a high rate of speed” when his truck crashed into the trailer Saturday night in the agricultural community of Knights Landing near Sacramento.
  Officials say a 38-year-old man, a 34-year-old
  
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• The Latest: Trump’s ex-lawyer arrives at prison

  06-05-2019 16:12
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen leaving to start his prison sentence (all times local):
  11:55 a.m.
  President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer has arrived at an upstate New York prison to start a three-year sentence for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf.
  A vehicle carrying Michael Cohen arrived at around 11:30 a.m. EDT Monday at the federal prison in Otisville, about
  
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