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• Pima County DOT Expects $26 Million for 118 Miles of Road Repair

  05-06-2019 23:11
  In anticipation of the Pima County Board of Supervisors' final budget adoption next Tuesday, June 18, the county's Department of Transportation has released a list of roads it intends to repair in the next fiscal year.The department has $26 million to work with: $15 million from the county's share of Arizona's Highway User Revenue Funds, $6 million from remaining road bonds and $5 million from the general fund.The Pima County Transportation Advisory Committee, which recommends transportation im
  
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• US can label nuke waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup

  05-06-2019 22:51
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. government will reclassify some of the nation’s most dangerous radioactive waste to lower its threat level.
  The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that the decision is intended to make it cheaper and easier to clean up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
  The material has languished for decades in the three states.
  Critics say the change is a way for federal officials to walk away from their obligation to
  
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• 3 deer trap woman in apartment after crashing through window

  05-06-2019 22:49
  DECATUR, Ind. (AP) — Police rescued an Indiana woman after three deer crashed through a window, trapping her inside her apartment with the skittish animals.
  Decatur police say the 74-year-old woman was in her retirement home apartment Tuesday night when the deer crashed through a bedroom window.
  The woman called 911. Officers found her trapped on her living room couch, with her walker knocked over, as one deer jumped about the room.
  Sgt. Kevin Gerber says an officer shielded the woman afte
  
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• Legal experts question deputy’s arrest over Parkland tragedy

  05-06-2019 22:46
  This undated photo provided by the Broward County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office shows Scot Peterson, a former Florida deputy who stood outside instead of confronting the gunman during last year’s Parkland school massacre was arrested Tuesday, June 4, 2019, on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction. (Broward County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
  By CURT ANDERSON
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The arrest of a Florida sheriff’s deputy for not confronting the gunman in the Parkl
  
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• Ronaldo’s hat trick sends Portugal into Nations League final

  05-06-2019 22:43
  PORTO, Portugal (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick as Portugal defeated Switzerland 3-1 Wednesday to reach the final of the inaugural UEFA’s Nations League.
  Ronaldo converted a first-half free kick then netted two late goals to give the hosts a spot in Sunday’s final of UEFA’s newest competition.
  Portugal will play either the Netherlands or England, which meet in the other semifinal on Thursday in Guimaraes. Switzerland will face that game’s loser in the th
  
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• Congress challenged by funding emergency at the border

  05-06-2019 22:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has only a few weeks to advance an emergency funding bill to deal with the escalating humanitarian crisis at the southern border, creating a time crunch that has lawmakers on all sides alarmed.
  Money to care for Central American migrants arriving in the U.S. to claim asylum runs out in just a few weeks, and every day seems to bring new evidence that the government’s response is inadequate. President Donald Trump has asked Congress to provide an additional $
  
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• Buster Posey put on injured list by Giants

  05-06-2019 22:27
  NEW YORK (AP) — The San Francisco Giants have placed All-Star catcher Buster Posey on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain.
  The team announced the move before a game Wednesday night against the New York Mets.
  Posey injured his hamstring running out a grounder Saturday, and his IL stint is retroactive to then. San Francisco called up catcher Aramis Garcia to back up Stephen Vogt on Sunday and had carried three catchers this week hoping Posey could return soon.
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• Senator Sinema introduces bill to protect seniors from scams

  05-06-2019 22:25
  WASHINGTON, DC – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema unveiled the Senior Security Act, a bill which creates a task force aimed to protect senior citizens from falling victim of financial scams and crimes.
  The legislation, created in conjunction with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), hopes to give seniors renewed confidence regarding their retirement savings. Senator Sinema believes this bill will greatly benefit citizens.
  “Arizonans deserve to retire with digni
  
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• The Latest: Veto of North Carolina ‘born alive’ upheld

  05-06-2019 22:24
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on North Carolina’s “born alive’ abortion measure (all times local):
  4:15 p.m.
  North Carolina Republican leaders have failed to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that would have created a new crime against doctors and nurses who fail to care for an infant delivered during an unsuccessful abortion.
  Enough Democrats sided with Cooper to defeat the override Wednesday by a vote of 67-53. An override required 72 vot
  
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• The Latest: Video spurs 3 retailers to pull Fairlife items

  05-06-2019 22:22
  FAIR OAKS, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on an animal rights group’s video of showing workers kicking and throwing young calves at an Indiana dairy farm. (all times local):
  4:20 p.m.
  At least three retailers are pulling Fairlife products from their shelves after an animal rights group released video showing workers kicking and throwing young calves at an Indiana dairy farm.
  Fair Oaks Farms in northwestern Indiana is the flagship farm for Fairlife, a national brand of higher protein, higher
  
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• Celtics boss Ainge back at work after ‘mild’ heart attack

  05-06-2019 22:22
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics basketball boss Danny Ainge says his role is not going to change, even after a second heart attack.
  Ainge says doctors told him to eat better and exercise more after what the team described as a “mild” heart attack during the playoffs. They also told him to avoid stress — not easy for an NBA president of basketball operations.
  The 60-year-old former All-Star and NBA executive of the year spoke to reporters Wednesday for the first time since he
  
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• North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of “born-alive” abortion bill upheld in Republican-led legislature

  05-06-2019 22:20
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of “born-alive” abortion bill upheld in Republican-led legislature.
  The post North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of “born-alive” abortion bill upheld in Republican-led legislature appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Authorities accuse teen of peddling drugs, guns on Snapchat

  05-06-2019 22:18
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a New Mexico teenager accused of using social media to peddle fentanyl, assault weapons and other firearms.
  Bernalillo District Attorney Raul Torrez on Wednesday announced the 17-year-old’s arrest. Authorities said it came after a multi-agency investigation that involved the FBI and state police.
  The teen is expected to make an appearance Thursday in Children’s Court on drug-related charges and unlawful possession of a
  
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• Judge: Claims of political motives in census fight ‘serious’

  05-06-2019 22:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says allegations that Republicans pushed to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census because they thought it would give white people an electoral advantage are “serious.”
  But U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York said at a hearing Wednesday that shouldn’t interfere with an imminent U.S. Supreme Court ruling about the legality of the proposed change.
  The top court is expected to rule soon on whether adding the citizenship question is pro
  
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• GM adds highways to semi-autonomous driving system

  05-06-2019 22:10
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) of roads across the U.S. and Canada to the area where its Cadillac Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system can run, including some with cross traffic similar to those that have confused Tesla’s Autopilot system.
  Currently the GM system can travel on 130,000 miles (210,000 kilometers) of limited-access highways that don’t have crossing traffic or intersections. It will rise to 200,000 miles (320,000 ki
  
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• Police departments investigating cops’ racist, violent posts

  05-06-2019 22:09
  Police departments in at least five states are investigating their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of inflammatory posts by active-duty and former cops.
  The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida.
  They found officers bashing immigrants and Islam, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing mi
  
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• Robert E. Lee statue for sale by Dallas draws $1.4M bid

  05-06-2019 22:06
  DALLAS (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has drawn a bid of more than $1.4 million as Dallas seeks to sell the bronze sculpture that civil rights advocates call racist.
  The Lone Star Auctioneers Inc. websitesays online bidding ended Wednesday. The top offer, of $1,435,000, was from a bidder identified only as LawDude.
  The Dallas City Council last month designated the sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor as surplus property.
  The artwork, depicting Lee and another soldier
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: Serious climate plan to cost at least $10T

  05-06-2019 22:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York says any plan to adequately address climate change would cost at least $10 trillion.
  The Democrat is the lead author in the House of the Green New Deal, a plan to dramatically cut the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels. While acknowledging the figure “is a ton” of money, she said Wednesday, “I think we really need to get to $10 trillion to have a shot” at slowing climate change.
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• North Carolina man sentenced for raping unconscious wife

  05-06-2019 22:05
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been sentenced to four years in prison for raping his wife, who was a service member at a military base in Washington state.
  The Bellingham Herald reports 28-year-old Jimmy Indarte was sentenced Monday in Tacoma federal court after pleading guilty to abusive sexual contact.
  The U.S. attorney’s office says the woman had sought to divorce Indarte in 2017 after she discovered he had tortured and killed their puppies. They were living at
  
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• LA Times’ Sam Farmer wins PFWA’s McCann Award

  05-06-2019 22:04
  Sam Farmer, now in his 25th year of NFL coverage and his 19th at the Los Angeles Times, has been selected as the 2019 Dick McCann Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America.
  Farmer, the 51st McCann Award honoree, is the second member of the LA Times to receive the McCann Award, joining Bob Oates (1974).
  The award is given to a reporter who has made a long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage. It is named for McCann,the first director of the Pro Footba
  
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• Maricopa County: Metro Phoenix has 1st heat death this year

  05-06-2019 21:58
  PHOENIX (AP) – Maricopa County health officials say metro Phoenix has had its first death related to heat-related illness this year.
  The county health department announced the death Wednesday, saying the person who died was a homeless man who was dehydrated and found in a vehicle.
  The statement did not specify when and where the man died but noted that temperatures are rising after being cooler than usual during May.
  The agency said Maricopa County had 182 heat-associated deaths last year
  
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• American defender Omar Gonzalez transfers to Toronto

  05-06-2019 21:52
  TORONTO (AP) — American defender Omar Gonzalez is transferring to Toronto from Mexico’s Atlas.
  The 30-year-old center back will join Toronto on July 9 when the summer transfer window opens, subject to a successful physical. He is with the U.S. national team ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
  “I feel like with the team that we have, we can make another run at it,” Gonzalez said Monday. “I like to make it into the playoffs and see what we can do.”
  Toronto has five
  
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• Diocese: Ex-bishop used sexual innuendo toward subordinates

  05-06-2019 21:44
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The head of West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese says an investigation into a former bishop found a “consistent pattern” of sexual innuendo and suggestive comments and actions toward subordinates.
  Archbishop William Lori of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese on Wednesday released the results of an investigation into claims against ex-Bishop Michael Bransfield , who resigned last year.
  Lori says an investigation team determined that the accusations
  
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• Orlando City’s home renamed Exploria Stadium

  05-06-2019 21:42
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Orlando City’s 25,500-seat home has been renamed Exploria Stadium.
  The Major League Soccer franchise, which will host the MLS All-Star game in July, announced a naming rights agreement on Tuesday with Central Florida-based Exploria Resorts — a timeshare and vacation rental company.
  The stadium in downtown Orlando opened in March 2017 and has hosted two U.S. men’s team national team matches as well as the 2017 NCAA Women’s College Cup and 2018 Sh
  
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• Prosecutors: Boston cabbie fatally shot after declining ride

  05-06-2019 21:32
  BOSTON (AP) — A man who prosecutors say shot a Boston taxi driver nine times after the cabbie refused to drive him to a town about 30 miles (50 kilometers) away is being held without bail.
  The victim, 60-year-old Luckinson Oruma, died at a hospital after the shooting in broad daylight Tuesday outside a hotel in downtown Boston.
  Phillip Foy, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, pleaded not guilty Wednesday at his arraignment on charges including murder and armed carjacking.
  Prosecutor John Verner sa
  
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• Mets’ Canó leaves game hours after coming off injured list

  05-06-2019 21:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mets second baseman Robinson Canó has been pulled from New York’s game against the San Francisco Giants hours after coming off the injured list.
  New York did not immediately announce a reason for his departure at the start of the fifth inning. Canó was activated Wednesday after straining his left quadriceps May 22. He hit a pair of groundouts, including an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the third. He was replaced at second base by Ade
  
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• Mets activate Robinson Canó from IL after quadriceps strain

  05-06-2019 21:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Mets have activated All-Star second baseman Robinson Canó from the injured list.
  Canó was set to bat third for New York against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night. He’s been out since May 22 with a strained left quadriceps.
  Canó said Sunday he hoped to be active for the series opener Tuesday, but he was held back an extra day.
  Acquired last offseason from Seattle, Canó is hitting .241 with three homers and 13 RBIs for New York.
  
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• Gold rises, Silver rises

  05-06-2019 21:29
  The June gold contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed today at $1,328.30 an ounce — up $4.90.
  The current silver contract on the “NYMEX” closed at $14.75 an ounce — up 2 cents.
  The post Gold rises, Silver rises appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Woman raped by Brock Turner is writing memoir

  05-06-2019 21:26
  NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was raped by college swimmer Brock Turner and confronted him in court before his sentencing is writing a memoir.
  Viking Books announced Wednesday that it would publish the book, currently untitled, by the woman known publicly as Emily Doe. The publisher declined comment on whether she will use her real name. Her memoir is scheduled for Sept. 17. Millions were enraged when Turner , an ex-Stanford University student, was sentenced to just six months in jail in 2
  
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• Scouts come to the rescue of 2 fishermen on remote lake

  05-06-2019 21:25
  Two brothers whose canoes capsized on a remote Maine lake say a crew of Boy Scouts from New Hampshire helped save their lives.
  Sixty-seven-year old Michael Fiori, of Brunswick, Maine, said the boys and girls were camping nearby and helped him to shore and warmed him with heated stones wrapped in towels Monday.
  The Scouts then notified a ranger and searched for Fiori’s brother.
  Seventy-year-old Larry Fiori, of Kennebunk, Maine, was found clinging to a floating gas tank and his shredded life
  
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• Minneapolis cancels meetings segregated by race

  05-06-2019 21:24
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis officials have canceled meetings of city employees segregated by race to mark the 400th anniversary of slavery in North America.
  Fliers promoting three sessions through July have been taken down at City Hall. The lunch-hour meetings were to be segregated by race for black and white city employees.
  City Coordinator Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde said she had called off the sessions. The Star Tribune reports she indicated the meetings would be rescheduled, but said th
  
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• NCAA moving 3-point line back to international distance

  05-06-2019 21:12
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The 3-point line is moving back in college basketball.
  The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel announced Wednesday that the arc will be moved to 22 feet, 1 ¾ inches for the 2019-20 season, matching the international distance.
  The change will not go into effect in Division II and III until 2020-21 due to the potential financial impact on schools.
  The 3-point line was last moved in 2008-09, extending a foot to 20 feet, 9 inches.
  The panel also approved resetting the
  
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• San Francisco will close its youth detention center by 2021

  05-06-2019 21:06
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco will close its juvenile hall by the end of 2021 after supervisors voted to end the practice of holding children in jail cells while they await their judicial fate. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close the 150-bed facility that currently houses 39 children.
  Supervisors say the move makes San Francisco the first major U.S. city to shut down a youth detention facility.
  Instead, the city will develop home-li
  
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• Oral Roberts University pays $300K in recruiting settlement

  05-06-2019 21:03
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Department of Justice has announced a settlement with Oral Roberts University in which the school will pay more than $300,000 to resolve whistleblower allegations that it broke federal law in the way it paid a recruiting company.
  Federal prosecutors said Wednesday the private, Christian university in Tulsa paid recruiter Joined Inc. with a share of tuition from students who enrolled, in violation of incentive compensation law on admissions and recruitment.
  The unive
  
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• Messi downplays Argentina’s Copa America chances

  05-06-2019 21:03
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Lionel Messi has downplayed Argentina’s chances of winning the Copa America in Brazil.
  Argentina lost the final to Chile in the last two editions of the competition but Messi insisted the team shouldn’t be considered one of the favorites this time as the squad has plenty of young players entering their first major international tournament.
  “We are not candidates like other times,” Messi told TV channel TyC Sports on Wednesday. “W
  
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• Philadelphia’s new street-sweepers don’t fit on some streets

  05-06-2019 20:55
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s new street sweeping program has hit a road bump: The trucks are too wide to fit down some of the city’s narrow, colonial-era streets.
  Philadelphia has been trying for decades to tackle its litter problem. WHYY reports that the 10 new street sweeping trucks can’t fit down 10% of streets in the pilot neighborhoods. The trucks are each 9 feet wide (2.75 meters wide).
  Streets Department Commissioner Carlton Williams says the city is consider
  
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• Government to start posting list of troubled nursing homes

  05-06-2019 20:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it’ll start posting a list of some 400 troubled nursing homes , in a turnabout days after senators publicly released the “secret” document , along with a report questioning oversight of poor-quality facilities.
  Dr. Kate Goodrich, chief medical officer with the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, says the agency soon will post the list and update it regularly. She isn’t setting a date.
  The Associated Press reported Monday
  
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• Canadian referee to miss World Cup after cancer diagnosis

  05-06-2019 20:55
  Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard has withdrawn from the Women’s World Cup after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
  The 42-year-old from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, refereed the final of the 2016 Olympic women’s soccer tournament. She worked three matches at the 2011 Women’s World Cup, including Japan’s semifinal win over Sweden, and four games at the 2015 Women’s World Cup.
  Chenard was part of the first all-woman crew of on-field officials in the history o
  
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• After strikes, West Virginia teachers being tested again

  05-06-2019 20:55
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Teachers in West Virginia walked out of the classroom last year and sparked a national wave of strikes.
  They walked out this year too.
  Now they’re being tested again. It’s not clear, though, whether teachers have the clout to slow a Senate GOP education plan that calls for charter schools and would make future walkouts a fireable offense.
  Proponents say the measure is aimed at improving the state’s dismal academic performance, but critics say the
  
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• Kentucky man convicted of leaking Singapore HIV patient data

  05-06-2019 20:47
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury in Kentucky has convicted a man of leaking a database of HIV patients from the Singapore government.
  The Lexington Herald-Leader reports jurors returned the verdict Tuesday for Mikhy Farrera-Brochez of Winchester after a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
  Farrera-Brochez was convicted on two counts of sending threatening communications to the government of Singapore and its ministry of health and one count of possessing and transferring
  
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• Judge says Nipsey Hussle documents will stay sealed for now

  05-06-2019 20:42
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that grand jury transcripts in the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle will remain sealed, for now.
  Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry in a hearing Wednesday ordered that the documents will remain sealed for at least three more weeks while defendant Eric Ronald Holder’s lawyer expands her argument that they should be kept secret.
  The grand jury returned an indictment May 9 charging holder with Hussle’s murder. He has denied the all
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer blasts $50 million bail for church leader

  05-06-2019 20:41
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the arrest on child rape charges of Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz del Mundo church (all times local):
  6 p.m.
  An attorney for the leader of a Mexico-based evangelical church says his client’s $50 million bail on charges of child rape and human trafficking is “outrageous” and unreasonable.
  No pleas were entered Wednesday at a hearing for Naasón Joaquín García, the head of La Luz del
  
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• Teen says kayaking trip ended in beating, rape threats

  05-06-2019 19:49
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A teenager says a kayaking trip down an Alabama river ended with him and his friends being beaten and threatened with sexual assault.
  News outlets quote 18-year-old Collins Nelson of Huntsville as saying he and other friends were on the Flint River in northern Alabama on Sunday when another kayaker began yelling and calling him a “sissy boy.”
  Nelson says the taunting included a threat to sexually assault a female who was with his group. He says the man a
  
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• 2nd fatal wreck near site of 1 that killed 8 in Mississippi

  05-06-2019 19:49
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A sheriff says a second fatal wreck has occurred this week near a small town in eastern Mississippi.
  Kemper County Sheriff James Moore tells The Associated Press that “there will be fatalities” from the wreck Wednesday on U.S. Highway 45 south of Scooba.
  Moore spoke briefly from the scene of the wreck, which he described as “chaos.” He said one of the vehicles involved was a school bus that was empty.
  A wreck before dawn Monday killed eight peo
  
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• Reward Offered for Information in Killing of Great Horned Owls

  05-06-2019 18:58
  A reward of up to $1,500 is being offered for any information leading to an arrest after two great horned owls were found dead on Tucson’s north side.Investigators are attempting to determine what caused the death of the young owls, which appear to have died at the same time.…
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer says doc didn’t try to euthanize people

  05-06-2019 17:47
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on a doctor charged with murder in the overdose deaths of 25 patients (all times local):
  4:20 p.m.
  A defense attorney says a doctor charged with murder in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients was trying to provide “comfort care” for dying people, not euthanize them.
  Attorney Richard Blake denies allegations that William Husel (HYOO’-suhl) ordered overdoses of painkillers for patients to hasten their deaths. Blake says the doctor’s
  
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• Colorado will leave house-sized boulder along highway

  05-06-2019 17:12
  DENVER (AP) — A boulder the size of a house that tumbled across and gouged a southwestern Colorado state highway last month will stay put. State officials plan to rebuild the highway next to it, saving taxpayers money and possibly creating a tourist attraction.
  Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday that Colorado will save about $200,000 by not blasting the 8.5 million pound (3.9 million kilogram) boulder. He said people will also have the opportunity to see the boulder dubbed “Mem
  
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• AP Top 25 Podcast: Picking College Football Hall of Famers

  05-06-2019 16:59
  There are 76 former major-college football stars eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame next year, and whittling down the list to a class of about 12 players is almost impossible. On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, poll voter Matt Brown of The Athletic joins AP’s Ralph Russo to pick through Hall of Fame ballot and select the players they think should be inducted next year.
  There was praise for an underrated dual-threat quarterback from Indiana and support for the thre
  
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• Orlando bans plastics at parks, venues starting Oct. 1

  05-06-2019 16:50
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials in Orlando have agreed to ban the use of plastic straws, bags, cutlery and plastic foam food containers at its city parks and venues.
  The Orlando City Commission agreed on the policy Monday and it takes effect Oct. 1.
  The Orlando Sentinel reports plastic straws will be available upon request for customers with disabilities. Gatherings such as birthday parties and family reunions at parks will be exempt if there are fewer than 100 guests. However, they will be
  
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• Senators launch bipartisan bid to block Saudi arms sales

  05-06-2019 16:41
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are banding together to try and stop the Trump administration’s sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia.
  Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and others are introducing 22 Senate resolutions to halt the sales. The move threatens to tangle up the Senate in a series of votes this summer.
  It’s unclear whether the resolutions will pass, but the support of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ran Paul underscores the breadth of bipartisan opp
  
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