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• Reports of Dangerous Prison Conditions Prompt Calls for Removal of AZ Corrections Director

  10-06-2019 23:20
  The American Civil Liberties Union, Democratic state lawmakers and local community organizations have all called for the removal of Arizona Department of Corrections Director Chuck Ryan following news reports of shocking conditions at multiple state prison complexes.In April, an ABC15 investigation found that many cell doors inside the Lewis state prison in Buckeye did not have functioning locks, which resulted in assaults on inmates and corrections officers. ABC15 reported that at least tw
  
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• Sunrise Forge Creates Heritage Tools to Use and Use Well

  10-06-2019 22:21
  Ian Morgan of Sunrise Forge is a blacksmith based in Tucson who crafts tools to last for centuries. From shears and garden knives to hunting and chefs knives, Morgan supplies long-lasting, well made tools for hunting, camping, kitchen use and general abuse.…
  
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• The Latest: Grandfather shows tattoos of slain kids at trial

  10-06-2019 21:25
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on a death penalty trial for a South Carolina father (all times local):
  3:15 p.m.
  The father of a South Carolina man convicted of killing his five children is asking jurors to give him life without parole.
  Timothy Jones Sr. took off his tie and dress shirt to show jurors Monday the tattoos of the faces of his five slain grandchildren on his back at the request of defense lawyers.
  Jones Sr. asked jurors to spare his son’s life because he doesn’t
  
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• Hey, can you spare a kidney? Man campaigns for transplant

  10-06-2019 21:22
  JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man is getting creative while trying to find a kidney donor.
  The Johnson City Press reports 62-year-old Jeff Shevellis making T-shirts and car signs and launching a social media campaign to urge potential donors to share their spare kidneys with him or others in need.
  Shevell has battled kidney disease for over 15 years. Faced with either beginning dialysis or getting a transplant, he launched his “share your spare” campaign to find a matc
  
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• Lions sign David Fales as backup QB option, cut Connor Cook

  10-06-2019 21:21
  ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have signed quarterback David Fales and waived quarterback Connor Cook.
  Detroit also added offensive lineman Luke Bowanko and released safety David Jones on Monday.
  Fales replaces Cook as a backup candidate behind Matthew Stafford and Tom Savage. Fales, who played in Miami the previous two years, has completed 29 of 43 passes in his career for 265 yards with one touchdown and an interception. The former San Jose State star was drafted in 2014 by C
  
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• Democrats press to retain longtime abortion funding ban

  10-06-2019 21:21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are intent on preserving a four-decade ban on taxpayer-financed abortions despite calls from their party’s presidential candidates to abandon it.
  Lawmakers are arguing that any attempt to undo the longstanding consensus is doomed to fail and not worth scuttling a key education and health funding bill over.
  White presidential candidates like Democratic front-runner Joe Biden are rewriting their positions on the so-called Hyde Amendment,
  
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• Raptors can win title, Durant may play in NBA Finals Game 5

  10-06-2019 21:17
  TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Raptors can win their first championship and end Golden State’s quest for three in a row with one more victory.
  The Raptors can do it Monday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, when Kevin Durant could play for the first time in the series .
  Warriors coach Steve Kerr says Durant went through their full morning shootaround and said his ability to play would be determined before the game. Durant, the two-time NBA Finals MVP, has been sidelined more than a month
  
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• Ex-Auburn coach Terry Bowden to be Clemson grad intern

  10-06-2019 21:13
  CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — There’ll be another Bowden at Clemson.
  Football spokesman Ross Taylor said Monday that Terry Bowden is joining the program as an unpaid graduate intern as he pursues an advanced degree in athletic leadership at the university. Bowden, 63, is the younger brother of Tommy Bowden, who was Clemson’s football coach from 1999 through middle of 2008 when Dabo Swinney was appointed Bowden’s successor.
  Terry Bowden went 47-17-1 with two Southeastern Conference
  
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• Kansas adds Iowa guard Moss as graduate transfer

  10-06-2019 21:12
  LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas added Iowa sharpshooter Isaiah Moss as a graduate transfer on Monday, strengthening its backcourt and providing a 3-point threat that the Jayhawks had been lacking on their roster.
  Moss was a three-year starter for the Hawkeyes, averaging 9.2 points last season. He was second on the team in steals and fourth in assists while hitting 42.1% of his 3-pointers.
  That mark from beyond the arc was the sixth best by an Iowa junior in school history.
  Jayhawks coach Bill
  
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• Judge rejects Indiana AG’s bid to block abortion clinic

  10-06-2019 21:12
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected an attempt by Indiana’s attorney general to prevent an abortion clinic from opening in northern Indiana.
  U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker on Friday denied Attorney General Curtis Hill’s request for an immediate stay to prevent the clinic from opening until Indiana’s appeal is considered. The South Bend Tribune reports Barker wrote that she’s allowing the South Bend clinic that will perform medication-induced
  
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• Medical pot laws no answer for US opioid deaths, study finds

  10-06-2019 21:05
  A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths.
  Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. It linked medical marijuana laws to slower than expected increases in state prescription opioid death rates.
  But the promising connection fell apart when researchers updated the analysis with seven years of recent data.
  Authors of the original research welcomed the new analysis.
  They had speculated patients might be substituting ma
  
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• K9 officer helps catch alleged car thief in midtown

  10-06-2019 21:05
  TUCSON – An alleged car thief was arrested Sunday evening thanks to the efforts of Tucson Police Department and one of their furry officers, K9 Kiro.
  According to officials, TPD attempted to pull over a suspected car thief Sunday evening. Police say the suspect fled the officers and jumped into several nearby residential yards.
  After he was tracked by Air One crews to Grant Road and Alvernon Way, K9 Kiro and several other responding officers arrested the suspect.
  Ops Midtown, Air One, and
  
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• Strike paralyzes Haiti, protesters demand president’s ouster

  10-06-2019 20:55
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Opposition leaders in Haiti have launched a two-day strike that has paralyzed the country’s capital as protesters demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise amid corruption allegations.
  Schools, businesses and government offices were shuttered on Monday as groups of protesters blocked roads and set piles of tires ablaze across Port-au-Prince. Some protesters burned cars belonging to a local radio station and accused the news media of working for th
  
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• 1 killed when small plane crashes into Missouri grain silo

  10-06-2019 20:51
  BUTLER, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot has been killed after a small plane crashed into a grain silo in western Missouri.
  The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna C425 departed from Vero Beach, Florida, and was headed to the Butler Memorial Airport when it crashed Monday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the pilot was the only person aboard the plane. The pilot’s name wasn’t immediately released.
  The Bates County Sheriff’s Office said in a Fac
  
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• Netanyahu’s lawyer to attend pre-indictment hearing in fall

  10-06-2019 20:50
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer says he will attend an October pre-indictment hearing after his request to further postpone it was rejected.
  Attorney Amit Hadad complained Monday that the hearing should have been delayed to give him more time to prepare, but confirmed he would plead the prime minister’s case at the scheduled hearing.
  Netanyahu, who is facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases, asked Attorn
  
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• Denver custodian starts new job as school principal

  10-06-2019 20:50
  DENVER (KUSA) — Walking through the playground of Stedman Elementary brings back memories for Michael Atkins.
  “Basketball — would be [age] 6, 7 up here playing a pretty physical game of hoop,” Atkins said. “This has been a part of my story — Park Hill, Stedman has been a part of my story, and I’ve learned so much just from walking these streets.”Atkins recently became the principal of Stedman Elementary, a career that started years ago as a custodi
  
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• $117M raised for charity in honor of a Home Depot founder

  10-06-2019 20:49
  ATLANTA (AP) — A fundraising bash honoring the 90th birthday of philanthropist Bernie Marcus, one of Home Depot’s founders, has raised more than $117 million for Georgia charities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Sunday’s star-studded gathering at the Atlanta Aquarium, which Marcus built, quickly raised $102 million in pledges. Arthur Blank, another founder of Home Depot and an owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United of the MLS, contributed an additional $15 mi
  
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• US Supreme Court will hear Montana arsenic cleanup case

  10-06-2019 20:45
  BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether residents of two Montana communities can continue their decade-long effort to get the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay for a more thorough cleanup of arsenic left on properties after a century of copper smelting.
  The Montana Supreme Court ruled in December 2017 for the residents of Opportunity and Crackerville.
  They sued in 2008 seeking to force Arco to reduce arsenic levels to the area’s normal level, 25 parts per million.
  
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• Fire Department says pilot killed in helicopter crash at Manhattan skyscraper

  10-06-2019 20:37
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fire Department says pilot killed in helicopter crash at Manhattan skyscraper.
  The post Fire Department says pilot killed in helicopter crash at Manhattan skyscraper appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Infowars to pay $15K for unauthorized Pepe the Frog posters

  10-06-2019 20:29
  Conspiracy-promoting website Infowars will pay $15,000 to resolve a copyright infringement lawsuit over its sales of a poster featuring the image of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that was hijacked by far-right extremists and racist internet trolls.
  Infowars host Alex Jones on Monday signed his companies’ settlement agreement with Pepe’s creator, California-based artist Matt Furie.
  An article posted on Infowars’ website calls it a “strategic victory” for Jones.
  
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• Former Clemson LB Rahshaun ‘Shaq’ Smith joins Maryland

  10-06-2019 20:23
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Linebacker Rahshaun Smith has joined the Maryland football team after earning his undergraduate degree from Clemson.
  Smith, nicknamed “Shaq,” will be eligible to play this season for the Terrapins under first-year coach Michael Locksley.
  The 6-foot-2, 250-pound Smith played in all 15 games last season, finishing with 17 tackles and a sack to help undefeated Clemson win the national championship. The Baltimore native was redshirted in 2016 before notchin
  
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• New York approves sports betting in 4 upstate casinos

  10-06-2019 20:21
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gambling regulators in New York have voted to allow sports betting at four upstate casinos.
  The state’s Gaming Commission approved regulations Monday that will permit wagers at Resorts World Catskills in Monticello, Rivers Casino and Resort in Schenectady, Tioga Downs in the Southern Tier and Del Lago Resort and Casino in the Finger Lakes.
  Bets won’t start until the facilities receive their wagering licenses, however, which is likely to be later this summer.
  
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• Seton Hall promotes AD Pat Lyons, searches for replacement

  10-06-2019 20:20
  SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall athletic director Patrick Lyons has been promoted to executive vice president for operations and chief of staff, prompting a search for a new AD.
  The university announced Monday that Lyons will serve as the No. 2 administrator behind Joseph E. Nyre, who begins his tenure as the university’s 21st president on Aug. 1.
  In his new role, Lyons will oversee athletics, facilities and operations, human resources, strategy and the office of the president.
  
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• PBWA selects Dwyane Wade as Magic Johnson Award winner

  10-06-2019 20:16
  MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat has been selected as this season’s winner of the Magic Johnson Award, presented by the Pro Basketball Writers Association.
  Wade, who just completed his final season before retirement, was chosen as “the player who best combines excellence on the basketball court with cooperation and dignity in dealing with the media and the public.”
  Wade averaged 15.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists in his 16th and final NBA season. He was a
  
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• NYC Fire Department: Helicopter pilot has died

  10-06-2019 20:14
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Fire Department says the pilot of a helicopter that crashed on a Manhattan skyscraper rooftop has died.
  The Fire Department says the helicopter crash landed on the top of the tower, which isn’t far from Rockefeller Center and Times Square.
  It does not appear anyone else was on board when the crash occurred at around 2 p.m.
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters that a fire began when the aircraft hit, but it is under control. Cuomo said it shook the buildi
  
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• Crews find body of toddler swept away in flash flood at park

  10-06-2019 20:12
  COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Crews have found the body of a 2-year-old Kentucky boy swept away in weekend flash flooding at a Tennessee gorge as crews evacuated 64 people from the popular park.
  Jackson County Emergency Management Agency spokesman Derek Woolbright told news outlets the body of Steven Pierce of Eddyville, Kentucky, was found about an hour after crews resumed searching Monday.
  Tennessee State Parks Assistant Chief Ranger J.R. Tinch said the boy was swept away Sunday as a family m
  
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• At least one dead in helicopter crash landing, CNN reports

  10-06-2019 20:10
  NEW YORK (CNN) — The New York Fire Department and New York Police Department said a helicopter crashed on the roof of 787 7th Ave., a building in midtown Manhattan.
  The address is just north of Times Square and just south of Central Park.
  At least one person has been killed in a helicopter accident in midtown Manhattan, according to law enforcement officials.
  The NYPD tweeted that the helicopter made a “hard landing” on the roof of 787 7th Ave.
  The helicopter appeared to make a
  
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• Argentina earns first World Cup point with 0-0 Japan draw

  10-06-2019 20:07
  PARIS (AP) — Argentina held former champion Japan to a 0-0 draw Monday to earn its first ever point in the Women’s World Cup.
  Argentina lost its previous six World Cup matches in 2003 and 2007, and missed the 2011 and 2015 tournaments. Argentina had been outscored 33-2 in the six previous World Cup matches prior to Monday’s opener against Japan.
  “For women’s football in Argentina it is great that we are starting to flourish,” Argentina coach Carlos Borrello sa
  
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• Yemeni officials say top diplomat resigned over UN deal

  10-06-2019 20:02
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say the country’s foreign minister has submitted his resignation to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi due to differences over a U.N.-brokered peace deal.
  The officials said on Monday that Khaled al-Yamani’s resignation came after other government figures blamed him for the “failure” in implementing the deal, which was agreed on with the Houthi rebels last year in Sweden.
  They say that the president has not decided whether to acce
  
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• Central Americans pursue US dream despite Mexico crackdown

  10-06-2019 20:02
  SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (AP) — A near-death experience in the Arizona desert a year ago won’t deter Francisco Pérez from another attempt to migrate to the U.S., nor will an increased police presence in southern Mexico.
  The 23-year-old Guatemalan teacher and auto mechanic hopes to set out again soon to repay the $7,000 he owes from his first trip, when he and two other young men got lost for a week in the desert before being rescued by the U.S. border patrol.
  Central Americans li
  
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• Sex workers push to legalize prostitution in New York

  10-06-2019 19:42
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state would legalize the buying and selling of sex under a proposal introduced in the state Legislature that would lift criminal penalties for sex work.
  The bill was announced Monday and isn’t expected to get a vote before the Democrat-led Senate and Assembly plan to adjourn for the year next week.
  Supporters say criminal penalties for prostitution haven’t worked, and that legalization would improve sex worker safety while reducing trafficking and e
  
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• Trump signals frustration with Fed’s independent policies

  10-06-2019 19:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is complaining that President Xi Jinping enjoys a major advantage in the U.S.-China trade war in that he controls China’s central bank while Trump must deal with a Federal Reserve that is “very destructive to us.”
  Trump makes clear in an interview with CNBC hisfrustration with a system that provides political independence for America’s central bank — something most economists see as vital to its credibility. Trump notes
  
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• The Latest: Detroit man tied to deaths, assaults arraigned

  10-06-2019 19:35
  DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on a possible serial killer in Detroit (all times local):
  2:10 p.m.
  A Detroit man being held in connection with the deaths of three women has been arraigned on sexual assault charges in a separate case police say is connected to the slayings.
  Thirty-four-year-old Deangelo Martin was arraigned Monday on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assault with intent to murder. The charges stem from the May 7 stabbing and assault of a 26-year-old woman in an eastside hom
  
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• Crews rush to restore water at prison housing 2,000 inmates

  10-06-2019 19:29
  PHOENIX (AP) — Crews are rushing to restore water at a southeastern Arizona prison where inmates had to use bottled water and portable toilets over the weekend.
  A Cochise County spokeswoman said Monday that crews dug a deeper well and are now trying to figure out why the water still is not reaching the prison in Douglas, a few miles north of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
  Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder says water pressure dropped on Friday.
  Wilder says a tem
  
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• Claytoon of the Day: Trumpanus

  10-06-2019 19:25
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• Lawmakers aim for Pulse to be designated national memorial

  10-06-2019 18:12
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Members of central Florida’s congressional delegation are introducing legislation that would designate as a national memorial the gay nightclub where 49 people were massacred three years ago by a supporter of the Islamic State.
  U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy said Monday at a ceremony outside the former nightclub that the designation will preserve and protect Pulse nightclub for future generations and give it the federal recognition it deserves.
  Pulse
  
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• Ex-Virginia attorney general named to US immigration post

  10-06-2019 18:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies has been named acting director of the agency that manages legal immigration.
  Ken Cuccinelli (koo-chih-NEHL’-ee) will oversee U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
  Cuccinelli is a former Virginia attorney general and has advocated for denying citizenship to the American-born children of parents living in the U.S. illegally and for limiting in-state tuition at public universiti
  
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• Locusts, devouring hay, plague sheep ranchers in Sardinia

  10-06-2019 18:10
  ROME (AP) — An unusually large swarm of local locusts, estimated in the millions, is plaguing farmers raising sheep and other livestock in Sardinia.
  The Italian farmers’ lobby Coldiretti says it has asked for government help, even though it’s likely too late to save the hay crop and grassland that livestock needs. Farmers have been trucking in hay from other parts of the Italian Mediterranean island, raising costs.
  A locust expert, Alexandre Latchininsky, said Monday that if th
  
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• Greek president OKs request for early election on July 7

  10-06-2019 18:10
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is on track to hold a national election July 7, three months before schedule, after the country’s president accepted a request by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament.
  Tsipras and President Procopis Pavlopoulos spoke briefly on Monday evening. The prime minister said he wanted the early election to avoid months of campaigning that might have endangered the bailed-out country’s economy.
  Tsipras’ move was precipitated b
  
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• Hundreds march to honor memory of Texas girl Maleah Davis

  10-06-2019 18:09
  HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of people marched to honor the memory of a 4-year-old Houston girl who was missing for several weeks before her remains were found last month in Arkansas.
  Family members of Maleah Davis as well as area residents walked through downtown Houston on Sunday.
  After the march, people gathered at City Hall. Craig Davis, Maleah’s father, spoke briefly, thanking the crowd for their support and saying the march meant so much to his family.
  The city of Houston declared S
  
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• Human rights group locates North Korean execution sites

  10-06-2019 18:08
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A human rights group says it has identified hundreds of sites where witnesses claim North Korea has carried out public executions as it continues to arbitrarily and aggressively use the death penalty to intimidate its citizens.
  The Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group said Tuesday its research was based on more than 600 interviews with North Korean defectors who helped locate the sites with satellite imagery. It didn’t reveal the exact locations of
  
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• Former Arizona Pitcher Taylor McQuillin Hired By Pima Community College

  10-06-2019 18:07
  Former University of Arizona softball ace pitcher Taylor McQuillin will be staying in Tucson after getting hired by Pima Community College as an assistant coach. McQuillin who guided the Wildcats back to the Women's College World Series this spring for the first time since 2010, will join fellow Arizona alumni Rebekah Quiroz (head coach) and fellow assistant Jennifer Martinez on the Aztecs staff.…
  
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• Crash shuts down south side intersection, near TIA

  10-06-2019 18:02
  A crash has shut down a south side intersection, near Tucson International Airport Monday morning.
  Tucson Airport officials are working to clear the vehicle accident at the Corona and Country Club roads intersection.
  The intersection is expected to be closed for the next one to two hours, TAAAPD said.The intersection is expected to be closed for the next 1-2 hours. https://t.co/csypxpSpwc
  — Tucson Airport Authority Police (@TAA_Police) June 10, 2019The post Crash shuts down south side inte
  
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• Wildfire prompts evacuation at California Six Flags park

  10-06-2019 17:59
  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving brush fire erupted near a huge amusement and water park in Southern California on Sunday, sending hundreds of visitors to the exit to escape clouds of smoke and ash before fire officials asked them to stay put while they worked to contain the blaze.
  Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor announced the evacuation shortly after noon, citing concern for the safety of park visitors and employees. About a half-hour later, the park said on its Tw
  
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• Hungarian rescuers ‘not far’ from lifting tour boat wreckage

  10-06-2019 17:56
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian rescuers say that preparations to raise a sunken tour boat out of the Danube River are mostly finished and the lifting of the wreckage is “not far” from happening.
  Rescue spokesman Nandor Jasenszky said Monday that wire straps to raise the Hableany (Mermaid) have been put in place by divers, with other arrangements still pending.
  Nineteen South Koreans and a Hungarian crewman are confirmed dead and eight people are still missing after a May 29
  
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• Preparing for Monsoon 2019

  10-06-2019 17:51
  TUCSON –The blazing heat. The sounds. The sights. Intense lighting. And of course, the wonderful smell of creosote.
  All part of what makes the monsoon such a special time of year across the desert southwest. Annually, Tucson sees 85 percent daytime sunshine, ranking fifth in the entire nation.
  The monsoon brings us half of our annual rain. In fact, Tucson sees more thunderstorm days in a typical year than in New York City.
  So how does this happen in our sunny corner of the Sonoran Desert?
  
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• The Latest: Naval War College president steps down

  10-06-2019 17:46
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation at the U.S. Naval War College (all times local):
  11:45 a.m.
  The president of the U.S. Naval War College says he is stepping down.
  The announcement by Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley on Monday came after the Navy announced he was being reassigned pending the outcome of an inspector general investigation.
  Harley said in an all-campus email that he had decided to step down immediately because of the distractions caused by what he called an &ldq
  
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• Rights activist in Chechnya gets parole on drug sentence

  10-06-2019 17:46
  GROZNY, Russia (AP) — A court in Russia’s province of Chechnya has paroled a prominent rights activist whose conviction drew an international outcry.
  Oyub Titiyev, who led the Chechen office of prominent rights group Memorial, had been in custody since he was arrested in January 2018 on drug possession charges. Titiyev denied the charges.
  He received a four-year prison sentence in March. On Monday, the Shali court ruled to grant him an early release. Titiyev is set to be let go in 10
  
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• Czech police take steps to protect schools from threat

  10-06-2019 17:45
  PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say they have been taking steps to protect unspecified schools after receiving reports of a threat that they might be attacked.
  Police tweeted Monday that they have increased the presence of officers near the schools in question. They also say they have informed the schools about the threat of a shooting attack.
  No further details have been immediately given.
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• ‘Homework gap’ shows millions of students lack home internet

  10-06-2019 17:39
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly 3 million students in the U.S. face struggles keeping up with their studies because they don’t have home internet access. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of census data.
  In classrooms, laptops and internet connections are nearly universal. But at home, the cost of internet service and gaps in its availability create obstacles. It happens in both urban and rural communities.
  In what has become known as the homework gap, an estimated
  
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