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• ADOT: Dealership employee used stolen ID to buy a sports car

  06-08-2019 23:54
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Winslow car dealership employee who allegedly used a stolen identity to buy a sports car and stick the victim with the bill has been arrested in New Mexico.
  Arizona Department of Transportation officials say 31-year-old Randall Cepi is accused of using the personal information of a customer to purchase a sports car from a Flagstaff dealership in March 2018.
  Weeks later, the victim received insurance and loan information for a vehicle she didn’t buy.
  ADOT detectives b
  
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• The Latest: Republican faces backlash for bucking the party

  06-08-2019 23:52
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on the Nebraska Republican Party urging a GOP state lawmaker to switch parties (all times local):
  4:50 p.m.
  A Nebraska state lawmaker is facing calls to leave the GOP after he blasted fellow Republicans for “enabling white supremacy” and staying silent after President Donald Trump made inflammatory comments about minorities.
  Sen. John McCollister’s comments following this weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio drew a sharp rebuke
  
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• North Korea’s Kim: Rocket launcher test ‘adequate warning’

  06-08-2019 23:52
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire demonstration of newly-developed short-range ballistic missiles he said would send an “adequate warning” to the United States and South Korea over their joint military exercises.
  The announcement by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday came a day after South Korea’s military said it detected the North firing two projectiles that were likely ballistic missiles
  
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• Changing the channel on the bad rerun of shooting coverage

  06-08-2019 23:52
  NEW YORK (AP) — Revulsion over the weekend’s twin mass shootings and the nagging sense that it’s all an inconclusive rerun has frustrated the news media and those who rely upon it.
  It’s also triggered the stirrings of a new debate over how such tragedies should be covered now that they are sadly commonplace.
  A prominent Columbia University professor tweeted that “it’s time for journalists to take sides” on the issue. That would be going against years of
  
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• 4 Your Health: New findings on causes of sleep interruptions

  06-08-2019 23:51
  What you’re doing before going to bed could be keeping you up at night.
  Researchers tracked 785 people’s nightly routine for over 5,000 days.
  Those who used nicotine or drank alcohol within four hours of going to bed were more likely to have interrupted sleep.NEW STUDY: Drinking or smoking before going to bed could keep you up at night. https://t.co/jcDaxLEFL9
  — Priscilla Casper KVOA (@PriscillaCasper) August 6, 2019There was no impact on a person’s sleep if they drank c
  
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• Ivanka Trump’s tweets about Chicago violence include errors

  06-08-2019 23:49
  CHICAGO (AP) — Ivanka Trump is weighing in on last weekend’s violence in Chicago with two tweets that include some factual mistakes.
  In one of two Tuesday tweets, President Donald Trump’s daughter writes that as the country grieves about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, “let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year.”
  Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the last weekend was the deadliest of 2019. Bu
  
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• North Korea leader Kim Jong Un says latest missile launches send “adequate warning” over US-South Korea military drills

  06-08-2019 23:48
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un says latest missile launches send “adequate warning” over US-South Korea military drills.
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• Popular ‘Bachelorette’ finale boosts ABC in ratings

  06-08-2019 23:46
  NEW YORK (AP) — “America’s Got Talent” didn’t have its usual cakewalk in the ratings last week.
  The finale of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” finished only a half million viewers behind the NBC talent show in the ratings last week. The Nielsen company said it was the dating competition show’s best ratings in two years as viewers followed Heather Brown’s choices.
  The two popular Tuesday shows may have held down ratings for the first night of CN
  
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• Police: Killing of LA officer part of series of crimes

  06-08-2019 23:45
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say the fatal shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer occurred during a two-hour series of crimes by gang members that included another attempted shooting where the targets were unhurt.
  Prosecutors filed multiple charges Tuesday against three suspects arrested last week in the killing of Officer Juan Diaz.
  Police say the 24-year-old was gunned down after he confronted the trio spray-painting gang graffiti near a taco stand.
  Police Chief Michel Moor
  
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• Former Fed leaders defend Powell against Trump’s attacks

  06-08-2019 23:45
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a strong rebuke to President Donald Trump, the four living former leaders of the Federal Reserve say that the head of the nation’s central bank should be able to free of political pressure and the threat of being removed or demoted.
  The former chairs — Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen — argued in an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal that history has proven that central banks deliver the best results
  
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• FX’s new ‘A Christmas Carol’ has darker take, younger cast

  06-08-2019 23:42
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — FX’s new adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” includes a younger Scrooge and Bob Cratchit and a darker take on the Charles Dickens classic.
  Ebenezer Scrooge, often portrayed on screen as elderly, is played by 51-year-old Guy Pearce.
  Joe Alwyn stars opposite him as family man Bob Cratchit in the miniseries debuting in December.
  The 28-year-old actor, who has been linked romantically to Taylor Swift, said he was unfamiliar with previous versions an
  
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• Feds clarify change on opioid meds for government workers

  06-08-2019 23:39
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is clarifying a policy change that will limit the prescribing of opioid painkillers to federal workers.
  The Labor Department issued a statement Tuesday saying the limitations will apply to employees injured on the job and covered under the government’s workers’ compensation program.
  Last week at a White House briefing a senior administration official suggested the change would apply to the federal health plan, which is a much bigger program.
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• Ohio Republicans again faced with calls to enact gun reforms

  06-08-2019 23:36
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prompted to act by the bloodshed in Dayton, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is proposing a package of measures he says will address mass shootings.
  Yet members of DeWine’s own party have repeatedly blocked gun-control measures in the Legislature. Even the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and the high school massacre in Parkland, Florida, could not move Ohio Republicans to act on most elements of a gun-control package proposed last year by then-Gov. John Kasich, als
  
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• Police make arrest after threat of violence at Sanders rally

  06-08-2019 23:33
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police in Long Beach arrested a man after he posted an online threat of violence connected to a scheduled Sen. Bernie Sanders rally in the city Tuesday.
  The Long Beach Police Department says in a statement that detectives arrested 27-year-old Jose Rafael Guzman of Huntington Park, a Los Angeles suburb, on Monday.
  He was booked for criminal threats and threatening a public officer.
  Chief Robert Luna said in a statement Tuesday that the department takes “all p
  
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• NY judge cites ‘urgency’ of FOIA case regarding Khashoggi

  06-08-2019 23:28
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says federal agencies must produce thousands of pages monthly of records pertaining to the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi (jah-MAHL’ khahr-SHOHK’-jee) because learning about his disappearance is of “paramount importance.”
  Representatives of the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense say producing 5,000 pages monthly makes it impossible to respond to other Freedom of Information Act requests.
  U.S. District Judge Paul En
  
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• Emails: Pritzker’s office not aware band booked for 2 months

  06-08-2019 23:25
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A southern rock band whose logo features the Confederate flag was booked for the DuQuoin State Fair for two months before Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s staff learned of the gig and abruptly canceled it.
  Emails and text messages obtained by The Associated Press show that Confederate Railroad’s Aug. 27 appearance was canceled by the Agriculture Department just a day after the fair’s lineup was announced June 17.
  Pritzker’s office says it has an unwritt
  
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• Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal

  06-08-2019 23:18
  CHICAGO (AP) — Legal experts say federal sex charges recently brought against R. Kelly in Chicago and New York greatly increase the pressure on the 52-year-old singer to seek a plea deal.
  Adding those 18 charges to the 21 Illinois charges he already faced and two new charges in Minnesota mean Kelly is looking at a combined maximum prison sentence of over 500 years.
  Phil Turner, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, says federal prosecutors have more resources at their disposal and t
  
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• Union: Mulvaney comments confirm agency moves meant to cut

  06-08-2019 23:17
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal employees union says recent comments by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirm the Trump administration’s “grand strategy” to cut the federal workforce by relocating agency offices out of Washington.
  Mulvaney said last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to relocate several hundred jobs from Washington is “a wonderful way to streamline government.”
  He was speaking to fellow Republicans in South Ca
  
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• Gunmen raid Mexican mint headquarters, loot open vault

  06-08-2019 23:15
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say gunmen raided the federal mint’s headquarters in Mexico City and took items from a vault.
  City Public Security Secretary Jesús Orta Martínez told news station Telediario that three armed men disarmed security guards at the offices and “went straight to the vault, which was open.”
  The official says the gunmen got away with gold coins, commemorative watches and other valuables. He didn’t put a value on the loss,
  
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• Texas man convicted second time for wife’s 1999 killing

  06-08-2019 23:10
  HOUSTON (AP) — A former high school football coach in the Houston area has been convicted for a second time in his pregnant wife’s killing 20 years ago.
  A jury convicted David Mark Temple of murder Tuesday during his retrial. Belinda Temple, a high school teacher who was seven months pregnant, was killed in January 1999.
  Another jury found David Temple guilty of murder in 2007, but Texas’ top criminal court overturned that conviction in 2016 because prosecutors withheld evidenc
  
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• Pennsylvania man charged with selling guns stolen from feds

  06-08-2019 23:05
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been charged with selling machine guns and other firearms and ammunition stolen from a federal storage facility in West Virginia.
  Richard Adam Schreiber of Everett was indicted Tuesday after federal agents seized about 100 guns, more than 1,300 gun components and nearly 124,000 rounds of ammunition.
  Prosecutors say Schreiber plotted with a security guard who pilfered the weapons and ammunition from a gun-disposal facility operated by the Bureau of A
  
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• Sun trade rookie Anigwe to Wings for veteran Plaisance

  06-08-2019 23:02
  UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Sun have traded rookie Kristine Anigwe to the Dallas Wings for veteran Theresa Plaisance.
  The 6-foot-5 Plaisance averaged six points and just over four rebounds in 22 games this season for Dallas. She has hit 23 3-pointers this season, second for a center behind the Sun’s Jonquel Jones (31).
  Sun coach Curt Miller says the 27-year-old Plaisance is one of the best stretch post players in the league and someone his team has been targeting for sev
  
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• Texas Speaker gives vague apology for ‘hurtful’ things said

  06-08-2019 23:01
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House speaker is apologizing to lawmakers for “embarrassing” and “hurtful” things he said on a secretly-recorded conversation with a hardline conservative activist in a scandal that has rocked state Republicans.
  First-term Speaker Dennis Bonnen sent an apology email Tuesday. It doesn’t address anything specific that Bonnen said and it notably avoids mention of an alleged “hit list” of Republican lawmakers to target in
  
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• FDA says Novartis withheld data problem before drug approval

  06-08-2019 22:52
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators want to know why Novartis didn’t disclose a problem with testing data until after the Swiss drugmaker’s $2.1 million gene therapy was approved.
  The Food and Drug Administration said the manipulated data involves testing of the therapy on animals, not on patients. The FDA on Tuesday said it’s confident the drug should remain on the market. The agency said it will consider criminal or civil penalties if appropriate.
  Zolgensma, the most e
  
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• Official: Nuke program serves as ‘ultimate insurance policy’

  06-08-2019 22:51
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The head of the U.S. agency that maintains the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal says the country is facing the most complex and demanding global security environment since the Cold War.
  National Nuclear Security Administration chief Lisa Gordon-Hagerty spoke Tuesday at a business expo in New Mexico.
  She said that Russia and China are investing significant resources to upgrade and expand their capabilities, Iran has increased its nuclear stockpile beyond limit
  
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• James Levine’s lawsuit against Met Opera has been settled

  06-08-2019 22:48
  NEW YORK (AP) — Conductor James Levine’s breach of contract and defamation lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been settled.
  A lawyer for Levine and the company made the announcement Tuesday but did not disclose terms of the agreement.
  The 76-year Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, then became its music director emeritus. He was fired in March 2018 after the Met said an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment. Levine sued
  
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• The Latest: Appeal in John Steinbeck lawsuit heard in court

  06-08-2019 22:44
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on appeal in latest chapter of long-running dispute over John Steinbeck works (all times local):
  12:35 p.m.
  A battle waged for decades over who controls the works of iconic author John Steinbeck had another day in court Tuesday.
  A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was meeting in Anchorage to hear appeals, including one by the estate of Steinbeck’s late son, Thomas Steinbeck.
  The appeal challenges a 2017 federal jury verdi
  
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• White Sox open doubleheader with 5-3 win over Tigers

  06-08-2019 22:42
  DETROIT (AP) — José Abreu homered and drove in three runs and Dylan Cease pitched five solid innings to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader.
  Welington Castillo also homered for Chicago, and Jake Rogers went deep for Detroit.
  Cease (2-4) allowed two runs and seven hits, striking out six with one walk. It was his second career victory, and both have come against the Tigers, who are 10-45 since the start of
  
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• Tigers pound White Sox 10-6 for doubleheader split

  06-08-2019 22:42
  DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera had three hits and scored twice to help the Detroit Tigers to a 10-6 win over the Chicago White Sox and a split of their doubleheader Tuesday.
  Chicago won the opener 5-3.
  Drew VerHagen (2-2) allowed one run in five innings for Detroit in the nightcap, then left the game after a 61-minute rain delay. Héctor Santiago (1-1) yielded four earned runs in 4 2/3 innings.
  Detroit scored two runs in the second, then Cabrera led off the bottom of the third with a
  
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• Alabama ‘regrettably’ expects injunction on its abortion ban

  06-08-2019 22:42
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama says in a legal filing that U.S. Supreme Court precedent “regrettably requires” a federal judge to block the state’s near-total ban on abortions from taking effect while a challenge plays out in the courts.
  Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office filed that response Monday after abortion clinics asked a judge for a preliminary injunction against the law, which would make performing an abortion a felony in almost all cases. One of the
  
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• ACLU sues over Trump’s fast-tracked deportations policy

  06-08-2019 22:40
  CHICAGO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the Trump administration’s sweeping expansion of deportation powers, saying it violates constitutional rights and could lead to errors including deporting U.S. citizens.
  The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in Washington, D.C., on behalf of immigrant advocacy groups in Texas, New York and Florida.
  Last month, the Trump administration expanded immigration officers’ authority to deport migrants without requiring
  
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• Death penalty questionable as a deterrent to mass killing

  06-08-2019 22:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling for new death penalty legislation as an answer to hate crimes and mass killings. But whether that would deter shooters is questionable — especially since most don’t live to face trial.
  More than half the perpetrators of mass shootings since 2006 have ended up dead at the scene of their crimes — either killed by others or dying by suicide, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeaster
  
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• All 4 defending champions returning for NYC Marathon

  06-08-2019 22:26
  NEW YORK (AP) — All four defending champions are returning for the New York City Marathon.
  Mary Keitany, Lelisa Desisa, Manuela Schar and Daniel Romanchuk will compete in the marathon on Nov. 3. The New York Road Runners also announced Tuesday that U.S. Olympians Des Linden and Jared Ward will highlight the American field.
  Kenya’s Keitany will go for her fifth career title in New York. Last year, she recorded the second-fastest time through the five boroughs, finishing in 2 hours, 22
  
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• Apple launches new credit card

  06-08-2019 22:22
  Apple is launching its new credit card today.
  Some select iPhone users will get the first opportunity to sign up for Apple’s new credit card through the wallet app.
  The company says it is sending out invitations to iPhone users who requested to be notified about the Apple card.
  It’s unclear exactly how many have been invited to be among the first to apply.
  The credit card is back by Goldman Sachs and is part of MasterCard’s global payment network.
  Apple says it plans to expand
  
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• Canadian police find items belonging to murder suspects

  06-08-2019 22:21
  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police have found several items on a riverbank that are linked to the teenagers suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man.
  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a release Tuesday the items were found along the Nelson River in Manitoba approximately 9 kilometers (6 miles) from where they left a burnt-out vehicle on July 22. Police searched the river near Gillam, Manitoba over the weekend after a damaged alumin
  
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• Black leaders support preserving controversial mural

  06-08-2019 22:21
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of prominent African American leaders in San Francisco want to preserve a controversial mural displayed in a public high school that some have criticized as racist.
  Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, on Tuesday called on the school board to reconsider its vote to paint over the mural. He argued that painting over the mural would be like erasing American history.
  The mural was created in 1936 and depicts the life of George Washington. It shows pio
  
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• Arrest made in felling of Connecticut’s ‘door tree’

  06-08-2019 22:20
  HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut authorities say the person responsible for cutting down a distinctive tree has been arrested.
  The New Haven-based Regional Water Authority announced the arrest Tuesday. No name was released.
  The authority said the Door Tree in Hamden, a 200-year-old white oak that grew in a “distinctive doorway-like arch,” had been cut down with a chainsaw on July 18.
  The Regional Water Authority owns the land where the tree stood.
  David Johnson, Hamden’s
  
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• Dayton Police chief says Ohio gunman had ‘expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting’

  06-08-2019 22:13
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Dayton Police chief says Ohio gunman had ‘expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting’
  The post Dayton Police chief says Ohio gunman had ‘expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting’ appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Udonis Haslem returning to Heat for a 17th NBA season

  06-08-2019 22:09
  Udonis Haslem has made his decision: He’s returning to the Miami Heat.
  Haslem, who was considering retirement, announced Tuesday that he is returning for a 17th season. The 39-year-old has spent his entire NBA career with the Heat, and should become just the sixth player in league history to play such a long career with only one franchise.
  It’s a veteran’s minimum contract, worth just under $2.6 million this season. Haslem made the announcement on Instagram, saying “to be
  
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• Parents weren’t told of student’s racist video, threats

  06-08-2019 22:05
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Parents at a Catholic school in South Carolina say they’re angry they weren’t told until weeks after a student’s arrest that he had made racist videos and threatened to shoot people at the school.
  The videos show the white 16-year-old male shooting a box that he says represents all black men. He uses a racial slur several times.
  Officials at the Cardinal Newman School in Columbia say the videos were made in May. They say they weren’t made aware
  
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• Trump’s tariffs could blot out positive economic story

  06-08-2019 21:58
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just last week, solid economic numbers appeared to be helping President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects.
  The United States had achieved its longest economic expansion. Stock prices were climbing. Job gains were steady. Consumers had scaled up spending. Growth was sturdy enough to presage a second term for a conventional president, according to election forecasts based on the economy.
  But Trump was not content to play it safe.
  He chose to magnify the trade war wi
  
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• Russia: Protest allegations might cost couple child custody

  06-08-2019 21:55
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Moscow prosecutor’s office is asking for a 1-year-old boy to be removed from his parents’ custody because they allegedly took their son to an unauthorized protest rally and let another demonstrator take care of him.
  The parents, Dmitri and Olga Prokazov, were questioned by the Russian Investigative Committee on Tuesday.
  Their lawyer, Maxim Pashkov, told the Interfax news agency they denied participating in the July 27 protest.
  The investigative committee is co
  
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• Prosecutor: Killings of women were clearly work of same man

  06-08-2019 21:52
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four strikingly similar attacks on women were all planned and executed by a skilled serial killer who studied the lives and California homes of victims who lived near him before savagely stabbing them, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
  Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Garrett Dameron in his closing argument tried to establish that the killings of three women and the attempted killing of a fourth were all the unmistakable work of 43-year-old Michael Gargiulo.
  Dameron
  
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• Animal conservation group files lawsuit against Trump’s border wall

  06-08-2019 21:37
  TUCSON – El Jefe, the first of three wild jaguars observed roaming in the United States, has ruled over the Santa Rita Mountains in the Old Pueblo since he was spotted in 2011.
  From habitat loss to being sought and hunted, many researchers believed that jaguars were completely extirpated in the U.S. until the Mexican-born cat was first sighted in the Whetstone Mountains.
  But according to the Center for Biological Diversity, the jaguar’s inhabitance in Tucson may be facing a new obsta
  
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• Local funeral home creates tribute to victims of recent mass shootings

  06-08-2019 21:31
  A man leaves flowers near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
  TUCSON – A local funeral home is offering the community an opportunity to send their condolences to the victims, family, friends and all those who were impacted by the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend.
  A guestbook will be available at East Lawn Palms Mortuary and Cemetery, 5801 W. Grant Rd.
  The registry will be availa
  
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• Blues’ Edmundson awarded $3.1M, 1-year deal in arbitration

  06-08-2019 21:31
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blues defenseman Joel Edmundson has been awarded a $3.1 million, one-year contract in arbitration.
  Edmundson was one of four St. Louis restricted free agents to file for player-elected salary arbitration this summer after helping the team win its first Stanley Cup in franchise history. Goaltender Jordan Binnington and forwards Oskar Sundqvist and Zach Sanford agreed to multiyear deals before their arbitration hearings.
  General manager Doug Armstrong on Tuesday called Edmun
  
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• Religious activist fined for burning library’s LGBTQ books

  06-08-2019 21:29
  ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — A religious activist accused of burning four LGBTQ children’s books that he checked out of a library in Iowa has been convicted of criminal mischief and fined.
  Sioux County Attorney Thomas Kunstle says 63-year-old Paul Robert Dorr, of Ocheyedan, was found guilty of the misdemeanor Tuesday and ordered to pay $125 in fines and court costs.
  Dorr posted a video to Facebook in October in which he denounced the Orange City library for having the books and threw the
  
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• Florida governor gives Epstein case to state law enforcement

  06-08-2019 21:18
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor is asking state law enforcement officials to take over a criminal investigation of irregularities in the handling of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  At Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s request, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday ordered the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to review a work release program that allowed Epstein to visit his office while staying at the county jail a decade ago. DeSantis also requested
  
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• US judge gives ‘El Chapo’ associate a 28-year prison term

  06-08-2019 21:13
  CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former lieutenant to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo ” Guzman to 28 years in prison after rejecting prosecutors’ claims that he offered Chicago street gang members $25,000 to beat a government witness.
  Judge Ruben Castillo said 35-year-old Jesus Raul Beltran Leon must pay the price for being a “very significant drug dealer” during the sentencing in Chicago on Tuesday.
  Leon told Castillo that he’s sorry f
  
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• Brazil gang leader who tried to escape as daughter dies

  06-08-2019 21:12
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian gang leader who tried to escape prison dressed as his daughter has been found dead in his cell.
  Rio de Janeiro prisons authorities said Tuesday that Clauvino da Silva apparently hanged himself with a sheet. An investigation has been opened.
  Da Silva was caught over the weekend as he tried to head out of a jail in western Rio wearing a female silicon mask, a long dark-haired wig, tight jeans with a pink t-shirt.
  Da Silva was part of the leadership of one of
  
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