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• Arizona man convicted of sexually assaulting 2 babysitters

  22-08-2019 23:57
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Mesa man has been convicted of sexually assaulting two women he hired to babysit his children at different times in 2017.
  A Maricopa County Superior Court jury also found Dion Earl guilty Thursday of sexual abuse, kidnapping, assault and public sexual indecency.
  The 47-year-old Earl is the former owner of the Seattle Impact, a professional indoor soccer team.
  He’s scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 11.
  Earl has been jailed without bond since his October 2017 arrest in th
  
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• Construction on Arizona replacement border barrier begins

  22-08-2019 23:56
  PHOENIX (AP) — Construction on a 2-mile portion of replacement fencing funded by President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration has begun in southern Arizona, one of several projects that will build hundreds of miles of new and replacement barriers.
  Crews broke ground on the project Thursday and plan on installing 30-foot (9-meter) steel fencing to replace older barriers next to the official border crossing this week.
  The project is funded through the Defense Department. Use
  
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• Flood Advisory issued August 22 at 2:53PM MST until August 22 at 5:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-08-2019 23:53
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory for…Southwestern Cochise County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 500 PM MST.
  * At 252 PM MST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicatedheavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause urban and smallstream flooding in the advisory area. Up to two inches of rain havealready fallen.
  * Some locations that will experience flooding include…Whetstone, Huachuca City and Fort Huachuca
  
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• Rays 2B Brandon Lowe likely done for the year

  22-08-2019 23:49
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe suffered a quad injury during a rehabilitation assignment and likely will miss the rest of the season.
  Manager Kevin Cash said Lowe got hurt on Wednesday while playing for Triple-A Durham.
  “He’s most likely done for the year,” Cash said Thursday. “I think that’s the best way to say it. If he comes back early, great.”
  Lowe, an All-Star selection, is batting .276 with 16 homers and 49 RBIs. The se
  
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• Mexico fines Cancun airport $3.7 million for taxi monopoly

  22-08-2019 23:45
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly agency has fined the Cancun international airport the equivalent of about $3.7 million for not allowing more taxis to compete and lower fares for travelers.
  The federal competition commission said the airport improperly resisted allowing more taxis at the airport, resulting in prices that were about 8% higher than they should have been.
  Over eight years studied by the agency, that was estimated to cost travelers almost $5 million in higher fa
  
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• Yeshiva University hit with sexual abuse lawsuit

  22-08-2019 23:44
  NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-eight former students of an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City operated by Yeshiva University sued Thursday over claims they were molested by two prominent rabbis in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
  The suit alleged the university failed to protect students at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and even promoted one of the rabbis to principal after receiving abuse reports.
  A Yeshiva University spokesperson declined to comment, citing a school policy ag
  
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• Trump, G-7 leaders to open summit focused on world economy

  22-08-2019 23:34
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and other leaders of the world’s most industrialized nations will open their annual G-7 summit in France over the weekend by discussing the global economy.
  White House officials say the session was added to Sunday’s schedule at the last minute at Trump’s request.
  Global economic growth has slowed due to weakness in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, and a pronounced slowdown in China, the world’s second-largest economy.
  
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• 2 more El Salvador ex-officers to face trial in ’81 massacre

  22-08-2019 23:33
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Two former military officers in El Salvador will join more than a dozen others in being prosecuted for the 1981 El Mozote massacre, a particularly infamous moment from the Central American nation’s civil war.
  A judge in San Francisco Gotera notified the two ex-colonels Thursday that they will be tried on the charges of torture, forced disappearance and forced displacement.
  Nearly 1,000 rural dwellers were slain by soldiers in the El Mozote massacre.
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• Hendricks, Cubs edge Giants 1-0 for 5th straight win

  22-08-2019 23:24
  CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Hendricks pitched seven sharp innings and the Chicago Cubs won despite getting only two hits, edging the San Francisco Giants 1-0 Thursday for their fifth straight victory.
  Anthony Rizzo hit an RBI single to help the NL Central leaders complete a three-game sweep. The Giants lost their fourth in a row.
  A day after the Cubs won 12-11 in a game with seven home runs, there was a brisk breeze blowing in at Wrigley Field and the teams combined for just six hits.
  Hendricks (9
  
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• Bus driver denies locking woman in luggage compartment

  22-08-2019 23:23
  VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A bus driver accused of locking a passenger in the vehicle’s luggage compartment denies the allegations.
  The Boston Globe reports 49-year-old Wendy Alberty, of Roselle, New Jersey, appeared in Rockville Superior Court in Connecticut on Wednesday.
  Alberty was charged after Connecticut police received a 911 call Aug. 4 from a New York woman who said she was locked inside the compartment of the Peter Ban bus while she was retrieving items from her bag.
  The bus was e
  
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• Appeals court rules South Bend abortion clinic can stay open

  22-08-2019 23:13
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction allowing a South Bend abortion clinic to remain open without a state-required license until there is a final ruling in a lawsuit on the license.
  The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling Thursday, thwarting an attempt by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill to reverse the opening of the Whole Woman’s Health clinic in June. The appeals panel also ruled that the state may perform inspections and require o
  
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• Avenatti seeks trial delay amid effort to prove Nike claims

  22-08-2019 23:07
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyer Michael Avenatti says charging Nike $25 million to probe corruption at the sportswear giant was a bargain rather than extortion.
  An attorney for Avenatti told a judge Thursday that a November extortion trial should be postponed until January so he can gather more proof.
  Attorney Scott Srebnick said at a Manhattan hearing that he wants to subpoena Nike employees and others to prove Avenatti acted appropriately.
  U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe (GAHR’-duh-fee) t
  
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• Federal shift may increase asylum backlogs in Northeast

  22-08-2019 22:52
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Trump administrative directive to shift federal resources from Boston and Newark, New Jersey, could increase delays for asylum seekers in the Northeast.
  The temporary reassignments are part of an attempt to reduce a backlog at the southern border, but it will have an impact in the Northeast.
  Phillip Mantis from the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project tells the Portland Press Herald that the Boston and Newark offices already have a combined backlog of 40,000 cases. The
  
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• Wake Forest coach charged in college admissions scam resigns

  22-08-2019 22:49
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The Wake Forest women’s volleyball coach named in a scheme to help get wealthy children into elite schools has resigned.
  The school on Thursday announced the resignation of William Ferguson. He says in a statement that “it’s essential that I step aside” to allow the program to move forward while he focuses on the case and his family.
  Wake Forest placed Ferguson on leave March 12 after his name surfaced in a sweeping college admissions scam
  
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• AG: Tucson man voted twice in 2016 election

  22-08-2019 22:49
  TUCSON – A Tucson man has been charged with illegally voting in the 2016 election, according to Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office.
  Randy Allen Jumper, 61, voted in Pima County after voting in Washoe County, Nevada, according to the AG’s office.
  Jumper signed a declaration stating, “I am a registered voter in Pima County Arizona, I have not voted and will not vote in this election in any other county or state, I understand that knowingly voting more than once in any
  
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• Gas leak prompts closure of San Diego zoo

  22-08-2019 22:48
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A broken gas line has prompted the evacuation and closure of the San Diego Zoo for a day while crews work to repair it.
  The zoo said on Twitter that the leak was detected around 8:15 a.m. Thursday near the zoo’s entrance.
  City officials say many museums in Balboa Park were also closed because gas had to be shut off to them.
  Authorities say the zoo’s animals were safe, but all staff and visitors were evacuated.
  San Diego Gas & Electric said in a statement th
  
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• Fans choose sides in the ‘Chicken Sandwich War’ of our time

  22-08-2019 22:44
  NEW YORK (AP) — A nation already polarized finds itself divided once again, but this time politics isn’t at the heart of it: The blame lies squarely on a fried piece of poultry.
  People are choosing sides and beefing over chicken, thanks to Popeyes’ release of its crispy chicken sandwich last week and the social media debate that has followed. With just one addition to a fast-food menu, the hierarchy of chicken sandwiches in America was rattled, and the supremacy of Chick-fil-A
  
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• Ohio attorney general backs release of gunman school records

  22-08-2019 22:43
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General is siding with media organizations suing for the school records of the gunman who killed nine people earlier this month.
  Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Local Schools has denied media requests for access to the high school files of gunman Connor Betts, who was shot dead by police about 30 seconds into the Aug. 4 massacre in Dayton.
  The district argues that such “records are generally protected by both federal and state law.”
  News organizatio
  
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• Mississippi State names Tommy Stevens its starting QB

  22-08-2019 22:40
  STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State has named Penn State graduate transfer Tommy Stevens its starting quarterback.
  Stevens had been competing with junior Keytaon Thompson for the right to start the Aug. 31 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette at New Orleans.
  Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead has plenty of familiarity with Stevens from their shared history at Penn State. Moorhead was Penn State’s offensive coordinator from 2016-17, while Stevens was a reserve quarterbac
  
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• Special Weather Statement issued August 22 at 1:34PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-08-2019 22:34
  At 134 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm overSonoita, or 21 miles northwest of Sierra Vista, moving southeast at10 mph.
  Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.
  Locations impacted include…Sonoita, Elgin and Fort Huachuca.Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead tolocalized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through floodedroadways.
  Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.Lightning can strike 10 miles aw
  
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• Jewish groups speaking out against Trump immigration policy

  22-08-2019 22:34
  CHICAGO (AP) — A fledgling coalition of liberal Jewish groups is increasingly making itself heard as it fights the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
  Activists in recent weeks have held fiery protests outside detention centers in Texas, New Jersey and Rhode Island and a sit-in that blockaded an Amazon store in New York.
  The movement has likened President Donald Trump’s policies on asylum and incarceration to what went on as the Holocaust was taking shape.
  Says Rabbi J
  
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• Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 22 at 1:31PM MST until August 22 at 2:15PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-08-2019 22:31
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…Southwestern Cochise County in southeastern Arizona…Southeastern Santa Cruz County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 215 PM MST.
  * At 130 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Parker CanyonLake, or 13 miles southwest of Sierra Vista, and is nearlystationary.
  HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
  SOURCE…Radar indicated.
  IMPACT…Expect damage to roofs, sidi
  
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• US and Russia blame each other for abandoning missile treaty

  22-08-2019 22:30
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and the United States are blaming each other for abandoning a landmark arms control agreement on missiles, with Moscow warning of a new arms race and the Trump administration demanding details of a recent mysterious explosion that killed five Russian nuclear engineers.
  Russia called Thursday’s Security Council meeting following the U.S. test of a missile banned for more than 30 years by the 1987 intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Both countries wit
  
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• The Latest: Neighbors shocked man arrested in stabbing death

  22-08-2019 22:30
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton (all times local):
  4 p.m.
  Neighbors of the man suspected of fatally stabbing a co-worker California State University, Fullerton say they couldn’t imagine he’d commit such a crime.
  The suspect, 51-year-old Chris Vo, was arrested late Wednesday at his Huntington Beach home. He is suspected of killing a retired administrator who was working as a consultant at the university.
  Vo’
  
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• The Latest: California campus killing suspect is co-worker

  22-08-2019 22:30
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton (all times local):
  1:22 p.m.
  Police say the suspect arrested in the stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton, was a co-worker of the victim.
  Lt. Jon Radus said Thursday that 51-year-old Chuyen Vo was arrested Wednesday night at his home in Huntington Beach.
  Radus would not comment on the work relationship of the suspect and the victim, 57-year-old Steven Shek Keung Chan.
  Chan w
  
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• Women steal baby stroller from store, leave child behind

  22-08-2019 22:27
  MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — Two women who allegedly stole a baby stroller and left a child behind have been arrested in New Jersey.
  A group of three women and children entered a baby store in Middletown on Aug. 16.
  Authorities say one of the women went to the front of the store to grab the stroller, while the other two distracted an employee.
  One of the women then returned after realizing one of the children was left behind.
  Two of the three women have been arrested and face shoplifting and co
  
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• The Latest: Serial killer’s execution awaits appeals ruling

  22-08-2019 22:21
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Execution-Serial Killer(all times local):
  6 p.m.
  The scheduled execution of a Florida serial killer who targeted older gay men awaited a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on his final appeals.
  The high court was mulling a last-ditch appeal Thursday from 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles, whose lawyers contended he is too intellectually disabled to be executed. Bowles was set to die by lethal injection at the Florida State prison in Starke.
  The execution was sch
  
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• The Latest: Serial killer who preyed on gay men executed

  22-08-2019 22:21
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Execution-Serial Killer(all times local):
  11 p.m.
  A serial killer who preyed on older gay men during a rampage 25 years ago around the U.S. East Coast has been put to death.
  The office of Gov. Ron DeSantis says 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. Thursday after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.
  He was condemned to die for his murder conviction in the 1994 slaying of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach
  
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• The Latest: No visits for serial killer set to be executed

  22-08-2019 22:21
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Execution-Serial Killer(all times local):
  4 p.m.
  A serial killer who preyed on older gay men during a rampage that left six dead a quarter century ago received no visitors in the hours before his planned execution.
  Officials at Florida State Prison in Starke say 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles did eat a meal of three cheeseburgers, French fries and bacon as execution preparations were being made. He’s set to receive a lethal injection for the murder of W
  
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• Police say suspect arrested in stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton, was a co-worker of the victim

  22-08-2019 22:20
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Police say suspect arrested in stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton, was a co-worker of the victim.
  The post Police say suspect arrested in stabbing death at California State University, Fullerton, was a co-worker of the victim appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Feds to revamp confidentiality rules for addiction treatment

  22-08-2019 22:15
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are proposing to revamp stringent patient confidentiality rules from the 1970s to encourage coordination among medical professionals treating people caught in the nation’s opioid epidemic.
  The idea is to make it easier to share a patient’s drug treatment history with doctors treating that person for other problems. That can stave off serious — even fatal — errors, like unwittingly prescribing opioid painkillers to a surgica
  
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• 1998 Montana murder case dragged on as opportunities missed

  22-08-2019 22:15
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 17 years after he slashed the throat of a teenage clerk while robbing a Montana video rental store, Zachary O’Neill says guilt overcame him and he tried telling authorities he was the culprit.
  But it was another three years after he first confessed in a psychiatric hospital, and later to sheriff’s investigators, before the admitted drug addict and petty criminal appeared in court for the 1998 murder of 18-year-old Miranda Fenner.
  On Friday, O&rs
  
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• Miley Cyrus takes to Twitter to deny cheating rumors

  22-08-2019 22:08
  NEW YORK (AP) — Miley Cyrus has denied she cheated on her soon-to-be ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, in a stream-of-consciousness series of Twitter posts.
  The pop star concluded her missives saying people can call her a “twerking, pot smoking, foul mouthed hillbilly” but she is “not a liar.”
  Hemsworth and Cyrus were on again, off again for 10 years but were married just seven months ago. He filed divorce papers Wednesday , citing irreconcilable differences.
  Cyrus and Ka
  
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• France presses India to opt for dialogue in Kashmir crisis

  22-08-2019 22:08
  CHANTILLY, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has met with India’s prime minister, discussing climate and other concerns ahead of the G-7 summit but also pressing for dialogue with Pakistan over the crisis in Kashmir.
  The meeting Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi was part of a marathon day of diplomacy for Macron, who is touching base with key countries before the weekend summit in Biarritz. Modi will be a special guest there.
  Macron met earlier Thursday with new
  
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• AP source: Prison staff members subpoenaed in Epstein probe

  22-08-2019 22:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed up to 20 staff members at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
  That’s according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret.
  The subpoenas suggest authorities may be pursuing criminal charges against employees at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein took h
  
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• 2 teens killed, 2 others critically injured in Eloy rollover

  22-08-2019 21:58
  ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say two teenagers are dead and two others critically injured after a rollover crash in Eloy.
  The crash occurred around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday.
  Eloy police have identified the teens killed as 16-year-old Andrew Archuleta of Eloy and 17-year-old Noleen Jose of Casa Grande.
  Authorities say all four occupants of vehicle weren’t wearing seatbelts and were ejected in the crash.
  Police told the Casa Grande Dispatch that Archuleta and Jose were pronounced dead at
  
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• Former Florida State football star gets prison sentence

  22-08-2019 21:55
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former star linebacker on Florida State’s 1993 national championship football team has been sentenced to 54 months in federal prison and must pay more than $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty earlier this year on tax fraud charges.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentence Thursday, about four months after the 46-year-old former FSU standout, Kenneth Alexander, reached a plea deal with federal p
  
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• Atlanta-based company execs survived California plane crash

  22-08-2019 21:52
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eight executives of an Atlanta-based package company are among the 10 people who escaped a plane crash at a small Northern California airport Wednesday.
  The pilot of the twin-engine Cessna Citation jet aborted its takeoff, went off the runway and burst into flames at the Oroville Municipal Airport.
  Sue Appleyard, a spokeswoman for Graphics Packaging International, confirms that its executives survived the crash. One was CEO Michael Doss.
  The company makes packaging for
  
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• The Latest: Prosecution rests in parking lot shooting trial

  22-08-2019 21:50
  CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on (all times local):
  3:50 p.m.
  The prosecution rested its case in the manslaughter trial of a man accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a dispute over a handicapped parking space in Florida.
  The prosecution rested Thursday after two days of testimony in the trial of Michael Drejka, who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton in July 2018. The trial is being held in Clearwater.
  On Thursday, the prosecution played video of Drejka’s intervie
  
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• Around 12,000 pack Fiorentina’s stadium to welcome Ribery

  22-08-2019 21:48
  FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — About 12,000 fans welcomed new signing Franck Ribery at Fiorentina’s Stadio Artemio Franchi on Thursday.
  Ribery walked onto the field to the “Rocky” theme tune, and did a few ball tricks in the center circle, before speaking to the fans.
  The 36-year-old Frenchman then walked around the edge of the pitch, signing autographs, and posing for photos with fans.
  Ribery signed a two-year deal on Wednesday with Fiorentina, which is aiming for a renaissance
  
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• Cyberattacks on Texas cities put other governments on guard

  22-08-2019 21:45
  CHICAGO (AP) — Cyberattacks that recently crippled nearly two dozen Texas cities have put other local governments on guard.
  The attacks offer the latest evidence that hackers can halt routine operations by locking up computers and demanding steep ransoms. Officials are increasingly turning to cybersecurity insurance to help safeguard against the growing threat.
  Alan Shark of the Public Technology Institute says the ransom attacks have entered “an epidemic stage” and that the ba
  
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• Injured reserve is a possibility for Broncos rookie QB

  22-08-2019 21:44
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Drew Lock says he’s not sure when his sprained right thumb will allow him to throw a football again and Broncos coach Vic Fangio wouldn’t rule out placing the rookie QB on injured reserve to start the season.
  Lock was injured in Denver’s preseason loss to the 49ers on Monday night when he was chased from the pocket and tripped up.
  Although X-rays were negative, Lock was diagnosed with a serious sprain that will force him to miss the rest of the pre
  
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• There's Still Time to Catch Gutenberg! The Musical!

  22-08-2019 21:43
  WHY RESEARCH HISTORY WHEN YOU CAN MAKE IT UP?In collaboration with Not Those Wright Brothers and Unscrewed Theater, this hit two-man musical spoof is back by popular demand after being nominated for a MAC Award in 2018.…
  
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• Texas police fatally shoot 18-year-old, incident in dispute

  22-08-2019 21:40
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Fort Worth police have shot and killed an 18-year-old man who they say was a person of interest in a homicide investigation.
  Sgt. Chris Daniels says preliminary information indicates that at least one officer shot the man around 5:45 p.m. Wednesday after he ran away and then “displayed” a handgun toward police.
  A lawyer for his family identified the dead man as Amari Malone and disputed that he was armed.
  Attorney Lee Merrit says three witnesses told hi
  
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• Overstock CEO resigns after ‘Deep State’ comments roil stock

  22-08-2019 21:39
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The CEO of Overstock.com has resigned, saying he’d become “far too controversial” to helm the e-commerce company known for selling discounted sofas and jewelry.
  Patrick Byrne’s resignation Thursday came after the company issued an bizarre statement last week in which the former CEO referred to the “Deep State,” called federal agents “Men in Black” and confirmed a journalist’s stories detailing his relationship with
  
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• Trump scraps plan to push for foreign aid cut

  22-08-2019 21:31
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has scrapped an effort to cut some $4 billion in foreign aid that lawmakers had already approved.
  That’s according to a senior administration official and a Democratic congressional aide, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
  The potential cut had drawn criticism from Republicans and Democrats.The administration official says the president wanted to cut what he sees as wasteful spending, but the plan r
  
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• California Senator says Facebook should remove shoving video

  22-08-2019 21:28
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator is criticizing Facebook for refusing to remove a video of an anti-vaccine protester shoving him in the back.
  Democratic Sen. Richard Pan said in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday that Facebook is “deliberately giving a platform to violence.” He says he worries the video will incite others to violent acts.
  Representatives for Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  Pan has authored several bills t
  
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• Amazon fires stir bitter dispute over who is to blame

  22-08-2019 21:26
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As fires raged in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government on Thursday denounced international critics who say President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb massive deforestation.
  The growing threat to what some call “the lungs of the planet” has ignited a bitter dispute about who is to blame during the tenure of a leader who described Brazil’s rainforest protections as an obstacle to economic development.The president’s defiance
  
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• Polish authorities say 5 dead, more than 100 people injured in lightning strikes in Tatra Mountains

  22-08-2019 21:23
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities say 5 dead, more than 100 people injured in lightning strikes in Tatra Mountains.
  The post Polish authorities say 5 dead, more than 100 people injured in lightning strikes in Tatra Mountains appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Investigation Underway in Corrections Officer Death

  22-08-2019 21:23
  The death of Pima County Sheriff’s Department Corrections Officer Brian Krumm is currently under investigation.…
  
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