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• American skater Alysa Liu hits quad lutz at Aurora Games

  24-08-2019 23:59
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fourteen-year-old Alysa Liu successfully landed a quadruple lutz, widely considered the hardest jump in figure skating, during the U.S. champion’s long program at the Aurora Games on Saturday.
  Only a handful of women have landed quads in competition. Japan’s Miki Ando was the first in 2002, landing a quad salchow at a Junior Grand Prix. Russia’s Alexandra Trusova became the first woman to land the quad lutz during her free skate at a Junior Grand Prix
  
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• Lawsuit challenges development project near San Pedro River

  24-08-2019 23:49
  TUICSON, Ariz. (AP) — Another lawsuit has been filed challenging a planned new 28,000-home development that critics say threatens to dry up the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona.
  The Arizona Daily Star reports that the suit filed Friday by six environmental group against the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the latest of a string of suits challenging the Clean Water Act permit for the Villages at Vigneto project in Benson.
  The suit alleges that a fede
  
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• Brewers designate opening day starter Chacín for assignment

  24-08-2019 23:47
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have designated opening day starter Jhoulys Chacín for assignment.
  The Brewers announced the move on Saturday before playing Arizona.
  Chacín is 3-10 with a 5.79 ERA this season. The 31-year-old right-hander had been on the injured list since late July due to a strained lat and was not expected to return to the active roster until mid-September.
  Brewers President of Baseball Operations and General Manager David Stearns says the move was m
  
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• Mariners activate Hernandez, set to make 1st start since May

  24-08-2019 23:38
  SEATTLE (AP) — Felix Hernandez has been activated off the injured list and was set to start for the Seattle Mariners.
  Hernandez hasn’t pitched in the majors since May 11 because of a strained right shoulder. He was scheduled to start Saturday night at home against Toronto.
  The 33-year-old former ace is 1-4 with a 6.52 ERA in eight starts for Seattle this season.
  Hernandez made five starts for three minor league affiliates during his rehabilitation, totaling 13 1/3 innings with a 3.38
  
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• Sprinter Coleman faces Sept. 4 anti-doping hearing

  24-08-2019 23:35
  Sprinter Christian Coleman faces a Sept. 4 hearing at which he’ll try to avoid a doping suspension after allegations he failed to provide authorities with his whereabouts so he can be tested for performance enhancers.
  Both Coleman and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released statements Saturday regarding the case.
  USADA said Coleman could be subject to a violation for three failures to provide his whereabouts over a 12-month period. Coleman, the U.S. national champion at 100 meters, said &ldqu
  
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• Backup QB Jake Haener leaves No. 13 Washington

  24-08-2019 23:31
  SEATTLE (AP) — Backup quarterback Jake Haener is leaving No. 13 Washington after losing a camp battle for the starting job to Georgia transfer Jacob Eason.
  Washington released a statement on Saturday announcing Haener was leaving the program effective immediately. There were no other details. A day earlier, Washington coach Chris Petersen announced Eason would be the starter for the opener against Eastern Washington next week, but indicated Haener would play.
  “He should, he deserves
  
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• Texas man accused of fatally shooting boss after being fired

  24-08-2019 23:25
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities allege a 22-year-old suburban Houston man fatally shot his boss after being fired.
  Jatraveous Williams remained jailed on Saturday after being charged with murder in the death of 56-year-old Leonard John Ruffer.
  The Harris County Sheriff’s Office alleges Williams shot Ruffer, who owned a floor installation business, after Ruffer fired him. Investigators say Ruffer was shot Friday morning at his home in the Houston suburb of Spring.
  The sheriff’s offic
  
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• Lightning strike at Tour Championship causes fan injuries

  24-08-2019 23:24
  ATLANTA (AP) — Lightning struck a pine tree right after play at the Tour Championship was suspended, and ambulances took five people from the golf course.
  The tree was located just off the 16th tee at East Lake. It struck the top and shattered bark all the way to the bottom on Saturday.
  A tournament official says the five people who left in ambulances appeared alert. He did not know their conditions.
  The five ambulances streamed into East Lake across the entrance of the driving range to th
  
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• Multiple people struck by lightning at PGA Tour Championship

  24-08-2019 23:21
  ATLANTA (AP) — Multiple people have been struck by lightning at the PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
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• Lyles sets Paris Diamond League meet record in men’s 200

  24-08-2019 23:17
  PARIS (AP) — Noah Lyles of the United States set a meeting record for the 200 meters by clocking 19.65 seconds at the Diamond League in Paris on Saturday.
  The 22-year-old Lyles, who set a year-leading mark of 19.5 last month in Lausanne, eclipsed Usain Bolt’s previous best meet time of 19.73 from 2013.
  “I blinked and all of a sudden the race was over,” Lyles said. “When I was coming off the turn it felt like such a fast track, the fastest I’ve ever felt coming
  
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• National Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm Dorian becomes fourth tropical storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season

  24-08-2019 23:15
  MIAMI (AP) — National Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm Dorian becomes fourth tropical storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season.
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• Lions’ Patricia: Injuries to Davis, Ragnow not season-ending

  24-08-2019 23:13
  DETROIT (AP) — Lions coach Matt Patricia says injuries to linebacker Jarrad Davis and center Frank Ragnow are not season-ending.
  Patricia did not elaborate much more on the severity of the injuries to two of Detroit’s starters. Davis went down with an injured right leg, and Ragnow had to be helped off the field during the Lions’ 24-20 loss to Buffalo on Friday night. Speaking on a conference call Saturday, Patricia said he didn’t think injured reserve was necessary, but h
  
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• Multiple people struck by lightning at golf Tour Championship in East Lake, Georgia

  24-08-2019 23:08
  ATLANTA (AP) — Multiple people struck by lightning at golf Tour Championship in East Lake, Georgia.
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• Tucson police: Homemade explosive device found in vehicle

  24-08-2019 23:02
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson police say an officer spotted a homemade explosive device in a vehicle during a traffic stop in a supermarket parking lot Saturday, forcing the closure of several businesses as the bomb squad removed the device.
  Police say neither person in the vehicle owned it so neither was immediately arrested in connection with the device but that the passenger was arrested on suspicion of drugs and weapons crimes because he allegedly had a gun and methamphetamine in his pos
  
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• Pedestrian killed after Friday night crash in Pima County

  24-08-2019 22:54
  PIMA CO. — A man is dead after he was hit by a vehicle Friday night in Pima county.
  County officials say deputies responded to a report of a crash involving a car and a pedestrian near the intersection of West Valencia and Settler Ave.
  First responders found the man with serious injuries after the crash. Deputies and Drexel Heights Fire Department medical personnel rendered aid, but the man died at the scene.
  The man has been identified as 38-year-old Rene Fernandez.
  No arrests have b
  
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• Lopez leads Astana to opening win in Spanish Vuelta

  24-08-2019 22:48
  TORREVIEJA, Spain (AP) — Colombia rider Miguel Angel Lopez led Astana to a team time-trial victory as the Spanish Vuelta got underway on Saturday.
  Astana finished with a time of 14 minutes, 51 seconds over a 13.4 kilometer (8.33 mile) flat, urban circuit on the streets of Torrevieja in southeastern Spain. It ended two seconds in front of Deceuninck-Quick Step, and five ahead of Team Sunweb.
  Primoz Roglic, a Slovenian who transitioned from ski jumping to cycling in 2012 and was one of the p
  
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• Syrian says it is responding to attack over capital Damascus

  24-08-2019 22:42
  DAMACUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media is reporting that the country’s air defenses are responding to “hostile” targets over the capital of Damascus.
  State TV did not give further details late Saturday but it appeared to be an Israeli attack.
  There was no immediate comment from Israel, which frequently carries out airstrikes and missile attacks inside war-torn Syria but rarely confirms them. Israel says it targets mostly bases of Iranian forces and the Lebanese militant
  
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• Messi to miss Barcelona’s game at Real Betis

  24-08-2019 22:41
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Lionel Messi has been left out of Barcelona’s squad to face Real Betis in the Spanish league on Sunday.
  Messi returned to training this week after recovering from a right calf injury picked up in preseason, but the Argentina star was not included in the list of players available for the team’s home opener at Camp Nou Stadium.
  He missed the team’s 1-0 loss to Athletic Bilbao in the league opener last weekend.
  Coach Ernesto Valverde is also without f
  
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• 2017 US Open runner-up Kevin Anderson out with injured knee

  24-08-2019 22:41
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam finalist Kevin Anderson has pulled out of the U.S. Open with an injured right knee.
  The 33-year-old South African was the runner-up to Rafael Nadal at Flushing Meadows in 2017 and to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon last year.
  The U.S. Tennis Association announced Anderson’s withdrawal Saturday and said he would be replaced in the main draw by Paolo Lorenzi of Italy, who lost in qualifying.
  Anderson hasn’t played in a tournament since losing in th
  
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• Cook’s 85-yard TD highlights Vikings’ 20-9 win vs. Cards

  24-08-2019 22:40
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dalvin Cook had an 85-yard touchdown run for Minnesota, the highlight of an otherwise rough first half by the first-team offense during a 20-9 victory by the Vikings over the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday. Cook scored early and Mike Boone crossed the goal line late, as the Vikings totaled 190 yards on 29 carries. The ground game was by far the best development of an afternoon when Kirk Cousins went just 3 for 13 for 35 yards while taking two sacks and Kaare Vedvik missed
  
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• Angers beats Metz 3-0 to climb to 4th in France

  24-08-2019 22:36
  PARIS (AP) — Angers climbed to fourth in the French league with a 3-0 home win against Metz on Saturday, handing the promoted side its first defeat of the season.
  After Algerian striker Farid El Melali gave Angers a fourth-minute lead, midfielder Baptiste Santamaria netted shortly before halftime and forward Rachid Alioui made it 3-0 midway through the second half.
  Angers has six points after three games, one more than fifth-place Brest, which beat Reims 1-0.
  Facing the club which sold him
  
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• Appeals judge in Georgia dies; DA says homicide unlikely

  24-08-2019 22:31
  ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — An appeals judge in Georgia has been found shot dead behind his Albany home, but officials do not believe it was a homicide.
  News outlets report Albany police were dispatched Saturday morning and found 60-year-old Judge Stephen Goss in a wooded area behind his residence dead from a gunshot wound.
  Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards says the investigation is ongoing, but it doesn’t appear to be a homicide.
  Goss was appointed by then-Gov. Nathan Deal to s
  
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• German club Chemnitzer criticizes its fans for racist abuse

  24-08-2019 22:13
  BERLIN (AP) — German soccer team Chemnitzer FC has criticized its fans for anti-Semitic and racist abuse during a third-division game at Bayern Munich’s second team on Saturday.
  The Saxony-based club, which has long had a problem with far-right fans, says its team refused to go to the traveling supporters after the match, as customary, because of “comments from the guest block during the second half of the game which Chemnitzer FC finds disgusting and rejects to the utmost.&rdq
  
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• 12-year-old boy shot at Georgia elementary school

  24-08-2019 22:06
  CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has been wounded in a shooting at an elementary school in Georgia and another child is in custody.
  Rockdale County sheriff’s deputies say deputies responded to Peek’s Chapel Elementary School in Conyers at about 6:35 p.m. Friday and found the boy with a gunshot wound. He was taken to an area hospital. His condition was not known Saturday afternoon.
  It’s unclear how many other students were on campus at that hour.
  Deputies say a boy wa
  
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• Villanova tops Colgate 34-14 behind arm of Danny Smith

  24-08-2019 21:56
  HAMILTON, N.Y. (AP) — Danny Smith threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, leading Villanova past Colgate 34-14 on Saturday in the first game of the 150th season of college football.
  Justin Covington contributed 134 yards, his first game reaching 100 yards, and the defense set the tone with two early takeaways, including a touchdown for cornerback Jaquan Amos.
  The Wildcats, picked to finish ninth in the CAA, piled up 444 yards against the Patriot League favorite Raiders, the two-tim
  
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• Kovalev stops Yarde to retain WBO light-heavyweight title

  24-08-2019 21:55
  CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) — Sergey Kovalev knocked out Anthony Yarde on Saturday to retain the WBO light-heavyweight title in his first defense since winning back the belt in February.
  Kovalev was rocked by shots from the British challenger in the eighth round but Yarde tired, allowing Kovalev to floor him with a left jab in the 11th.
  After Yarde’s eighth-round flurry of heavy shots, Kovalev’s trainer Buddy McGirt warned the Russian veteran he would throw in the towel if he kept
  
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• Author Ray Bradbury honored with Illinois hometown statue

  24-08-2019 21:45
  WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago-area hometown of the late famed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury marked his birthday with dedication of a statue in his honor.
  The 12-foot-tall (3.7-meter-tall) stainless steel statue outside the Waukegan Public Library depicts Bradbury astride a rocket ship while holding a book. The (Lake County) News-Sun reports artist Zachary Oxman told those at Thursday’s ceremony that the statue tells the story of a man “beaming with unbridled imaginati
  
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• Funeral held for 9-year-old Detroit girl killed by dogs

  24-08-2019 21:41
  DETROIT (AP) — A private funeral Mass has been held for a 9-year-old Detroit girl who was killed by three dogs while she rode her bike. The Detroit News reports that purple and pink flowers decorated the entrance at St. Cunegunda Church. Those were Emma Hernandez’s favorite colors. Church bells could be heard throughout the neighborhood Saturday.
  A woman in the neighborhood, Alicia Castillo, called it a “beautiful scene.”
  Emma was attacked Monday while riding her bike in
  
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• Liverpool outclasses Arsenal in 3-1 win, Salah scores 2

  24-08-2019 21:36
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah converted a penalty before scoring a sublime solo goal as Liverpool beat Arsenal 3-1 to open up a three-point gap at the top of the Premier League on Saturday.
  Liverpool hadn’t found its best form in opening wins over Norwich and Southampton, and faced the only other top-flight team with a 100 percent record.
  It proved to be a mismatch.
  After Joel Matip’s first league goal in 11 months broke the deadlock just before halftime, Salah conver
  
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• Phoenix to hold active shooter training exercise on Tuesday

  24-08-2019 21:32
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities in Phoenix sat a downtown theater complex will be the site of an active shooter training exercise on Tuesday.
  Statements released Saturday by the Phoenix Police Department and Herberger Theater said the public will see increased presence by emergency personnel and equipment in and around the theater as well as signs indicating that a training exercise is underway.
  The Police Department said the exercise will run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and that streets around the t
  
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• Curaco beats Japan 5-4, moves to Little League title game

  24-08-2019 21:26
  SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Pitcher Curley Martha hit a two-run homer to center in the fifth inning to help Curacao beat Japan 5-4 and advance to the Little League World Series title game.
  He and Shendrion Martinus combined to hold a Japan team that scored 32 runs in its first three games to four runs and five hits. Shendrion also hit a key two-run double in the third inning.
  Curacao rallied from a loss to South Korea to win four straight games, reaching the championship on Sunday.
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• Real Madrid held by Valladolid in home opener

  24-08-2019 21:19
  MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid conceded a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Valladolid in James Rodríguez’s return to the Spanish league on Saturday.
  Karim Benzema gave Madrid the lead in the 82nd minute but Sergi Guardiola spoiled its home opener with an 88th-minute goal at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
  Still without the injured Eden Hazard, Rodríguez was Madrid’s main attraction in a match that marked the playmaker’s return to action with the club, m
  
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• Panthers’ Cam Newton remains in walking boot, gets treatment

  24-08-2019 21:10
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Panthers coach Ron Rivera says he expects injured quarterback Cam Newton to return to practice “pretty soon,” without giving a timetable.
  Rivera remains “cautiously optimistic” that Newton, who remains in a walking boot, will be ready for the Sept. 8 regular season opener against the Los Angeles Rams.
  Newton sustained a left mid-foot sprain in Carolina’s 10-3 loss to New England on Thursday night. Rivera expressed relief the injury wasn&
  
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• TPD evacuate businesses for possible explosive device

  24-08-2019 21:05
  TUCSON — Tucson Police officers discovered a possible explosive while performing a traffic stop in a supermarket parking lot on the city’s south side.
  While talking to the driver about the traffic violation, an officer spotted the device inside the car  in the parking lot of the El Super on 6th Ave.
  Both occupants were asked to get out of the vehicle. The driver was detained without incident. The passenger fought with the officer and tried to escape, before being detained.
  
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• China tariffs fuel Trump ‘order’ for firms to cut China ties

  24-08-2019 20:41
  BIARRITZ, France (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful, but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted “order” to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a trade war between the two nations.
  China’s announcement that it was raising tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. imports sent Trump into a rage.
  Trump, in a tweet, declared American companies “are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alter
  
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• Salah double helps Liverpool to 3rd straight win in EPL

  24-08-2019 20:40
  Mohamed Salah was just inside Arsenal’s half when he collected the ball, befuddled David Luiz with a nonchalant jink and homed in on goal from the right wing.
  The Liverpool star made the finish look easy, too, whipping the ball into the bottom corner.
  With one of the best goals so far this season, Salah capped Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Arsenal in a one-sided game between the top two teams in the Premier League.
  Liverpool will be the only team to end the third round of games with a max
  
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• North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles

  24-08-2019 20:32
  North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles, two U.S. officials confirmed to NBC News.
  The launches were about 15 minutes apart and were thought to be similar to projectiles launched last week, the officials said.“North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles from Sonduk area in south Hamkyung province in North Korea into the East Sea this morning,” South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff’s office said Saturday in a text message to NBC News.
  South Korea’s Na
  
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• Lewandowski stars in Coutinho’s Bundesliga debut for Bayern

  24-08-2019 20:29
  BERLIN (AP) — Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick and Philippe Coutinho made his Bundesliga debut as Bayern Munich eased to a 3-0 win at Schalke on Saturday.
  Coutinho, who completed his loan move from Barcelona on Monday, came on for an unhappy looking Thomas Müller with more than half an hour remaining, but had to be content with a co-starring role as Lewandowski stole the limelight.
  The Polish striker opened the scoring with a penalty in the 20th minute, doubled Bayern’s lea
  
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• ‘River Pigs’ nickname of Adirondack team draws grunts

  24-08-2019 20:16
  TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — A new semi-pro baseball team in the Adirondacks is rooting around for a new nickname. Some residents grunted at “River Pigs.”
  The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports that Tupper Lake Village Board Trustee David Maroun posted on Facebook Thursday night that the name of the new Empire League team will be changed.
  The name River Pigs was chosen to reflect the region’s logging history. River pigs were skilled loggers who broke up logjams on rivers.
  Bu
  
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• Allmendinger wins pole at Road America in Wisconsin

  24-08-2019 20:12
  ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — AJ Allmendinger turned a lap of 109.792 mph during qualifying on Saturday to earn pole position for the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America.
  Matt DiBenedetto qualified second at the 4.048-mile road course, followed by Austin Cindric, Cole Custer and Noah Gragson. Series points leader Tyler Riddick was sixth.
  Allmendinger won NASCAR’s second-tier series race at Road America in 2013.
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• Juventus opens Serie A with 1-0 win at Parma

  24-08-2019 20:09
  ROME (AP) — Captain Giorgio Chiellini scored early as Juventus won 1-0 at Parma to kick off its bid for a record-extending ninth straight Serie A title in the league opener Saturday.
  As Cristiano Ronaldo was involved in a series of near misses, Chiellini netted in the 21st minute following a corner.
  Chiellini and fellow center back Leonardo Bonucci were preferred by new coach Maurizio Sarri over new signing Matthijs de Ligt, even though the Bianconeri spent 75 million euros ($85 million) t
  
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• The Latest: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey join cast of Pixar’s ‘Soul’

  24-08-2019 19:54
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on Walt Disney Co.’s biannual D23 fan convention in Anaheim (all times local):
  11:40 a.m.
  Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey are lending their voices to the new Pixar film “Soul.”
  Director Pete Docter announced the cast for the upcoming jazz-themed film Saturday at Disney’s D23 fan convention in Anaheim that also includes Questlove, Daveed Diggs and Phylicia Rashad.
  Docter, in his first appearance on stage as the chief creative officer of the
  
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• Latest: Spider-Man Tom Holland tells fans: ‘I love you 3000’

  24-08-2019 19:54
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on Walt Disney Co.’s biannual D23 fan convention in Anaheim (all times local):
  12:05 p.m.
  Tom Holland has made an appearance at a Disney fan convention amid the news that Spider-Man will no longer be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  Earlier this week, it was reported that the cross-studio partnership between Disney and Sony, which allowed Holland’s Spider-Man to appear in Marvel films, was ending. Marvel also helped produce the stand-alon
  
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• German wanted for drug trade arrested in North Macedonia

  24-08-2019 19:53
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested a German national wanted by Interpol for allegedly procuring 700 kilograms of cocaine from an unnamed South American country and organizing its shipment to Hamburg, Germany.
  Police announced Saturday they arrested a German national, identified only by his initials as R.V.L, 55, who had been hiding for several months in a house located in the ski resort of Popova Sapka, about 60 kilometers (37miles) west of the
  
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• Report: Lawmaker accused of misconduct won’t seek reelection

  24-08-2019 19:49
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct has told his Republican colleagues that he won’t run for reelection in 2020. The Tennessean reports state Rep. David Byrd announced his decision during a closed-door caucus meeting shortly before the start of Friday’s special legislative session. The newspaper’s story says a reporter heard the discussion, which took place in the legislative library.
  Byrd has attracted increased scrutiny for more tha
  
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• New ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ footage debuts at D23

  24-08-2019 19:48
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy says that “Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker” is going to be an incredibly good time.
  Nearly 7,000 people got a look Saturday at a new poster and some new footage from the film at the Walt Disney Co.’s biannual D23 fan convention in Anaheim.
  The film which opens in theaters nationwide Dec. 20 closes out the over 40-year-old Skywalker saga. Kennedy was joined on the convention stage by writer-dir
  
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• Body of teen recovered; missing after Lake Havasu boat crash

  24-08-2019 19:36
  LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona authorities have recovered the body of a 17-year-old California boy who had been missing after a boat crash on Lake Havasu.
  Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said the body of Adam Gomez of Redondo Beach, California, was located by divers Friday evening south of Thompson Bay.
  Deputies said previously that the boy had disappeared under water Wednesday after he “departed” from the moving boat and then was struck by it and its propeller.
  
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• Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country’s northwest

  24-08-2019 19:23
  MOREK, Syria (AP) — A heavily fortified Turkish observation post in the northwestern village of Morek was surrounded on all sides by Syrian troops who had captured wide swathes of land from insurgents over the past three weeks.
  Syrian authorities took a group of journalists Saturday to tour several newly captured villages as well as the town of Khan Sheikhoun that was a major rebel stronghold until it was taken by government forces earlier this week.
  A Syrian officer in Morek told The Asso
  
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• Man indicted for Texas shooting that killed 4 at kid’s party

  24-08-2019 19:20
  SINTON, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man who along with his father are accused in the shooting deaths of four individuals at a toddler’s birthday party in 2018 has been indicted on capital murder charges.
  The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports 21-year-old Ronnie Rodriguez Jr. was being held without bond Saturday after being indicted two days earlier. Jail records didn’t list an attorney for Rodriguez.
  His father, 38-year-old Ronnie Rodriguez Sr., was indicted on capital murder c
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent treatment for tumor on pancreas, Supreme Court says

  24-08-2019 19:16
  Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, the high court said in a statement Friday.
  The three-week radiation treatment, performed at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, was administered after doctors discovered a “localized malignant tumor” on her pancreas on July 31, the statement said.
  The treatment — called stereotactic ablative radiation therapy —
  
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