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• Can’t quit Washington? Gowdy returns as Trump defender

  10-10-2019 23:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy retired last year, swearing he’d had enough of Washington. Now he’s coming back for impeachment.
  The Republican is a former prosecutor who led the House investigation into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. He is poised to join President Donald Trump’s legal team, putting himself at the molten center of the confrontation between the White House and the Democratic House over Trump’s conduct in office.
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• Pacers exercise contract options on Leaf, Aaron Holiday

  10-10-2019 23:46
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers have exercised contract options on TJ Leaf and Aaron Holiday.
  Leaf was the team’s first-round draft pick in 2017 and has averaged 3.4 points and 1.9 rebounds in his first two seasons in the league. The 6-foot-10, 225-pound forward is expected to play a bigger role this season.
  Holiday showed promise as a rookie. The 6-1 point guard and 2018 first-round pick scored 5.9 points and dished out 1.7 assists in 2018-19 and should log more minutes now t
  
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• Man killed, woman wounded in shootings near Casa Grande

  10-10-2019 23:32
  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Pinal County are searching for suspects after a shooting in a desert area near Casa Grande left one man dead and a woman wounded.
  County Sheriff’s officials say the case is being called a homicide.
  They say the double shooting occurred south of Interstate 8 around 12:45 a.m. Thursday.
  The name and age of the man who died haven’t been released yet.
  Authorities say the wounded woman was taken to a hospital, where she is listed in stable co
  
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• Florida man barred from campuses after violating agent law

  10-10-2019 23:26
  HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — A Florida man working for a former NFL agent has been barred from several North Carolina university campuses after pleading guilty to violating the state’s sports agent law nearly a decade.
  Willie James Barley Jr., 35, was indicted in September 2013 on four felony counts of athlete-agent inducement for providing improper cash and travel benefits to former Tar Heels football player Robert Quinn. Those charges were tied to the eventual NFL first-round draft pi
  
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• Review of hoops program recommends adviser for Memphis coach

  10-10-2019 23:16
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A report following an independent review of the Memphis women’s basketball program recommends the school hire an executive coach as a mentor and adviser to coach Melissa McFerrin this season after finding a “negative culture and atmosphere.”
  Memphis released the report Thursday after hiring The Pictor Group to review the program following complaints of abuse and harassment. The four-month process included reviewing documents and interviewing players
  
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• Raiders release receiver J.J. Nelson

  10-10-2019 23:12
  ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Raiders have cut wide receiver J.J. Nelson after he missed three of the past four games with injuries.
  Oakland signed Marcell Ateman on Thursday to take Nelson’s spot on the 53-man roster. Ateman was on the practice squad the first four weeks and played briefly last Sunday against Chicago before being waived to make room for the recently acquired Zay Jones.
  Nelson signed a $1 million contract in free agency but struggled to stay healthy in his only
  
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• Rampant Belgium becomes 1st team to qualify for Euro 2020

  10-10-2019 22:59
  Belgium became the first team to book a place in next year’s European Championship with a record-tying victory over San Marino, while the Netherlands boosted its qualifying chances by scoring three late goals to beat Northern Ireland.
  The top-ranked Belgians won 9-0 — matching the record for the biggest margin of victory in their history — to consolidate their place at the summit of Group I and guarantee a top-two finish.
  Russia looks almost certain to join them after beating S
  
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• Wisconsin forward Micah Potter must sit out semester

  10-10-2019 22:58
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The NCAA has denied a request for junior forward Micah Potter to play during the fall semester after transferring from Ohio State two days before the season opener last November.
  The 6-foot-9 Potter, who has not competed in regular-season games since the 2017-18 season, will be eligible to play beginning Dec. 21 against Milwaukee.
  Potter dealt with ankle injuries his first two years. The Ohio native appeared in 59 games with 16 starts for the Buckeyes, averaging 4.1 po
  
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• California businesses face reality of electrical outages

  10-10-2019 22:52
  SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — All types of businesses, from hardware chains to coffee shops, are dealing with a new economic reality of electrical outages in Northern California.
  Many struggled to keep their businesses open on the second day after the nation’s biggest utility Pacific Gas & Electric cut off power to more than a million people to mitigate the risk of wildfires as heavy winds sweep through.
  Home improvement chains Lowe’s and Home Depot said their stores have been busy
  
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• Cracks were found in a key structural part on 38 Boeing jets

  10-10-2019 22:50
  Inspections of some older Boeing jets have turned up structural cracks in more than three dozen of them, raising a new safety issue for the company, which is already dealing with two deadly crashes involving a newer version of the same plane.
  Boeing said Thursday that airlines worldwide have inspected 810 planes following an order from U.S. safety regulators, and 38 — or 5% — had “findings” that will require repairs.
  Airlines are under orders to inspect certain Boeing 737
  
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• Companies withhold bids for fields near Brazil national park

  10-10-2019 22:43
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian government has failed to auction four oil fields located near one of the nation’s biggest coral reef systems.
  Seventeen companies participated in the 36-block auction held by the Brazilian Petroleum Agency, which auctioned off a third of the areas for more than $2 billion.
  But after possible exploration caused worry among some environmental authorities and organizations, none of the companies submitted offers for the four fields off the coast of th
  
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• Bertens sets up quarterfinal against Gauff in Linz

  10-10-2019 22:43
  LINZ, Austria (AP) — Top-seeded Kiki Bertens overcame a slow start to beat Alison Van Uytvanck 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 Thursday and set up a quarterfinal against American teenager Coco Gauff at the Upper Austria Ladies.
  Bertens saved five of the six break points she faced to close out the win in just under two hours.
  Kristina Mladenovic of France also had to come from a set down to upset fourth-seeded Donna Vekic of Croatia 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. Mladenovic converted all four of her break points in the seco
  
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• Arrest made after Douglas HS placed on lockdown

  10-10-2019 22:31
  Douglas High School / Courtesy: Douglas High School
  DOUGLAS, Ariz. – Douglas Police Department has made an arrest in connection to Douglas High School’s soft lockdown, the department said Thursday.
  On Wednesday, DHS was placed on a soft lockdown after police received reports from faculty members that there might be a gun on campus.
  After investigating, officers determined the weapon was on campus the day before.
  Students remained on campus until the location of the weapon was confirm
  
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• California outlines ways to comply with upcoming privacy law

  10-10-2019 22:30
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general is proposing rules for companies to comply with a new state privacy law.
  The law, which goes into effect in January, will allow Californians to see what information companies have collected about them and request that information be deleted.
  Rules being proposed to implement that law say that companies must notify people of their rights using plain language. They must verify that a person requesting data is actually that person befor
  
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• Republican Rep. Shimkus: Trump’s Syria decision ‘despicable’

  10-10-2019 22:27
  CHICAGO (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois says he no longer supports President Donald Trump after his “terrible and despicable” decision to pull American troops from Syria.
  Shimkus says he was so “shocked, embarrassed and angered” by the president’s announcement that U.S. forces would no longer protect Syrian Kurds from a Turkish invasion that he told his staff to “take my name off the ‘I support Donald Trump’ list.”
  
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• Florida jury ponders fate of 2 in law professor’s slaying

  10-10-2019 22:20
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury is deliberating the fate of a man and woman who face murder charges in the killing of Florida State University law professor embroiled in a bitter child custody battle.
  Prosecutors are hoping for convictions against Katherine Magbanua and her ex-boyfriend, Sigfredo Garcia, who they say took part in a plot with another man to kill Dan Markel.
  Markel was shot to death in the garage of his Tallahassee home in 2014 as part of what prosecutors describe as
  
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• House Democrats subpoena Energy Secretary Rick Perry

  10-10-2019 22:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have subpoenaed Energy Secretary Rick Perry as part of their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
  The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Reform committees sent Perry a subpoena Thursday asking him to provide documents related to a Ukrainian state-owned energy company as well as his involvement in a July call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The committees set a dea
  
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• Adopt this pet: meet Avalon!

  10-10-2019 22:16
  There is a new pet looking to be adopted, meet Avalon!Avalon is a 2-year-old girl.  If you’re looking for someone to be your partner in crime, shadow, and your best friend, look no further! Avalon is the cat for you!  For more information on how to adopt Asuna, give an adoptions counselor a call at 520-327-6088, ext. 173.
  Avalon’s ID: 868654
   
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• Pima County Superior Court judge plans to retire on Oct. 31

  10-10-2019 22:14
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Pima County Superior Court officials say Judge Charles “Chuck” Harrington plans to retire at the end of this month after more than 20 years on the bench.
  Court officials say Harrington plans to retire on Oct. 31.
  He currently is the presiding judge of the court’s civil bench.
  During his tenure, Harrington has also been presiding judge of the probate bench and a member of the criminal and juvenile court benches.
  Harrington was appointed to Division 2 o
  
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• Saints’ Davis: Headband fine helped in the long run

  10-10-2019 22:12
  METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Saints linebacker Demario Davis says being fined for wearing his “Man of God” headband helped his cause in the long run.
  Davis says he’d worn the headband expressing his faith for several games before the NFL took note of the uniform violation and fined him about $7,000.
  The New Orleans defensive captain was able to successfully appeal the fine by arguing that he was not aware that expressing his faith in that way violated NFL policies against using u
  
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• NHL, Air Force Academy promote Kings-Avalanche outdoor game

  10-10-2019 22:12
  AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — The snowstorm that hit Colorado on Thursday provided the perfect backdrop for the NHL and the Air Force Academy to promote the Stadium Series event to be held at Falcon Stadium on Feb. 15.
  The matchup between the Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche is the second outdoor NHL game to be played in Colorado. The Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings played at Coors Field on Feb. 27, 2016, in balmy temperatures when it was 65 degrees at the start of Detroit’
  
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• House Democrats subpoena Energy Secretary Rick Perry for documents related to Ukrainian state-owned energy company

  10-10-2019 22:08
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats subpoena Energy Secretary Rick Perry for documents related to Ukrainian state-owned energy company.
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• The Latest: El Paso shooting suspect pleads not guilty

  10-10-2019 22:06
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 21-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a West Texas Walmart.
  Patrick Crusius entered the plea Thursday during his first appearance before a trial judge in El Paso. Police have said Crusius confessed to targeting Mexicans in the Aug. 3 attack in the largely Latino border city.
  Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Crusius.
  Most of those killed in the shooting had Hispanic last names and eigh
  
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• The Latest: Crusius defense team appeals for open minds

  10-10-2019 22:06
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 21-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a West Texas Walmart.
  Patrick Crusius entered the plea Thursday during his first appearance before a trial judge in El Paso. Police have said Crusius confessed to targeting Mexicans in the Aug. 3 attack in the largely Latino border city.
  Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Crusius.
  Most of those killed in the shooting had Hispanic last names and eigh
  
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• Duke picked to win ACC; Nwora voted preseason player of year

  10-10-2019 22:06
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Duke is the preseason pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference while Louisville forward Jordan Nwora is the league’s preseason player of the year.
  The ACC released its preseason poll Thursday following a vote of 111 media members at the league’s media day earlier this week in Charlotte.
  Duke, which received 51 first place votes and 1,564 voting points, is the preseason favorite for the fourth straight year and the sixth time in seven seasons. Behind pre
  
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• Louisiana council wants ‘missing’ member to resign

  10-10-2019 22:04
  PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana councilwoman hasn’t shown up to a work since April and members are calling for her resignation, but nobody can find her.
  The Advocate reports 34-year-old Iberville Parish Councilwoman Courtney Lewis has a history of missing monthly meetings. The paper says Lewis missed 35 of 51 meetings since taking office in 2016; the longest consecutive stretch began six months ago in April.
  Chairman Matthew Jewell says he wants Lewis to resign but can’t fin
  
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• Suspect pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of 22 people at Walmart in El Paso, Texas

  10-10-2019 22:03
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Suspect pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of 22 people at Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
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• Divided UN fails to agree on Turkey’s offensive in Syria

  10-10-2019 22:03
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has failed to agree on Turkey’s offensive in northeast Syria, with Europeans demanding a halt to military action and Syrian ally Russia calling for “restraint” and “direct dialogue” between the two countries.
  The five European council members who called the closed meeting would have liked its 15 members to agree on a statement on the Turkish offensive, launched after President Donald Trump suddenly withdr
  
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• 2B Sogard set for 1st playoff start with Rays in ALDS finale

  10-10-2019 22:03
  HOUSTON (AP) — Eric Sogard is in Tampa Bay’s lineup for the decisive Game 5 in the AL Division Series at Houston, the first start in nearly a month for the second baseman who has dealt with lingering right foot discomfort.
  Sogard’s only appearance this postseason before Thursday night’s game was as a pinch-hitter in Game 1 on Friday, when he had an RBI single.
  The Rays acquired Sogard in a trade from Toronto on July 28. He hit .266 with three homers and 10 RBIs in 37 game
  
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• Romney undecided on impeachment, stands by Trump criticism

  10-10-2019 21:59
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney says he is undecided on whether President Donald Trump should be impeached, though he’s sticking by criticism that earned him a stream of insults from Trump on Twitter.
  The U.S. senator from Utah said Thursday that Trump has done things Romney thinks are wrong, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he should be removed from office.
  Romney says it was wrong for Trump to call on China to investigate his political foe. Romney was one of the few Republ
  
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• Fugitive returned to Detroit to face kidnapping, rape charge

  10-10-2019 21:58
  DETROIT (AP) — A man who had been on a federal “most wanted” list for nearly a decade has been returned to Michigan after his arrest in Mexico for the 2007 kidnapping and rape of a 10-year-old Detroit girl.
  The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says 41-year-old Corey Gaston was arraigned Thursday in Detroit.
  Gaston was arrested last week near Guadalajara. Authorities have said Gaston was on bond when he failed to show up for his 2008 trial. He was placed on the U.S. Marsha
  
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• Israel’s Likud party passes Netanyahu confidence vote

  10-10-2019 21:53
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Likud party has passed a motion in support of Benjamin Netanyahu as its sole candidate for prime minister, but only a small fraction of the party’s members turned out for the vote.
  The Likud party’s Central Committee convened Thursday to vote on a resolution asserting that it would only join a government headed by Netanyahu. The party’s Facebook page said roughly 500 of the committee’s nearly 4,000 members “unanimously” vo
  
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• Hungary finishes probe of Danube boat crash that killed 28

  10-10-2019 21:51
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian officials have finished their investigation of a boat crash on the Danube River in which 28 people died, most of them South Korean tourists.
  Prosecutors said Thursday they would review the gathered information before deciding how to proceed with the case.
  A sightseeing boat collided with a larger cruise ship on the river and sank May 29, killing 26 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew members.
  Just seven tourists survived and the remains of a Sout
  
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• Arizona voters to decide on raises for mayor, city council

  10-10-2019 21:50
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix area voters have the chance to decide whether to raise the pay of Glendale’s mayor and council members after city council voted to place the question on the November ballot.
  The Arizona Republic reports that the measure would raise the mayor’s salary from $48,000 to $68,490 and increase council members’ salaries from $34,000 to $52,685.
  City officials say the ballot question was added at a special July meeting after Mayor Jerry Weiers and council me
  
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• Ex-Trump official says he saw no improper calls to leaders

  10-10-2019 21:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former national security adviser to President Donald Trump says he never witnessed any improper solicitation of foreign leaders when he served in the administration.
  Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster says he listened to most calls and meetings with foreign leaders while he served as national security adviser for a year. Trump fired him in March 2018 after repeated clashes.
  McMaster spoke Thursday at a security forum hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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• Fed approves rules to loosen bank restrictions

  10-10-2019 21:44
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has approved a package of rules that will ease restrictions imposed on banks following the 2008 financial crisis, giving a victory to the banking industry and President Donald Trump, a vocal critic of the more stringent rules.
  The Fed’s rule changes approved Thursday will implement legislation passed by Congress in May 2018 to loosen restrictions, especially on smaller community banks, that had been imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010.
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• George Clooney calls Trump’s quip on Kurds ‘pretty shocking’

  10-10-2019 21:37
  HELSINKI (AP) — George Clooney says he was appalled U.S. President Donald Trump partly justified the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria by stating Kurds “didn’t help us with Normandy” during World War II.
  The politically active Hollywood actor, director and producer told a business seminar in Finland’s capital on Thursday that he found Trump’s words from a day earlier “a pretty shocking statement.”
  Clooney accused Washington of leaving the
  
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• California political donor pleads not guilty in drug deaths

  10-10-2019 21:35
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California political donor Ed Buck has pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges in the overdose deaths of two men in his apartment.
  Buck entered the plea Thursday before a magistrate judge in Los Angeles as relatives of the men watched.
  An indictment charges Buck with distributing methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Timothy Dean in January and Gemmel Moore in 2017.
  Federal prosecutors say Buck preyed on vulnerable gay men and pressured them to let him inject the
  
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• Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

  10-10-2019 21:24
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man convicted of killing and dismembering a woman has been sentenced to at least 100 years in prison after a judge called his actions “reprehensible and heinous.”
  Kristine Young brought her daughter’s cremains to court Thursday and told Jared Chance: “I want to rip you limb from limb.”
  Chance had turned down a plea deal that would have made him eligible for parole after 31 years at age 61. Instead, he chose to go to trial
  
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• First forecast of citrus season has growers optimistic

  10-10-2019 21:18
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The first forecast of the Florida citrus season has growers optimistic.
  The National Agriculture Statistics Service on Thursday said that Florida is expected to produce an estimated 74 million boxes of oranges in the 2019-2020 season, a 3.4% increase over the previous season.
  The agriculture service also says Florida is expected to produce 4.6 million boxes of grapefruit, a 2% increase over the previous season.
  Shannon Shepp, executive director of the Florida Departmen
  
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• Victim’s mother hopes IS militants will face US charges

  10-10-2019 21:17
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An American woman whose son was killed by the Islamic State is hopeful that the transfer to U.S. custody of two British militants means the men will finally face criminal charges.
  Diane Foley says she would like to see the men charged in the United States for their involvement with the Islamic State cell that killed Western hostages, including her son, James.
  Foley says Attorney General William Barr has told her he wanted to see them held accountable.
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• Claytoon of the Day: Friends In MAGA Places

  10-10-2019 21:11
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• Mary Hardin-Baylor to vacate 2016 Division III championship

  10-10-2019 21:10
  BELTON, Texas (AP) — The NCAA has ordered Mary Hardin-Baylor to vacate its 2016 Division III national championship because the head football coach let a player use his car for more than 18 months, which was determined to be an improper benefit for a student-athlete.
  The NCAA announced its findings Thursday and said it would vacate any victories in which ineligible athletes played. The school said that would include 29 victories over the 2016-2017 seasons and the 2016 championship, a 10-7 w
  
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• EPA proposes upping lead testing at schools in rule overhaul

  10-10-2019 21:10
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a major overhaul of rules on lead contamination in drinking water, including tightening testing requirements at the nation’s schools and day care centers.
  But critics say another change would give utilities decades more to fully replace lead pipes in water systems with high lead.
  EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Thursday announced the proposed changes to controls on lead contamination in drinking water systems.
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• XOXO: Where to Rock, Thursday, Oct. 10

  10-10-2019 21:08
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• The Latest: Trial delayed against California hospital chain

  10-10-2019 21:03
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on an antitrust trial against one of California’s largest hospital systems (all times local):
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  Opening arguments in a trial against one of California’s largest hospital systems have been delayed due to the absence and excusal of several jury members.
  San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said Thursday the trial against Sutter Health would be delayed until next week.
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along wit
  
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• Gio Reyna to play for US at U17 World Cup, like dad Claudio

  10-10-2019 20:53
  CHICAGO (AP) — Gio Reyna, a son of former U.S. national team captain Claudio Reyna, was among 21 players announced Thursday for the American roster for the 2019 Under-17 World Cup in Brazil.
  Reyna, who turns 17 on Nov. 13, has seven league starts this season for Borussia Dortmund’s Under-19 team. His father, now an executive with New York City in Major League Soccer, played for the U.S. at the 1989 Under-17 World Championship, as the tournament was then known.
  The roster includes Kan
  
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• The Latest: Man charged in Mac Miller case pleads not guilty

  10-10-2019 20:44
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the arraignment of a man suspected of providing Mac Miller the drugs that killed the rapper in September 2018 (all times local):
  11:40 a.m.
  A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year has pleaded not guilty.
  Cameron Pettit entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles.
  He stood alongside his attorney and spoke only to answer a judge’s questions.
  Prosecutors allege the 28-year-old sold Miller cocaine and
  
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• Florida couple out of hospital after suspected bobcat attack

  10-10-2019 20:42
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida couple is out of the hospital and recovering from injuries suffered when an animal suspected to be bobcat attacked them at a suburban apartment complex.
  The Fort Lauderdale SunSentinel reported Thursday that 71-year-old Rupert Fray said he suffered a fractured hip in the attack Friday. Fray says his wife, 85-year-old Eslyn Fray, lost the tip of her right ring finger among other bites and scratches and is recovering at a rehabilitation facility.
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• AZGFD: Dozens of captive desert tortoises need forever homes

  10-10-2019 20:38
  A baby Sonoran Desert Tortoise maing its way through a Prickly Pear Cactus. Courtesy: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Southwest Region
  Are you thinking about adopting a pet?  How about considering a pet uniquely to Arizona?
  Arizona Game and Fish Department says dozens of captive desert tortoises need forever homes.
  “Many people don’t even consider opening up their homes to desert tortoises, but they make fantastic and personable pets,” said Tegan Wolf, Arizona Game and Fi
  
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