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• Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head

  07-11-2019 23:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department is proposing to award a contract for federal water in perpetuity to a water district that had employed Secretary David Bernhardt.
  Environmental groups and a California Democratic lawmaker are objecting to the deal, saying Interior is pushing it through without adequate public involvement or environmental review. Environmental groups say Interior still has not disclosed the full financial terms.
  The contract would go to California’s Westlands
  
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• Oklahoma woman in failure-to-protect case to be released

  07-11-2019 23:54
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma woman who has served 15 years in prison for failing to report her boyfriend, who served just two years behind bars for abusing her children, is scheduled to be released from custody.
  The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed the commutation sentence of Tondalao Hall and she is to be released Friday morning.
  Her release comes about one month after the state Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously to recommend that Stitt commut
  
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• Christian comedian John Crist cancels tour

  07-11-2019 23:54
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christian comedian John Crist has canceled his tour and a planned Netflix special is on hold after he acknowledged mistreating women.
  Crist, who often skewers evangelical Christian culture in his skits and online videos, apologized in a statement released Thursday for treating “relationships with women far too casually, in some cases recklessly.” He said he has sinned against God and women and hurt many people in the process.
  In an article posted on the
  
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• Report raises questions about autonomous vehicle road tests

  07-11-2019 23:52
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Documents released this week by a federal agency raise questions about whether a self-driving Uber SUV that ran down a pedestrian last year should have been allowed on public roads for test purposes.
  A report from the National Transportation Safety Board on a 2018 crash that killed an Arizona woman found that Uber’s self-driving system didn’t consider jaywalkers. It also had trouble figuring out whether the woman was a pedestrian, vehicle, bicycle or other object
  
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• Odor prompts evacuation at northwest side office building

  07-11-2019 23:48
  
  TUCSON – A building on the northwest side has been evacuated after emergency crews received a report of an odor at the facility Thursday afternoon.
  According to Northwest Fire District, HazMat teams have been dispatched to an office building at Ina Road and La Cholla Boulevard. So far, no injuries have been reported in the incident.
  Green Valley Fire District crews have also been dispatched to the scene.Multiple Northwest Fire and @GRFDAZunits, including HazMat teams are on scene of a repo
  
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• Kanye West vows to move Yeezy manufacturing to the Americas

  07-11-2019 23:43
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West says he plans to move manufacturing of his Yeezy shoe line to North and South America.
  The rapper made the comments Thursday during a surprise appearance at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival in New York.
  The rapper and shoe designer told a crowd of about 500 that he plans that Yeezy manufacturing will happen at his ranch in Cody, Wyoming.
  West stuck mostly to fashion, but he also joined other celebrities in calling for the release of Texas death row inmate
  
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• Oklahoma governor pardons woman on his justice task force

  07-11-2019 23:37
  
  CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has pardoned a member of a task force that is advising him on criminal justice reform.
  Stitt on Thursday signed a pardon for Rhonda Bear, who served 19 months for drug possession before being released in 2002. Stitt signed the document at a Claremore coffee house that Bear owns.
  Bear hires women who have been imprisoned to work in her shop. She also is director of a program to help recently released female inmates.
  Stitt has made criminal j
  
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• WKU plays host to Austin Peay

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Austin Peay (1-0) vs. Western Kentucky (1-0)
  E.A. Diddle Arena, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Austin Peay and Western Kentucky both look to put winning streaks together . Austin Peay won easily 110-67 over Oakland City in its last outing. Western Kentucky is coming off a 76-64 win over Tennessee Tech in its most recent game.
  DID YOU KNOW: Each of these teams posted winning records against non-conference competition last season. Austin Peay went 6-5 against programs o
  
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• UC Riverside hosts Idaho

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Idaho (1-0) vs. UC Riverside (1-0)
  Student Recreation Center, Riverside, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Idaho and UC Riverside both look to put winning streaks together . Idaho beat Evergreen State by six at home in its last outing. UC Riverside is coming off a 66-47 win at Nebraska in its most recent game.
  DID YOU KNOW: Idaho went 1-7 against non-conference programs last season. In those eight games, the Vandals gave up 77.3 points per game while scoring 67.9 per outing. UC River
  
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• San Diego St. squares up against BYU

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  San Diego State (1-0) vs. Brigham Young (1-0)
  Marriott Center, Provo, Utah; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: San Diego State and Brigham Young both look to put winning streaks together . San Diego State easily beat Texas Southern by 35 in its last outing. Brigham Young is coming off a 76-58 win over Cal State Fullerton in its most recent game.
  PREVIOUSLY: The San Diego State offense erupted for 90 points and the Aztecs won by nine over Brigham Young when these two teams met a year ago.
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• NJIT visits Providence

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  NJIT (0-1) vs. Providence (1-0)
  Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island; Saturday, 4:30 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: NJIT takes on Providence in an early season matchup. NJIT came up short in an 80-75 game at Colgate on Wednesday. Providence is coming off a 106-60 home win over Sacred Heart on Tuesday.
  DID YOU KNOW: Both of these teams posted winning records against non-conference competition last season. NJIT went 12-4 against programs outside its conference, while Providence went 10-4 i
  
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• N. Illinois faces Northern Iowa

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Northern Iowa (1-0) vs. Northern Illinois (0-0)
  Convocation Center, DeKalb, Illinois; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Northern Illinois plays host to Northern Iowa in an early season matchup. Northern Iowa beat Old Dominion by five at home on Tuesday. Northern Illinois went 17-17 last year and finished eighth in the MAC.
  DID YOU KNOW: Northern Iowa went 3-8 against non-conference teams last season. In those 11 games, the Panthers gave up 72.7 points per game while scoring 62.7 per contest. Nor
  
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• Monmouth visits Hofstra

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Monmouth (1-0) vs. Hofstra (0-1)
  Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, New York; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Monmouth faces Hofstra in an early season matchup.
  PREVIOUSLY: Hofstra snuck away with a two-point win over Monmouth when these two teams met a year ago.
  DID YOU KNOW: Hofstra limited its 13 non-conference opponents to an average of just 70.1 points per game last season. The Pride offense scored 78.8 points per contest en route to a 9-4 record against competition outside the Colonial Athl
  
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• Middle Tenn. plays Lipscomb

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Middle Tennessee (1-0) vs. Lipscomb (1-0)
  Allen Arena, Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Middle Tennessee and Lipscomb both look to put winning streaks together . Middle Tennessee easily beat Maryville (TN) by 58 in its last outing. Lipscomb is coming off a 104-55 win over Rhodes in its most recent game.
  PREVIOUSLY: Lipscomb scored 84 points and won by 10 over Middle Tenn. when these two teams met during the 2018-19 season.
  DID YOU KNOW: Middle Tennessee went 1-10 against n
  
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• Kansas State goes up against UNLV

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Kansas State (1-0) vs. UNLV (1-0)
  Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Kansas State and UNLV both look to put winning streaks together .
  DID YOU KNOW: Kansas State went 10-4 against non-conference teams last season. In those 14 games, the Wildcats gave up only 59.2 points per game while scoring 66.1 per outing. UNLV went 6-6 in non-conference play, averaging 73.6 points and giving up 71.5 per game in the process.
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• GW squares off against Howard

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Howard (0-1) vs. George Washington (0-1)
  Charles E. Smith Center, Washington; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: Howard and George Washington look to bounce back from losses.
  LAST MEETING: George Washington earned the 70-64 win over Howard when these two teams faced each other during the 2018-19 season.
  DID YOU KNOW: Howard went 3-10 against non-conference programs last season. In those 13 games, the Bison gave up 85.2 points per game while scoring 74.2 per outing. George Washington went 4-9 in n
  
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• Cleveland St. goes for first win vs Edinboro

  07-11-2019 23:31
  
  Edinboro vs. Cleveland State (0-1)
  Wolstein Center, Cleveland; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland State Vikings are set to battle the Fighting Scots of Division II Edinboro. Cleveland State lost 85-50 at Minnesota in its most recent game.
  DID YOU KNOW: Cleveland State went 3-8 overall against out-of-conference foes last season. The Vikings scored 73.5 points per matchup across those 11 games.
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• Florida man’s SUV hit by small plane

  07-11-2019 23:30
  
  (WESH)  Charred grass and a burned billboard are what’s left on State Road 200 in Ocala, Florida after a deadly plane crash last Thursday.
  Two people died in the wreck, and a third victim, Ramon Escalante, is lucky to be alive after the plane crashed into his vehicle while he was on his way home.
  “Boom, and I’m holding on to the steering wheel and the next thing you know, the car stopped,” Escalante said.
  Escalante said he could feel the heat from the explosion as t
  
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• LaBeouf thought he was finished, then he wrote ‘Honey Boy’

  07-11-2019 23:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For even an actor known for performance-art stunts and public displays of painful self-examination, Shia LaBeouf’s “Honey Boy” is something else.
  The film is about LaBeouf’s childhood relationship with his father, a former drug addict. LaBeouf wrote the film and plays his dad in it.
  “Honey Boy” is radically autobiographical for such a well-known movie star. As therapy writ large, it’s a striking exercise in empathy in which LaBeouf
  
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• North Carolina no longer an outlier on sex and consent

  07-11-2019 23:12
  
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s governor has signed a sexual assault bill that says women can revoke consent during sex.
  Gov. Roy Cooper said in a news release Thursday that he had signed the bill, which undoes a 1979 court decision that made North Carolina the only state where women can’t revoke consent.
  The law also undoes a court ruling from 2008 that said sexual assault laws don’t apply to people who were incapacitated because of their own action as victims,
  
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• Mason: Deuce Wallace will start for Vandy at No. 10 Florida

  07-11-2019 23:11
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason says quarterback Deuce Wallace will start Saturday at quarterback when the Commodores visit No. 10 Florida.
  Mason said Thursday on WGFX-FM 104.5 The Zone that Wallace will get his first career start, while redshirt freshman Allan Walters will back up Wallace. Mason says Riley Neal remains in the concussion protocol after being knocked out of last week’s loss in South Carolina but will travel with the Commodores to the Swamp.
  Wallac
  
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• Virginia woman gets jail time for slamming courtroom door

  07-11-2019 23:05
  
  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The slam of a courtroom door has led to time in the slammer for a Virginia woman. The Virginian-Pilot reports Sonnia Gaston went to a Virginia Beach courtroom on Wednesday to support her boyfriend in a probation violation case. When 20-year-old Tyrese Lavell McEachern was sentenced to 90 days in jail, the 18-year-old Gaston slammed one of the double wooden doors as she left the courtroom.
  Gaston returned to the courtroom to pick up a binder that had been left beh
  
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• Monday night black cat still on the loose at MetLife Stadium

  07-11-2019 23:03
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The elusive black cat from “Monday Night Football” is still on the run.
  MetLife Stadium officials said Thursday the search for the fleet feline that briefly delayed the nationally televised game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys on Monday night has been unsuccessful.
  The search started on Tuesday morning with multiple humane traps being stationed in the stadium. After that came up empty, stadium officials asked PuppykittyNYCity —
  
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• US women to open Olympic qualifying in Houston in January

  07-11-2019 23:02
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The World Cup champion U.S. women’s team will head to Houston in January to open the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.
  The United States is hosting the tournament, which will take place from Jan. 28 to Feb. 9.
  Joining the United States in Group A is Costa Rica, Panama and Haiti. Those teams will play at Houston’s BBVA Stadium. In Group B, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis will play at HEB Park in Edinburg, Texas.
  The draw was held Thursday by
  
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• S. Carolina man: McDonald’s sweet tea came with weed inside

  07-11-2019 22:58
  
  HILTON HEAD, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who went to McDonald’s for a sweet tea says he received a little extra herbal substance on the side.
  The Island Packet reports Parrish Brown went to a McDonald’s on Hilton Head Island and asked for a sweet tea with light ice and extra lemon.
  Brown now believes “extra lemon” was code for marijuana, since he found three bags of weed in his cup. He says he only realized it once he was “high as a kite.”
  Brown say
  
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• Weather IQ at Sewell Elementary School

  07-11-2019 22:55
  
  News 4 Tucson Weather IQ with Matt Brode at Sewell Elementary School.The post Weather IQ at Sewell Elementary School appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Arizona is one of the top destinations for California defectors

  07-11-2019 22:51
  
  TUCSON – Hundreds of thousand of people are bailing out on the Golden State. And many of them are now calling Arizona home.
  According to new census data, more people moved out of California than moved in. And that’s been the case for seven straight years.
  Approximately 691,000 people moved from California to another U.S. state in 2018. About 501,000 people moved from another state into California over the same time period.
  The number one destination for California transplants is Texa
  
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• Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales

  07-11-2019 22:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Gap says CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company continues to grapple with slumping sales.
  Peck, who has been CEO since 2015, will be temporarily replaced by Gap’s non-executive chairman of the board Robert Fisher. Peck will also step down from the Gap’s board.
  The company is in the midst of splitting into two publicly-traded companies, one for its Old Navy brand and another for the Gap, Banana Republic and its other brands.
  The San Francisco-based retailer
  
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• Blake Griffin cleared for basketball-related activities

  07-11-2019 22:43
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Blake Griffin has been cleared by the Detroit Pistons’ medical staff for basketball-related activities, and the team says his progress will be monitored daily.
  Griffin hasn’t played at all this season because of hamstring and knee issues. The Pistons are 4-5 without him.
  Detroit also released updates on other injured players Thursday. Derrick Rose (hamstring strain) and Tim Frazier (shoulder strain) are day to day, continuing treatment and rehab. Reggie Jackson (
  
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• UConn’s Bouknight suspended 3 games for car crash

  07-11-2019 22:36
  
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn freshman guard James Bouknight has received a three-game suspension over allegations he fled from a car crash.
  Coach Dan Hurley announced the discipline Thursday, calling it “appropriate.”
  The 19-year-old from New York City will miss games against Sacred Heart on Friday, Saint Joseph’s on Nov. 13 and Florida on Nov. 17 before being allowed to return Nov. 21 against Buffalo in the Charleston Classic in South Carolina.
  An arrest warrant affidavit
  
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• DA: Kansas judicial panel did not violate open meetings law

  07-11-2019 22:33
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A prosecutor says a commission that screens applicants for the Kansas Supreme Court did not violate the state’s open meetings law in choosing three finalists for a vacancy.
  Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Thursday that the nominating commission took a final vote during a public meeting in October with a unanimous show of hands. He says other votes by paper ballot to narrow a list of 19 candidates to three for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to cons
  
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• Woman says she cleaned up after boyfriend killed his fiancee

  07-11-2019 22:30
  
  CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — A woman who was having an affair with a Colorado man charged in the beating death of his fiancee says she helped clean up the bloody aftermath before he burned the body.
  Krystal Lee testified for a second day Thursday in the trial of 33-year-old Patrick Frazee, who has denied killing 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth. Lee said she grabbed several blood-spattered items from Berreth’s Woodland Park townhome to be burned, including a stuffed animal, children’s
  
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• Fox Sports fires Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter

  07-11-2019 22:29
  
  Fox Sports has fired Cris Carter after three years at the network.
  Fox Sports issued a statement Thursday saying Carter was no longer at the network and had no further comment. The Pro Football Hall of Famer had been a co-host of FS1’s “First Things First” morning show since its launch in 2017.
  Carter had not been on the show since Oct. 31, according to The Big Lead.
  Fox hired Carter as an NFL analyst but he was not part of the network’s “Thursday Night Football&rdq
  
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• Texas governor opens homeless campsite amid feud with Austin

  07-11-2019 22:28
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican governor is creating a homeless campsite on state land amid an escalating battle with liberal leaders in the state capital over people living on the streets.
  National advocates for the homeless said Thursday they couldn’t recall another state making such a move, which follows Gov. Greg Abbott’s months-long feud with Austin on Twitter.
  The encampment site covers 5 acres on the outskirts of downtown. Abbott’s office says the home
  
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• Astros president Ryan shifts to lesser role with team

  07-11-2019 22:20
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Astros president Reid Ryan is shifting to a lesser role in the organization and owner Jim Crane’s son is joining the executive team, moves announced 11 days after Crane apologized to a Sports Illustrated reporter and retracted a statement by the club accusing her of trying to “fabricate a story.”
  Crane said Thursday he was bringing in his son, Jared, to get more experience and to help the organization. Crane maintained the moves were not related to the inci
  
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• Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate’s execution

  07-11-2019 22:19
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who will face lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn’t commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media to stop his execution.
  Lawmakers, as well as celebrities including Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil and Kim Kardashian West, have called on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop Rodney Reed’s execution.
  Reed is set to be executed Nov. 20 for the killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites
  
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• Judge stays ‘Texas 7’ gang member execution for 2nd time

  07-11-2019 22:18
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The execution of a “Texas 7” gang member who killed a police officer has been stayed again because the state refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber.
  The U.S. Supreme Court initially blocked Patrick Murphy’s execution in March, saying his religious rights under the First Amendment would be violated if no Buddhist chaplain was present. A month later, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice banned all clergy in death chambers and
  
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• Bosnia outraged after Macron calls it a ‘ticking time-bomb’

  07-11-2019 22:15
  
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Officials in Bosnia are expressing outrage over remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he described the country as a “ticking time-bomb” and the greatest concern for Europe in the Balkans over its “problem of returning jihadists.”
  Croat presidency member Zeljko Komisic said he would summon France’s ambassador to Sarajevo for an explanation of the comments Macron made in an interview with The Economist.
  Macron m
  
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• USC to retire Tina Thompson’s jersey

  07-11-2019 22:12
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Famer Tina Thompson will be honored at Southern California when her jersey is retired this weekend.
  A ceremony will be held Saturday before the Trojans host Thompson’s Virginia team at Galen Center, where her No. 14 jersey will be hoisted.
  Former USC assistant Fred Williams will be in attendance along with several of Thompson’s former teammates.
  Thompson joins former USC stars Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie, Pam McGee, Paula McGee and Cheryl Miller in ha
  
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• Judge orders Trump to pay $2M fine for misusing charity foundation

  07-11-2019 22:12
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests.
  New York state Judge Saliann Scarpulla imposed the penalty in connection with a lawsuit brought against Trump by the New York attorney general’s office over the handling of the Trump Foundation’s assets.
  Among other things, the judge ruled that Trump improperly allowed his
  
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• Bears’ Nagy won’t say if Daniels, Whitehair switching spots

  07-11-2019 22:08
  
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy wouldn’t say if center James Daniels and left guard Cody Whitehair are switching positions again.
  The usually straightforward Nagy declined to say Thursday if a change is in the works for Sunday’s matchup against the Detroit Lions, adding he wouldn’t “get into game strategy-wise.”
  The Bears had them switch positions in the offseason, with Whitehair moving from center to left guard after making the Pro Bowl
  
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• Blues’ Alex Steen out 4 weeks with high ankle sprain

  07-11-2019 22:06
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues winger Alex Steen will miss at least four weeks because of a high ankle sprain.
  Steen injured his left ankle in a collision with Edmonton’s Alex Chaisson late in the second period of the defending Stanley Cup champions’ 5-2 win over the Oilers on Wednesday night. The Blues put him on injured reserve Thursday, announcing he’d returned to St. Louis and would be re-evaluated in four weeks.
  Steen has five assists in 17 games this season, his 1
  
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• GM selling shuttered Ohio factory to electric truck maker

  07-11-2019 22:05
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A newly formed company led by the founder of an upstart electric truck maker is buying a former General Motors assembly plant in Ohio that shut down last March amid criticism from President Donald Trump.
  The company called Lordstown Motors Corp. said Thursday it plans to make electric pickup trucks at the plant beginning in late 2020.
  GM had employed 4,500 people at the factory near Youngstown just two years ago before it began cutting production.
  The factory’s cl
  
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• Public Safety Department dispatch center in Flagstaff closes

  07-11-2019 22:03
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A northern Arizona public safety communication center has closed its doors after the department reported declining recruitment numbers.
  The Arizona Daily Sun reports that the state Department of Public Safety made the decision in January despite some dispatcher and former employee opposition.
  Officials say the center’s last day of transmission was in October.
  Department officials say 14 people employed by the Flagstaff center left, either retiring early or fin
  
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• AZGFD offers reward after javelina euthanized for injuries sustained in illegal entrapment

  07-11-2019 22:03
  
  TUCSON – Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Operation Game Thief program is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to an arrest after a javelina was entrapped for two weeks.
  AZGFD says the javelina’s snout and foot were caught in an illegal leg hold trap for two weeks.
  The javelina was first observed Oct. 21 near Speedway Boulevard and Greasewood Road, according to AZGFD officials. Reportedly, the animal could not be captured until Oct.22, despite multiple attempts to
  
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• Over $4M in funding for Maryland HBCUs at risk in US Senate

  07-11-2019 22:02
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — More than $4 million in federal funding for historically black colleges and universities in Maryland may disappear if Congress doesn’t reauthorize mandated spending for those institutions.
  News outlets report more than $250 million in annual mandated funding for HBCUs expired after Sept. 30 because the Senate didn’t approve it.
  The funding passed unanimously in the U.S. House but Senate Republicans say they want to include long-term funding for HBCUs as part of
  
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• Arizona court revises rule restricting photography, video

  07-11-2019 21:46
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has revised its rule restricting photography and recording video at appellate courts.
  Chief Justice Robert Brutinel’s order Wednesday changes an Oct. 16 rule that was criticized for limiting the rights of news organizations.
  The rule still generally prohibits photography and videography inside appellate courts without court permission.
  However, restrictions for outside areas are narrower, only prohibiting “any activity” that threat
  
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• US court grants Ronaldo’s bid to block accuser in rape case

  07-11-2019 21:45
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers won a courtroom bid to block a Nevada woman who accuses the soccer star of raping her in 2009 from digging into the validity of their 2010 confidentiality agreement and $375,000 hush-money payment.
  U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts told Kathryn Mayorga’s attorney on Thursday that it will be up to a higher-level judge to decide if Mayorga’s effort to obtain more money goes to trial or closed-door arbitration.
  Ronaldo’s
  
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• Board of Google parent investigating sexual misconduct cases

  07-11-2019 21:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The board at Google parent Alphabet is investigating claims of sexual misconduct made against executives and how the company handled them.
  Multiple reports say the company has hired an outside firm to examine how its executives handled claims of sexual misconduct.
  The investigation follows lawsuits brought by shareholders after reports of sexual harassment at Google received national attention last year.
  Thousands of Google employees walked out of work last fall to pro
  
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• Report: No defects in tour bus in Utah crash that killed 4

  07-11-2019 21:43
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities investigating a tour bus crash that killed four Chinese tourists in Utah say they haven’t uncovered any mechanical problems that could have caused the September incident.
  The National Transportation Safety Board also said Thursday in a report that the 60-year-old driver was on his first run for a new company, but he knew the area from trips for another agency.
  The preliminary report says the bus left the road on Sept. 20 for an unknown reason th
  
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