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• Trump abruptly escorted from White House briefing

  10-08-2020 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing. It was not immediately clear what sparked the episode. The post Trump abruptly escorted from White House briefing appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Alabama parents charged in death of child left in car

  10-08-2020 23:58
  
  RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say two parents in Alabama have been arrested after their 3-year-old child was found dead inside a hot car. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Brandi Burks and 20-year-old Dakota Fowler are charged with manslaughter. News outlets report that deputies were called about 4 p.m. Sunday after the child was found unresponsive in the car. Medics couldn’t revive the toddler, who hasn’t been identified publicly. Officials sa
  
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• Secret Service agent abruptly escorts Trump from White House briefing room

  10-08-2020 23:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agent abruptly escorts Trump from White House briefing room.The post Secret Service agent abruptly escorts Trump from White House briefing room appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Safe at home? Blue Jays end nomadic journey in Buffalo

  10-08-2020 23:52
  
  Major League Baseball is coming back to Buffalo after more than a century. The Toronto Blue Jays will host the Miami Marlins beginning Tuesday night for a two-game series that will end Toronto’s nomadic start to the 2020 season. The Blue Jays have spent the first two-plus weeks on the road after Canada denied the team’s request to host games at Rogers Centre amid the coronavirus pandemic. Shalen Field, home to the Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate, will serve as Toronto’s tem
  
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• Board of evangelical Liberty University names interim leader while Jerry Falwell Jr. on leave after photo uproar

  10-08-2020 23:41
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Board of evangelical Liberty University names interim leader while Jerry Falwell Jr. on leave after photo uproar.The post Board of evangelical Liberty University names interim leader while Jerry Falwell Jr. on leave after photo uproar appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Protesters met with jeers by crowd with guns in Nevada city

  10-08-2020 23:40
  
  MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — Several dozen Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a weekend protest in rural Nevada were greeted by a far larger group of counter-demonstrators, including some bearing military-style weapons and tactical gear. A sheriff who had made controversial remarks earlier about the racial injustice movement reported no arrests or serious incidents. The clash of rallies Saturday came days after Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley drew attention for telling the local library not to
  
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• In virus talks, Pelosi holds firm; Mnuchin wants a deal

  10-08-2020 23:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been in this situation before. A dozen years ago, she negotiated a deal with the Republican White House to save the U.S. economy. Those lessons from the Great Recession are now punctuating the coronavirus talks. With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders are holding firm. They are using their leverage to force President Donald Trump into a politically risky standoff over help for millions of Americans. Trea
  
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• 11 members of family die in Panama flooding

  10-08-2020 23:31
  
  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanian officials were travelling to a remote riverside community where floodwaters over the weekend drowned 11 members of a family, nine of them children. The victims were among 17 family members whose thatch-roofed, elevated home gave way to the swollen waters of the Bejuco River in central Panama. Carlos Rumbo, director of the National Protection System, said the children were between the ages of 4 and 12. Two women, one of them pregnant, also drowned. The last vic
  
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• Onions sold in popular West Coast grocery chains recalled

  10-08-2020 23:27
  
  COMMERCE, Calif. (AP) — Some red and yellow onions sold in the West at Trader Joe’s and Ralphs are being recalled in relation to an ongoing salmonella outbreak linked to the vegetable. Progressive Produce said Monday that it received affected onions by Thomson International, the California company identified by The Food and Drug Administration as the likely source of the outbreak. No other produce sold by the company has been recalled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s
  
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• Georgia governor: School openings going well _ mostly

  10-08-2020 23:26
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor says he thinks the reopening of schools has gone “real well” — except for the widely shared photos of students crowded together without masks on. The viral images showed students standing shoulder to shoulder in crowded hallways at North Paulding High School northwest of Atlanta and squeezed together for first-day-of-school senior photos at two high schools in nearby Cherokee County. None wore masks. School officials later noted tha
  
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• Appeals court rules for transgender man in bathroom case

  10-08-2020 23:21
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Florida school district was wrong when it forced a transgender high school student to either use the girls bathroom or a single-stall gender neutral bathroom. The ruling issued Friday sides with Drew Adams, who sued the St. Johns County School District because he wasn’t allowed to use the boys restroom. The decision could have a wide-ranging impact on how schools treat transgender students. Adams began the transition to become a
  
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• Missing Apache Junction woman with dementia is found dead

  10-08-2020 23:19
  
  APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Apache Junction say a 77-year-old woman with dementia who was reported missing after wandering from her home has been found dead. They say a woman’s body was located Sunday afternoon in Apache Junction less than a mile from her home.  The body was later positively identified as that of Cheryl Beeter. The woman was reported missing about 11 a.m. Saturday after she wandered from her home. Police say the cause of death isn’t immediately
  
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• Belarus ministry: 1 protester dies in clashes with police

  10-08-2020 23:17
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The Belarusian Interior Ministry says one protester has died in clashes with police in the capital Minsk. Ministry spokesman Alexander Lastovsky said the victim was part of a crowd of people protesting results of Sunday’s presidential election. He said the protester intended to throw an explosive device, but it blew up in his hand and killed him.  The death came as thousands of people protested in Belarus for a second straight night Monday after official re
  
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• Arizona places Bumgarner on injured list with back strain

  10-08-2020 23:13
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks ace Madison Bumgarner has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a mid-back strain. The left-hander was lifted after two innings Sunday against San Diego due to back spasms. The Diamondbacks placed Bumgarner on the injured list and selected the contract of right-hander Jeremy Beasley from their alternate training site. Bumgarner allowed six runs and five hits in two innings against the Padres to remain winless since signing an $85 million, five-year
  
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• Belarusian Interior Ministry says one protester has died in clashes with police in the capital

  10-08-2020 23:11
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarusian Interior Ministry says one protester has died in clashes with police in the capital.The post Belarusian Interior Ministry says one protester has died in clashes with police in the capital appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Democrats, Biden still juggling virtual convention details

  10-08-2020 23:00
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden’s presidential nominating convention will highlight the U.S. political spectrum from the left flank of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Republican old guard of former Ohio Gov. John Kasich. But that doesn’t mean there’s room for every prominent Democrat who would get a share of the spotlight at a routine convention taking place without the backdrop of a pandemic. Instead, Biden’s campaign and other convention planners are contin
  
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• Virus outbreak slows as Arizona reports 600 cases, 4 deaths

  10-08-2020 22:58
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials reported 600 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases with four more deaths amid a slowing of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. The Arizona Department of Health Services’ latest figures Monday increased the state’s total confirmed COVID-19 cases to 187,523 and the reported death toll to 4,154. It’s the second straight day that fewer than 1,000 new cases have been reported. The last time new cases numbered in the triple digits was J
  
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• Deputies ID victim in fatal collision on Avra Valley Road

  10-08-2020 22:56
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - One person is dead and another is injured following a two-vehicle collision that occurred Monday morning.Pima County Sheriff's Department says 59-year-old Richard Mager was pronounced dead at the scene on Avra Valley Road, west of Sanders Road.
  The other motorist involved was transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
  RELATED: Collision causes traffic delays on Avra Valley RoadAccording to PCSD, speed does not appear to be a factor in this collision.
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• Powerful derecho leaves path of devastation across Midwest

  10-08-2020 22:43
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A rare wind storm with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving tens of thousands of homes without power. The storm known as a derecho lasted several hours as it tore across eastern Nebraska, Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois. A scientist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center says the storm had the wind speed of a major hurrican
  
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• Crimes in Tucson, Phoenix fell in second quarter, as COVID-19 took hold

  10-08-2020 22:30
  
  The latest police data show reported crimes fell in Phoenix and Tucson during the second quarter of the year, a period in which Arizonans were largely confined to their homes by the governor’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order.But while property crimes in both cities fell, violent crime in Phoenix rose sharply in the quarter, driven largely by a 14.6% increase in aggravated assaults compared to the first three months of the year.Tucson also saw a rise in aggravated assaults, but not large enoug
  
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• Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger greet baby daughter

  10-08-2020 22:29
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger say they are “beyond thrilled” and “extremely blessed” after she gave birth to their first child together. The ”Avengers” actor and the children’s book author announced the birth of daughter Lyla Maria Schwarzenegger Pratt in a joint post on their Instagram accounts Monday. They included a photo of the hands of both parents and child and a pair of Bible verses in the post. The 41-year-old
  
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• 1 dead, 6 rescued after gas explosion levels Baltimore homes

  10-08-2020 22:23
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A natural gas explosion has leveled three row houses in Baltimore, killing a woman and trapping others. Six people have been hospitalized. A fourth row house was ripped open by the blast, which shattered windows around the neighborhood. The Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. was called in to shut off gas around the immediate vicinity as rescuers were painstakingly going through the wreckage by hand. The cause of the explosion wasn’t immediately clear, but leaky pipes are
  
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• Pentagon offers military airwaves for 5G wireless networks

  10-08-2020 22:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon plans to free up a big chunk of its military airwaves in the U.S. for high-speed internet service, part of a broader push to get ahead of China in the deployment of 5G wireless technology. The Trump administration announced Monday that it has identified radio spectrum used for radar defense systems that can be shared with commercial telecommunications providers without compromising national security. White House officials said that the Federal Communications
  
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• No federal relief leaves states, cities facing big deficits

  10-08-2020 22:10
  
  The breakdown in negotiations for a new coronavirus relief bill in Congress means help won’t be coming anytime soon for budget-strapped state and local governments across the U.S. Governors, mayors and educators have been asking Congress to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars to help them deal with a sharp drop in tax revenue caused by the pandemic. Some states and cities already are laying off or furloughing workers and cutting back on infrastructure projects. School districts say th
  
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• Now Stream This: It's About Time the Go-Go's Got a Documentary!

  10-08-2020 22:00
  
  I’ve been bitching about the Go-Go’s not being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for years.…
  
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• Man charged after large party held at New Jersey mansion

  10-08-2020 21:58
  
  ALPINE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man faces charges after he allegedly threw a large house party in one of the state’s ritziest towns. Police in Alpine say they responded to a noise complaint on Aug. 1 in the well-heeled suburb across the Hudson River from New York City and allegedly found 300 to 400 people, most not wearing face coverings. Police said the property had been the site of another large party on July 5. Tashay Knight of Newark, the alleged host of the Aug. 1 party, was ch
  
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• Teachers face new challenges as online school starts

  10-08-2020 21:57
  
  TUCSON - There has been an intense debate on how to go back to school safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  With many local districts opting for an online option it presents new challenges and adjustments for teachers.Teachers say prepping for online classes is extremely different because Zoom sessions don't have traditional transition times, as there would be in an in-person classroom."So, when you prep for a Zoom you really have to script out your entire lesson because you're not going to have
  
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• El Salvador waits for president, congress to act on pandemic

  10-08-2020 21:57
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — If El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and the country’s congress can’t reach an agreement in the next two weeks on how to regulate the country’s economic reopening amid the pandemic, it will fall to individual businesses and their customers. Bukele says he will follow the Supreme Court’s latest ruling that found his gradual economic activation plan was unconstitutional. In a decision the court suspended until Aug. 23, the justices sa
  
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• 103-year-old woman gets her first tattoo after COVID-19 lockdown

  10-08-2020 21:52
  
  CNN NewsourceA 103-year-old Michigan woman gets her first tattoo, then gets a ride on a motorcycle, as she crosses off items on her
  bucket list after spending months of isolation in a nursing home during a coronavirus lockdown.
  Call her the biker granny.A Michigan woman got her first tattoo to mark her 103rd birthday!Dorothy Pollack decided to check off some bucket list items after spending months in isolation during a coronavirus lockdown at a nursing home.She says weeks after being discharged
  
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• Stocks rise on Wall Street; S&P 500 within 1% of record

  10-08-2020 21:46
  
  Stocks are rising on Wall Street after shrugging off a bumpy start Monday, nudging the S&P 500 within striking distance of its all-time high set in February. The S&P 500 is up 0.2% in late-afternoon trading and within 1% of its last record high. The gains come on the first trading day since President Donald Trump announced several stopgap moves to aid the economy, following the collapse of talks on Capitol Hill for a bigger rescue package. Most stocks in the S&P 500 are higher, led b
  
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• All good: WNBA has reported no positive coronavirus tests

  10-08-2020 21:46
  
  The WNBA bubble appears to be working a month into its compressed season. The league has had no positive cornavirus tests for its players. The players and staff are tested daily, and while there have good results for the league, there have been at least two inconclusive positive tests that forced two players to miss games. Those players later tested negative keeping the COVID-19 cases at zero. The post All good: WNBA has reported no positive coronavirus tests appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Georgia governor: School openings going well, except photos

  10-08-2020 21:38
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor says he thinks the reopening of schools has gone “real well” with the exception of photos shared on social media that showed students crowded together in school hallways. At a Monday news conference with the U.S. surgeon general, Gov. Brian Kemp said Georgia’s hospitalizations for COVID-19 are down. Photos shared widely on social media last week showed hallways packed with students shoulder-to-shoulder at North Paulding High School
  
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• Lebanese government resigns after Beirut blast, public anger

  10-08-2020 21:34
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab says he and the rest of his government is stepping down in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut last week that triggered public fury and mass protests. In a televised speech, Diab said corruption in the country is “bigger than the state.”  The move risks opening up dragged-out negotiations over a new Cabinet amid urgent calls for reform. The developments follow a weekend of anti-government protests in the
  
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• Mississippi flag design process: Elvis has left the building

  10-08-2020 21:29
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A commission has whittled down a list of proposed designs for a new Mississippi flag from nearly 3,000 to 147. It will choose the final five designs on Friday. Designs eliminated include those with beer cans, crawfish, Elvis and Kermit the Frog. The Department of Archives and History posted remaining designs online Monday. Many have magnolias and stars. One has a giant mosquito. Mississippi recently retired the last state banner with the Confederate battle emblem that
  
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• French publisher’s jarring memoir to be released in English

  10-08-2020 21:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A French publisher’s jarring memoir about her abusive relationship as a teenager with a prominent writer in his 50s will be released in English next year. HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that Vanessa Springora’s “Consent” will be released in the U.S. on Feb. 16. Spingora, now in her 40s and head of the Julliard publishing house, alleges in her book that Gabriel Matzneff met her when she was 13 and he was 50. She sa
  
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• Greece slams Turkish move on gas exploration in eastern Med

  10-08-2020 21:24
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has slammed Turkey’s move to conduct energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean in an area Athens says overlaps its own continental shelf. Officials say Greece’s military is on alert, while the prime minister convened the government’s national security council after Turkey issued an international maritime safety message announcing its research vessel and two auxiliary vessels would be conducting seismic exploration in an area between Gree
  
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• DC officials condemn ‘horrific’ mass shootings at cookout

  10-08-2020 21:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the District of Columbia are calling for community input to catch the perpetrators of a mass shooting at a crowded weekend block party that left one person dead and 20 others, including a police officer, injured. Mayor Muriel Bowser says Washingtonians were “fed up with senseless violence and desperate for solutions.” The shootings occurred late Saturday night when at least four gunmen opened fire in the midst of a large public cookout in the southea
  
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• Public health officials resign or fired after vilified, burned out amid pandemic

  10-08-2020 21:17
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.The latest departure came Sunday, when California’s public health director, Dr. Sonia Angell, quit without explanation following a technical glitch that caused a delay in repo
  
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• Pro wrestling star James ‘Kamala’ Harris dies at 70

  10-08-2020 21:13
  
  Former professional wrestler James Harris has died at the age of 70. The Mississippi-born sharecropper gained international fame as “Kamala the Ugandan Giant.” World Wrestling Entertainment confirmed his death in a statement Sunday. The man who co-wrote Harris’ autobiography says Harris died from COVID-19. Harris’ wrestling career took off under the gimmick of Kamala after other characters failed. He’d come to the ring in body paint and a spear before taking on the
  
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• New Belarus protests after authoritarian leader re-elected

  10-08-2020 21:08
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Thousands of people are protesting in Belarus for a second straight night after official results from weekend elections gave an overwhelming victory to authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, extending his 26-year rule. Lukashenko has warned that he will crack down with full force on protesters. He is deriding the opposition as “sheep” manipulated by foreign masters. Dozens were injured and thousands were detained hours after Sunday’s vote when
  
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• French expert: Dangerous chemicals remain in Beirut port

  10-08-2020 21:07
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially dangerous chemical containers at the explosion-shattered port of Beirut. A member of a French cleanup team said experts found one chemical container that was leaking and several that were punctured, and so are now trying to secure all those containing potential chemical risks. French and Italian chemical experts and Lebanese firefighters are working to identify risks and secure the remains of the
  
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• Yuma officer resigns over Facebook remarks on Trolls doll

  10-08-2020 20:48
  
  YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — An officer with the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office has resigned following inappropriate comments on social media about a Trolls doll that was pulled off shelves. Yuma County sheriff’s officials says the suspended employee resigned Monday as an administrative review got underway. The office did not name the employee in its announcement. But KYMA-TV in Yuma identified the staff member as Lt. Scott Bjornstad, who had only been promoted last month. The TV station o
  
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• Unprecedented open criticism of king aired at Thai protest

  10-08-2020 20:46
  
  PATHUM THANI, Thailand (AP) — Student leaders in Thailand have delivered an unprecedented challenge to the country’s constitutional monarchy on Monday, strongly criticizing the king and demanding changes to lessen what they believe is its anti-democratic nature. The monarchy is Thailand’s most revered institution and is regarded as beyond censure. But questioning of its privileged position has grown since the 2016 accession to the throne of King Maha Vajiralongkorn. At least 3,
  
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• Check Your Tickets: $50,000 winning Powerball ticket sold at Oro Valley QuikTrip

  10-08-2020 20:43
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Check your Powerball tickets. You may be $50,000 richer!On Monday, Arizona Lottery officials announced that a $50,000 prize has not yet been claimed in Saturday's Powerball draw.Officials say the $50,000 ticket was sold at the QuikTrip at 11045 Oracle Rd. in Oro Valley.The ticket matched four of the five drawn numbers and the red Powerball number.Saturday's winning numbers were 2-3-14-40-51 with a red Powerball number of 24.For more information, visit arizonalottery.com.
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• Trump lawyers make final pitch to block tax record release

  10-08-2020 20:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump are making a final pitch to block the release of his tax records for a prosecutor’s criminal probe. The lawyers said in court papers filed Monday in federal court that Manhattan’s district attorney acted in a retaliatory manner when he subpoenaed Trump’s accountant for nearly a decade of tax returns. They say District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. went on a fishing expedition for a wide swath of financial documents only af
  
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• Will Forte to bring parody ‘MacGruber’ to Peacock service

  10-08-2020 20:35
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — “MacGruber,” a parody skit on “Saturday Night Live” that became a movie, is coming back to the small screen. The NBCUniversal streaming platform Peacock said Monday that Will Forte will once again play the mullet-haired hero for a new half-hour series. Peacock said the series will follow MacGruber after rotting in prison for a decade as he hunts down a mysterious villain from his past. The “MacGyver” parody will use the 2010 film adaptati
  
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• Mexico City lets bars ‘change’ to restaurants to reopen

  10-08-2020 20:35
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The government of Mexico City will allow bars to operate as restaurants in order to reopen as part of an easing of the coronavirus lockdown. While bars and nightclubs have been closed for four months, the city is now offering almost automatic approval if bar owners fill out an online application and agree to offer food and enforce sanitary and social distancing measures. Similar measures elsewhere have given rise to symbolic food orders _ a handful of chips _ for custome
  
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• Hundreds ransack downtown Chicago businesses after shooting

  10-08-2020 20:32
  
  NBC News Channel Police respond to looting on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020.CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people descended on downtown Chicago after a police shooting on the city’s South Side. Police say the vandals smashed the windows of dozens of businesses early Monday and made off with merchandise, cash machines and anything else they could carry. Police Superintendent David Brown says when police shot a man who opened fire on officers Sunday, the incident app
  
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• Seattle City Council poised to cut police positions, budget

  10-08-2020 20:30
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council is expected to approve proposals that would reduce the police department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition — an action supported by demonstrators who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly opposed by the mayor and police chief. Measures being considered Monday would cut about $3 million of the department’s $400 million annual budget this year. Seattle curren
  
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• All Night Long: Lionel Richie recalls closing 1984 Olympics

  10-08-2020 20:30
  
  Lionel Richie was just beginning his career away from the Commodores when he got word he was wanted for what would be the biggest solo gig of his career. He was going to bring the curtain down on the first Olympics in the United States in 52 years, and he did it in style. Richie’s “All Night Long” performance didn’t just close the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, but made him a global superstar. He still remembers it vividly, 36 years later.The post All Night Long: Lionel Ri
  
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