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• Tropical Storm Andres forms in Pacific off southwest Mexico

  09-05-2021 23:43
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Andres has formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico. It is the first named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane system. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Andres is unlikely to pose any threat to land, and predicts it will stay well out to sea and head out into the open Pacific. At midafternoon Sunday, the storm was centered about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. It had maximum su
  
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• Bye, bye, bye: Latin American boy band CNCO loses member

  09-05-2021 23:40
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latin American boy band CNCO is downsizing. The group announced on its official Instagram page Sunday that Joel Pimentel is leaving the band, making the successful quintet a quartet. CNCO formed in 2015 on the Univision music competition series “La Banda,” created by Ricky Martin and Simon Cowell. CNCO also announced that the group will have its final performance as a fivesome on Friday. CNCO has launched eight Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Latin pop airp
  
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• More Jerusalem clashes on eve of contentious Israeli parade

  09-05-2021 23:26
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police has faced off with Palestinian protesters in another night of clashes in east Jerusalem. The violence Sunday night came a day before Israeli nationalists plan to parade through the Old City in an annual flag-waving display meant to cement Israeli claims to the contested area. The late-night skirmishes raise the likelihood of further clashes Monday during the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations. Israeli police gave the go-ahead to the parade Sunday, despite day
  
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• DeGrom to get MRI for side issue after Mets win 5th straight

  09-05-2021 23:23
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Jacob deGrom was pulled after five innings with right side tightness in his return from an injury to a similar area, but the bullpen closed out a four-hitter as New York beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 for its fifth straight win. DeGrom was sent for an MRI after the game. He was perfect through four innings but labored in the fifth, then called for the trainer after throwing two warm-up pitches ahead of the sixth. DeGrom exited and went straight to the clubhouse.
  
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• Wildfire forces evacuations for 3 towns near Crown King

  09-05-2021 23:15
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say evacuations have been ordered for three small towns near Crown King due to a wildfire that has grown to 2,500 acres Sunday south of the Prescott National Forest. It’s one of four wildfires currently burning around the state. Arizona Bureau of Land Management officials say evacuation orders were issued shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday for Minnehaha, Fort Misery and Horsethief Basin. They say residents of Crown King should begin preparing in the event
  
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• Man kills 6, then self, at Colorado birthday party shooting

  09-05-2021 23:15
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday. Police say the shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports officers arrived at a trailer to find six dead adults and a man with serious injuries who died later at a hospital. The suspected shooter was the boyfriend of a female victim at the party attended by friends,
  
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• Sunshine and 90 degree temperatures will dominate the next week

  09-05-2021 23:13
  
  TUCSON - Sunny skies have been the norm for the last week and has 90 degree temperatures. We are not expecting any big changes outside of some heat late week.Pima county will stay in the low 90's through Tuesday while Santa Cruz and Cochise counties will fluctuate between the mid and upper 80's.
  Monday will also be a bit breezy with winds as high as 20 mph in Tucson and 30 mph for higher elevations.
  Thursday and Friday are the days we are tracking where we could reach 100 degrees before we cool
  
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• 7 dead including gunman in Colorado birthday party shooting

  09-05-2021 22:56
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Seven people are dead after a man opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado. Police say the shooting happened just after midnight Sunday in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports officers arrived at a trailer to find six dead adults and a man with serious injuries who died later at a hospital. The suspected shooter was the boyfriend of a female victim at the party attended by friends, family and childre
  
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• Protests erupt in Iraqi city after killing of activist

  09-05-2021 22:51
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters in Iraq have set fire to trailers belonging to Iran’s consulate in Karbala amid widespread anger over the killing of a prominent activist in that city. Ehab Wazni was shot Saturday night outside his home in Karbala by unknown assailants. He was active in the organization of anti-government protests that swept Iraq in October 2019. His death sparked protests Sunday in Karbala that saw demonstrators block roads and bridges with burning tires. Then Sunday night
  
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• DeGrom’s injury scare continues, Mets win 5th straight

  09-05-2021 22:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Jacob deGrom was pulled after five innings with right side tightness in his return from a similar injury, but the bullpen closed out a four-hitter as New York beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 Sunday for its fifth straight win. DeGrom was perfect through four innings but labored in the fifth, then called for the trainer after throwing two warm-up pitches ahead of the sixth. DeGrom exited and went straight to the clubhouse. The two-time Cy Young Award winner was com
  
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• Police: Seven adults dead including gunman after Colorado birthday party shooting.

  09-05-2021 22:47
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police: Seven adults dead including gunman after Colorado birthday party shooting.The post Police: Seven adults dead including gunman after Colorado birthday party shooting. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Vote-counting underway after Virginia GOP convention

  09-05-2021 22:42
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Counting is underway at a hotel in Richmond to tabulate the votes cast by tens of thousands of Virginia Republicans this weekend in the party’s nominating contest for governor and other statewide offices. John March is a spokesperson for the Republican Party of Virginia. He says the several dozen people managing the hand-counting effort began their work with the attorney general contest. March says it’s possible the nominee in that race could be declared Su
  
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• Wildfire evacuation orders set for several Crown King towns

  09-05-2021 22:19
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say evacuation orders have been set for several towns in Crown King due to a wildfire that has grown to 2,500 acres Sunday south of the Prescott National Forest. It’s one of four wildfires currently burning around the state. Arizona Bureau of Land Management officials say evacuation orders have been issued for Minnehaha, Fort Misery and Horsethief Basin. They say residents of Crown King should begin preparing in the event of an evacuation order is i
  
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• Cyberattack on US pipeline is linked to criminal gang

  09-05-2021 22:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cyberextortion attempt that forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity. That’s according to a person close to the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity. The shutdown of the pipeline that carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast stretched into a third day Sunday. The Biden administration s
  
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• Sudan says Ethiopian peacekeepers deported to refugee camp

  09-05-2021 21:39
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities have deported around three dozen Ethiopian peacekeepers, working in the U.N. mission in Darfur, to a refugee camp. Al-Fateh Ibrahim Mohammed, head of the refugee agency in North Darfur province, says the troops are among 120 Ethiopian forces from the Tigrayan ethnic group, who have sought asylum in Sudan earlier this year. The troops refused to return to their home country, Ethiopia, for fear of being detained by the Addis Ababa government. Prime Minister
  
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• Serbia gives award to 2019 Nobel Literature winner Handke

  09-05-2021 21:28
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has honored 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serbia’s nationalist policies and war crimes during the 1990s’ wars in the Balkans. The Austrian novelist and screenwriter received a state decoration from Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, a former ultranationalist who now says he wants Serbia to join the European Union. On Friday, Handke also received honors from Bosnian Serbs. Handke
  
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• Tocchet won’t return as coach of Coyotes after 4 seasons

  09-05-2021 21:00
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes and coach Rick Tocchet have mutually agreed to part ways after four seasons. The announcement comes a day after the Coyotes missed the playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons. They reached the postseason last year when the format was rejiggered due to the coronavirus pandemic and beat Nashville in four games before losing to Colorado in five. Arizona was in playoff position heading into the final month of this season, holding the fourth spo
  
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• Prominent female Saudi activist summoned in relation to case

  09-05-2021 20:56
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was summoned by security officials and informed of a supreme court decision that ultimately upholds her initial conviction. Her sisters said Sunday that al-Hathloul was informed to report to the office of the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Investigation, or “mabaheth,” in the capital, Riyadh. There, she was asked to sign a document informing her of the court&rs
  
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• Arizona Coyotes announce that coach Rick Tocchet won’t return after 4 seasons

  09-05-2021 20:53
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Coyotes announce that coach Rick Tocchet won’t return after 4 seasons.The post Arizona Coyotes announce that coach Rick Tocchet won’t return after 4 seasons appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Sturgeon: Scotland independence vote matter of when, not if

  09-05-2021 20:34
  
  LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader has told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that a second Scottish independence referendum is “a matter of when, not if,” after her party won its fourth straight parliamentary election. Johnson has invited the leaders of the U.K.’s devolved nations for crisis talks on the union, saying the U.K. was “best served when we work together.” But Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, told Johnson in a call Sund
  
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• 1 dead, 7 wounded in shooting at downtown Phoenix hotel

  09-05-2021 20:14
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead and seven others wounded after a shooting inside a downtown Phoenix hotel. According to Phoenix police, officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Hyatt Regency hotel around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. They say a group of people between the ages of 18 and 22 attending an event inside the hotel had an argument that escalated into shots being fired by more than one person. Police say a man was found dead inside the hotel while seven other peop
  
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• Medina Spirit could lose Ky. Derby win; track bans Baffert

  09-05-2021 20:05
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Medina Spirit’s victory in the Kentucky Derby is in serious jeopardy because of a failed postrace drug test. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert called a news conference to announce that Medina Spirit tested positive for an excessive amount of the steroid betamethasone that is sometimes used to treat pain and inflammation in horses. Churchill Downs immediately suspended Baffert and said Medina Spirit would be disqualified if the drug findings were upheld. Baffert
  
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• Average US price of gas jumps 6 cents per gallon to $3.02

  09-05-2021 19:37
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.02 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday that the increase comes as the costs of crude oil and ethanol also rose. Ethanol must be blended by refiners into gasoline, per federal rules. The price at the pump is $1.05 higher than it was a year ago. The highest average price in the nation right now is $4.16 a gallon in the San Francis
  
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• Experts say cyberattack on US pipeline is a wake-up call

  09-05-2021 19:30
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Colonial Pipeline’s oil pipeline shutdown in response to a ransomware attack stretched into a third day on Sunday. Although gas prices are unlikely to be affected if normal operations resume in the next few days, the attack, the worst cyberattack to date on U.S. critical infrastructure, should serve as a wake up call to companies about the vulnerabilities they face from such attacks, experts said. The federal government is working with the Georgia-based company, which
  
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• The Latest: France welcomes EU curb on AstraZeneca vaccine

  09-05-2021 19:29
  
  PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the decision from the European Union not to renew its order for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.Macron said the EU policy is aiming at “responding in particular to the variants… We see that some other vaccines are more efficient.”
  The bloc’s Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, said Sunday the EU Commission has not ordered AstraZeneca shots for after June. Two weeks ago, the EU launched legal proceedings a
  
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• Times Square gun victim: I screamed ‘I don’t want to die’

  09-05-2021 19:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was shot in Times Square during a Mother’s Day trip to New York City with her family says that she prayed that her wound would not be fatal. Wendy Magrinat told the Daily News she screamed that she did not want to die because she has a 2-year-old daughter. Magrinat was one of three bystanders hit by bullets shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday near West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue. A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl and a 43-year-old New Jersey woman were also shot.
  
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• Tearful reunions mark second Mother’s Day under pandemic

  09-05-2021 19:25
  
  Joyful reunions among vaccinated parents and children across the country marked this year’s Mother’s Day. It’s the second time families are celebrating the holiday while navigating the coronavirus pandemic, which has kept many apart as they try to avoid spreading the virus. With more and more people vaccinated, some are finally seeing family for the first time since the pandemic began. Nursing homes and other facilities also made plans to help parents and children celebrate saf
  
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• Top judges in Brazil want review after deadly police raid

  09-05-2021 19:11
  
  BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Several justices from Brazil’s Supreme Court say a ruling last year that banned police operations in Rio de Janeiro favelas, or slums, must now be reviewed after one of the city’s deadliest police operations. Brazil’s Supreme Court issued a ruling last year prohibiting police operations in Rio’s favelas during the pandemic unless “absolutely exceptional.” In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Supreme Cour
  
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• House GOP leader says he backs ousting Cheney from No. 3 job

  09-05-2021 19:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy has publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik for the post of No. 3 leader. That cements the party conference’s support of the Donald Trump loyalist over Rep. Liz Cheney. Cheney is an outspoken critic of the former president for promoting discredited claims that the 2020 election was stolen. House Republicans could vote as early as Wednesday to remove Cheney and replace her with Stefanik. Cheney is the highest-ranking woman in the Rep
  
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• Ky. Derby winner could be disqualified; track bans Baffert

  09-05-2021 18:56
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Medina Spirit’s victory in the Kentucky Derby is in serious jeopardy because of a positive postrace drug test. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert called a news conference Sunday to announce that Medina Spirit was found to have 21 picograms of the steroid betamethasone in a postrace sample. That’s double the legal threshold in Kentucky racing. Churchill Downs immediately suspended Baffert and said Medina Spirit would be disqualified if the drug findings were
  
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• EU launches conference to debate its future with citizens

  09-05-2021 18:48
  
  PARIS (AP) — The European Union has launched a wide consultation process meant to design the shape of the bloc’s future. French President Emmanuel Macron expressed hope on Sunday for Europe to rediscover the path of “great projects, great ambitions and great dreams.” The EU organized the inaugural event of the Conference on the Future of Europe in the French city of Strasbourg. The process also aims to bring the EU’s complex decision-making closer to its 450 million
  
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• Ky. Derby winner faces disqualification; track bans Baffert

  09-05-2021 18:46
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs has suspended trainer Bob Baffert from entering horses at the track and suggested that it would invalidate Medina Spirit’s Kentucky Derby victory if the results of a failed postrace drug test are upheld. The announcement from Churchill Downs came shortly after Baffert held a news conference to announce the failed drug test, which the Hall of Fame trainer vowed to fight “tooth and nail.” Medina Spirit is Baffert’s fifth horse to
  
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• Bob Baffert suspended after Medina Spirit failed drug test at Kentucky Derby

  09-05-2021 18:40
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs suspended trainer Bob Baffert from entering horses at the track and suggested that it would invalidate Medina Spirit’s Kentucky Derby victory if the results of a failed postrace drug test are upheld.The track said in a statement Sunday that failure to comply with the rules and medication protocols jeopardizes the safety of horses and jockeys, the sport’s integrity and the Derby’s reputation.“Churchill Downs will not tolerate it
  
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• Micronesians feel hatred in Hawaii, decry police shooting

  09-05-2021 18:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Some in Hawaii’s Micronesian community say the April 5 shooting of 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap highlights the racism they face in a place they expected to be more welcoming to fellow islanders. Police say Sykap was driving a stolen car when he led officers on a chase through oncoming traffic after a series of crimes including an armed robbery and purse-snatching. Pacific islanders in Hawaii with ties to Micronesia say they are seeing an increase in hateful comments di
  
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• Famed German architect Jahn killed in Illinois bike accident

  09-05-2021 18:12
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent German architect who designed Chicago’s state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington has been killed in a bike accident in Illinois. Police say Helmut Jahn was pronounced dead at the scene in Campton Hills after two vehicles struck the bicycle, which had failed to stop at a stop sign. The driver of one of the vehicles was treated at a hospital.  Jahn was born in Germany in 1940 and moved to Chicago in 1966. O
  
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• PCSD: Rollover on River and La Cholla sends one to hospital

  09-05-2021 18:05
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Pima County Sheriff Department has confirmed that one person has been sent to a local hospital with serious injuries after a motorcycle and car crashed leading to the car to be overturned near River and La Cholla Sunday morning.The guard rail was damaged after the rollover, but traffic was only slightly delayed. There are no road closures at this time.
  The crash is still under investigation. News 4 Tucson will update this article as more information comes into our newsroom.
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• Arizona reports 448 new COVID-19 cases with 2 more deaths

  09-05-2021 18:00
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 448 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and two more deaths.
  The latest numbers pushed the state’s pandemic totals to 868,830 cases and 17,409 deaths, according to the state’s coronavirus dashboard. The daily cases, daily deaths and the daily hospitalization figure all remained well below the pandemic highs seen last winter.
  The dashboard also showed that more than 5.3 million vaccine doses have been administered in Arizona
  
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• Egypt executes defrocked monk convicted of abbot’s killing

  09-05-2021 17:55
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say authorities have executed a defrocked monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo. The 2018 killing of Bishop Epiphanius, an abbot at St. Macarius Monastery, shocked Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church. The former monk, identified as Isaiah, was convinced of killing Epiphanius and sentenced to death. He was executed Monday by hanging In the Wadi Natrun prison complex in the province of Beheira. The hanging of Isaiah was the l
  
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• Queen’s cousin accused of willingness to sell Kremlin access

  09-05-2021 17:54
  
  LONDON (AP) — An investigative report by British media says that Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, was willing to use his royal status for personal profit and to seek favors from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The undercover investigation by the Sunday Times and Channel 4 saw reporters posing as investors of a fake South Korean gold company. Prince Michael, 78, allegedly told the reporters by Zoom that he would give their company his royal endorsement for
  
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• More than 1,200 migrants reach Italian island on boats

  09-05-2021 17:49
  
  ROME (AP) — More than 1,200 migrants in decrepit, overcrowded fishing boats have reached a tiny Italian island in a 12-hour span. Italian news reports said coast guard and customs police boats escorted the vessels to Lampedusa island Sunday after they were spotted in the Mediterranean a few miles offshore. A newspaper in Sicily, Il Giornale di Sicilia, said they arrived on wooden or metal boats. It said some of the migrants, most of them men, were from Bangladesh and Tunisia. Late spring,
  
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• Police shooting highlights anti-Micronesian racism in Hawaii

  09-05-2021 17:46
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Some in Hawaii’s Micronesian community say the April 5 shooting of 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap highlights the racism they face in a place they expected to be more welcoming to fellow islanders. Police say Sykap was driving a stolen car when he led officers on a chase through oncoming traffic after a series of crimes including an armed robbery and purse-snatching. Pacific islanders in Hawaii with ties to Micronesia say they are seeing an increase in hateful comments di
  
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• Pierre ‘Pete’ du Pont IV dies; ran for president in 1988

  09-05-2021 17:46
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV, a former Delaware governor and congressman who sought the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, has died. He was 86. Born to wealth and status, du Pont broke with family tradition, forgoing a comfortable career with his family’s chemical company for a life in politics. Du Pont announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 1986 but dropped out 17 months later after poor finishes in the Iowa caucuses and the
  
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• Former Delaware governor, GOP presidential candidate Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV has died

  09-05-2021 17:44
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Former Delaware governor, GOP presidential candidate Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV has died.The post Former Delaware governor, GOP presidential candidate Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV has died appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Palestinians fear loss of family homes as evictions loom

  09-05-2021 17:40
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem are at risk of losing their homes to Jewish settler groups following a decades-long legal battle. The families threatened with eviction have been living in their homes since the 1950s, when they were resettled there after fleeing the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. The settlers say they are reclaiming land owned by Jews prior to the war. Israel allows Jews to reclaim such lands but bars Palestinians from recove
  
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• Arizona could become an electric vehicle manufacturing hub

  09-05-2021 17:30
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Can Lucid, Nikola and ElectraMeccanica turn Arizona into a major electric vehicle manufacturing hub? The president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council says it’s possible. Chris Camacho says Arizona has the potential to become a massive global leader in emerging auto manufacturing. It’s happened before. Nearly 40 years ago, the first Nissans rolled off an assembly line in Tennessee, helping turn the largely rural state into an automotive powerhouse. It
  
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• French demonstrators demand more action on climate change

  09-05-2021 17:26
  
  PARIS (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Paris and other French cities to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change. The nationwide protests Sunday come after the lower house of parliament this week approved a climate bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Environment activists say it doesn’t go far or fast enough. Activists blame President Emmanuel Macron for having “weakened” a set of measures initially pro
  
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• Long suspected of murder, she confessed but avoided prison

  09-05-2021 17:23
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Shelly Harmon was long suspected of killing her roommate in central Arizona in 1988. She wasn’t charged in the death of Pamela Pitts until nearly 30 years later and not until she wrapped up a 20-year prison sentence in the death of her ex-boyfriend. Harmon pleaded guilty in March to the fatal beating of Pitts. In a shocking twist, a court recently agreed she won’t spent any more time behind bars. Prosecutors said it was important to get a conviction and
  
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• Man shot after allegedly trying to rob store, threaten cops

  09-05-2021 17:07
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Glendale say an armed man who allegedly was trying to rob a convenience store has been shot and wounded. They say officers responded to the scene about 3:30 a.m. Sunday and the man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and he’s not been identified yet. Police say the suspect had a gun and walked into the store and told the clerk to give him all the cigarettes and money.  They say there was some type of verbal exchange between the
  
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• Derby win in jeopardy for Medina Spirit

  09-05-2021 17:07
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday that his barn has been told Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test, the latest doping scandal for horse racing and arguably the sport’s premier trainer.Flanked by his attorney Craig Robertson in a morning news conference at Churchill Downs on Sunday, Baffert said Medina Spirit was found to have 21 picograms of the steroid betamethasone, double the legal threshold in Kentucky racing, in a post
  
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• Appalachia health clinic founder Eula Hall dead at 93

  09-05-2021 16:58
  
  CRAYNOR, Ky. (AP) — Eula Hall, who opened a clinic almost 50 years ago in Appalachia and “never stopped” trying to help others, has died. She was 93. Hall Funeral Home in Martin said Hall, of Craynor in Floyd County, Kentucky, died Saturday at her home. News outlets report she founded the Mud Creek Clinic in 1973, bringing health care to a remote area, and continued working there until she died. Congressman Hal Rogers called Hall one of the region’s “greatest saints
  
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