GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Glens Falls has a "Badder Than Ever" honorary mayor.
Mayor Jack Diamond tells The Post-Star of Glens Falls that Blues rock artist George Thorogood has been named honorary mayor for Friday to show appreciation for including the upstate New York city on his "Still Badder ...
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A suspended University of Southern California football player charged with rape in Utah is set to make his first court appearance Friday.
Osa Masina is accused of sexually assaulting a woman after she passed out following a July party in a Salt Lake City suburb.
...WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) - The newest members of the film academy will cast their first Oscar ballots this season, but the choice for Oscar host - usually decided in October - will be strictly up to Oscar brass.
Yet that didn't stop a few of the new recruits from ...
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BEIJING (AP) - Mi Jung Hur eagled two of the last three holes Friday for a 10-under 63 and a share of the second-round lead with Brooke Henderson in the Reignwood LPGA Classic.
Hur chipped in from 45 feet for eagle on the par-5 16th, lipped out a birdie try ...
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VIENNA (AP) - An Austrian court has begun trying U.S. rapper Freddie Gibbs on charges of sexual abuse.
He was indicted for allegedly exploiting the dazed state of a 17-year old woman whose drinks were possibly spiked to sexually abuse her after a nightclub appearance by Gibbs last year.
Gibbs, ...
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SEATTLE (AP) - The last-place Oakland Athletics fell just short of handing the Seattle Mariners a crushing loss to their playoff hopes.
Mike Zunino delivered the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning and Seattle held on for a 3-2 victory over Oakland on Thursday night, keeping the Mariners on ...
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AMES, Iowa (AP) - As tumultuous as Baylor's offseason was, the Bears' first month under interim coach Jim Grobe has gone relatively smoothly.
No. 13 Baylor (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) is the only team in the league with four wins. Last week it used four turnovers to hold off a ...
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Of all the scenarios she meticulously planned for, this was not one of them.
During her debut as a radio color commentator for Real Salt Lake's USL affiliate, Real Monarchs, Carla Swensen-Haslam was thrust into a spot not many broadcasters have experienced. In the 34th ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's government has approved a plan for a nearly 150 billion yen ($1.5 billion) contract with a joint venture to build a new main stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Officials on Friday said the stadium construction will begin in December, more than a year after an ...
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Luke Winslow-King, "I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always" (Bloodshot)
Luke Winslow-King's electric guitar cries on the song "No More Crying Today," and that contradiction sums up the blues.
Winslow-King has a firm grasp on the charms of the simple but complex genre, and explores them in an impressive variety of ...
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's first crop of industrial hemp is showing promise, with returns better than a lot of other commodities.
Three operations in three counties grew hemp this year under a federally approved research program. The goal is to determine whether hemp can be successful in North ...
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina sheriff plans a news conference to discuss developments in an unsolved case in which four people, including two teenagers, were shot and killed in July 2015.
A task force of local, state and federal investigators was formed last year to investigate the deaths. ...
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WEST ASHLEY, S.C. (AP) - A Berkeley County school bus driver has been arrested on allegations of sexual misconduct with a girl.
Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis tells local media that 30-year-old Kevin Michael Wesley Jr. was recently arrested on charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor 11-14 years ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian club FC Rostov is likely to face a UEFA disciplinary case for fan racism after a banana was thrown onto the field during a Champions League game against PSV Eindhoven.
The FARE Network, which monitors racist incidents for UEFA, says the banana was thrown about eight ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - It seems like a contradiction in terms, but the SiriusXM satellite radio network is launching a talk channel devoted to music.
Volume, a mix of talk shows, interviews and even a quiz show, will debut Oct. 17. Lady Gaga, Robert Plant, David Crosby and T.I. will ...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Todd Rundgren cues up Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band" on his iPad, and as the song plays, he suddenly yells, "More cowbell!" and pantomimes playing one.
Welcome to class with a rock star as the professor.
Titled "Exploring the Creative Muse: Art, Business, ...
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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - It took more than an hour for police to arrive at the shopping center in a San Diego suburb where a distressed black man had been wandering into traffic. It took about a minute for him to be shot and killed.
Alfred Olango pulled a ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - The Navy has investigated the case of a sailor who didn't salute as the national anthem played at Pearl Harbor, in a protest that echoes recent moves by professional athletes to kneel during the anthem. The U.S. Pacific Fleet referred her case to her commander, who has ...
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ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a 27-year-old central New York man was stabbed in the leg during a fight on the campus of Cornell University.
Ithaca Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Monticello says in a release the Dryden man was stabbed Wednesday night on the Stewart Avenue Bridge in ...
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MIAMI (AP) - A day after fans said goodbye, family members and friends of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez were set to attend a private funeral Mass on Thursday.
Fernandez and two friends were killed in a boat crash off South Beach early Sunday morning.
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, manager ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The author of the best-selling "Magicians" fantasy trilogy will next take on the aftermath of King Arthur and Camelot.
Lev Grossman's "The Bright Sword" will begin with the fall of Camelot and will tell of the knights following in the wake of King Arthur, Sir Lancelot ...
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NBA All Star and New Orleans Pelican Anthony Davis was listed as 6-foot-10 just last year, but when he arrived in camp earlier this week, he found out he is still growing, and he's not particularly happy about it.
Davis now measures at 6-foot-11, a height that's just not going ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors was on the cusp of returning to the Asian Champions League final - 10 years after its first - after beating FC Seoul 4-1 at Jeonju World Cup Stadium on Wednesday.
Two strikes from Leanardo and one from Ricardo Lopes put Jeonbuk, ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio rapper who federal authorities say recorded sexually explicit footage of teen girls and edited the footage into music videos has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Eric Chavis pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to produce child pornography. The Columbus rapper on Tuesday ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - One of Russia's top sprinters has been banned for four years for doping.
Mikhail Idrisov has won three national 100-meter titles and took silver with Russia at the 2014 European team championships. The Russian anti-doping agency says he has been handed a four-year ban, backdated to June ...
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MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Marlins have scheduled a public memorial service for pitcher Jose Fernandez, who was killed in a weekend boat crash along with two friends.
The team said in a news release that fans can gather Wednesday along the west side of Marlins Park for the departure ...
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GENEVA, Ind. (AP) - Ken Brunswick, who went from dairy farmer to the champion for restoring portions of the Limberlost Swamp, will receive a Sagamore of the Wabash award, the highest honor a governor can bestow for contributions to the state.
The award will be presented during the Friends of ...
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WUHAN, China (AP) - Svetlana Kuznetsova ousted defending champion Venus Williams 6-2, 6-2 to reach the Wuhan Open quarterfinals on Wednesday.
Kuznetsova dominated Williams from the outset, breaking the American five times. She improved to 5-4 against Williams.
Williams struggled with her serve in the gusty conditions and had seven ...
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Star tennis player Serena Williams says she "won't be silent" about the killing of black men by police officers.
Williams wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that she was inspired to speak out after asking her black 18-year-old nephew to drive her to a meeting. Their car traveled past a police ...
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TOKYO (AP) - A Tokyo government panel reviewing the cost of hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics is set to propose moving more venues outside of the city in order to save money.
Among the venues being reviewed are those for volleyball, swimming, rowing and canoe sprint, Kyodo news agency reported ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A pair of clips teasing Mary J. Blige's interview with Hillary Clinton on her upcoming Apple Music show "The 411" isn't winning over social media users.
The teaser featuring the R&B singer crooning Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin (41 Shots)" before clasping hands with Clinton was mocked ...
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VIENNA (AP) - Austria striker Marc Janko is doubtful for next month's World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Serbia because of a thigh injury.
The Basel forward has not played since picking up the injury two weeks ago, but has been included in the 23-man Austria squad announced Tuesday by ...
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - A Manhattan, Kansas, businessman who once was a backup quarterback at Kansas State faces November sentencing after admitting in court that he had improper sexual contact with a former high school student.
Manhattan radio station KMAN (http://bit.ly/2d1AMSk ) reports that 38-year-old Zachary Burton pleaded guilty Monday ...
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PRAGUE (AP) - The Czech Republic has been hit by injuries in the midfield ahead of next month's 2018 World Cup qualifying games against defending champion Germany and Azerbaijan.
Captain Tomas Rosicky sustained an unspecified injury following his transfer to Sparta Prague from Arsenal, and Hertha Berlin playmaker Vladimir Darida ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - A man accused of scamming the University of Hawaii out of $200,000 for a Stevie Wonder concert that never happened is scheduled to change his plea.
According to court records, Marc Hubbard is scheduled to change his plea Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty in 2013 to a ...
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SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) - The Silver Creek West Dragons youth football team runs a play called 121 Power.
It's a fairly common play in the Wing-T offense and they run it often. The play was a special part of Saturday night's game against Scottsburg because of not only the result, ...
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LONDON (AP) - England manager Sam Allardyce's comments during a newspaper sting will be examined by his employers at the Football Association.
Allardyce, who has only been in charge for one World Cup qualifying match since succeeding Roy Hodgson as England manager, was filmed by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper appearing ...
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) - The newest members of the film academy say the #OscarsSoWhite crisis inspired them to seek membership.
At a private reception Monday for the latest academy inductees, actors Chadwick Boseman and Rita Wilson were among the new members who said they joined the organization to advance ...
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CHASKA, Minn. (AP) - Phil Mickelson has been giving the Ryder Cup a lot of thought lately.
Probably way too much thought, though that's nothing new. Tough not to overthink things when you're always the smartest guy on the first tee.
In Ryder Cups past, that might have signaled trouble ...
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BEIJING (AP) - Marilyn Monroe's dress from "Some Like It Hot." Handwritten notes and letters expressing the Hollywood icon's inner thoughts and, at times, despair.
These and dozens of other personal items the actress left to a friend and mentor were in Beijing on Tuesday for a private viewing by ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The history of the New Orleans Saints now includes another memorable Atlanta Falcons punt in a Monday night game. This one won't be recalled as fondly as Steve Gleason's memorable block nearly 10 years to the day earlier.
The venue, the week, the opponent and the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - NBA players aren't just worried about their teams as they start a new season.
They're concerned for their country.
The usual basketball clichés that dominate media days gave way to serious talk about social injustice and violence in communities, with players wanting to be involved in ...
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Arnold Palmer charged across the golf course and into America's living rooms with a go-for-broke style that made a country-club sport popular for the everyman. At ease with presidents and the public, he was on a first-name basis with both.
He never lost that personal touch. That's what made him ...
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - Japan's Nao Hibino and Kurumi Nara were among the winners on the first day of main-draw play at the WTA Tashkent Open on Monday as both beat junior players.
Fourth-seeded Hibino, the reigning champion, had few problems beating 16-year-old Komola Umarova of Uzbekistan, winning 6-3, 6-1 ...
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BOSTON (AP) - A Salem man convicted of killing an Army veteran during a confrontation in Boston's Theater District 4 ½ years ago faces sentencing.
Peter Castillo is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in Suffolk Superior Court. The 28-year-old Castillo faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole ...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Cristiano Ronaldo's anger could work in Real Madrid's favor.
The Portugal winger was visibly upset when he came off in the 72nd minute of the 2-2 league draw at Las Palmas. Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said he pulled Ronaldo to rest him for Tuesday's match against ...
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LONDON (AP) - A model train and bare buttocks are among artworks nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize.
Work by four shortlisted artists went on display Monday at London's Tate Britain gallery. The show includes Michael Dean's scrap-metal sculptures, Helen Marten's collage-based works, Josephine Pryde's model of a graffiti-covered train ...
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PRAGUE (AP) - Sparta Prague has fired coach Zdenek Scasny after a 2-0 loss to archrival Slavia Prague in the Czech premier league.
The move happened on Monday, one day after Sparta's first loss to Slavia at home since 2008. Angry Sparta fans invaded the field after the game.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the death of Arnold Palmer (all times local):
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The head of the European Tour has credited Arnold Palmer for making golf a truly international sport by playing the British Open in the early 1960s.
Palmer, who won golf's oldest major ...
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GREENUP, Ill. (AP) - At age 62, Barb Ozier fits right in with the Cumberland High School band.
The mother of the high school's band director, she's played trumpet at every home football game this season.
"She helps fill out the sound and adds another body," said Band Director Blake ...
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - John Hussey had an idea. Turned out to be a good one.
The referee and his field judge, Rick Patterson, called over Odell Beckham Jr., then Josh Norman, to warn them that anything close to the shenanigans the receiver and cornerback were involved in last ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Hardly anything ever goes right for Rory McIlroy in the FedEx Cup.
McIlroy won two straight FedEx Cup playoff events in 2012 and was the best player in golf only to watch Brandt Snedeker win the Tour Championship to beat him out of the $10 million bonus. ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Jose Fernandez made his major league debut against the New York Mets in 2013 and was scheduled to face them again Monday night.
Instead, Miami mourns and the Marlins must push on without their ace, who was killed in a boating accident early Sunday.
"Deep in our ...
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Officials say baseball star Jose Fernandez was not wearing life vest when he was killed in boating crash.
MIAMI (AP) - Miami Marlins home game against Atlanta canceled following death of pitcher Jose Fernandez.
MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Marlins have announced the death of ace right-hander Jose Fernandez.
The U.S. Coast Guard says Fernandez was one of three people killed in a boat crash off Miami Beach early Sunday.
The Marlins did not immediately release details, other than releasing a statement confirming the ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Tom Hanks is returning to Cleveland in December to headline the Greater Cleveland Film Commission's annual fundraiser, "Behind the Camera."
Hanks started his professional acting career in Cleveland as an intern at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. He has made a habit of giving back to the ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - When you're Russell Westbrook, the undisputed king of NBA fashion, you don't spend the offseason like a typical player.
The five-time All-Star passes his time designing clothes, perched on the front row for shows during New York Fashion Week or talking style and tennis with Vogue magazine ...
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — If Week 3 on the road against the New York Giants feels familiar, it's because it is.
The Washington Redskins played the Giants at MetLife Stadium last year after starting the season 1-1. Their first possession ended with Tress Way's punt being blocked for a safety, ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Authorities say six people have been injured in an apparent fight in Boston's Theater District and police are looking for a suspect they believe was wounded.
The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2ctOTJX ) reports that police Superintendent Bernard O'Rourke said officers responded to a report of a fight about ...
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HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Hamburger SV sacked coach Bruno Labbadia on Sunday after a poor start to the season with only one point from five matches.
Labbadia was fired despite a tenacious performance by his team in Saturday's 1-0 loss to Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern Munich on a late goal.
Hamburg's ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Lara Arruabarrena of Spain beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-0, 2-6, 6-0 on Sunday to win the Korea Open and claim her second WTA singles title.
After racing through the opening set, Arruabarrena double faulted twice to surrender her serve in the fourth game of ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - When you're Russell Westbrook, the undisputed king of NBA fashion, you don't spend the offseason like typical players do.
The five-time All-Star passes his time designing clothes, perched on the front row for shows during New York Fashion Week or talking style and tennis with Vogue magazine ...
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Jacobi Owens scored on a 1-yard TD run with 5:06 left in the fourth quarter and Air Force opened the Mountain West Conference season with a 27-20 win over Utah State on Saturday night.
Air Force's Haji Dunn Jr. set up Owens' score when he sacked ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Ravaged by injures, the Browns signed kicker Cody Parkey after Patrick Murray injured his knee in practice.
The Browns have been struck by major injuries at a disturbing rate, losing six starters before the season's third game.
Parkey, who previously kicked for Philadelphia, will make his debut ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The whole room smells like eggs, and there's a man wearing only underpants suspended from the ceiling.
Is there a more precise word than underpants that we can use to explain this? What do you call the kind that cover a rear end but not much else? ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has been dropped for the English Premier League game against champion Leicester on Saturday.
Rooney was put on the bench by United manager Jose Mourinho, who said Friday that the striker had not been the same player since he was criticized ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko is staying in charge of football in the country.
He faced down a revolt from coaches and officials critical of tight government control and poor national team performances as Russia prepares to host the 2018 World Cup.
Mutko won by 266 to ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gospel tunes, bluegrass, folk and blues are entertaining museum-goers at the McKissick Museum's fourth annual folk festival at the University of South Carolina.
Blues musician Drink Small joins fellow performers Freddie Vanderford and Mill Billy Blues, the Wilson Banjo Co., the El Shaddai Ambassadors, and Ricky ...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - When two orphaned bear cubs arrived in the care of a New Mexico veterinarian in mid-June, they were dehydrated and weighed little more than human infants, at 8 and 12 pounds.
The small bears had been plucked from treetops in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, ...
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Guy Lafleur turned 65 this week, which is notable in the sense that the Hockey Hall of Famer was still playing in the NHL during Jaromir Jagr's rookie season.
That was 26 years ago.
Another year goes by, another training camp arrives for Jagr, the ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Former champion Caroline Wozniacki beat second-seeded Agnieszka Redwanska of Poland 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday to advance to the final of the Pan Pacific Open.
Radwanska was close to victory, leading 5-3 in the second set, but Wozniacki seized momentum when she broke her opponent twice to ...
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma officer charged with manslaughter surrenders to authorities, is released on $50,000 bond.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Facebook is holding a workshop for New Mexico Hispanic small businesses days after announcing it is building a new data center in the state.
The social media giant and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce are hosting the Albuquerque seminar Friday to show businesses how to ...
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CLARION, Pa. (AP) - A university in northwestern Pennsylvania is allowing students and workers to use nicknames on some campus records, including student identification cards and emails, in an effort to better allow them to express their identities.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2d9739x ) Clarion University says it's the first ...
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - And the envelope, please!
This year's Pyongyang International Film Festival wrapped up Friday with top honors going to - wait for it - a domestically produced feature about a young woman who selflessly devotes herself to raising orphans.
The winner of the "Best Torch Award," ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - Statements from the Arizona Supreme Court equating diaper-changing to child molestation and the provocative social media headlines that followed have left parents nervous that one day they will need an attorney more than a nanny.
A recent court opinion on a Tucson man's appeal of child molestation ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A man took a coconut cream pie from a grocery bag, grabbed Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson from behind and smacked him in the face with it at a charity event, leading the former NBA star to start swinging and then tackle the man who was left ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Brian May, guitarist of British rock group Queen, is taking a stand against Japanese dolphin killing, saying the slaughter of animals should end in the same way society has turned against slavery or witch-burning.
May spoke with The Associated Press on Friday while in Tokyo for a ...
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AMES, Iowa (AP) - The dullest matchup involving a Big 12 team this weekend is a crucial one for Iowa State.
The Cyclones (0-3) are the only winless team left in the league, and their start has left little doubt that victories will be hard to come by in 2016.
...BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Seventeen young filmmakers from around the world gathered in Beverly Hills, California, to utter the six magic words they've been practicing all their lives: "I'd like to thank the academy."
The film academy presented its 43rd annual Student Academy Awards Thursday night, recognizing narrative, documentary, ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Hunter Renfroe had a busy first big league start for the San Diego Padres.
He got his first two hits. He learned that it is indeed a game of inches when he couldn't quite catch Joe Panik's fly ball that went for a double during a ...
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Less than a week after an unarmed black man was shot dead by a white police officer on a Tulsa street, prosecutors charged the officer with first-degree manslaughter, a decision that may prevent unrest in a city with a long history of tense race relations.
Tulsa ...
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BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - Robbie Knievel, the youngest son of late motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, has received a two-year deferred sentence for a drunken-driving crash in Butte.
The Montana Standard reports (https://goo.gl/SpJeiv ) Knievel said in court Thursday he was "definitely guilty" of endangering those who were involved in a ...
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PARIS (AP) - The heir of a New York art-dealing empire, Guy Wildenstein, goes to court in Paris on Thursday for allegedly hiding his family fortune for years in offshore tax havens, with French authorities demanding a staggering 553 million euros ($621 million) in back taxes.
Wildenstein, a 70-year-old Franco-American, ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Auto parts supplier Lear Corp. plans to give Wayne State University $2.5 million to help build an auditorium in the new Mike Ilitch School of Business.
Matt Simoncini, president and CEO of Southfield-based Lear, tells the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/2cJ8x7A ) that the university "has been a ...
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Here are some things to watch in the Atlantic Coast Conference for Week 4:
GAME OF THE WEEK: Pittsburgh at North Carolina. These teams finished 1-2 in the Coastal Division last year, with UNC (2-1) winning 26-19 at Pitt (2-1) en route to an 8-0 ACC record. This matchup is ...
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - University of Mississippi officials are pledging to stock plenty of bottled water to sell to hot, thirsty football fans this weekend.
The Oxford Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2cSox6D ) that water and ice ran short last weekend during the Ole Miss home game against Alabama. Temperatures were in ...
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ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) - A former driver for Uber and Lyft has been charged with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern California investigators said that there are likely more victims.
An 18-year-old college student reported that she was assaulted Friday afternoon after requesting an Uber car ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A man smacked Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a pie at a charity dinner, and an official says the former NBA star went on the defensive.
The mayor had given a speech at the Seeds of HOPE dinner at Sacramento Charter High School ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Kevin Garnett has watched two of his few contemporaries that were remaining in the NBA walk out the door.
Less than a week before the Minnesota Timberwolves open training camp, they still have not heard explicitly if the franchise icon wants to follow Tim Duncan and Kobe ...
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Rutgers Athletic Director Pat Hobbs has apologized after a video of him downing a beer at a school-sponsored tailgate party was posted online.
The video shows Hobbs speaking to the crowd Saturday at a tailgate party dubbed, "The Alley" ahead of the football game against New ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Tickets for this year's Big Blue Madness on Oct. 14 will be available next week, and the University of Kentucky has information for those who want to attend.
The tickets will be available at 10 p.m. Sept. 30 at Memorial Coliseum ticket windows on Avenue of ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Count Adele as among those saddened by the Brangelina divorce.
At her concert in New York on Tuesday night, Adele brought up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's breakup, telling the crowd she had to address "the elephant in the room."
The New York Daily News reports ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose of rape cannot remain anonymous at her upcoming civil trial, a Los Angeles judge ruled.
Lawyers for the woman, who is identified in court documents as Jane Doe, argued that her privacy should be protected because she is vulnerable ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - After building a cushion in the NL West, the Los Angeles Dodgers are still being extremely careful with Rich Hill and his pesky blister.
Hill was pulled after throwing 77 pitches in five effective innings Tuesday night, and the Dodgers lost 2-0 to the San Francisco ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie weren't like other celebrity couples - and not just because they're hugely famous and impossibly good-looking.
Brangelina was different in the way they wielded their massive celebrity power. As a couple, they were popular yet mysterious, skipping the typical Hollywood publicity ...
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SEATTLE (AP) - A string of big hits by the Blue Jays put a dent in the Mariners' fading playoff hopes Tuesday night.
Toronto erupted for eight runs in the fourth inning and J.A Happ became the majors' second 20-game winner, lifting Toronto over Seattle 10-2.
The Mariners have lost ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Adam Rosales homered and drove in four runs, and rookie Ryan Schimpf scored three times to lead the San Diego Padres to a 5-2 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.
The start of the game was delayed 70 minutes by rain. It was only ...
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Georgetown University might have found a basketball promotion more pressure packed than trying to make a shot from halfcourt.
The school is offering a marriage proposal package for its 17 home games this season that includes a money-back guarantee in the event that someone's significant other says no.
Georgetown announced ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Downton Abbey" star Dame Maggie Smith wants Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel to show her where her Emmy is.
Kimmel joked during his Emmy monologue Sunday night that stars had to be present to win under what he called "the Maggie Smith rule." The British actress had ...
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GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - Defending champion Jelena Jankovic marched into the second round of the Guangzhou Open by pasting Chinese qualifier You Xiaodi 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday.
The second-seeded Serbian set up a second-round match against Rebecca Peterson of Sweden.
Unseeded Anett Kontaveit and Peng Shuai also moved ahead after ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince William has talked of 'dark moments' in his job as an air ambulance pilot as he spoke of the strength he takes from the camaraderie of being part of a four-person helicopter crew.
Britain's second-in-line to the throne shared his experiences Tuesday in a BBC documentary ...
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Traverse City commissioners have rejected a project to rebuild a parking lot and boat ramp along the Boardman River.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2cjpbI1 ) that commissioners on Monday had concerns that the proposed design for the new lot, ramp and connecting ramp to ...
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HELSINKI (AP) - A Finnish court has convicted five members of Cuba's national volleyball team of aggravated rape and sentenced four of them to five years in prison. A fifth man was sentenced to 3½ years in prison.
The District Court of Pirkanmaa on Tuesday acquitted a sixth man, who ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Young musicians with the Stax Music Academy are scheduled to perform at the grand opening festival for the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
Members of the academy, which provides after-school music education for teenagers in Memphis, are scheduled ...
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Jharel Cotton was impressive again in his third major league start. He left the game with a lead that didn't last for the Oakland Athletics.
Marwin Gonzalez hit a tiebreaking, two-run single off Ryan Madson in the ninth inning and the Houston Astros came from behind ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - That beleaguered bullpen is a Giant problem for San Francisco.
Adrian Gonzalez hit a game-winning double in the ninth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied past San Francisco for a testy 2-1 victory Monday night that increased their NL West lead to six games.
San ...
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - NASCAR driver Regan Smith has welcomed his second child after skipping this weekend's race in order to be with his wife as she went into labor.
Smith left the Chicagoland Speedway ahead of Sunday's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 and returned home to North Carolina to ...
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Tim Tebow has arrived at the New York Mets' instructional league.
The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback got to the Mets' complex early Monday, with his first workout to begin later in the morning.
He's one of 58 players on the ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Institute of Arts is loaning 20 prints created by Works Projects Administration artists for an exhibition at the Oakland University Art Gallery.
The free exhibition, which also includes prints by Gerald Brockhurst from the collection of Carl F. Barnes Jr. and Anna M. Barnes, opened ...
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Officials are working on a proposal for repairs to the nearly 90-year-old Muncie Fieldhouse, where bleachers are expected to be closed for the high school basketball season over safety concerns.
Muncie schools Superintendent Steven Baule says he hopes to have a renovation proposal ready to present ...
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GLAGSOW, Scotland (AP) - Glasgow club Rangers has suspended Joey Barton for three weeks over a training-ground row following the team's Old Firm derby loss to Celtic.
The 34-year-old Barton was involved in a heated argument involving teammate Andy Halliday in the wake of the 5-1 loss to Celtic.
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DUDLEY, England (AP) - Troubled former England player Paul Gascoigne has pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offense.
The ex-Tottenham and Lazio midfielder admitted used "threatening or abusive words or behavior" toward a black security guard in November at his stage show, "An Evening with Gazza," in Wolverhampton, ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Louisa Chirico of the United States advanced to the second round of the Korea Open with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Duan Ying-ying on Monday.
The eighth-seeded Chirico had eight aces to offset seven double faults and broke her Chinese opponent six times in the ...
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The Emmy Awards had its share of surprises, sure things and Donald Trump jokes. One consistent theme was the continued creative erosion at the top broadcast networks, now merely an afterthought on television's biggest night.
"Game of Thrones" won best drama for the second year in a row on Sunday, ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Simon Tam has openly criticized the Washington Redskins team name as a racist slur that demeans Native Americans.
But Tam and his Asian-American rock band, The Slants, have formed an unusual alliance with the NFL franchise as they both battle the U.S. government over trademark protection for ...
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AUBURN, Maine (AP) - A Maine ad agency is proving there's no hard feelings over losing an account.
Rinck Advertising created an online music video that channels the late country singer Johnny Cash and features the song, "We'll meet again," which was covered by Cash in 2002. The video features ...
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - There may be no stronger hallmark of Southern culture than food.
Across economic classes, racial lines and neighborhoods, the Deep South loves its cuisine as much as its football. Sunday suppers traditionally bring together families and friends to share prayer, stories and ready for the week ...
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Jeffrey the Ghost will be spotted across Selma during the month of October.
Main Street Selma is working with local artist Charlie "The Tin Man" Lucas to display a Jeffrey sculpture across town next month.
Main Street President Clay Carmichael said the sculpture is a way ...
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LANDOVER — The last time the Washington Redskins faced the Dallas Cowboys, it was a meaningless game in Week 17. The Redskins had already clinched the NFC East the week before and cruised to a 34-23 victory before the starters that played were pulled late in the first half.
More ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president has expressed condolences over the death of Iranian para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnejad following an accident during a road race at the Rio Paralympics on Saturday.
In a comment posted Sunday on Twitter, President Hassan Rouhani wrote, "The tragic death of Golbarnejad, our beloved cyclist during ...
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REISTERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - The Maryland National Guard is honoring 12 members who died while serving their country from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event Sunday at Camp Fretterd in Reisterstown includes a wreath-laying ceremony.
Col. Charles Kohler says in a statement ...
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BREMEN, Germany (AP) - Werder Bremen has sacked Viktor Skripnik as coach after starting the season with four straight defeats.
The Bundesliga club says under-23 coach Alexander Nouri is taking over from Monday on an interim basis for the home league games against Mainz and Wolfsburg, assisted by Florian Bruns.
...NEW YORK (AP) - An explosion rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood and injured 29 people, and a suspicious device discovered blocks away was safely removed early Sunday. Mayor Bill de Blasio ruled out any terror connections, but called the blast an "intentional act."
"Tonight, New York City experienced a very ...
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WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) - Francesco de Mura was an artist time forgot.
For 10 years, Winter Park resident Arthur Blumenthal has made it his mission to help the world remember.
All eyes were on the 18th-century Italian artist when the fruits of Blumenthal's labor went on public view Saturday. ...
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Brandon Dawkins ran for three touchdowns and passed for another and Arizona wrapped up nonconference play with a 47-28 victory over Hawaii on Saturday night.
Dawkins, starting in place of injured Anu Solomon for the second straight game, completed 16 of 21 passes for 235 yards ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana president Kelly Krauskopf initially built the fledgling Fever around home-state star Stephanie White.
Turns out, the hard-working rookie she drafted in 2001, Tamika Catchings, emerged as the face of the franchise.
On Sunday, the two most iconic players in Fever history - one now the coach ...
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CARMEL, Ind. (AP) - Ricky Elliott always hoped he could be in the Ryder Cup, the dream of any aspiring golfer from Portrush in Northern Ireland.
He finally got there as a caddie, which is not unusual.
Except that he'll be working for the other team.
"I'll be getting plenty ...
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ZURICH (AP) - Sepp Blatter has been expelled from FIFA but not eradicated from its headquarters.
A swift left turn after entering FIFA's slate-walled lobby in Zurich still takes visitors to the place where football's disgraced self-styled "godfather" is forever president. A plaque of infamy commemorates the FIFA leadership on ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Barcelona's unstoppable trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar all scored to make short work of newly promoted Leganes in the Spanish league on Saturday.
The three stars combined repeatedly in the first half to set the defending champions on their way to a 5-1 ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has nominated a film by the country's Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi for the next Academy Awards.
The Saturday report says the Farabi Foundation, affiliated to Iran's Culture Ministry, chose "The Salesman," which won two prizes at the Cannes film festival in May.
Lead actor Shahab ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Snoop Dogg hosted the BET Hip-Hop Awards for three straight years.
Now, the ultra-smooth West Coast rapper will be honored with the "I Am Hip Hop" award during BET's 11th annual award show Saturday. The event will be videotaped at the Cobb Energy Performing Centre near Atlanta. ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Kelly Krauskopf started constructing the fledgling Indiana Fever around home-state favorite Stephanie White.
Turns out, the hard-working rookie she drafted in 2001, Tamika Catchings, emerged as the face of the franchise.
On Sunday, the two most iconic players in Fever history - one now a coach - ...
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BOONE, N.C. (AP) - It could be said that a hurricane warning is in effect for Boone.
The Miami Hurricanes are in the small town to face the Appalachian State Mountaineers at noon Saturday. The game is expected to draw about 35,000 people to Kidd Brewer Stadium.
Capt. Johnny Brown ...
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - Mary Hanson was going through an odd time in her life, as she describes it.
The Milwaukee resident, now in her sixties, said she'd been losing some friends and relatives.
The news, meanwhile, was filled with election controversies and the racial tumult in her home city.
...ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Jered Weaver only regretted one pitch during his six innings against the Toronto Blue Jays.
The way the Los Angeles Angels are playing this season, one pitch is all it takes to regret an entire night.
Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer, R.A. Dickey pitched scoreless ...
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MONZA, Italy (AP) - An Byeong-hun of South Korea and Scott Jamieson of Scotland moved within one shot of the lead as the weather-delayed first round of the Italian Open was completed on Friday.
Shooting 6-under 65s, An and Jamieson tied for second with local favorite Francesco Molinari behind defending ...
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - The Southern Conference will make a faster decision on whether to pull championships out of North Carolina.
The NCAA announced earlier this week it will move championships out of North Carolina because of a state law that requires transgender people to use the bathroom that matches ...
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MADRID (AP) - Coach Diego Simeone's contract with Atletico Madrid has been reduced by two years.
The club and the coach announced in March a contract extension to 2020, but Simone said on Friday the new deal will end in 2018.
Simeone did not elaborate on the change, but said ...
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ISTANBUL (AP) - Tarik Akan, an acclaimed Turkish actor who earned accolades for the controversial 1982 film "Yol," has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 66.
The Nazim Hikmet Culture and Arts Foundation, of which Akan was a board member, said the actor died early Friday. Turkey's ...
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Japan and Australia took 2-0 leads in their Davis Cup World Group playoffs on Friday, while Rafael Nadal hoped to lead Spain back into the World Group in its match against India.
In need of victory against Ukraine to retain its place in the World Group next year, Japan opted ...
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - One week the Buffalo Bills offense is sputtering. The next it's their defense.
That leaves coach Rex Ryan having plenty of concerns he needs to address two weeks into his second season in Buffalo.
"Well, first off, obviously never expected this," Ryan said, opening his ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Now that North Carolina has lost its NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference championship events for this year, some other states shape up as the next potential battlegrounds in the organization's fight for discrimination-free environments.
The NCAA earlier this week took the unprecedented step of pulling seven ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Christian Colon hit his first career home run, and top prospect Hunter Dozier doubled for his first major league hit.
They both came way too late for the Kansas City Royals to avoid an embarrassing sweep.
Stephen Vogt homered and drove in five runs, Ryon ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The oldest Latino civil rights group in the United States opens every meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, a tradition resulting from a long fight to prove Hispanics belong in this country.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a white father of two says he would ...
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Brandon Marshall feared the worst when a New York Jets trainer escorted him off the sideline to have his left knee examined.
"I thought it was over. I thought I was going to be fishing in my backyard in Florida," the Jets' star receiver said. ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated "animation spots" to encourage tourism - using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where popular "manga" characters are depicted.
Such landmarks number in the tens of thousands, given the popularity and volume of ...
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LONDON (AP) - The surviving Beatles will get together for the British premiere of director Ron Howard's film that documents the band's chaotic years on the road.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will be in London Thursday for the opening of "Eight Days a Week - the Touring Years."
The ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - South Park has taken on the controversy over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest.
Wednesday night's premiere episode of the Comedy Central cartoon's 20th season focused on a protest of the anthem by elementary school children and featured a reboot of a version ...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Theatre Cedar Rapids has postponed its production of the play "Tribes" until it can find deaf actors to play the rules of deaf people.
Some advocates and members of the deaf community had criticized the theater for casting a hearing person in the role of ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Boos reverberated around a far-from-full Etihad Stadium as Manchester City's players lined up for the Champions League anthem before their group game against Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Pep Guardiola already has achieved plenty during his short time at City - seven wins from his first seven games in ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The 2018 Champions League final will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Ukraine's capital Kiev.
UEFA executive committee member Frantisek Laurinec confirmed the decision Thursday, ending year-long negotiations.
Ukraine will host UEFA's highest profile club match less than a month before the 2018 World Cup ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The city of Albuquerque temporarily has taken over an abandoned Albuquerque Route 66 motel and apartment complex made famous in the 2007 movie "No Country for Old Men."
KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reports (https://goo.gl/nKfUBq) the city's "Safe City Strike Force" recently took control of the Desert Sands ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Local favorite Kurumi Nara upset third-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open.
Nara secured the win when she broke Putintseva's serve in the final game of the second set and will next face Jana Cepelova of ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The Colorado Rockies are still waiting for that first major league win from Jeff Hoffman.
A key figure in last year's trade that sent Troy Tulowitzki to Toronto, Hoffman took the loss in his fifth career start Wednesday night, an 11-6 drubbing by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
"I ...
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LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) - The tour bus features a giant photo of a waving, smiling Donald Trump, but the person who steps off it is actor Jon Voight. He's trailed by conservative radio stars and strategists for a super political action committee.
Great America PAC is rolling through battleground ...
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SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - A Charleston-area physician known for his surreal art is giving a talk at Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island.
Not only is Richard "Duke" Hagerty a well-known physician, he is a self-taught artist whose works have been displayed in the Gibbes Museum of Art and featured ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Musician "Trombone Shorty," known for his work to preserve the musical heritage of New Orleans is one of five people being honored Wednesday with $250,000 prizes from the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation.
The Heinz Awards recognize innovative work in the arts, environment, human condition, public policy and ...
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A musical reunion between Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears could be in the works after the singer said he's up for collaborating with his ex-girlfriend.
Spears said "Justin Timberlake is very good" last month while discussing who she would like to work with one day.
When informed of Spears' comments, ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - A man has been charged with murder in a Chicago apartment building fire that killed an infant, two other children and a man.
Police say in a statement that 51-year-old Reginald Hester faces four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of arson. He's scheduled to appear ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Model Cindy Crawford will present Chicago photographer Victor Skrebneski, who once banned her from his studio, the city's Fifth Star Award.
The 86-year-old Skrebneski is famed for his advertising photographs for Estee Lauder, Chanel and Givenchy, and black-and-white portraits of celebrities, including Dennis Hopper, Bette Davis and ...
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MADRID (AP) - It didn't take long for Barcelona to overcome the disappointment of a rare home loss in the Spanish league. All it had to do was reunite its trio of superstars.
With Lionel Messi, Luiz Suarez, and Neymar making their first start together of the season, Barcelona trounced ...
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West Ham was supposed to have hit the jackpot with its relocation to the Olympic Stadium.
Getting the keys to a 60,000-seater arena in a deal largely funded by the British taxpayer opened up new horizons for the Premier League club. Here was an opportunity to increase its match-day capacity, ...
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino has hinted that the men's and women's basketball tournaments in the collegiate sports league could be moved from Asheville.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports (http://avlne.ws/2cDKREk) that Iamarino's comment on Tuesday came one day after the NCAA pulled seven championship events out of ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Michel Platini declared he has a "clear conscience" while bidding farewell to European soccer leaders before they elect his successor as UEFA president.
The former France captain was allowed by FIFA's ethics judge to deliver the UEFA congress speech on Wednesday despite serving a four-year ban ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Eight teachers are in the running to become Virginia's 2017 Teacher of the Year.
Education officials say the eight have been selected Regional Teachers of the Year and will now compete for the state title.
The winner will be named Oct. 17 at the Virginia Museum ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The Colorado Rockies' already slim postseason hopes are fading fast.
The Rockies lost 11-4 to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night and have allowed 23 runs in two straight defeats to lowly Arizona.
The reason why is simple, says manager Walt Weiss.
"We've just got to pitch better," ...
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VIENNA (AP) - The Austrian Football Federation says it still doesn't know who to back in the UEFA presidential election.
Austria and 54 other UEFA members will choose between Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia and Michael van Praag of the Netherlands to replace Michel Platini as president, during a congress in ...
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The older brother of JonBenet Ramsey says the media made his family's life "crazy" after his 6-year-old sister's death 20 years ago.
Burke Ramsey was 9 when his 6-year-old sister JonBenet was found dead in the basement of the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on Dec. 26, 1996. Public suspicion immediately ...
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - A former Native American women's college basketball star, who with her sister generated excitement across Indian Country as Louisville players, has visited the Navajo Nation.
The Gallup Independent reports (http://goo.gl/GVy2U3) Jude Schimmel came to Arizona last week to promote her book, Dreamcatcher, and talk about her ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Francisco Jimenez, a Mexican-American author of "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child," is set to receive the John Steinbeck Award.
The book is published by University of New Mexico Press and is a collection of 12 short stories.
"The Circuit" draws from ...
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BEECHER CITY, Ill. (AP) - During a hot and steamy August morning at the Beecher City park, Carolyn Wendte was doing what she's been doing for nearly 30 years - getting her junior high softball team ready for another season. It'll be her 28th season coaching the Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick Eagles. ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The head of Sony Corp.'s video game division says the Japanese electronics and entertainment company is readying not just games but also music, movies and other kinds of entertainment for its Virtual Reality headgear, set to go on sale next month.
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia President ...
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QUEBEC CITY (AP) - Samantha Crawford of the United States edged Ysaline Bonaventure of Belgium 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-4 in the opening round of the Coupe Banque Nationale on Monday.
The eighth-seeded Crawford finally put the match away in just over two hours after Bonaventure saved two match points ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - Colorado manager Walt Weiss thought he had the right reliever on the mound for a shutdown inning after the Rockies had just taken the lead in the top of the sixth. But things didn't go as planned.
Yasmany Tomas hit his first career grand slam, and the ...
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COMPTON, Calif. (AP) - Long before NWA put the place on the map as the birthplace of gangsta rap and its streets echoed with the sounds of drive-by gunfire, Compton was a cowboy town. And it still is.
Go down any major thoroughfare on most any weekend, and you're likely ...
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - A gospel choir and a soloist from the Mississippi Delta are preparing to sing for members of Congress.
The Coahoma Community College Gospel Choir is made up of high school and college students. The group will perform Thursday in Washington during a gospel extravaganza hosted by ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Opening Ceremony, always game for something different at New York Fashion Week, threw a "Pageant of the People" hosted by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein with a star-studded panel that took on tough issues ranging from personal identity to prison reform.
Staged on Sunday night at ...
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PLYMOUTH, Conn. (AP) - When Mark Simon noticed online that the copy of his book which he had presented to the Terryville Public Library had been checked out for the first time, he was so excited he took a photo of the computer screen.
"I think it said it was ...
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ROME (AP) - The Italian town hardest hit by last month's earthquake has filed a criminal defamation complaint denouncing French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon depicting victims in layers of lasagna.
Amatrice lawyer Mario Cicchetti told The Associated Press he lodged the complaint about the "macabre" cartoons on ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Open champion Angelique Kerber officially has become the oldest woman to debut at No. 1 in the WTA rankings, ending Serena Williams' record-tying run of 186 consecutive weeks in the top spot.
Monday's rankings are the first since February 2013 without Williams at No. 1.
...NEW YORK (AP) - "Saturday Night Live" cast member Pete Davidson is paying tribute to his late father, a New York City firefighter who died while responding to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The comedian was 7 when his father was killed on 9/11.
He posted several photos of his dad ...
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