MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) - A football team that had a live tiger cub mascot on the sidelines for decades before Ohio cracked down on exotic animal ownership will have to wait to repeat the tradition.
Boosters for Massillon's Washington High School had said a live tiger would be brought in ...
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GENEVA (AP) - Organizers of the Eurovision song contest say Portugal and Romania will return as the glitzy, popular show heads to Ukraine's capital of Kiev next year.
The European Broadcasting Union said Monday the May 11-15, 2017 event will have 43 countries taking part, matching the record high.
Portugal's ...
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Four months after getting legally married to Nicole Johnson, Michael Phelps is celebrating in Mexico.
The 23-time Olympic gold medalist shared an Instagram photo Sunday of him walking down the aisle with the former Miss California USA, captioned, "My best friend.... I love you!!" Johnson also shared a picture of ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A massive complex of amusement parks planned in the southern desert of Dubai has opened its first park, a Legoland, complete with models of sheikhdom's architectural wonders.
The interlocking plastic blocks of Legoland, part of the larger Dubai Parks & Resorts project, represent the ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The wife of Russian actor Vladimir Zeldin, who has been described as the world's oldest working actor, says that he has died in Moscow. He was 101.
Russian news agencies quoted his wife, Ivetta Kapralova, as saying he died early Monday in a Moscow hospital.
The actor ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - One way or another, there will be a championship celebration in Cleveland.
Still to be determined? Whether the Indians or Cubs will be popping the champagne.
The Cubs won a World Series game at Wrigley Field for the first time since 1945 and at least delayed Cleveland's ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Success was practically stamped on Kris Bryant's DNA.
Long and lean, the son of a former minor leaguer was on almost everybody's All-America team in high school and college and validated that promise quickly by grabbing the National League Rookie of the Year trophy last season at ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has warned against excluding outsiders and rewriting history as he accepted the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
Murakami spoke Sunday in Odense, Denmark, the birthplace of the 19th century fairy tale writer. His speech titled "The Meaning of Shadows" cited Andersen's dark fantasy, ...
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DENVER (AP) - After another head-scratcher of a loss - most of them have been like that for San Diego this season - Philip Rivers did what he often does. He looked at the bright side.
"This feels a little like 2007 to me," he said.
If only that were ...
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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) - As evening approaches in Iraq's northern city of Irbil, TV presenter Bakr Mahmoud Mahdi prepares to go live with a show called "Freedom Studio," which he says allows victims of war to vent.
His callers - and there have been fewer of them lately - are ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The calls don't come to Sherrie Deans more frequently, though they come with different questions.
NBA players who may have asked about their charities have shifted their concern to their communities.
"Now they're being faced with a really serious, aggressive social issue that for some of ...
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LONDON (AP) - Key starters on the banged-up Washington Redskins are active for Sunday's game in London versus the healthy Cincinnati Bengals.
Cornerback Josh Norman, tight end Jordan Reed, left tackle Trent Williams and wide receivers DeSean Jackson and Jamison Crowder all had been listed as questionable following Friday's training ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - At a Mardi Gras past, New Orleans photographer and jazz pianist Henry Butler heard the jingle jangle of a costumed person strolling by.
Butler, who is blind, quickly turned his camera toward the sound to snap a lively pic of that street music from a person ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York's Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover's ashes, police say.
The freakish incident during a Saturday afternoon performance of Rossini's "Guillaume Tell" forced Met officials to cancel the rest of the show ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama of Japan never gave anyone a chance Sunday, closing with a 6-under 66 to win the HSBC Champions and become the first Asian winner in the 18 years of the World Golf Championships.
It was only fitting that Matsuyama won the WGC billed as "Asia's ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Shanshan Feng won the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia on Sunday to cap a string of top finishes that started with an Olympic bronze medal.
The 27-year-old Chinese star beat Suzann Pettersen by three strokes at TPC Kuala Lumpur, shooting a 4-under 67 after finishing off ...
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Christian McCaffrey returned to his tackle-eluding form, accounting for 225 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns to lead Stanford to a 34-10 victory over Arizona Saturday night.
McCaffrey was limited to 92 yards on 21 carries against Colorado in his return to the lineup last week. The ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - The T-shirt in the window of a shop on Damen Avenue elicited plenty of nervous laughs from Cubs fans before Game 4.
It read: "If We Lose, It's Rigged."
While it's unlikely that line from GOP candidate Donald Trump's stump speech will catch on in a deep-blue, ...
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VIENNA (AP) - Defending champion David Ferrer pulled out of the Erste Bank Open with a left leg injury on Saturday, shortly before his semifinal against top-seeded Andy Murray.
Tournament director Herwig Straka said Ferrer was visiting a private clinic where doctors advised him not to play. Further details on ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - When you think of Garth Brooks, lots of things spring to mind. While it's unlikely that sports is one of those, perhaps it should be.
The country music star, in town recently for several shows at the Charleston Civic Center, took part in a youth basketball ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Jack Nelson wandered downstairs from his office at the Virginia Historical Society to peek at the new exhibition on Thomas Jefferson before it opened to the public.
Museum staff members weren't quite finished with the installation, so the lighting wasn't perfect and not everything was in ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - It's been four years since New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put on his blue fleece pullover and got to work dealing with Superstorm Sandy.
A few days after the storm made landfall in Atlantic City on Oct. 29, 2012, Christie threw presidential politics to the remnants ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Shanshan Feng birdied four of her final six holes after a long lightning delay Saturday to top the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia leaderboard when darkness suspended play.
The 27-year-old Chinese player had a one-stroke lead over fellow major champion Anna Nordqvist of Sweden. Feng was ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Matt Kuchar stood on the tee at the par-3 17th hole waiting his turn to hit when his caddie noticed the fine print.
The shiny Cadillac nearby indicated that it would be awarded to whoever made a hole-in-one during the HSBC Champions. There was just one catch. ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him "speechless."
The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan himself contacted them and said "of course" he would accept the prize. Danius told Sweden's ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama of Japan took advantage of the par 5s for a 4-under 68 and kept his three-shot lead in the HSBC Champions on Saturday.
Matsuyama played bogey-free at Sheshan International for the first time all week. He didn't produce as many birdies, picking up three of ...
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WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - From "gamifying" popular works of literature, to pitching invention ideas in "Shark Tank" productions, area school districts are rethinking how to get beyond homework and traditional lectures to engage students.
Teachers at Avella, Burgettstown, Canon-McMillan and Carmichaels have offered up how they're reworking class time to ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Rich Buhrke has been chasing down baseballs outside Wrigley Field since 1959. He used to tell the rest of us ballhawks when we left for jobs far from Chicago that one day we'd find our way back to the corner of Waveland and Kenmore.
In my case, ...
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Some of your favorite, inspirational books might have Boulder ties.
The city is home to what's said to be the largest publisher of English-language Buddhist books in the world - although this publishing house is far from limited to only Buddhist topics. The focus: books that ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - While Angelique Kerber was winning her third straight match at the WTA Finals, she glanced courtside and noticed three famous spectators in the crowd - Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles.
Kerber, ranked No. 1 in the world and a two-time Grand Slam champion, took it ...
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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri says he isn't interested in seeing Gonzalo Higuain score every match.
After his Italian-record 90 million euro ($100 million) transfer, Higuain faces former club Napoli on Saturday on a four-match scoring drought.
Allegri says "he's already scored seven goals and at Juve ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Svetlana Kuznetsova ended up in first place in the White Group despite losing to Garbine Muguruza 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 on Friday at the WTA Finals.
Kuznetsova, who had already qualified for the semifinals, finished the round robin with a 2-1 record. Muguruza had already been eliminated and ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The estate of a Mississippi blues musician has filed a lawsuit against Eric Clapton, accusing the Hall of Fame guitarist of giving a songwriting credit to the wrong artist.
The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2e3xcEY ) reports a lawsuit filed in Nashville federal court says Eric Clapton attributed the ...
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LONDON (AP) - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says forward Lucas Perez is out for up to eight weeks with ankle ligament damage.
Perez was hurt in the 2-0 win over Reading in the League Cup on Tuesday.
The Spanish forward has been on the fringes of the team since joining ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An insurance company that paid more than $2.8 million in claims after an arson fire damaged a historic Memphis music recording studio has now accused a rock music label company of fraud and wants its money back.
The Commercial Appeal (http://memne.ws/2fdipdq ) reports that Hanover American ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Titans head into the second half of the season believing they're right in the playoff mix now that they've already exceeded their win total from last year.
For Gus Bradley and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the future is much less certain.
Marcus Mariota threw two ...
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The next two weeks are going to make fantasy football players earn their spots in the standings, with six teams on byes each of the next two weeks.
Fantasy owners will have to plan very well to fill in for many of their idle starters, and some injuries won't make ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sam Darnold threw five touchdowns passes, Ronald Jones rushed for a career-high 223 yards and Southern California downed California 45-24 on Thursday night.
Darnold threw for 231 yards, with Darreus Rogers making six catches for a career-high 97 yards, as the Trojans rolled up a season-high ...
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Six years ago, Scott Porter was filming his grandmother telling her life history when she reminisced about watching German prisoners of war get off the bus.
It was the 1940s. Karla Cottrell was living on her family's farm in the little northern Utah town of ...
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No. 3 Clemson (7-0, 4-0 ACC) at No. 12 Florida State (5-2, 2-2), 8 p.m. (ABC)
Line: Clemson by 4½.
Series Record: Florida State leads 20-9.
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Clemson has won 21 straight regular-season games, but is 3-12 in games at Doak Campbell Stadium. The Tigers are in prime ...
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PARIS (AP) - The prosecutor office in Paris says Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is being held in police custody in the capital on suspicion of sexual assault.
Lamjarred, 31, was arrested on Wednesday in Paris, the prosecutor office said without giving details. French police declined comment. Moroccan and French media ...
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LONDON (AP) - The British government has condemned the latest disorder at the Olympic Stadium and says it hopes it doesn't spark a return to the "dark days" when fan violence blighted soccer in England.
Seats, coins and bottles were hurled as rival fans clashed in London on Wednesday in ...
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PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) - Michael Phelps can add getting married to his long list of accomplishments this year.
The Arizona Republic reports the 31-year-old Olympic swimming champion secretly married longtime girlfriend Nicole Johnson on June 13, a little more than a month after the former Miss California USA gave ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Dominika Cibulkova won her first match at the WTA Finals on Thursday, and still has a chance to reach the semifinals.
Cibulkova beat Simona Halep 6-3, 7-6 (5) and will advance if Angelique Kerber beats Madison Keys in straight sets in the later match.
Both Cibulkova and ...
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MADRID (AP) - The Spanish league is off to a tight race atop the standings, with five teams separated by only three points. Yet, most of the talk entering the weekend is about whether Cristiano Ronaldo will end his scoring slump.
Real Madrid leads the league ahead of its match ...
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HIGHLAND, Ind. (AP) - Bob Zondor grew up on 120th Street in Whiting during the 1930s and '40s. The blue-collar roots taught the boy to be tough, work hard and to never give up.
Zondor, a 78-year-old now living in Highland, has another memory from those days that burns like ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Celebrity chef Rick Bayless is being honored at the Smithsonian for his contributions to American dining.
Bayless will receive the second annual Julia Child Award from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. The award will be presented Thursday at a gala devoted to ...
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A few things to watch in Week 9 of the Southeastern Conference football season:
GAME OF THE WEEK: No. 14 Florida vs. Georgia at Jacksonville, Florida: Florida still controls its destiny in the East race but may need to win out to get to Atlanta because it would lose a ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Pixar executive who won the first ever Oscar for software is taking over a U.S. government agency responsible for improving federal digital technology.
Rob Cook, whose credits include "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2," will become commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service on Oct. 31. ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Atlanta Hawks have given new starting point guard Dennis Schroder a four-year contract extension.
The Hawks committed to Schroder by trading Jeff Teague to Indiana in the offseason and added to the commitment with the deal Wednesday that matches the four-year contract given to small forward ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Former Chicago and Boston Marathon winner Rita Jeptoo has had her doping ban doubled to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In a ruling published Wednesday, the CAS judging panel stripped Jeptoo of her 2014 win in Boston, plus results, prize and appearance ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Comcast's profit rose 12 percent in the July-September quarter thanks to the Olympics and the first third-quarter gains in video subscribers in a decade.
NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke has said that the company made over $250 million in Rio as ad sales rose, even though Olympics ...
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OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) - Two Roman Catholic priests in rural northwestern Ohio are at odds this week over the World Series.
The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians flags flying outside the rectory in Ottawa where they live tell the story.
One priest is a Chicago native. The other grew up ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told Fox News host Megyn Kelly she is "fascinated with sex" amid criticism of her coverage of sexual misconduct accusations against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The heated exchange came Tuesday night on Kelly's program. Kelly responded to Gingrich's ...
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Ciara is expecting her first child with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, three months after the couple tied the knot.
Both stars announced the pregnancy by sharing the same photo on Instagram on Tuesday night. Ciara, who turned 31 Tuesday, says she is "excited to Finally share one of the ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Richmond International Airport has recorded its busiest September ever with more than 300,000 passengers.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2eKEXPB) that total passenger traffic at the airport was up nearly 4 percent last month compared with September of last year. This September's passenger count was 301,895.
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Rory McIlroy didn't have to check his bank account to know that his FedEx Cup bonus had been deposited.
His caddie, J.P. Fitzgerald, informed him with a text message.
"I think his words were, 'A tsunami just hit my bank account, so thank you very much,'" McIlroy ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A well-regarded San Francisco filmmaker and community activist arrested in connection with a fatal shooting won't immediately face criminal charges, prosecutors said.
The district attorney's office found insufficient evidence to immediately press charges against Kevin Epps, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday (http://bit.ly/2dHyYsf ).
Epps, 48, ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Instead of ending his year in the Bahamas, U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson is headed to the Philippines for an 18-hole match against Rory McIlroy geared toward raising money for charity.
McIlroy was supposed to play Jason Day in an exhibition called "Battle for a Cause" until ...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - German sporting goods maker Adidas says it is stopping financial aid to the national anti-doping agency as of the end of the year.
Adidas spokesman Oliver Brueggen says the company told the anti-doping agency in the spring that it will not renew the contract, which is ...
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CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) - Prince's Paisley Park recording studio and home will begin operating as a permanent museum this week, following a Minnesota city council rezoning vote.
The Chanhassen City Council signed off on the rezoning request Monday, but also will require a traffic study to address concerns from council ...
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MADRID (AP) - FIFA says it will again fine Spain's soccer federation for breaking transfer rules concerning underage players from abroad.
FIFA says the federation has "violated several provisions" involving minors who were signed by Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, clubs which this year were banned from registering players during ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has extended the deadline through Jan. 16 for private investors interested in buying the downtown Phoenix baseball stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Negotiations for potential buyers of Chase Field had been scheduled to end Oct. 31.
The supervisors agreed Monday to ...
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan fishery managers are preparing for the second year of an annual survey to track the muskellunge population in Lake St. Clair.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says the survey focuses on juvenile muskellunge populations and is meant to help determine what the fishery might ...
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Deke Sharon, vocal producer for the film "Pitch Perfect," the television competition "The Sing Off" and the a cappella show Vocalosity, stopped by Wednesday afternoon to talk with Ken Upchurch's choir class at Jackson Creek Middle School.
Deke Sharon is the producer for NBC's "The Sing-Off" ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Barack Obama entertained Jimmy Kimmel's audience with some of the mean tweets sent his way, beginning with one sent by Donald Trump in August when he said "President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States."
Obama's ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates and Lupita Nyong'o shared life lessons with three generations of actresses at Elle magazine's 23rd annual Women in Hollywood awards.
The Oscar winners were recognized alongside Amy Adams, Felicity Jones, Anna Kendrick, Aja Naomi King and Kristen Stewart at a dinner ceremony ...
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MIAMI (AP) - The offseason is over. And only 1,230 games are left until the playoffs start.
So, before they raise that banner in Cleveland and the season finally begins Tuesday night, let's empty the notebook and go over 10 more things to know going into this NBA season:
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...Move over Ezekiel Elliott, Jay Ajayi is the NFL's best running back.
Ajayi tied a league record by surpassing 200 yards rushing for the second straight game, helping the Miami Dolphins win two in a row.
Ajayi ran for 214 yards in a win over Buffalo after totaling 204 ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Cannes-winning Brillante Mendoza is among the three directors tapped by the Tokyo International Film Festival to create "Reflections," a trilogy that depicts the intertwining of stories among Asian nations.
Be it a Filipino worker in Japan or a Japanese bureaucrat in love with a Cambodian woman, the ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's management and musicians union have agreed to let an independent expert assess the organization's finances in hopes of ending a musician's strike that began Sept. 30.
Management is seeking a 15-percent wage cut, plus pension concessions saying that's necessary to keep the symphony ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden will be in Pittsburgh campaigning for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday while rocker Jon Bon Jovi will play a concert supporting the Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday.
Biden is scheduled to speak at Chatham University at 11:30 a.m. for what's billed as a Get ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - NBA TV personality Kristen Ledlow says she was robbed at gunpoint at her home.
The host of "NBA Inside Stuff" said on Twitter and Instagram Sunday that she was held up the day before "by three men who knew who I was, where I lived and were ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Olympic figure skating champion and commentator Scott Hamilton has been diagnosed with a third brain tumor.
People magazine reports Hamilton has been diagnosed with a benign pituitary tumor.
In a video for People magazine, the 58-year-old Hamilton joked that he has "a unique hobby of ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Smithsonian officials are "over the rainbow" after reaching their fundraising goal to help preserve the ruby slippers from "The Wizard Oz."
The Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign last week to raise $300,000 to help preserve the slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas at the end of ...
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Hundreds of young baseball players and their families are expected to participate in a national championship tournament sponsored by Baseball for All next summer in Rockford.
The girls' tournament is planned for July 27 through Aug. 1. Baseball for All is a nonprofit organization that works ...
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CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. (AP) - A ship that once towed warships to safety during World War II and battled 40-foot waves to help rescue seven people in what was portrayed in the book and film "The Perfect Storm" is poised to be sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware ...
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's poet laureate, George Ella Lyon, is collecting poems from each of the state's counties for her "'Where I'm From': A Poetry of Place" project.
The collection is fashioned on Lyon's 1993 poem. The Kentucky Arts Council says the poem has been used as a model ...
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BEIJING (AP) - The Canbot can say its name, respond to voice commands, and "dance" as it plays Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Other robots China is displaying at the World Robot Conference can play badminton, sand cell phone cases and sort computer chips.
China is showcasing its burgeoning robot industry ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio art museum says it has completed a $320 million capital campaign that paid for its yearslong expansion from 389,000 square feet to 588,000 square feet.
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports (http://bit.ly/2f7r14L ) the Cleveland Museum of Art made the announcement on Saturday at its ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Tipping off an NBA season isn't new to Frank Vogel, yet this year is a different for the veteran coach.
The always optimistic Vogel is preparing to begin a new era with the Orlando Magic after being unceremoniously dismissed by the Indiana Pacers. He is embracing ...
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Officials with the Travelers Championship golf tournament say this summer's PGA event raised more than $2.8 million for charity.
That is the highest amount in the history of the tournament, which began in 1952.
The tournament's primary charitable beneficiary was the ALS Clinic at the Hospital ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Murray will get the sort of attention he doesn't usually seek out when he's honored with the nation's top prize for humor.
The notoriously elusive and publicity-shy actor will be at the Kennedy Center on Sunday to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The ...
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LONDON (AP) - Robbie Gould took the field as a New York Giant for the first time Sunday as the former Bears kicker made his debut in place of scandal-hit Josh Brown, currently on the NFL commissioner's exempt list.
Both teams' defenses face depth concerns in London. The Giants are ...
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The result of about 10 years of work was presented to the public July 23.
That's when sculptor Jamie Lester's statue of the late actor and Morgantown native Don Knotts was unveiled along High Street in front of the Metropolitan Theatre in Morgantown.
Knotts (July 21, ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Third-seeded Simona Halep won the first match of the WTA Finals by taking a 6-2, 6-4 round-robin victory over sixth-seeded American Madison Keys.
Keys, a newcomer to the top 10, is making her year-end debut this week. She played erratic tennis throughout the 69-minute match, losing serve ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Organizers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar say that a worker has died in a "work-related" incident at a stadium building site.
No further details of the cause of the death at the Wakrah Stadium on Saturday were released. The Supreme Committee tasked with building ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Hertha Berlin has criticized supporters who displayed a large homophobic banner during the side's Bundesliga win over Cologne on Saturday.
The banner, approximately 50 meters (yards) long, said, "WH96: Rather a mother than two fathers!"
It was apparently directed at a Cologne ultra group called Die Wilde ...
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MADRID (AP) - Valencia coach Cesare Prandelli was not surprised that the controversial calls went Barcelona's way.
The former Italy manager said it happens all over the world: The big teams always seem to get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to refereeing. He saw that it's no ...
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Ashley Fox doesn't look that different from the other ballet students waiting for class at Kirkland's International Ballet Theatre.
Hair pulled back, wearing warmups and big slippers, she laughs and talks with the rest, with a slightly faraway look.
But something is about to set her ...
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Kent Myers passed for 188 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 66 yards to help Utah State beat Fresno State 38-20 on Saturday night.
Utah State (3-4, 1-3 Mountain West) never trailed but allowed the Bulldogs (1-7, 0-4) within 17-14 after a touchdown late in ...
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BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) - Tottenham's second-half pressure failed to yield a goal in a 0-0 draw at Bournemouth in the English Premier League on Saturday as the title contender dropped points for the second straight game.
Spurs remain the only unbeaten team in the league after nine games but missed ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Svetlana Kuznetsova secured the last spot at the WTA Finals in Singapore after defeating Daria Gavrilova of Australia 6-2, 6-1 Saturday to retain her Kremlin Cup title.
The top-seeded Russian saved six of the seven break points she faced and converted six of her eight opportunities to ...
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STOCKHOLM (AP) - A member of the Swedish Academy that awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan says the U.S. singer-songwriter's silence since receiving the honor is "impolite and arrogant."
Per Wastberg said Dylan's lack of reaction was predictable but disrespectful nonetheless. He was quoted telling the ...
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BEIJING (AP) - China has hired World Cup-winning manager Marcello Lippi to head its national football team.
China's football association on Saturday formally announced the hiring of the 68-year-old Lippi, who guided Italy to the 2006 World Cup title.
It's the latest move by China in a national push to ...
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HAINAN, China (AP) - Jessica Korda made up seven strokes on Minjee Lee on Saturday for a share of the Blue Bay LPGA lead. Ariya Jutanugarn made up even more ground to get into the final group Sunday at Jian Lake.
Korda shot a 6-under 66 in hot, mostly calm ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Shinzo Koroki scored both goals on Saturday as Urawa Reds beat Albirex Niigata 2-1 to maintain its lead in the J-League.
Koroki put the visitors ahead in the seventh minute and sealed the win in the final minute of regulation as Urawa improved to 37 points, six ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Madison Keys is the first American outside of Serena and Venus Williams to earn a berth at the year-end WTA Finals in more than a decade.
The last American other than a Williams to play at the season-ending tournament was Lindsay Davenport, a former coach to Keys, ...
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After mishandling Ray Rice's domestic violence incident two years ago, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said "I got it wrong" and vowed "the same mistakes can never be repeated."
It doesn't appear the league learned its lesson.
The NFL placed kicker Josh Brown on paid leave Friday, a day after re-opening ...
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ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Most people opt to make a transatlantic sea voyage on a cruise ship.
Matt Kent, the U.S. Brig Niagara's fourth mate, plans to sail the Atlantic Ocean in 2017 in a boat measuring just 3 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 6 inches.
If successful, Kent, ...
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EWING TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - State police say the general manager of a company that operates radio stations in New Jersey complimented a state trooper in a letter after he was ticketed for speeding.
The agency wrote on its Facebook page Thursday that Dave Coskey praised the trooper's attitude after ...
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HAINAN, China (AP) - Minjee Lee patiently navigated Jian Lake's undulating greens again Friday to stretch her lead to six strokes in the Blue Bay LPGA.
Already a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, the 20-year-old Australian followed her opening 7-under 65 with a bogey-free 67 in windier afternoon conditions ...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The head of the National Endowment for the Humanities is visiting New Mexico to celebrate and study Native American culture.
Chairman William Adams will be touring the School of Advanced Research's Indian Arts Research Center, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Institute ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - For all Candace Parker had accomplished on the court, that glowing resume had one glaring omission - a WNBA title.
The championship she'd been chasing with Los Angeles since the Sparks made her the first pick in the 2008 draft was all the more special at the ...
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MINSK, Belarus (AP) - The president of Belarus says his country is ready to host the 2019 European Games.
President Alexander Lukashenko says "Belarus is prepared to host the Second European Games in 2019." He spoke following a meeting in Minsk, the capital which would be the host city, with ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia's delegate to Congress will be reuniting with her one-time TV nemesis, Stephen Colbert.
Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton made several appearances on Colbert's previous show on Comedy Central. Colbert played a conservative pundit, and the two sparred memorably about the District's lack of ...
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield returns to Lubbock to play for the first time since he transferred from Texas Tech three years ago.
The redshirt junior from Austin will lead the No. 16 Sooners when they meet the Red Raiders on Saturday night. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops ...
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) - There have long been complaints about the lack of women in the tech industry. Now there's a towering female figure, in a tech park across the bay from San Francisco, although not quite what some people had in mind.
A 55-foot tall statue of a ...
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For Golden State, 73 is irrelevant. Only one number matters, and it's 16.
The Warriors' chase of being the greatest team in NBA history last season fell short in a big way, when the team that posted the best regular-season record of all time blew a 3-1 lead in the ...
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Brett Rypien threw for 442 yards and three touchdowns as No. 14 Boise State overcame five turnovers to hold off BYU 28-27 Thursday night.
The Broncos (7-0), who won their 23rd straight non-conference home game, needed a stout defensive performance and a blocked field goal to ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Lady Gaga returned to the New York City bar where she performed years ago as an unsigned act on the eve of her new album's release, singing rock and pop songs for an audience including Robert De Niro, Helen Mirren, die-hard fans and music industry insiders.
...MONTREAL (AP) - The national anti-doping agencies of Azerbaijan, Brazil, Greece, Guatemala and Indonesia risk being suspended next month unless they fall into compliance with global standards.
The World Anti-Doping Agency says a review panel found the five countries are currently non-compliant with the global anti-doping code.
WADA says the ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Glance at the Champions League standings and it would seem all is just fine at Leicester City this season.
Three matches. Three wins. No goals conceded.
If only the defense of its English Premier League title was going so well.
Few expected Leicester to replicate the ...
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A federal court jury has found an Arizona man guilty on marijuana trafficking charges in New Mexico.
Prosecutors say 57-year-old John Wayne Hargrove, of Pearce, was convicted Tuesday after a two-day trial in Las Cruces.
Hargrove and four Mexican nationals were arrested in February on ...
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MILAN (AP) - An American artist has a standing order of several hundred thousand Lego bricks monthly to create life-size sculptures that have traveled the globe.
Nathan Sawaya opened "The Art of the Brick" exhibit in Milan on Wednesday, featuring 75 Lego creations, both original pieces and replicas of masterpieces, ...
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A former Starkville Academy baseball coach has pleaded guilty to charges that he tried to lure children for sexual purposes.
Local news outlets report 31-year-old Jody Wayne Britt pleaded guilty Monday in Oktibbeha County to two counts of luring a child to engage in sexually explicit ...
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Team-by-team capsules for the NBA's Eastern Conference, listed alphabetically within divisions:
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ATLANTIC DIVISION
BOSTON CELTICS
LAST SEASON: 48-34, lost in Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
COACH: Brad Stevens (fourth season, fourth NBA season).
PROJECTED STARTING FIVE: F Jae Crowder (14.2 ppg), F Amir Johnson (7.3 ppg), C Al Horford (15.2 ppg), ...
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Here are some things to watch in the Atlantic Coast Conference for Week 8:
GAME OF THE WEEK: North Carolina State at No. 7 Louisville looks like the best game on an extremely light schedule that has only three games on Saturday. The Wolfpack (4-2, 1-1) missed a chance to ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Trailing in the polls, Donald Trump had little to lose in his final debate against Hillary Clinton. He still managed to send shock waves, refusing to say he would accept the results of the 2016 election if he loses.
Trump largely steered clear of making personal ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The two Louisiana co-defendants in the drug and rape case that brought down one-time NFL star Darren Sharper are set for sentencing in federal court in New Orleans.
Erik Nunez, a former restaurant worker, and Brandon Licciardi (lih-CHAR-dee) a former suburban sheriff's deputy, pleaded guilty to ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - When talking to SEC coaches, the list of reasons why the league hasn't had a bigger presence recently in the NCAA Tournament is long:
Weak scheduling. Backlash for football dominance. Poor recruiting. Coaching turnover.
Now, coaches say they've addressed all those hurdles but have one more ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - As much as Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis wishes otherwise, a decision on allowing him to move his franchise to Las Vegas isn't likely to come anytime soon.
That's not to say it won't happen. Several team owners are ready to support the relocation if the right ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi will be in Pittsburgh next week to play a "Get Out The Vote" concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Details including the location, time and how to get tickets for the Oct. 27 show haven't been released. Clinton's ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - A wrist injury killed off Carla Suarez Navarro's hopes of qualifying for the WTA Finals as the Spanish player retired while facing Australian Daria Gavrilova in the Kremlin Cup on Wednesday.
Needing to win the Kremlin Cup to qualify for the elite, year-end competition in Singapore, Suarez ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Moore has premiered a surprise film discussing the presidential election just three weeks before Americans head to the polls.
Moore debuted "Michael Moore in TrumpLand" in New York on Tuesday night in front of an audience of his fans.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The 2017 weightlifting world championships have been moved to Anaheim, California, after the Malaysian city of Penang pulled out of hosting the event.
The International Weightlifting Federation says Penang withdrew because of unspecified "difficulties."
It will be the second consecutive time the United States hosts the ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A renowned nature and food writer is speaking at the University of South Carolina about intersections between food production and culture.
Gary Paul Nabhan speaks Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Gambrel Hall. His talk is free and open to the public.
His writings include titles such ...
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OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway's anti-doping agency says defending cross-country World Cup champion Therese Johaug has been suspended for two months after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
Johaug, one of Norway's most decorated female cross-country skiers, tested positive for the steroid clostebol. The Norwegian ski federation said the drug ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The rape lawsuit trial of NBA star Derrick Rose is heading to the jury.
A Los Angeles panel is scheduled to begin deliberating Wednesday in a suit that claims Rose and two friends gang-raped his ex-girlfriend in 2013 at her Los Angeles apartment after she passed ...
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TOKYO (AP) - IOC President Thomas Bach on Wednesday rejected calls to expand four-party talks aimed at reducing the costs of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Bach said negotiations between the International Olympic Committee, Tokyo organizers, the city government and Japan's central government should result in cost reductions.
Tokyo governor Yuriko ...
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KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) - Veterinarians hope an innovative type of CT scan can advance medical care for horses and possibly be adapted for humans, eliminating the need for people to lie still inside a tube.
Robotic CT at the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary school allows a horse to remain ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The late rapper Tupac Shakur and Seattle-based rockers Pearl Jam are among the first-time nominees on the ballot for induction next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Nine of the 19 acts nominated are on the ballot for the first time, with Shakur ...
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GREELEY, Neb. (AP) - A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he burglarized the home of the brother of the late Nebraska punter Sam Foltz.
Thirty-eight-year-old Scott Davis, of Lennox, South Dakota, entered the pleas Monday in Greeley County District Court.
Authorities say Davis broke into the home ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Officials say a fire that damaged electrical wiring at Marshall University's football stadium has been ruled arson.
The Herald-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2egbPPN ) state Fire Marshal's spokesman Tim Chastain says they're offering a $5,000 reward to those with information leading to an arrest in connection with the ...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The city of Montgomery has moved a statue of country singer Hank Williams to a more visible spot.
News outlets report that the statue had overlooked City Hall on Perry Street since it was donated to the city by Hank Williams Jr. in 1991.
On Monday ...
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JASPER, Ind. (AP) - Students at Jasper High School watched a stallion form from clay this week as Phoenix sculptor Phillip Payne began his two-week residency at the school.
Although Payne has done residencies at several art galleries, he has never done one at a high school. Thursday he spoke ...
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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A former high school coach will serve 30 years in prison after being found guilty of molesting a student.
News outlets report a jury convicted Danielle DeWitt on two counts of unlawful touching of a child for lustful purposes. She was found not guilty ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The ruby slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas in three clicks are looking a little down at the heels, prompting the Smithsonian to launch a $300,000 online campaign to conserve them.
Museum officials started a Kickstarter fundraising drive Monday to repair the iconic slippers from 1939's ...
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SALEM, Mass. (AP) - A former mixed martial arts instructor from Salem has been found guilty of charges he repeatedly abused his girlfriend, leaving her disfigured and nearly blind.
The Salem News (http://bit.ly/2edc4NJ ) reports that 40-year-old Joseph Louf was convicted in Salem on Monday of mayhem, maiming and assault ...
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TORONTO (AP) - Michael Saunders was born in Victoria, British Columbia - about as close to Seattle as you can get without being in the United States.
Yet when it came to his baseball allegiance growing up, nationality mattered at least as much as geography.
"Proximity-wise, I guess everyone felt ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Months before Derrick Rose took the stand to defend himself in the lawsuit claiming he and two buddies gang raped an ex-girlfriend while she was intoxicated, the NBA star was asked if he understood the word consent.
"No. But can you tell me?" he asked at ...
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MADRID (AP) - The goals keep coming for Cristiano Ronaldo, and they seem to be making Legia Warsaw a bit nervous.
The Portugal forward scored five goals with his national team during the break, and added another for Real Madrid in a Spanish league win over Real Betis.
The defending ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Billionaire printing magnate and Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is becoming involved in the food industry.
Minnesota Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/2elh3bA ) that Taylor and a group of investors are spending millions of dollars to convert a former beef plant into a hog processing facility. They plan ...
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DETROIT (AP) - An explosion as part of an art project in Detroit ended up drawing firefighters after people living nearby became concerned.
The Detroit News reports (http://detne.ws/2dYilfB ) the fire department responded Sunday to the site of the "Deconstruct: America" project, but determined it was a false alarm.
Matthew ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A father and son are the latest arrests in the investigation into the fatal shooting of the 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay.
Trinity Gay died at a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital Sunday after police say she was fatally shot in the neck around 4 a.m. ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Cross Lanes woman has admitted to plotting to kill her husband last year.
News agencies report 39-year-old Brandy Skeens pleaded guilty Friday in Kanawha County to conspiracy to commit murder. Her boyfriend, 41-year-old Joseph Lawrence, also pleaded guilty last week to the same charge in ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The South African Football Association says former national team captain Neil Tovey is in critical condition after a heart attack, his second in two years.
Tovey, who captained South Africa to its best soccer moment with victory at the African Cup of Nations, suffered the heart attack ...
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LONDON (AP) - ATP suspends Nick Kyrgios for at least 3 weeks and fines him extra $25,000 for conduct contrary to 'integrity' of tennis.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - The Crawleys - or at least their apparel - have made it to South Bend.
From matriarch to maid, servant to soldier, bustles and baubles galore, finery for the fictional family from "Downton Abbey" has taken up temporary residence at The History Museum in the ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Gov. Brian Sandoval is signing a bill into law that clears the way for a Las Vegas stadium that could be home to both UNLV football and the Raiders.
The Republican governor is joining lawmakers and representatives for the Raiders in a ceremony set for Monday ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Nobody buys a ticket to watch managers manage.
So if Major League Baseball is in a charitable mood, refund checks will be in the mail for the 42,000-plus paying customers Saturday night who watched the Cubs beat the Dodgers 8-4 in the NL Championship Series opener at ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - As World Cup in Russia nears more league games are being played in flashy new stadiums, but an old problem remains.
The season so far has been dogged by dubious refereeing calls and the disputes that follow have eroded trust to such an extent that Russia's top ...
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LONDON (AP) - Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson has brought WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange a vegan meal and expressed concern for his health.
She told Britain's Press Association on Sunday that she had brought Assange "a nice vegan lunch and some vegan snacks" the day before.
Assange has sought refuge ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - With a brightly colored feather in his cap, a bright red neckerchief and two paintbrushes in his hand, Ryan Byrd danced and twirled in the glow of the Ritter Park Amphitheater stage lights, putting the energy and flow of the music into an oil painting that ...
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GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Schalke says its club-record signing, striker Breel Embolo, has been ruled out for "at least four to six months" after undergoing surgery on his broken ankle.
The 19-year-old Embolo suffered ligament and bone damage in a foul by Augsburg defender Konstantinos Stafylidis during the 1-1 Bundesliga ...
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - A lawsuit by a former Penn State coach whose testimony helped convict fellow assistant Jerry Sandusky of being a sexually violent predator goes to trial Monday over allegations that the university defamed him and wrongly refused to renew his contract.
Mike McQueary, now 42, played quarterback ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Andy Murray defeated Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (1), 6-1 to win the Shanghai Masters on Sunday, his second title in as many weeks and the sixth overall in what is shaping up to be his most successful season on tour.
Bautista Agut challenged Murray with his powerful ...
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TIANJIN, China (AP) - Chinese veteran Peng Shuai captured the first title of her career at the Tianjin Open on Sunday, beating Alison Riske in the final 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Peng, a former U.S. Open semifinalist, was winless in six previous finals on the WTA Tour. She saved 10 of ...
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INCHEON, South Korea (AP) - Carlota Ciganda beat Alison Lee with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the rainy LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship after each player lost big leads.
The 26-year-old Spaniard won with a 6-foot putt after Lee's birdie chip from the rough off ...
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Jeremy McNichols rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns and No. 15 Boise State withstood Colorado State's late rally for a 28-23 victory on Saturday night.
After the Broncos (6-0, 3-0 Mountain West) took a 28-3 lead early in the fourth quarter, Colorado State (3-4, 1-2) ...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery has been ruled out of action for up to three weeks with a muscular problem. The club didn't elaborate.
Bayern assistant coach Hermann Gerland says Ribery broke off training on Friday and "he definitely needs 14 days to three weeks before ...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Providence Public Library has added thousands of photographs chronicling Rhode Island's history to its digital library, making them available to the public for free.
The Rhode Island photograph collection features more than 6,500 photographs of people, places and events from across the state from the ...
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TIANJIN, China (AP) - Peng Shuai and Danka Kovinic were level at one set apiece in the semifinals of the Tianjin Open on Saturday when play was suspended for the rest of the day due to rain.
The match was scheduled to be completed on Sunday with the score at ...
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LINZ, Austria (AP) - Third-seeded Madison Keys pulled out of the Generali Ladies due to illness on Saturday, hours before her semifinal against Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland.
Tournament organizers say the seventh-ranked American has a cold.
Golubic is advancing to her second career final after winning the event in Gstaad ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Three-time champion Novak Djokovic lost his temper, then his semifinal match at the Shanghai Masters on Saturday, falling to Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-4.
The top-seeded Serb struggled to control his errors for the second straight match, spraying groundstrokes all over the court and missing routine drop ...
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MACAU (AP) - Ian Poulter carded three birdies over the final six holes Saturday to finish the third round with an even-par 71 and a share of 14th place at the Macau Open.
Poulter had a triple bogey on the par-4 10th hole but made up some ground on the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Mixed reviews greeted Ang Lee's long anticipated "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" at the New York Film Festival on Friday night, casting further doubts over the promise of Hollywood's latest technological savior: high-frame rate filming.
The premiere was one of the fall movie season's most closely ...
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INCHEON, South Korea (AP) - Alison Lee took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship, putting the 21-year-old UCLA student in position for her first victory.
Lee shot a 4-under 68 in calm and firm conditions Sky 72, saving par on 17 and birdieing 18 to stretch ...
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STOCKHOLM (AP) - Hope Solo says she's received several offers to play overseas and could even continue her career in Sweden, whose fans she enraged by describing their national team as "cowards" at the Rio Olympics.
In a talk show aired late Friday on Swedish television network SVT, the American ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Sept. 2 fire that seared part of the Liberty Bridge and snarled traffic for weeks thereafter is no one's idea of an event that would provoke laughs and merriment.
Just hours after it happened, though, Matthew Buchholz was able to provide some levity. The artist who ...
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Southeastern Michigan's Henry Ford Museum is preparing to open a glass gallery.
The Dearborn-based museum that's part of The Henry Ford history attraction debuts the Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery on Friday. Museum officials say the exhibit spans the Studio Glass movement's founding in 1962 to the ...
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LONDON (AP) - Former British sports minister Hugh Robertson and two-time Olympic field hockey medalist Richard Leman are the two finalists to become the next chairman of the British Olympic Association.
The BOA announced the nominees Friday, saying they had been selected as the "two outstanding candidates" in the race ...
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LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) - The karma is running well for the first-ever Lincoln Film Festival in Lincoln.
And why shouldn't it be?
It's been co-organized by an Oscar-winning director whose first cinematic life experience took place there.
"There" refers to the front rows of the original Lincoln Theatre on South ...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A University of Notre Dame football fan who lives in California recently called a hotel near campus to cancel reservations for rooms booked for his family, who had planned to attend Saturday's game here against Stanford.
The fan - who holds degrees from both Notre ...
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada lawmakers were up until the wee hours of the morning after a surprise report about stadium-related road costs dropped late on Thursday.
But they're likely to vote on Friday on a deal to put $750 million in hotel tax revenue toward an NFL stadium ...
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Hours earlier, he was a happy 4-year-old who loved Ironman and the Hulk and all the Avengers. Now, as Bryson Mees-Hernandez approached death in a Houston hospital room, his brain swelling through the bullet hole in his face, his mother assured the boy it was OK to die.
"When you ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vin Scully is keeping busy in retirement, joking with Jimmy Kimmel that he's been to the hardware store since ending his 67-year Hall of Fame broadcasting career with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In his first television interview since calling his last game on Oct. 2 in ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Dennis Schroder was back in his native Germany this past summer, driving around with his best friend, when his cellphone began to buzz.
Schroder couldn't check it out while behind the wheel. Even when he got to his mother's house, he still didn't believe what he was ...
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NAPA, Calif. (AP) - Scott Piercy broke the course record at Silverado first set by Johnny Miller in 1976. Jon Rahm of Spain made a hole-in-one on his fifth shot as a PGA Tour member. Morgan Hoffmann made an albatross.
The Safeway Open delivered plenty of entertainment in the first ...
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LYONS, Kan. (AP) - Farold Russett grew up around horses. His family always had horses, and as a child he had a Shetland pony that he would ride, accompanying his father at the feed yard.
He rode for fun - even qualifying for nationals in high school rodeo - but ...
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American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, lauded for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Here are lyrics from just a few of the hundreds of songs that he has written over his career.
How many roads must a man walk ...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The International Weightlifting Federation says a Romanian who won a bronze medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will lose his medal after failing a doping test.
The IWF says Gabriel Sincraian, who won bronze in the men's 85-kilogram category in Rio, tested positive for excess ...
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MACAU (AP) - Ian Poulter returned from a four-month layoff because of a foot ailment to take a share of the lead at the Macau Open with an opening-round 64.
Poulter and Spain's Carlos Pigem were tied at 7 under par on Thursday and had a one-shot lead over Thailand's ...
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LONDON (AP) - Elton John is chronicling his "crazy life" in an autobiography to be published in 2019.
Publishers Pan Macmillan and Henry Holt announced Thursday that they have jointly acquired worldwide rights for the musician's as-yet-untitled memoir.
John, who is 69, is working with music writer Alexis Petridis on ...
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A registered sex offender has been convicted of murder in the beating and strangling of a woman in western New York last year.
A jury on Wednesday found 62-year-old Anthony Edwards guilty of second-degree murder in the May 2015 slaying of Gail Neals in Rochester.
An ...
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