If you liked the spectacle that was Mayweather-McGregor, you're going to love 2018.
The coming year in sports will be long on hype, short on fresh faces, and just like Floyd Mayweather Jr. taking his sweet time to dismantle Conor McGregor, shorter still on suspense by the end.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Authorities in South Texas are investigating the death of a New Braunfels man found in the surf at the Padre Island National Seashore.
Kleberg County sheriff's officials say the death of 60-year-old Kevin Francis O'Toole is considered "questionable" but they don't immediately suspect foul play. ...
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Citrus Bowl: Notre Dame (9-3) vs. LSU (9-3), Monday, 1 p.m. ET (ABC)
Line: LSU by 3.
Series Record: Notre Dame leads 6-5.
WHAT'S AT STAKE
The teams meet in a bowl game for the second time in four seasons. The Fighting Irish are looking for their third double-digit wins ...
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BERLIN, N.J. (AP) - Howard and Nan have long passed away, but their names linger on a sign at one of the oldest businesses at the Berlin Farmers Market.
Hanging outside the store they founded inside the market 65 years ago, the sign still reads, "Howard and Nan's Record Shop."
...LONDON (AP) - Manchester City's record 18-game winning run in the Premier League ended with a 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace on Sunday, leaving the leaders 14 points clear heading into the new year.
It needed a penalty save from Ederson Moraes off Luka Milivojevic in injury time to preserve ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Kent Sublette was not a class clown at Northside High School, but he now has one of the most prestigious comedy writing jobs in the country.
Sublette is one of the co-head writers of NBC's late-night institution "Saturday Night Live."
"It's exciting - and every week ...
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LONDON (AP) - Manchester United's Ashley Young and Swansea's Kyle Naughton have been charged with violent conduct following incidents in Premier League games.
Young appeared to elbow Dusan Tadic in the chest during United's 0-0 draw against Southampton at Old Trafford.
Also on Saturday, Naughton appeared to tread on the ...
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MADRID (AP) - Diego Costa says he's ready to play for Atletico Madrid after a long layoff following his exit from Chelsea.
The Brazilian-born striker was presented by Atletico on Sunday along with fellow winter reinforcement Victor "Vitolo" Machin.
"I have been waiting for this for a long time," Costa ...
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Australian Samantha Stosur's year ended on a sour note after she was bundled out of her home state tournament by Brisbane International seventh seed Anastasija Sevastova on Sunday.
The former US Open champion and French open finalist had opportunities against her 27-year-old Latvian opponent in the ...
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Australian Samantha Stosur's year ended on a sour note after she was bundled out of her home state tournament by Brisbane International seventh seed Anastasija Sevastova on Sunday.
The former US Open champion and French open finalist had opportunities against her 27-year-old Latvian opponent in the ...
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PERTH, Australia (AP) - Daria Gavrilova and Thanasi Kokkinakis each won their singles matches to give Australia a perfect start to its Hopman Cup campaign against Canada at Perth Arena on Sunday.
Gavrilova claimed a 6-1, 6-4 win over Eugenie Bouchard, before Kokkinakis wrapped up the Group A tie for ...
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - The Currier Museum of Art is hosting a New Year's event for the whole family with face painting, art making and a balloon drop.
Hundreds of parents and children are expect to come out to the Manchester-based museum starting at 10 a.m. on Dec. 31. Known ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Among the dozens of prominent Americans entangled in sexual-misconduct cases this year are a modest number of men whose accusers are male. For some LGBT civic leaders, dismay over these cases is mixed with relief and even a trace of pride at how they were addressed.
...Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said before the season his team would be good defensively and struggle at the other end. That assessment was spot-on.
With the start of Atlantic Coast Conference play Sunday night with a home game against Virginia Tech, the Orange (11-2) are putting up solid numbers on ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Serena Williams lost on her return to competitive tennis after giving birth, going down to French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in an exhibition in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.
Williams struggled with her serve and Ostapenko won 6-2, 3-6 and then 10-5 ...
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - A program that offers legal, marketing and fundraising assistance to immigrant artists is coming to the Detroit area.
The Arab American National Museum and other organizations are working with the New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Program. Organizers say the program has provided roughly ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Ask West Virginia guard Daxter Miles how many of the players he could name in the program's 1,000-point club, and he wastes no time throwing out a handful of names.
First, of course, came teammate and fellow senior Jevon Carter, followed by other recent WVU stars ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Heavenli Hill loves English class and digital photography. She especially likes to take photos of nature. She is, in many ways, an average 12-year-old - and she also has Treacher Collins syndrome.
Considered a craniofacial condition, Treacher Collins is a genetic disorder characterized by downward-slanting eyes, ...
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LONDON (AP) - A Beatle and a Bee Gee are among the celebrated citizens who have been selected for knighthood and other awards given in the name of Britain's monarch.
Britain's Cabinet Office publishes a list of the people receiving honors for merit, service or bravery twice a year: just ...
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In 2018, you may resolve to save more , spend less or budget better . Whatever your money goal, the one common key to your success is shopping smart. That means knowing the best time to buy just about anything.
To help you out, we've created a purchase calendar to ...
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A team of Polish climbers has set off to attempt the first-ever winter ascent of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain.
The team flew to Pakistan on Friday.
K2 is 8,611 meters (28,252 feet) high and has a dangerous reputation.
Krzysztof Wielicki leads the 13-member team that ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Singer Joy Villa says she wants an apology from Corey Lewandowski for hitting her twice on her buttocks during a Washington gathering last fall. And she's defending herself against a video that shows her slapping another man's buttocks at a separate event.
Villa is a Trump supporter ...
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah has been elected Liberia's new president by a wide margin as the West African nation faces its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years.
Vice President Joseph Boakai conceded on Friday, congratulating the ex-soccer ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The comeback plans for Novak Djokovic stalled on Friday when a recurrence of pain in his right elbow forced him to withdraw from an exhibition tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
Djokovic hasn't played competitively since he retired in the Wimbledon quarterfinals because ...
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MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) - A North Carolina man has been arrested in connection with a fatal home invasion in Millinocket.
Authorities say Maine State Police arrested 38-year-old Christopher Murray, of Maxton, in North Carolina on Wednesday. Police say Murray will face murder charges in the death of 59-year-old Wayne Lapierre ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore's fetching suburban housewife on "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
But it was as feisty comedy writer Sally Rogers that Marie stretched the narrow confines of how women were portrayed on TV ...
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RENO, Nev. (AP) - Necklace led the pack.
Her tough, lean muscles rippled under her dark coat as she started to run. With each cadenced step she took, her tail swung to the rhythm of her paws hitting the snow. Her deep brown eyes stayed pinpoint focused on the way ...
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) - With a name like the Truffle Cottage, you might be surprised at how this Pleasant Grove custom chocolate business made a name for itself.
Hint: It had very little to do with hearts or flowers, and very much to do with superheroes and frozen Han ...
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A former Auburn University football player has been arrested on a child pornography charge in Georgia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 32-year-old Brad Lester remained jailed Wednesday in Gwinnett County following his arrest last week.
Lester played running back for Auburn between 2004 and 2008, scoring ...
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago-area woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 8-month-old daughter whose skull was fractured in two places.
The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald reports that 24-year-old Shanquilla Garvey was charged Wednesday.
Deputy Police Chief Al Roechner said last week that Garvey ...
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SWANSEA, Wales (AP) - Swansea has hired Carlos Carvalhal as manager of the struggling Premier League club, days after the Portuguese coach left second-tier Sheffield Wednesday.
Carvalhal has only been given a contract until the end of the season at Swansea, which is bottom of the Premier League at the ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Suspended North Carolina State sophomore guard Markell Johnson has been indicted on assault charges in his hometown of Cleveland.
Local media report the charges stem from an incident on October 8.
Court records Johnson and three others were released on bond after being jailed December 20. ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A driver who pleaded guilty to hitting five bicyclists in Cleveland has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Twenty-seven-year-old Rondell Dungy will also pay a fine and have his license suspended for 10 years.
Investigators say Dungy was drunk on June 3 when he hit the ...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Filming of the feature "Santa Fake" is underway in New Mexico and will continue through mid-January.
State Film Office Director Nick Maniatis said Wednesday that even during the holiday season, New Mexico's film industry is at work.
The production will employ about 45 New Mexico ...
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PELHAM, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities in suburban New York City say a high school basketball player was revived after collapsing during a game.
The Journal News reports the 17-year-old Blind Brook High School student went into cardiac arrest Wednesday during a game against Pelham Memorial High School at Pelham Middle ...
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MILAN (AP) - In one of the tightest Serie A title races of recent seasons, there is one noticeable absentee.
AC Milan was expected to be back at the top after spending more than 200 million euros (nearly $250 million) on new players in the offseason.
However, it approaches the ...
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky parks officials say an amphitheater that has hosted an outdoor musical - "The Stephen Foster Story" - for decades has been closed due to electrical and structural issues.
The Department of Parks says a recent inspection determined the stage area of J. Dan Talbott Amphitheatre ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - An airline says a Tokyo-bound flight returned to Los Angeles hours into the journey after the crew discovered that one of the passengers had boarded the wrong plane.
A statement from All Nippon Airways says the pilot decided to return to the originating airport as part ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - Jose Altuve led the Houston Astros to their first World Series title with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in November and picked up the franchise's first MVP trophy in more than two decades a couple of weeks later.
And as his huge 2017 is coming ...
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A singer and supporter of President Trump claimed Tuesday that she's filed a sexual assault complaint against former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Joy Villa, the performer who wore a "Make America Great Again" dress to this year's Grammy Awards ceremony, said that Mr. Lewandowski slapped her on the buttocks ...
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PERU, Vt. (AP) - Officials say 115 skiers had to be rescued when high winds caused a chairlift to come to an abrupt stop at Bromley Mountain in Vermont.
Resort officials say the mishap took place on Christmas Day and that it took more than two hours to get all ...
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COCOA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man told investigators he punched an automatic teller machine because it gave him too much cash.
An arrest report says 23-year-old Michael Joseph Oleksik man caused about $5,000 in damage to an ATM at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Cocoa on Nov. 29. ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Vitaly Mutko, a top Russian official who has been dogged by allegations of involvement in the Russian doping program, says he will step down as head of the organizing committee of the 2018 soccer World Cup.
Mutko told Russian news agencies on Wednesday that he would be ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Five handmade Polish folk costumes have been stolen from a car in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Wednesday that Marlena Dzis says the outfits were taken between Saturday night and Sunday morning after someone broke out a window in her parked car.
Each ...
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DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines has apologized to two black professional basketball players who were kicked off a plane in Dallas after a flight attendant accused them of stealing blankets.
Airline spokesman Joshua Freed said Tuesday that Memphis Hustle guard Marquis Teague and forward Trahson Burrell boarded the flight bound ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The shooter rapidly fires through the front doors of an elementary school with an assault rifle and blasts his way down the hallway. Screaming children are running for their lives or frozen in fear. Teachers quickly try to decide: barricade the doors, or make a run ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The new music director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra is on a search for bass, tenor, alto and soprano voices around the state.
Lawrence Loh, the music director, wants more choral sound for the upcoming Capitol Conference Center Symphonic Series. The Register-Herald reports auditions for ...
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The new year will bring North Dakota a new law forbidding political candidates from making personal use of campaign funds.
The legislation closes a loophole that could have allowed politicians to pocket campaign cash, a prospect that worried many newly elected lawmakers and was even mocked ...
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A former softball coach has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Council Bluffs.
The Daily Nonpareil reports that John Osborn was convicted Friday of four counts of sexual abuse. Court records say his sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 1.
It was ...
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ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. (AP) - The old-school arcade game of pinball is resurging in popularity.
Interest has skyrocketed over the last decade or so, with the number of players and competitions growing worldwide, according to the International Flipper Pinball Association. There were 500 players in 50 competitions worldwide in ...
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CINCINNATI (AP) - A man who snagged a Joey Votto home run ball during a Cincinnati Reds game in August has fulfilled his promise to give it to the family of a 6-year-old boy who witnessed that big hit weeks before dying of cancer.
WXIX-TV reports that Trey Jones ...
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say 54 people are without a home after a Christmas Eve fire at a South Carolina apartment complex that investigators say was intentionally set.
Spartanburg Fire Marshall Brad Hall said no one was seriously injured in the fire around 6 a.m. Sunday, but some people ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Saudi Arabia is hosting a world chess tournament for the first time on Tuesday nearly two years after the country's top cleric issued a religious edict against playing the board game. Politics have also interfered, with players from Israel and Qatar missing the tournament ...
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COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - Organizers say they've raised more than $160,000 toward the first of needed repairs on a 75-year-old church that launched a southern Indiana city's Modernist architectural legacy.
The money will pay for restoration of a skylight leaking rainwater into the sanctuary of First Christian Church in Columbus. ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the red carpets, military parades and fancy dinners that were lavished upon him during state visits on his recent tour of Asia. "Magnificent," he declared at one point on the trip.
But Trump has yet to reciprocate, making him the ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Some original cast members of the first bilingual television sitcom say they were excluded from a stage revival of the show.
"Que Pasa, U.S.A.?" aired from 1977 to 1980. The public television series followed a Cuban-American family in Miami.
Nine performances of "Que Pasa, U.S.A.? Today ...
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SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Los Angeles Angels-bound Shohei Ohtani bid farewell to fans of his former Japanese club on Monday as he sets off to join his new team.
The star pitcher and hitter wore an Angels jersey to his public news conference. He opened with an introduction in English, ...
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio art museum is planning a special exhibit next year about mummies.
The Toledo Museum of Art says the exhibition will feature three of the museum's mummies and include other Egyptian objects to put in historical context.
The exhibit called "The Mummies: From Egypt to ...
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BENI, Congo (AP) - Congolese designer Miki Sikabwe has trained in Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya but never had the chance to show her work at home because of insecurity.
That changed over the weekend, when a handful of designers presented the first fashion shows in eastern Congo's city of Beni ...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - One of the nation's three remaining Shakers, the last of his generation in a famous American family, a longtime football coach at Syracuse University and the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" are among people with ties to Maine who died in 2017.
...JERUSALEM (AP) - Lorde has cancelled a performance in Israel scheduled for next summer after appeals by pro-Palestinian activists.
The New Zealand musician said in a statement Sunday that "the right decision at this time" was to cancel her June 2018 concert in Tel Aviv, which was announced earlier this ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Geno Auriemma and Sylvia Hatchell joined the 1,000-win club, while Dawn Staley had a successful trip home to Philadelphia.
UConn and North Carolina both won Tuesday, helping the Hall of Fame coaches reach the milestone . Hatchell's Tar Heels topped Grambling State hours before Auriemma's Huskies ...
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J.J. Watt had a modest goal when he launched a fundraiser to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
The Texans' three-time Defensive Player of the Year said he hoped to raise $200,000 in a video he posted on Twitter after a preseason game on Aug. 26. It took less ...
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VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) - Marissa Brandt was wrapping up her prosperous small-college hockey career, she believed, when the life-changing phone call came during her senior year.
South Korea's fledgling national team was building a roster for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and the host nation was inviting her to the ...
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ESSEX, Vt. (AP) - Vermont police are hoping to reach drivers through a movie campaign to encourage them to buckle up.
The Chittenden County highway safety coalition SHARP previewed their new "See It" campaign Thursday. WPTZ-TV reports the advertisements will be seen by moviegoers before every screening at Essex Cinemas, ...
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LONDON (AP) - Southampton forward Charlie Austin was charged with violent conduct by the Football Association on Sunday after he was accused of deliberately kicking Huddersfield goalkeeper Jonas Lossl in the face during their 1-1 draw in the English Premier League a day earlier.
The Danish 'keeper had gathered the ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - When Paulinho arrived in Spain last summer, most Barcelona fans were unimpressed.
The 29-year-old Brazilian looked like a poor replacement for the younger, and flashier Neymar after the star striker forced his record-breaking transfer to Paris Saint-Germain.
But Paulinho is a big reason why Barcelona has ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The scoring was balanced but there was no doubt who led the Minnesota Timberwolves over the Phoenix Suns.
"Jimmy Butler was not going to let us lose that game," Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau said. "You can't say enough about what he has done for this team. He ...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - While winning at Lambeau Field means a lot to the Minnesota Vikings, the NFC North champions have bigger goals in mind.
A first-round playoff bye is well within reach, and could be secured as soon as Sunday.
The Vikings took care of business on their ...
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Some were championship-defining events. Others capped upsets. One just seemed to defy the laws of physics.
Sports are moments, and there were many that will not be forgotten in 2017.
Whether it was a human being jumping over another human being, a ridiculous kick return that will be remembered for ...
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - Officials are warning skiers taking advantage of fresh snow brought by a recent winter storm to be cautious in Montana's backcountry.
The Missoulian reports that the Flathead Avalanche Center issued an advisory for a large area of northwest Montana where more than 3 feet of dense ...
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Months before a national reckoning on sexual harassment and assault would topple powerful men in entertainment, business and media, entertainer Bill Cosby stood trial in a suburban Philadelphia courtroom, accused of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004.
The courtroom drama was one of the biggest Pennsylvania ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Here are the top 10 Kentucky stories of 2017, according to an Associated Press poll of editors, news directors and reporters:
1. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: The University of Louisville endures a tumultuous year. Basketball coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich are fired after the ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Sam Allardyce kept up his unbeaten start as Everton manager with a 0-0 draw that further undermined Chelsea's Premier League title defense on Saturday.
A sixth game without defeat in all competitions - four wins and two draws - shows the resilience Allardyce has instilled in ...
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The Crooked Road is long, its venues far-flung, but its art and the people who love it are interconnected.
Go to Galax in early August, and you'll see and hear traditions preserved yet given new life through generations of performances at the Old Fiddlers Convention. Families ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - From the boardroom to the basketball court, the University of Louisville had a tough year.
Hall of Fame Coach Rick Pitino was fired, the school dealt with a yearlong probation from an accrediting group and an audit found mismanagement at a foundation overseeing its investments.
The ...
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MADRID (AP) - Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez scored as Barcelona beat 10-man Real Madrid 3-0 Saturday in the Spanish league, dealing a huge blow to its fiercest rival's title defense.
Suarez struck in the 54th minute of the politically charged game and Messi added a penalty 10 minutes later ...
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LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II's cousin has apologized for wearing jewelry that some observers on social media found offensive.
A spokesman for Princess Michael of Kent said late Friday that she is "very sorry and distressed" that a brooch featuring the head of a black man caused offense.
Some ...
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LONDON (AP) - For millions of Britons, a traditional Christmas Day includes turkey, brussels sprouts, Christmas pudding - and a special seasonal episode of "Doctor Who."
The global success of the venerable sci-fi series means that fans around the world will also tune in Monday to watch Peter Capaldi's final ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Miami turned up the pressure in the second half to turn away Hawaii and remain unbeaten.
Ja'Quan Newton and Dewan Huell scored 16 points apiece and the No. 6 Hurricanes pulled away for a 75-57 victory Friday night in a first-round game of the Diamond Head Classic.
...ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A former Miss America whose appearance and sexual habits were mocked in emails sent by the pageant's CEO and other leaders is calling on him to be replaced.
In a Twitter video posted early Friday, Mallory Hagan says she suspected Miss America Organization CEO Sam ...
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MADRID (AP) - Zinedine Zidane is sending a simple message to his Real Madrid players ahead of Saturday's match against Barcelona.
Don't mind the gap.
Madrid trails Barcelona by 11 points with a game in hand before the "clasico." It also has Atletico Madrid and Valencia to overtake before it ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The parent company of Detroit television station WXYZ says anchor Malcom Maddox is returning to work following an investigation into allegations that the station ignored sexual harassment complaints against him.
The E.W. Scripps Co. says it completed an investigation into the allegations and found no basis for ...
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LAKE ZURICH, Ill. (AP) - Officials say a suburban Chicago school district has agreed to settle a lawsuit over alleged hazing of high school football players.
Terms of the settlement announced Thursday with Lake Zurich Unit School District 95 weren't released.
District spokeswoman Jean Malek says in a statement the ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Dawn Staley had a homecoming to remember.
The women's basketball coach at South Carolina returned this week to Philadelphia with her defending NCAA champion Gamecocks to play Temple. It wasn't her first time back in the city where she grew up since winning the national title in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Teams in Texas, Florida, Nevada and Washington state may have become more attractive destinations for free agents following the enactment of tax law changes.
Deductions for state and local taxes are capped at $10,000 in the year starting Jan. 1 for married couples filing jointly. That ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Greg Kampe is in his 34th season as Oakland University's coach, and he's closing in on 600 victories. He was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame this year, an acknowledgement of the job he's done turning the suburban Detroit school into a reputable Division I ...
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Germany forward Mario Gomez is returning to Stuttgart, where he won the 2007 Bundesliga title, from rival Wolfsburg.
Stuttgart says the 32-year-old Gomez will sign a contract through 2020.
Gomez started his career in Stuttgart's youth team. He made his Germany debut in 2007 while playing ...
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EAGLE LAKE, Fla. (AP) - Officials say a Florida teen girl is dead after collapsing during a soccer game.
The Ledger reports that 15-year-old Jordan Bonny was rushed to a Lakeland hospital Tuesday.
Bonny was a ninth-grade student at Lake Region High School.
A medical examiner says the cause ...
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RACELAND, La. (AP) - Musicians are running a new concert hall in Louisiana.
The Daily Comet reports that's helping it attract big name acts like Marc Broussard and Wayne Toups to Raceland, a census-designated place about 32 miles (51 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans.
Manager Brennon Trant says that before ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Playing in his 1,000th career game, Dustin Brown scored in overtime to send the Los Angeles Kings to a 2-1 victory Thursday night over the Colorado Avalanche.
Brown came streaking down the left side and fired a shot past goalie Semyon Varlamov 44 seconds into the ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - An activist from the punk collective Pussy Riot has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service for a protest outside the headquarters of Russia's top KGB successor agency.
A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Maria Alekhina violated the law with her unsanctioned picket, a verdict she ...
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LONDON (AP) - Wherever Mark Hughes turns, it's hard for the Stoke manager to escape the rebellion growing among fans.
When the floundering squad was spotted at the city's rail station disembarking from another recent miserable away trip, gesticulating supporters struck up a chorus of "You're not fit to wear ...
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AMSTERDAM (AP) - Ajax has provisionally suspended coach Marcel Keizer and two of his assistants, including former player Dennis Bergkamp, and will start talks about ending their contracts.
Ajax made the announcement in a statement on Thursday, a day after the team was eliminated from the Dutch domestic cup competition.
...NEW YORK (AP) - The wave of sexual misconduct allegations that toppled Hollywood power brokers, politicians, media icons and many others was the top news story of 2017, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.
The No. 2 story was Donald Trump's tumultuous first ...
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SWANSEA, Wales (AP) - Player-coach Leon Britton will take charge of Swansea for its Premier League match against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
The Welsh club is searching for a replacement for manager Paul Clement, who was fired on Thursday with the team in last place near the midway point of ...
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - The central English city of Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games in 2022.
The announcement was made Thursday in the city.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games were originally given to Durban in 2015, but the South African city was stripped of the event this year because of ...
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BERLIN (AP) - A German man has gone on trial accused of bombing Borussia Dortmund's bus in an attempt to profit from a dive in the soccer team's shares.
Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured when three explosions hit the bus as it left for a ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Items associated with Elvis Presley are on the auction block, including the rocker's rocking chair from the Jungle Room at Graceland.
Graceland said in a news release the wood and maroon vinyl rocking chair is estimated to bring $10,000 to $15,000, with a minimum bid of ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The word "Russia" will appear on the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes granted an exemption from the country's doping ban.
More than 200 athletes are set to compete in Pyeongchang as an "Olympic Athlete from Russia" if they can prove they aren't tainted by doping.
...BOSTON (AP) - More than 60 musicians are calling for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to include more female composers and composers of color in its programming.
The Boston Globe reports the Boston-area musicians met with orchestra leadership Monday to discuss changes after sending a letter in October criticizing the lack ...
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LONDON (AP) - Actress Meghan Markle has joined her fiance Prince Harry to attend the royal family's pre-Christmas luncheon at Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth II traditionally hosts a festive lunch for the family before leaving for her private Sandringham Estate in Scotland, where she spends her holidays.
Press photos show ...
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are seeking more than four years in prison for NBA player Enes Kanter on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Anadolu Agency says an indictment prepared by the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office accuses the New York Knicks player of ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Should Ridley Scott's "All the Money in the World" be measured by the usual critical apparatus or with a stopwatch?
If the latter, Scott's movie wins the race, hands down. "All the Money in the World" has, with remarkably few signs of haste, accomplished its unenviable ...
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MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Police say a teenager was shot and wounded in a Michigan high school parking lot following a boys' basketball game.
Mount Morris Township police Chief Terence Green says a group young women was fighting Tuesday night in the parking lot of Beecher High School ...
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BONN, Germany (AP) - The International Paralympic Committee says it will decide next month whether to ban Russia from the upcoming Paralympics in Pyeongchang.
IPC president Andrew Parsons says "much to our growing disappointment and frustration, there is a lack of progress" from Russian authorities on the IPC's demand that ...
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ZURICH (AP) - FIFA has turned to China yet again to find a sponsor for the World Cup in Russia.
FIFA says dairy producer Mengniu Group signed for the 2018 tournament, joining Chinese brands Hisense and Vivo in the second-tier sponsor category.
Mengniu becomes "the official drinkable yogurt and pre-packaged ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Wesley Woodyard misses putting milk in his cereal, and try as he might, the Tennessee Titans linebacker still reaches for a strip of bacon here and there.
Giving up meat hasn't been easy, but in a league where everyone is looking for an edge, Woodyard and ...
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When Alabama switched offensive coordinators during last season's playoff run, the Crimson Tide had an in-house solution. Steve Sarkisian, a former Washington and Southern California head coach stepped up from the support staff to help Nick Saban and Co. in the title game against Clemson.
Western Kentucky didn't have that ...
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CARMEL, Ind. (AP) - Plans have stalled to redevelop the Simon estate in suburban Indianapolis into a neighborhood of luxury homes.
Home-builder Paul Estridge and developer Michael Browning last year announced the project. Asherwood, the mansion and Carmel property where the late mall magnate and Indiana Pacers co-owner Mel Simon ...
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) - The president of Swiss soccer club Sion has had his stadium ban for assaulting a television analyst reduced to nine months on appeal.
The Swiss league says it cut Christian Constantin's 14-month ban because the attack was an emotional response and not planned.
Constantin can return ...
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) - European police say Slovenian and Croatian security have busted an international crime syndicate involved in sports corruption, illegal betting and trying to fix soccer matches in several countries including Serbia, Macedonia and the Czech Republic.
Europol said Tuesday that 13 house searches and 15 vehicles searches ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An official in the United Arab Emirates says the new Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi is "very proud" to have acquired a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that sold for a staggering $450 million last month.
Director of the Department of Culture and ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African media are reporting that Olympian Oscar Pistorius is appealing his recently lengthened prison sentence for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Broadcaster EWN reports that Pistorius filed an application to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of Appeal last month more than doubled ...
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MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - The new owners of a New Jersey country club say they plan to renovate the 100-year-old golf venue.
The Press of Atlantic City reports a group of members recently purchased the Wildwood Golf and Country Club. Club president Bob Noel says the group decided to ...
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Pam Grier, the star of gritty 1970s Blaxploitation movies like "Foxy Brown" and "Coffy," is scheduled to be a guest at the 2018 Las Cruces International Film Festival.
Grier will join Cybill Shepherd, star of the television series "Moonlighting," at the film festival which begins ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - There's only one team the Atlanta Falcons need to be concerned about the rest of the way.
Their own.
The defending NFC champions trail division rivals New Orleans and Carolina by one game with two weeks remaining in the regular season. But if the Falcons (9-5) ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Latest on California wildfire (all times local):
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Crews on the lines of Southern California's enormous wildfire hope to take advantage of a two-day window of calmer winds before potentially dangerous gusts return at mid-week.
The blaze that broke out two weeks ago Monday ...
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The League Cup has reached the quarterfinal stage and the biggest four clubs to get this far - Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal - were kept apart in the draw.
City, which ...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Can performing Beethoven symphonies together help employees team up on projects at work, too? Some companies - above all in Germany and Asia - seem to think so.
A conspicuous number of big German corporate names - along with a handful in Japan and Korea - ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Police are investigating the alleged assault of Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling at the club's training ground.
The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday that Sterling was kicked and racially abused as he arrived at City's Etihad Campus on Saturday, hours before scoring twice in a 4-1 victory ...
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LONDON (AP) - It's off to nursery school for Princess Charlotte.
Kensington Palace said Monday that Charlotte will attend the Willcocks Nursery School in London in January.
The daughter of Prince William and his wife Kate turns 3 in May. She is fourth in line to the British throne, after ...
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WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) - Egypt defender Ahmed Hegazi has completed a permanent move to West Bromwich Albion after the Premier League club decided to activate an option to sign the center back.
West Brom says the 26-year-old Hegazi, who has been on loan from Al Ahly since the start ...
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Hollywood star John Travolta has wooed fans during a visit to Saudi Arabia, where authorities have said that commercial cinemas will reopen next year after more than a three-decade ban on movie theaters.
Travolta met with fans in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Friday, fielding ...
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Well, no one STILL seems to agree on what, exactly, should constitute a catch in the NFL - and that contributed to the Pittsburgh Steelers' loss to the New England Patriots in a key game for home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs.
It's also hard to find folks who like ...
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Sabrina Ionescu keeps racking up triple-doubles.
Ninth-ranked Oregon's sophomore guard matched an NCAA record with her seventh career triple-double on Sunday in a rout of Mississippi. While she downplayed the achievement caring more that her team won, her coach Kelly Graves was impressed with the 21-point, 14-assist, 11-rebound performance.
"Tonight, ...
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It's time.
After 15 weeks of the NFL season, it's time to acknowledge a whole bunch of items that have become apparent.
Some did so over the course of the schedule, and some became crystallized Sunday.
Such as:
- Teams get antsy and/or dumb when they play the Patriots.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Erik Haula scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 Sunday.
Nate Schmidt, Colin Miller, Jonathan Marchessault and James Neal also scored for Vegas, while goalie Malcolm Subban stopped 16 shots. The Golden Knights moved ...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The NFL is taking over the investigation of allegations of workplace misconduct by Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Sunday in an email to The Associated Press that the league will handle the investigation rather than the team, as originally planned.
The ...
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WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) - Romelu Lukaku scored for the second straight Premier League match to set Manchester United on its way to a 2-1 win at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday.
Jesse Lingard added the second for second-place United, which conceded to Gareth Barry in the 79th minute and ...
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Indiana's next poet laureate is an Indiana University professor who was born in Germany and grew up in California and Indiana.
The Indiana Arts Commission says Adrian Matejka (mah-TEE'-kuh) will begin his two-year term as Indiana's poet laureate on Jan. 1, helping to promote poetry across ...
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MILAN (AP) - AC Milan's crisis deepened as it was humiliated 3-0 at struggling Hellas Verona in Serie A on Sunday.
It has been a difficult month for Milan, which has won just two of its five matches since Gennaro Gattuso replaced Vincenzo Montella as coach.
Milan also had its ...
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MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Danica Roem made history when she became the first transgender woman elected to a state legislature. In the process, she made a northern Virginia highway famous by relentlessly touting her plan to fix the clogged road.
Route 28 connects northern Virginia's outer suburbs and runs through ...
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CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's soccer federation says the country's national team will meet Portugal and Bulgaria in friendly games as part of preparations for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The federation said in a Sunday statement that Egypt will play Portugal on March 23 and Bulgaria four days later.
...JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Justin Rose played 30 holes on Sunday in the weather-delayed Indonesian Masters, closing for a final-round 10-under 62 and an eight-stroke victory at Royale Jakarta Golf Club.
The Englishman was 10-under after 13 holes in the final round and looking like he could achieve a 59, ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Chiefs played so well without Marcus Peters last week that some wondered whether they were better off without the talented yet volatile All-Pro cornerback.
Peters provided quite an answer to that question Saturday night.
Returning from a one-game disciplinary suspension, Peters picked ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say the ex-wife of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright has been charged with first-degree murder in his death more than seven years ago.
Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings said Saturday that Sherra Wright has been charged in the death of her ex-husband, a Memphis native ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - John William Boniface Sr. bent down and ran his fingers through the grass at his Bonita Farm in Harford County.
"Maryland has as good a grass as Kentucky," he told a group of visitors from South Korea.
Boniface boasted that Maryland held its first thoroughbred horse race ...
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Country music was a social thing long before there was ever a "Big Bang" that made it a commercial thing. People with acoustic instruments and big voices populated porches, parlors, storefronts and wherever else it might make sense to hang around and make joyful noise at ...
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For two months now, as accusations of sexual misconduct have piled up against Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced mogul has responded over and over again: "Any allegations of nonconsensual sex are unequivocally denied."
Consent is a concept central to law on sexual assault, and will likely be an issue in potential ...
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TOKYO (AP) - South Korea beat Japan 4-1 on Saturday to win the East Asian Championship after Kim Shin-wook scored two goals.
Yu Kobayashi gave Japan the lead from the penalty spot after just three minutes, but South Korea scored 10 minutes later as Kim Shin-wook headed home a cross ...
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Making the home run hire seems to be more difficult than ever when it comes to college football coaches.
Silly season moved quickly this year, spinning this way and that over a frenetic couple of weeks. UCLA and Texas A&M both made a splash by hiring Chip Kelly and Jimbo ...
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Tens of thousands of Romanians have joined European royals to pay their respects to late King Michael as a state funeral got underway.
Michael, who ruled Romania twice before being forced to abdicate by the communists in 1947, died at age 96 in Switzerland this month.
...LANSFORD, N.D. (AP) - Rodeo has always been a big part of Midwestern culture, and RC Buckerz is bringing it back to the kids.
"Our goal is to help young children get a start in the rough stock side of rodeo," RC Buckerz's founder Michelle Rudland said. "We have size ...
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - It's hard to imagine a children's television show more directly responsible for the death of a consumer product line than "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
It's the story of an awkward and humble boy's attempts to find the true meaning of Christmas.
It resonated with 1965 ...
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BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) - A dying man's wish to see the new "Star Wars" movie is coming true, thanks to a cast of many.
Ron Villemaire has stage four colon cancer and is in hospice care in Bedford, New Hampshire. He's a huge "Star Wars" fan, but can't get to ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says Eric Bailly will be sidelined for up to three months after ankle surgery.
The center back has not played since the Nov. 5 trip to Chelsea in the Premier League after being injured while on international duty with the Ivory ...
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Departing White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has promised a "black woman civil war" against "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts after the ABC News personality belittled her at the end of an exclusive interview.
Ms. Roberts dismissed Mrs. Manigault Newman with the sarcastic phrase "Bye, Felicia" — a line ...
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ZURICH (AP) - FIFA has suspended Brazilian soccer federation president Marco Polo del Nero for 90 days while he is under an ethics investigation.
Del Nero has remained in power in Brazil despite being charged by American authorities with racketeering and money laundering in 2015.
FIFA says Del Nero has ...
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LONDON (AP) - Kensington Palace says the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be held on May 19.
The palace announced the date Friday and confirmed the ceremony will take place in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
The couple announced their engagement last month after an 18-month ...
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POWERS, Mich. (AP) - An 84-game winning streak is over, but a high school boys basketball team in Michigan's Upper Peninsula bounced right back.
North Central in Powers, Michigan, defeated Carney-Nadeau, 71-49, on Thursday night. It was the first game since the team's amazing winning streak ended last week.
The ...
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LONDON (AP) — Oxford Dictionaries recognized the power of the millennial generation Friday with its 2017 word of the year: youthquake.
Oxford lexicographers say there was a fivefold increase in the use of the term between 2016 and 2017.
It is defined as "a significant cultural, political, or social change ...
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Tyler Seguin doesn't consider it a challenge. He sees it as an opportunity.
Every time Dallas Stars coach Ken Hitchcock sends Seguin and his linemates over the boards against an opponent's top line, he knows he has a job to do.
"Out-check the other line and let the skill kind ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Rapper Eminem is hosting a weekend pop-up event in Detroit featuring "mom's spaghetti."
The menu is a nod to lyrics of his hit "Lose Yourself," and his 2002 movie "8 Mile" set in Detroit.
The pop-event is at the Shelter basement club and starts on Friday, the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With Omarosa Manigault Newman's departure, the White House has lost arguably its most prominent and visible African-American senior staffer, serving as a reminder of the lack of diversity at the upper echelons of the Trump administration.
Manigault Newman was one of just a handful of African-Americans to ...
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Amazon is going shopping for TV content, and it's putting some beach volleyball in its cart.
The internet retail giant reached an agreement with the AVP tour to livestream every tournament for the next three summers. The domestic beach tour joins NFL Thursday night games and some ATP tennis as ...
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OOLTEWAH, Tenn. (AP) - Civil attorneys for the students assaulted during a high school basketball team's trip are demanding to see the 130 documents created during the production of a report on the school's sexual harassment culture.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that attorneys for the plaintiffs suing the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Omarosa Manigault Newman and her departure from the White House staff (all times local):
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Former "Apprentice" star Omarosa Manigault Newman denies reports that she was fired from her job in the White House.
Manigault Newman also denies reports that she made a ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Dortmund coach Peter Stoeger ended his own, and the club's, winless streak in the Bundesliga in his first game this week.
Now the fans may want him to stay beyond the end of the season.
"There's only one Peter Stoeger," some supporters sang after Tuesday's 2-0 ...
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Disney is buying a large part of the Murdoch family's 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion deal, including film and television studios, cable and international TV businesses as it tries to meet competition from technology companies in the entertainment business.
Before the buyout, 21st Century ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused U.S. agencies of manipulating evidence from the main whistleblower on doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Putin said Thursday that former Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov - who is under witness protection after fleeing to the United States last year - ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS said Wednesday it has indefinitely suspended distribution of Tavis Smiley's talk show after an independent investigation uncovered "multiple, credible allegations" of misconduct by its host.
PBS said it had engaged an outside law firm to investigate "troubling allegations" against the host, it said in a ...
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POWERS, Mich. (AP) - An Upper Peninsula basketball team that won 84 consecutive games is starting from scratch.
The boys at North Central in Powers, Michigan, lost last week for the first time since 2014. The Jets are returning to their home gym Thursday against Carney-Nadeau.
Rapid River defeated North ...
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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) - Being cut from any team is never easy. Luckily for Cayla Barnes, she had plenty to take her mind off her disappointment at being dropped from the U.S. women's national hockey team.
First, she graduated from high school. Then, she headed off to Boston College, ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - True to form, former "Apprentice" star Omarosa is ending her time at the White House with a dose of drama.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, one of President Donald Trump's most prominent African-American supporters, was escorted off the White House grounds after resigning her post as a presidential adviser, ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Several West Virginia high schools are being visited this week by Marshall University President Jerome A. Gilbert and former Marshall football coach Bob Pruett.
Gilbert and Pruett will visit Poca High School, Nitro High School and Buffalo High School on Friday on the recruitment tour, which ...
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - All four members of a Polish death metal band have been released from jail as they await trial on charges they raped a Spokane woman.
Defense attorney Steve Graham says the order was granted for his client on Monday in Spokane County Superior Court. The other ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The president of the Kontinental Hockey League says he is waiting to find out how many Russians will be banned from the Pyeongchang Olympics before deciding if he will allow his players to compete in South Korea.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, the head of the organizing committee for the ...
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SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. (AP) — Lead singer and songwriter of the New Jersey rock band Smithereens, Pat DiNizio, has died at age 62.
The band announced on Facebook that DiNizio died Tuesday. The cause of death was not announced.
DiNizio posted several days ago that he was hopeful of getting ...
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LYNN, Mass. (AP) - Police say a 16-year-old boy has been stabbed outside a Massachusetts high school and the suspect remains at large.
The boy was stabbed near the outdoor basketball courts behind Lynn English High School at about 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City native Gayla Peevey has welcomed another hippopotamus to the city's zoo, more than 60 years after her song about wanting one for Christmas helped the facility purchase its first.
The singer was on hand as the 26-year-old pygmy hippopotamus Francesca made her first Oklahoma ...
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