Whether it's on an enormous estate or outside a little house, the modern garden aims for wild-looking landscapes, native species and seamless transitions to natural surroundings, according to a new book featuring the work of prominent contemporary garden designers.
In "Garden Wild: Wildflower Meadows, Prairie-Style Plantings, Rockeries, Ferneries, and Other ...
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LONDON (AP) - Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a Samuel Beckett double bill.
The Old Vic Theatre says the former "Harry Potter" star will appear alongside Alan Cumming in a production of Beckett's bleak comedy "Endgame" that opens in February. It will be performed along with ...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is signing a measure to implement reforms requiring more transparency at the University of Maryland Board of Regents after its handling of a University of Maryland football player's death last year.
Hogan is scheduled to sign the bill into law Tuesday.
The ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - A court in Moscow has sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison for vandalizing a famous painting by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin.
The court on Tuesday found Igor Podporin guilty of damaging the painting, which depicts czar Ivan the Terrible cradling his ...
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The Chinese Football Association is staying silent over speculation that Marcello Lippi could make a surprise return to take over the national team job after Fabio Cannavaro quit this week.
With China's official state news agency and Italian media outlets reporting Lippi is back in the country ready to sign ...
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Three western New York-based shipwreck hunters who have discovered some of the most significant historic wrecks in the Great Lakes have written a book about their explorations.
"Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario: A Journey of Discovery" was written by Jim Kennard, of Fairport, Roland Stevens, of Pultneyville, ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rarely have a filmmaker and a moment been so perfectly matched as John Singleton and the summer of 1991.
When "Boyz N the Hood" was released that July, Singleton took what had become a cultural obsession - South-Central Los Angeles and the young black men growing ...
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DENVER (AP) - Colorado Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie has developed a reputation as forward thinking.
Easy to understand why: He's constantly thinking as a forward.
His father was an NHL forward. As a kid, he was a forward. And now he's chipping in on offense much like a forward.
Barrie ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The NCAA announced a five-year strategy Monday providing guidelines for decision making across all three divisions, the first time the NCAA has come up with a cross-divisional plan for a single sport.
College sports' governing body will explore potential changes to championship formats, officiating and other ...
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - No arrests have been made in a Kansas shooting that killed a Washburn University football player and wounded a former player who was drafted by the New York Giants just hours earlier.
Police in Topeka, where the university is located, say they have no new information ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Music streaming service Spotify says its paying subscribers have reached 100 million for the first time, up 32% on the year and almost twice the latest figures for Apple Music.
The Stockholm-based company called the figure, which was reached during the first three months of 2019, ...
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The NFL draft drew record numbers both on site and on television.
The league said Monday that more than 600,000 attended over the three days in Nashville, easily eclipsing the 250,000 that came to watch two years ago in Philadelphia.
Nielsen reports that the draft on ESPN, ABC and NFL ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid just can't wait for the season to end.
Even the usually mild-mannered Zinedine Zidane lost his patience after his team's latest setback, a 1-0 loss to relegation-threatened Rayo Vallecano in the Spanish league on Sunday.
"We will play these last three games and then this ...
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LONDON (AP) - Raheem Sterling was voted player of the year by soccer writers on Monday for his impact on Manchester City's bid for a domestic treble as well as his influential stance against racism in the game.
Sterling won 62% of the votes cast by more than 400 British-based ...
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's artists and opposition politicians are posting photos of themselves eating bananas in protest against the removal from a top national gallery of an art work featuring the fruit that the conservative authorities say is obscene.
The new head of the National Museum in Warsaw argues ...
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PARIS (AP) - Over 1,100 French and international architects and heritage experts have called on French President Emmanuel Macron to take the necessary time to ensure good reconstruction work on the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral.
In a column published by French newspaper Le Figaro Monday, they urge Macron to "let ...
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Members of the Tennessee Titans are set to visit Fort Campbell.
Fort Campbell says in a news release that Titans linebacker Rashaan Evans and wide receiver Adam Humphries are scheduled to visit service members and their families Monday at the Fort Campbell Exchange.
Also set ...
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Czech international Josef Sural died and six other Alanyaspor players were injured Monday after their van was involved in an auto accident on the way home from a game in Turkey's top-tier soccer league.
Sural, 28, died in a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery, Alanyaspor's ...
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkish soccer club says Czech player Josef Sural has died after an auto accident involving the team's bus.
CHICAGO (AP) - Nat King Cole's brother will be part of a tribute to the late singer at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival.
The free festival is planned for Aug. 23 to Sept. 1 at Chicago's lakefront Millennium Park, the Chicago Cultural Center and other venues throughout the city. Freddy ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, Washington's odd couple, have a limited set of mutual legislative interests in a capital beset by dysfunction and awash in presidential politics.
But automatic spending cuts, the legacy of a budget breakdown eight years ago, are bringing ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A model participating in Sao Paulo's Fashion Week has died after getting sick and falling on the catwalk.
A statement from organizers said Tales Soares took ill Saturday while in a parade of fashion brand Ocksa. A medical team attended to him on the catwalk and ...
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PARIS (AP) - Neymar appeared to aim a punch at a fan goading him following Paris Saint-Germain's surprise French Cup final defeat to Rennes on Saturday.
The Brazil forward was walking up the stairs to collect his losers' medal at Stade de France when he was involved in an altercation. ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Early at the Magic Kingdom entrance, it's another day of fun about to begin as "Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me!" blasts on the speakers and the first electric scooters are lined up to go.
But by the time the park officially opens at ...
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PARKLAND, Fla. — A documentary of the deadly shooting at a Florida high school is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this weekend.
Filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman chronicled families from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland as they navigated their way through grief and ...
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LONDON (AP) - Princess Diana's little boy - the red-haired prince with the mischievous smile and his mother's wild streak - is about to become a father.
The arrival any day now of Prince Harry's and American wife Meghan's first child will complete his public transformation into the admirable and ...
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KOBE, Japan (AP) - Kazuaki Mawatari and Yu Kobayashi scored first-half goals as Kawasaki Frontale beat struggling Vissel Kobe 2-1 in the J-League on Sunday.
Mawatari opened the scoring on a free kick from 23 meters in the 15th minute and Kobayashi added to the lead late in the first ...
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PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) - A documentary of the deadly shooting at a Florida high school is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this weekend.
Filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman chronicled families from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland as they navigated their way through grief ...
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DENVER (AP) - The celebration will be short-lived for the Denver Nuggets after winning a playoff series for the first time in a decade.
After all, Portland awaits.
The Nuggets knocked off San Antonio 90-86 in Game 7 on Saturday night to move on to the Western Conference semifinals.
A ...
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German coaches whose ideas were formed at Borussia Dortmund are leading their free-scoring teams within reach of English league titles.
While Liverpool is in a thrilling Premier League title chase, Daniel Farke's Norwich City was promoted to the top tier on Saturday with a team including several players from his ...
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Kenny Arnold, the Iowa basketball star who led the Hawkeyes to their last Final Four in 1980, died Saturday. He was 59.
He had health issues for more than 30 years, the school said. Teammates say he died in the Chicago area. Arnold had limited speech and mobility from a ...
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Former Iowa basketball star Kenny Arnold has died at 59.
The school said he died Saturday after health issues for more than 30 years. Teammates say he died in the Chicago area. Arnold had limited speech and mobility from a brain tumor and several strokes.
Arnold played for Iowa from ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - To escape the poverty of South Texas migrant camps, Homer Garza joined the U.S. Army. Months later he and his company found themselves surrounded in South Korea by an invading North Korean force. Racist stereotypes officers told Garcia about North Koreans' eye site were false, he ...
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BOLTON, England (AP) - Bolton has been ordered to fulfil its final two fixtures in the second-tier League Championship, possibly by fielding its under-18 team, a day after the English soccer team's players announced they were refusing to play in a protest against unpaid wages.
It comes as a proposed ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - When Robert Bork, an art history professor at the University of Iowa, saw Notre Dame Cathedral in flames recently, he couldn't watch.
Years before, he'd studied the construction of the Paris cathedral in great detail and knew what was coming - the spire would become ...
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LONDON (AP) - Tottenham was beaten for the first time in its new stadium, losing 1-0 against West Ham in the Premier League on Saturday to hurt its chances of finishing in the Champions League qualifying positions.
Michail Antonio became the first visiting player to score in the recently built ...
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Two Michigan State University ensembles are performing music in memory of the Holocaust.
The MSU Symphony Orchestra and Choral Ensembles perform Saturday night in East Lansing's Wharton Center and Sunday afternoon in Detroit's Orchestra Hall.
The concerts feature performances of Dimitri Shostakovich's "Symphony No. 13" ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Katy Perry and Leon Bridges are among the top names headlining the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Perry, who's known for her over-the-top costumes and pop music, will close out the Acura Stage on Saturday.
Soul singer Leon Bridges closes out the Gentilly Stage.
The ...
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JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - Handwritten notes and family photographs belonging to Lucille Ball will be digitally preserved as part of a new project being undertaken by the National Comedy Center in the late actress's hometown.
The center in western New York announced plans Friday to digitize the archives of the ...
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FIFA assured human rights groups on Saturday it will talk to them about risks associated with expanding the 2022 World Cup in the Persian Gulf beyond host Qatar before taking a final decision.
FIFA is formulating a formal plan on how logistical and political complexities can be overcome to expand ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Meah Ezykowsky was lying unresponsive in her bed when her mom rushed into their Latrobe home, knowing something was wrong.
That morning of March 20, 2017, the family learned Ezykowsky had a record-sized meningioma tumor - a noncancerous mass that will impact more than 32,000 people this ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Rafael Nadal brushed off a challenge from German Jan-Lennard Struff to earn a 7-5, 7-5 win and a place in the Barcelona Open semifinals on Friday.
The top-seeded Nadal will next face either Dominic Thiem or Guido Pella as he seeks a 12th title on the ...
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SIOUX FALLS,S.D. (AP) - A judge says a rapper arrested in Sioux Falls in 2017 after marijuana edibles were found in his carry-on bag can avoid jail time if he stays out of further legal trouble.
Chief Keef, whose legal name is Keith Cozart, pleaded no contest Friday to possession ...
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Stingrays hockey team has fired first-year head coach Spiros Anastas and replaced him with assistant coach Steve Bergin.
The Post and Courier reports Anastas guided South Carolina to a 35-31-6 mark in his rookie campaign as the Stingrays finished third in the ...
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Actress Scarlett Johansson declined to endorse former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Thursday, saying the Democratic Party is "damaged" and that she needs to do some "soul-searching" before picking a candidate in the crowded 2020 field.
Speaking on Variety and iHeart's new film podcast "The Big Ticket ...
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AMES, Iowa (AP) - Officials say a statue of Iowa State University's first black student-athlete will be moved back to the central campus in Ames, away from the stadium named after him.
A university news release said Friday that the statue of Jack Trice must be moved because of construction ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - An exhibition that producers are touting as a 360-degree immersive experience to accompany "Hamilton" the musical is set to debut in Chicago.
"Hamilton: The Exhibition" opens Saturday in a temporary building erected on the city's Northerly Island along Lake Michigan. Producers say the exhibit's 19 rooms chronicle ...
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - Six groups have come forward with proposals for the reuse of the McCoy Stadium property after the Pawtucket Red Sox leave town.
Many of the proposals disclosed Friday include bringing another minor league sports franchise to the city, either baseball or soccer.
One includes a complex ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on a pretrial hearing in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault case (all times local):
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Harvey Weinstein is back at a Manhattan courthouse for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case.
Weinstein, who's free on $1 million bail, shuffled into a federal courtroom ...
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Kazakhstan says six of its athletes have failed to return their Olympic medals after being stripped of the honors for doping.
The Kazakh Olympic Committee says three weightlifters and two wrestlers are refusing to return their medals and weightlifter Svetlana Podobedova claims to have lost her ...
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Athletes' representative Beckie Scott will not participate in the inquiry over her bullying allegations against officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency, insisting WADA's rebooted effort to look into the matter lacks transparency and is "akin to a kangaroo court."
Attorneys for Scott and U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chairman Edwin Moses, who ...
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HONG KONG (AP) - Michael Wolf, an award-winning Hong Kong-based photographer known for his work depicting mega-cities, has died.
Hong Kong art gallery director Sarah Greene said that Wolf died in his sleep Tuesday night at his home. She said he was 64.
Wolf won a first prize in the ...
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma has added Jim Molinari as an assistant basketball coach.
Molinari has more than three decades of college coaching experience, including 20 seasons as a Division I head coach with stops at Northern Illinois, Bradley, Minnesota (interim) and Western Illinois. He compiled more than 300 victories ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - David Silva's place in the pantheon of great Manchester City players is secure. For many, "Merlin" - as he is nicknamed by his teammates because of midfield wizardry - might be right at the top.
Yet there have been signs this season that, at age 33 ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry has attended a service commemorating war dead from Australia and New Zealand as he and his wife Meghan await the birth of their first child.
Meghan is due to give birth soon, though the couple hasn't revealed the due date or their birth plans.
Harry ...
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgian shooter Nino Salukvadze is expected to become the first woman to compete at nine Olympics after qualifying for next year's competition.
The 50-year-old Salukvadze has been at every Summer Olympics since 1988, winning gold, silver and bronze medals along the way. In 2016, she became ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is offering help to end a nearly two-month strike by musicians with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he calls "the crown jewel" of the city's cultural landscape.
Mayor Emanuel said in a written statement Wednesday that no one wants to see Chicago's cultural ...
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge will consider ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier's argument that his conviction should be thrown out, a week before he's due to report to jail.
The hearing Thursday concerns Spanier's argument he was wrongly convicted in Pennsylvania state court for mishandling a 2001 complaint ...
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LONDON (AP) - What would the founding fathers think? Almost 250 years after the United States launched a revolution to rid itself of the British royal family, the next royal baby could be an American.
The idea that a scion of the former colonies would be seventh in line to ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's poet laureate is one of 13 in the country to receive the first Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow awards.
The North Carolina Arts Council says in a news release that Jaki Shelton Green will receive $75,000 in recognition of her literary merit and ...
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KOBE, Japan (AP) - Andres Iniesta is confident he can help his struggling Japanese team turn things around after a disappointing start to the season.
After finishing 10th in the 18-team J-League last season, Vissel Kobe spent lavishly over the winter when it signed Iniesta and his former Barcelona teammate ...
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Calvin de Haan was at a loss for words about what comes next.
Minutes after the Carolina Hurricanes' shocking 4-3 double-overtime victory in Game 7 to move on to the second round, he wasn't yet ready to turn his attention to facing the New York Islanders. But that turnaround comes ...
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - DJ LeMahieu singled home Tyler Wade with the tiebreaking run in the ninth, and the New York Yankees rallied from a five-run deficit for their sixth consecutive victory, 6-5 over the hapless Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Wade made up for an earlier baserunning mishap ...
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LOS LUNAS, N.M. (AP) - Facebook has purchased more than 400 acres in New Mexico, but the social media giant has no immediate plans for the land.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the purchase more than doubles the company's footprint in Los Lunas, where it has been building a $1 ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A key witness for prosecutors at a trial stemming from a crackdown on corruption in college basketball says he paid college football players to secure their business when they joined the NFL.
Louis Martin Blazer, testifying Tuesday and Wednesday, described paying players at schools including Pittsburgh, ...
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LONDON (AP) - Champagne is off the menu for English soccer.
The FA Cup winners will no longer be handed bottles of bubbly to celebrate at Wembley Stadium. Instead, the English Football Association will provide a non-alcohol champagne imitation at its competitions.
The FA says "this is to ensure that ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Thirteen state and local poets laureate will be receiving grants totaling more than $1 million.
The gifts from the Academy of American Poets, announced Wednesday, are for "recognition" of literary excellence and to support civic programs ranging from podcasts to community-based workshops. The $1,050,000 in funding ...
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MADRID (AP) - Former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has been acquitted of money laundering charges after spending nearly two years in prison.
Court officials in Madrid say there was not enough evidence for a guilty verdict on charges related to the sale of television rights for matches involving the Brazilian ...
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BOSTON (AP) - The former men's tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin is set to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scandal .
Michael Center is expected to plead guilty in Boston federal court on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Best-selling author Warren Adler who chronicled dysfunction and duplicity, most notably in his divorce novel "The War of the Roses," a dark comedy that was made into a hit film has died. He was 91.
Adler died at his Manhattan home on April 15. The Washington ...
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ROME (AP) - The ATP Finals is moving to the Italian city of Turin in 2021.
A person with knowledge of the details confirmed the move to The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not yet authorized to discuss the situation publicly.
...PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 76ers have gone south in Toronto.
Sixers coach Brett Brown wants the season series to come with an asterisk.
Sure, the Raptors went 3-1 against the Sixers, but Philadelphia has evolved thanks to a pair of splashy trades this season that could skew the perception that ...
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Connor McDavid is eager to shrug off personal stats, awards and achievements and put the focus on his team in Edmonton.
Yet there he is on the cover of a video game or in a commercial for a bank.
Auston Matthews is the face of the franchise in Toronto. But ...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island sportsbooks had their best month yet in March, thanks to bets from college basketball fans.
The state lottery says gamblers placed nearly $23.6 million in wagers in March, when the NCAA Tournament is held - the highest monthly total since sports betting launched in ...
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WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) - The mayor of a New Jersey shore town says they will continue to play Kate Smith's recording of "God Bless America" on its boardwalk despite allegations of racism against the singer.
Wildwood has traditionally started each day by playing the song. Mayor Ernie Troiano says it's ...
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - Former University of Florida forward Keith Stone is transferring to the University of Miami for his senior season.
The 6-foot-8 Stone, a South Florida native, expects to graduate this summer and will be eligible to play for the Hurricanes in 2019-20.
Stone averaged 6.1 points ...
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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Rebecca Lowe is making a one-weekend switch from the Premier League horse race to actual equines.
Lowe will co-host NBC's coverage of the Kentucky Derby on May 4 with Mike Tirico, the network said Tuesday. She also will co-host the Kentucky Oaks on NBCSN on May ...
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HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sheryl Crow has released a political and spiritual song about war featuring vocals from the late Johnny Cash that will be featured on what she says is her last album.
Crow's "Redemption Day" was originally released on her Grammy-winning 1996 self-titled album and later recorded by ...
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Billy McNeill, the captain of Glasgow soccer club Celtic when it became the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967, has died. He was 79.
McNeill died Monday, according to a family statement released Tuesday by the Scottish club.
"He suffered from dementia ...
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LONDON (AP) - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, have released new photos of their youngest child Prince Louis to celebrate his first birthday.
Prince Louis reached the milestone on Tuesday.
The photos, taken by Kate, show him playing in the garden of the family's home in Norfolk, on ...
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DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) - A family-owned media group that owns several local newspapers around Atlanta is set to buy a decades-old Dunwoody newspaper that has struggled with shrinking revenues and staff.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Appen Media Group announced over the weekend that it plans to buy The Crier. Details ...
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Gio Urshela singled home Gleyber Torres in the 14th with his second extra-inning RBI of the night, and the New York Yankees blew a 12th-inning lead before rallying for their fourth consecutive win, 4-3 over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday.
Torres reached base on catcher ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - One season was not enough for Igor Kokoskov to convince the Phoenix Suns that he was the man to lead the franchise into the future.
The Suns fired Kokoskov Monday night, ending the tenure of the NBA's first European-born coach after one disappointing season.
"After extensive evaluation, ...
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - The 21st annual Southern Kentucky Book Fest is this week, and the author of young adult novel "The Hate U Give" is expected along with other authors.
Author Angie Thomas' debut novel was a New York Times best-seller and was adapted into a movie released ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death is coming out Oct. 29.
Random House confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that "The Beautiful Ones" will combine Prince unfinished manuscript with rare photos, scrapbooks and lyrics. First announced just weeks before his ...
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TALLASSEE, Ala. (AP) - A former Alabama police officer has admitted to slamming a compliant handcuffed man into the ground and then slamming the man's head into his patrol car.
News outlets report 27-year-old Michael Brandon Smirnoff pleaded guilty Friday to federal excessive force charges. He's set to be sentenced ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music star Tim McGraw watched as Philadelphia hosted the NFL draft in 2017 with more than 250,000 people on hand and immediately had a vision of how to make the three-day event even better.
Bring it to Nashville and add the Music City touch.
"My ...
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LONDON (AP) - The time is drawing near for the impending birth of the first child for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. The couple is keeping many details about Meghan's pregnancy and birth plan private and say they don't know the baby's gender yet. Here ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "The Curse of La Llorona" (yuh-ROH'-nuh) had only good fortune at the box office.
The Warner Bros. horror film based on a Mexican legend about a woman who murdered her children and wanders the world looking for them brought in $26.5 million as the weekend's top ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney of the Black Keys are married.
The Grammy-winning musicians tied the knot Saturday at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans in front of close friends and family, a representative for Carney told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Among those attending ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Getafe regained control of the final Champions League berth in the Spanish league after Jorge Molina scored twice in a 3-0 victory over Sevilla on Sunday.
Getafe leapfrogged Sevilla into fourth place, the last spot granting access to Europe's top-tier club competition next season. Sevilla fell ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - In the latest setback since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was handed the manager's job on a permanent basis, Everton humiliated Manchester United 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday.
The Norwegian coach saw his team exit the Champions League quarterfinals on Tuesday with a 4-0 aggregate loss ...
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KITAKYUSHU, Japan (AP) - Canada defeated England 7-5 to win the Kitakyushu Sevens title on Sunday in the lowest scoring final in World Rugby Women's Sevens Series history.
Captain Ghislaine Landry crossed the line on the final play to level the scores at 5 apiece and converted to give the ...
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LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 93rd birthday, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday.
The queen is marking Easter by attending a service with other senior royals at St. George's Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle, west of London.
Her birthday is marked this year ...
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JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Jacqui Kapinowski has battled cancer, bacterial meningitis - twice - and a rare neurological disorder that robbed her of the use of her legs.
Through it all, the 56-year-old Tequesta resident hasn't stopped rowing, racing and teaching.
A two-time U.S. Paralympian and nine-time world champion ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A longtime Florida sports broadcaster is facing charges he tried to solicit a 14-year-old boy.
The Tampa Bay Times said 37-year-old Justin Pawlowski was arrested in his St. Petersburg home last week on charges of transmitting harmful material to a minor.
Authorities say Pawlowski ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Just how much additional money will go toward Indiana schools is a top unanswered question as the General Assembly nears the end of this year's legislative session.
Lawmakers could wrap up the session as early as Wednesday but negotiations on the new two-year state budget and other ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Gov. Kevin Stitt's appointment of an Oklahoma businessman to fill a vacant seat on the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents has raised concerns among some members of the state Senate.
Stitt has nominated Oklahoma businessman Gary Pierson to fill the seat, which requires Senate approval. ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Symphony Orchestra says it plans to resume its community concert series next month.
The ensemble's William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series returns over two weekends in May with concerts in Southfield, Clinton Township, Beverly Hills, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Plymouth and Grosse Pointe.
The series is ...
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Run it back — this best-of-seven series just became a best-of-three.
The Hurricanes drew even with the Washington Capitals in their first-round Stanley Cup Playoff series, taking the teams back to the District to kick off the home stretch of the round. One team will be eliminated sometime next week. Is the ...
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LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) - Registration is open for the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's Conference and Annual Achievement Awards, scheduled for May 31 in Littleton.
The theme of the biennial conference at the Littleton Opera House is "Preserving Community Character: Critical Issues and Opportunities."
Participants include members of historical societies and ...
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KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Next time you watch a movie or a television show, pay special attention to the credits. You might just see a former Kodiak athletic star's name scroll by.
Tim LeDoux, better known on the island for being part of the 2001 undefeated Kodiak boys basketball team, ...
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SYDNEY (AP) - The New South Wales Waratahs' first Super Rugby match without suspended fullback Israel Folau turned into an impressive victory.
The Waratahs overcame a 20-7 halftime deficit Saturday and held Melbourne scoreless over the final 40 minutes to register a 23-20 victory in their eighth game in this ...
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LONDON (AP) - Former Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop has received a four-year ban for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Saturday.
The banned blood-boosting hormone EPO was found in the Kenyan athlete's urine sample in an out-of-competition test in 2017.
A disciplinary tribunal panel disputed the 29-year-old Kiprop's contention ...
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Australian Ashleigh Barty beat Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7-6 (2), 6-3 to level their Fed Cup semifinal at 1-1 after the opening day of singles on Saturday on hard courts at Pat Rafter Arena.
Barty's win ended Azarenka's 13-match winning streak in Fed Cup play.
Earlier, ...
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - When it comes to convincing throngs of high school students to show up to an alcohol-free party stretching until dawn after prom night, 17-year-old Parkland senior Dani Colapietro believes a good pitch is key.
"We want people to think of this as our last night together ...
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Colin Wilson and Mikko Rantanen each had two goals and an assist, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 in Game 5 Friday night to advance to the second round.
Gabriel Landeskog also scored, and Nathan MacKinnon and Tyson Barrie each had three assists ...
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A proposal to require a graduate transfer to count against a team's scholarship total for two years in football and basketball has been rejected by the NCAA.
The Division I Council on Friday voted down a proposal that could have tapped the brakes on the de facto free agency created ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid right back Alvaro Odriozola has a shoulder fracture and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
Madrid says Odriozola broke his left clavicle during team training on Friday.
The club did not say how long Odriozola is expected to be sidelined, but the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - When Jimmy Page was a young student, he had already developed such an inseparable relationship with his guitar that school officials would often confiscate it.
"It would be given back at the end of the day. And this was quite repetitive," Page said.
That dedication worked ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Captain is coming home.
Hockey Hall of Famer Steve Yzerman will be named general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Friday. Ken Holland will become the team's senior vice president after being its general manager ...
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - McKenna Miller Reynolds' first reaction to the Facebook message was that it was a joke or a mistake.
The message informed the North Salt Lake wife and mother that she was among four grand prizewinners randomly selected to sing with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple ...
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ROUEN, France (AP) - Kristina Mladenovic of France will face second-ranked Simona Halep of Romania in the opening singles of their Fed Cup semifinal Saturday.
No. 21 Caroline Garcia meets Mihaela Buzarnescu in the second singles at the clay-court Kindarena in Rouen, northwest France.
Following the reverse singles on Sunday, ...
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Thousands have rallied in the Ukrainian capital to support President Petro Poroshenko who is trailing in opinion polls ahead of this Sunday's election.
Poroshenko will be hoping he can help turn the tide in a televised debate Friday against his opponent, comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who grew ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller's report and President Donald Trump (all times local):
7:40 a.m.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler says he expects to issue a subpoena within a few hours for special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling and President Donald Trump.
...BERLIN (AP) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday his thoughts are with the friends and families of two of the country's best-known climbers missing and feared dead in Canada along with an American alpinist following an avalanche.
David Lama und Hansjörg Auer have been missing in Alberta's Banff National ...
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OSTERSUND, Sweden (AP) - It was one of European soccer's most heartwarming stories, an unconventional club from a sleepy city in central Sweden making an eight-year journey from the amateur ranks to beating Arsenal in the Europa League.
But was the remarkable rise of Ostersund built on illegal foundations?
In ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - About five years ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige found himself on a retreat in Palm Springs plotting the future for the wild, experimental "cinematic universe" that he helped start in 2008 . He wanted to do something that they hadn't done. He wanted an ending.
...MONACO (AP) - Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters by beating Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-0 Wednesday.
The top-ranked Serb, a two-time champion at the clay-court event, won on his first match point. He will next play 10th-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia.
Medvedev defeated sixth-seeded Stefanos ...
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PARIS (AP) - Cannes Film Festival organizers have announced its 2019 line up, which pits revered directors such as Ken Loach, Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, and Pedro Almodóvar against each other in competition for the top Palme d'Or prize.
The 19 entries announced Thursday in Paris include Jarmusch's "The Dead ...
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ROME (AP) - Nearly 70 years after the tactic was invented, Italian clubs are still struggling to shed their "catenaccio" past.
Juventus has come in for harsh criticism over its defensive play during a surprising elimination by a young and exciting Ajax squad in the Champions League this week.
"In ...
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CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - Stops on the Dew Tour skateboarding circuit will serve as qualifying events for the sport's Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
The Dew Tour contest in Long Beach set for June 13-16 will be the first U.S.-based qualifying event for both park and street competitions. ...
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PARIS (AP) - The Latest on the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and its aftermath (all times local):
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Workers are securing the support structure above one of Notre Dame's famed rose windows with wooden planks after this week's devastating fire.
A huge crane and renovation teams ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A candidate who lost an election to join the FIFA Council this month has filed a formal complaint accusing Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of "threats and manipulation."
Mariyam Mohamed of Maldives says in a letter to the Asian Football Confederation's election oversight committee ...
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TOKYO (AP) - It's Olympic ticket sales time again, perhaps the least understood side of the games.
"Time flies," said Kosuke Kitajima, a four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist from Japan. "It's as if the Rio de Janeiro Olympics were just yesterday."
The now-retired Kitajima helped Tokyo Olympic organizers launch their ...
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Howard Katz has the most unenviable task in the National Football League. As the league's senior vice president of broadcasting and media operations, he is the point person for formulating the schedule and trying to make the executives of the league's four broadcast partners happy.
Before the public got a ...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Jimmy Garoppolo has resumed throwing and taking drop backs as he rehabilitates from a major knee injury that derailed his first full season as San Francisco's starting quarterback.
The process of coming back is going smoothly and Garoppolo hopes to be able to take part ...
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NBC Universal and the LA Olympics are going into business together, combining to package commercial time on all the network's platforms with opportunities to sponsor the American team through 2028.
The deal is for contracts covering 2021 through 2028, the year the Summer Games return to the United States for ...
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The woman who finished second behind Caster Semenya at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics says she also has a condition that gives her high levels of naturally occurring testosterone and would be affected if the IAAF implements its hormone policy.
Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, an Olympic and world championships ...
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ZURICH (AP) - FIFA says a potential joint bid from North and South Korea remains in the race for the 2023 Women's World Cup.
All nine soccer federations which showed interest last month met Tuesday's deadline to register. FIFA says they include South Korea "expressing interest in a joint bid" ...
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ORDINO, Andorra (AP) - As a brave whistleblower, Marco Trungelliti should be feeling good about himself. The Argentine player exposed match-fixing crooks in tennis, helped the fight against the criminal gambling syndicates that are corroding his sport from within and testified about dishonest fellow professionals who, in part thanks to ...
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg has brought her climate change campaign to the Vatican, where she met with Pope Francis and carried a sign saying "Join the climate strike."
Thunberg arrived late for Francis' general audience on Wednesday and took her seat in the VIP ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Tennis champion Arthur Ashe Jr. will be honored by the city of Richmond, state of Virginia and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture with an official dedication of Arthur Ashe Boulevard.
A ceremony is planned for June 22 on the museum's front lawn. The dedication ...
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) - The Albanian football federation says it has hired Italian Edoardo 'Edy' Reja as its national team coach.
Reja, 73, will keep the post until the end of the European Championship qualifiers in November, according to spokesman Tritan Kokona.
He replaces compatriot Christian Panucci, who was fired ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Cartoonist Monkey Punch, best known as the creator of a Japanese megahit comic series of master thief Lupin The Third, has died at age of 81.
His office, MP Pictures, said Wednesday that Monkey Punch, whose real name is Kazuhiko Kato, died of pneumonia on April 11.
...KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The first steps on the road to the next World Cup were taken on Wednesday when the Asian Football Confederation held a draw for the first round of qualifying for Qatar 2022.
Twelve of Asia's lowest-ranked teams will face each other home and away on ...
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DAWSON, Iowa (AP) - A jury has convicted an Oskaloosa man of stabbing to death a college basketball player.
Mahaska County District Court records say 24-year-old Luke VanHemert was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder. His sentencing is scheduled for June 27.
VanHemert's lawyers had argued that he was defending ...
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LONDON (AP) - England has issued a formal warning to Billy Vunipola for defending an anti-gay Instagram post by Australia rugby player Israel Folau, and said the No. 8 regretted his comments.
Following a meeting with the player, the Rugby Football Union said Vunipola's conduct was "prejudicial to the interests ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Big Bird, Elmo and stars of "Sesame Street" are leaving their quiet neighborhood and embarking on a road trip.
The nonprofit Sesame Workshop said Tuesday a selection of Muppets will take part in a 10-city trip to celebrate the show's 50th anniversary campaign with free park ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Chicagoans who have bird feeders in their yards may not know it but they are feeding birds in more ways than they know.
Experts say that hawks are making a comeback in the area and they are increasingly dining on the sparrows, doves and cardinals that stop ...
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TOKYO (AP) - For fans, athletes and volunteers, next year's Tokyo Olympics could become known as the get-up-early games.
Organizers - hoping to beat the summer heat in the Japanese capital - say the men's 50-meter race walk final will begin at 5:30 a.m. The men's and women's marathon finals ...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Marc Marquez's shocking tumble in Texas has jumbled the title chase in MotoGP.
Marquez was cruising toward another victory and a chance to extend his lead in the championship when an unforced error at the Grand Prix of the Americas sent him spinning out of the ...
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SEATTLE (AP) - Trevor Bauer allowed one run while pitching into the seventh inning, slumping Jose Ramirez hit his first homer of the season and the Cleveland Indians held on late for a 6-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.
Cleveland rebounded from being swept last weekend by ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Plans are moving forward by a company with ties to former NBA star Magic Johnson to redevelop property at the old Michigan Fairgrounds in Detroit.
The Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority announced Monday that Magic Plus LLC's about $472,000 purchase of about 16 acres (6 hectares) ...
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They arrived in the offseason at a combined cost of $140 million, with the intention of bringing a new dimension to Liverpool's midfield.
Fabinho would be the pure, out-and-out holding midfielder the team had been missing for a few years. Naby Keita would be the energetic, goal-scoring, box-to-box runner in ...
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Dozens of high-profile Australian journalists and major media organizations were represented by lawyers in a court on Monday on charges relating to breaches of a gag order on reporting about Cardinal George Pell's convictions for sexually molesting two choirboys.
Reporting in any format accessible from Australia ...
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HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) - Runners are trying to stay dry as they await the start of the 2019 Boston Marathon.
The 123nd running of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon got a wet start. But it's not as cold as expected, with temperatures in the 60s as runners ...
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LONDON (AP) - Joan Collins has thanked firefighters for their quick response after a blaze erupted in her London apartment.
The 85-year-old actress shared video images of a charred wall on social media after the weekend fire. She also tweeted thanks to the "marvelous" firefighters who tackled the "terrifying" blaze.
...DETROIT (AP) - In 1936, Michigan Gov. Frank Fitzgerald declared April 18 "Detroit Champions' Day" to mark the championships earned by all of the city's professional sports teams around that time.
The Motor City still celebrates, despite the dearth of current trophies for the Tigers, Lions, Pistons and Red Wings.
...COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Sweden's Film Institute says Bibi Andersson, the Swedish actress who starred in classic films by her compatriot, the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, has died. She was 83.
Spokesman Martin Frostberg says Andersson, who starred in "The Seventh Seal" and "Persona" died on Sunday.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) - The University of Akron is suing several companies over the condition of railings in the school's stadium, sayinsg shoddy construction and design led to $1 million in needed repairs.
The university lawsuit included photographs that show railings at Infocision Stadium missing chunks of concrete and with ...
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Jim Nantz was told by the late Ken Venturi after Jack Nicklaus' 1986 Masters win that he would never see a day like that around Augusta National again.
Nantz's 34th Masters ended up being just as dramatic with Tiger Woods' first victory in a major in nearly 11 years and ...
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Stephen Curry's pregame tunnel heaves have become such a spectacle at Oracle Arena that hundreds of cameras rise in the air to capture the moment.
He won't have that anymore when the Warriors move across the bay to San Francisco to Chase Center next season.
Everybody ...
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - Amidst bare walls and yet-to-be-installed floors, a splatter of nails and stacks of sheet rock, George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint said he is very excited about the theater's inaugural season in its new home.
The five-play season is sandwiched by two new musicals ...
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LUGANO, Switzerland (AP) - Winning her first title since 2012, Polona Hercog beat 17-year-old Iga Swiatek 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in a rain-delayed Samsung Open final on Sunday.
In the 17th singles final on the WTA tour this season, Hercog was the 17th different player to lift a trophy.
Hercog had ...
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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Torino's chances of sneaking into the Champions League were hampered by a 1-1 draw against Cagliari on Sunday, in a match which saw three players sent off.
Simone Zaza was both hero and villain for Torino as he gave it the lead shortly after half time ...
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UNDERHILL, Vt. — A Vermont girl isn't happy that her disabled pet chicken was joked about on "Saturday Night Live."
The chicken, named Granite Heart, is learning to walk with a custom wheelchair.
On a recent 'SNL' episode, the television show's "Weekend Update" co-host said she should "just eat the ...
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Tiger Woods waking up early Sunday morning to play the final round of the Masters ordinarily would mean he is at the bottom of the leaderboard.
That wasn't the case this year.
Francesco Molinari takes a two-shot lead over Woods and Tony Finau into a first-ever ...
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NEW YORK — Jemele Hill has moved on, but not from speaking her mind.
The former ESPN host, best known to the non-sports world for tweets about President Donald Trump that provoked the White House to unsuccessfully seek her firing, launches a weekly podcast Monday on Spotify. On the show, ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited the Fukushima nuclear plant, which sank into meltdowns after a tsunami eight years ago, in an effort to highlight revival and safety as the nation prepares to host the 2020 Olympics.
The visit Sunday by Abe, who last visited the ...
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Nathan MacKinnon scored 8:27 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche tied their first-round series with the Calgary Flames at a game apiece with a 3-2 win Saturday night.
After Philipp Grubauer stopped Michael Frolik at one end, the puck went up ice, where a pass from ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, may be keeping plans about their impending baby under wraps, but that hasn't stopped everyone in Britain from trying to guess the gender and the name of their first child.
If Britain's bookmakers are to be believed, it's definitely ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Knicks are turning to Patrick Ewing in hopes of lottery luck.
Ewing, the prize when the Knicks won the first NBA draft lottery in 1985, will represent the team on stage when it attempts a turnaround by landing the No. 1 pick on ...
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A 94-year-old World War II veteran who's legally blind is not one to back away from a challenge.
Navy veteran Warren Heyer, of Sioux Falls, recently went downhill skiing at a special winter sports clinic in Colorado.
The Argus Leader reports that Heyer was among ...
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Landowners and the sculptor of the Enchanted Highway in western North Dakota have resolved a dispute concerning liability and the lease linked to the statuary road's flagship sculpture.
In 2017, Seth and Kayla O'Donnell bought 28 acres where they planned to build their home, including the ...
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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard Academy has named a field house after the school's first African-American coach.
The facility, part of Roland Hall gymnasium, has been named the Dr. Hallie Gregory Field House.
Gregory, a Rockford, Illinois-native, began teaching and coaching at the academy in 1971. ...
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One win down, 15 to go.
That's the number of games the Washington Capitals still need to win to hoist another Stanley Cup, of course. Nothing is in the bag after their 4-2 win in Game 1 of the first round, but they do have the advantage now.
It's already ...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A$AP Ferg will be headlining an annual University of Michigan concert to raise money for boosting educational accessibility.
The member of the New York-based rap collective A$AP Mob will perform Tuesday at Hill Auditorium. The benefit caps SpringFest, a day of on-campus events that includes ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Scores Saturday after the first day of the two-day men's World Rugby Singapore Sevens at the National Stadium:
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South Africa 36, Scotland 10
Fiji 50, Canada 12
South Africa 36, Canada 0
Scotland 19, Fiji 12
Canada 33, Scotland 10
South Africa 17, Fiji 7
...FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - The four members of the Team Winnie the Pooh live more than 3,800 miles from the Fairbanks Curling Club.
However, the Ohio curlers seemed to be right at home in the club during the 84th edition of the four-day Fairbanks International Bonspiel.
"This is a first-class ...
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Dave Loggins hasn't stepped a foot on Augusta National in decades, but like countless golf fans, he remembers enjoying a little slice of sports heaven during his first time on the course.
Unlike most golf fans, the now 71-year-old had the songwriting chops to soak in ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Yasmani Grandal had three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in three runs in his first game back at Dodger Stadium as he led the Milwaukee Brewers to a 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
The former Dodgers catcher received his ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore's acting leader has ordered an audit of a nonprofit's management of a $12 million city youth fund after it was tied to distribution of the embattled mayor's children's books.
The audit of Associated Black Charities' work comes as first-term Mayor Catherine Pugh is embroiled in a ...
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MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) - Authorities say a small plane crashed onto a high school baseball field in Connecticut, injuring two occupants of the aircraft but no one on the ground.
Police Sgt. Christopher Fry says the plane went down at H.C. Wilcox Technical High School in Meriden at about 7 ...
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) - Cardiff manager Neil Warnock has been charged by the English Football Association for his tirade against Premier League referees.
Match officials failed to spot a glaring offside when Cardiff conceded a late equalizer against Chelsea in a game the relegation-threatened Welsh team went on to lose ...
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