VICTOR, W.Va. (AP) - Nicole Linkfield had a busy summer planned for her Riverchick Farm Food Truck.
"I was scheduled for a lot of big fairs and festivals," she says, listing events including Fayette County's Mountain Music Festival, Snowshoe Mountain's 4840, the Lewisburg Chocolate Festival and the West Virginia Food ...
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Sri Lanka's national cricket squad will start training from Monday after more than two months of restrictions.
Sri Lanka Cricket announced Sunday that 13 players for the men's team - selected across the three formats ...
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) - At the foot of the bed rests a glittery blue drum set and lodged between a worn leather sofa and his desk are four instruments crammed, but within arm's reach. Boundaries between personal, private and work life have become obsolete for many, but Valentin Prince has ...
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Washington Mystics guard Natasha Cloud wrote an essay reacting to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and took aim at what she called "America's systems of power" for allowing white supremacy to flourish.
Eyewitness video showed a police officer, later identified as Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Floyd's ...
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Craig Bohl is spending more time than most coaches these days dabbling in technology.
Not only does Wyoming's coach have his own assistants and players to keep tabs on, but he's also a member of the NCAA's Division I Football Competition Committee and serves on the ...
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When Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini was struggling with the coronavirus in mid-March, the prospect of entering Bergamo's hospital -- which was overflowing with COVID-19 patients at the time -- made him fear for his life.
"Every two minutes an ambulance passed by. … It seemed like a war," Gasperini ...
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The coach of Italian soccer club Atalanta says he acquired COVID-19 and was concerned for his life in mid-March.
Gian Piero Gasperini tells the Gazzetta dello Sport that he started feeling sick on March 9, ...
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) - Thank You Five, the modest 50-seat theater in Port Orange, was looking at the upcoming spring season as their busiest yet.
The company had two mainstage productions and roughly 10 other events - stand-up comedy, open mic nights, musical cabarets - in the works.
Then, ...
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) - The horse industry in Marion County is gearing up for its return after COVID-19 lockdowns caused events to be canceled en masse.
The first back is Ocala Breeders' Sales, which begins its four-day sale of 2-year-old thoroughbreds on June 9. The sale lists more than 1,300 ...
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WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) - The Maui County Liquor Control Department has issued a written notice of warning to Maui Brewing Company after an investigation revealed the company violated state law by advertising free hand sanitizer with the sale of liquor.
The department released a statement about the notice following its ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - From his office chair in the back-right corner, Jimmy Kimble leaned back and peered through the window into the spacious Republic Services welding complex in South Memphis.
The tool-covered warehouse has been his kingdom for most of his life - 55 years to be exact. Friday ...
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MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - Christopher Jue knew he was home the moment he and his wife stepped inside the sprawling 62-year-old ranch with brick floors, a sunken living room and built-in desks, shelves and bureaus - hallmarks of an Alden B. Dow original.
"To say it was a no-brainer is ...
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Four-year college athletic teams eliminated because of budgetary cuts or school closures associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to Associated Press research through Friday, May 29 (x-denotes school closure) :
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Baseball (2): Bowling Green, Furman.
Men's cross country (1): Akron.
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LINCOLN CITY, Ind. (AP) - An outdoor amphitheater in southwestern Indiana that pays homage to Abraham Lincoln's childhood years in the region has moved all of its 2020 performances to next year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lincoln Amphitheatre's director, Marc Steczyk, announced the move Tuesday in a statement ...
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MADRID (AP) - The Spanish league says full team training sessions will resume Monday, ahead of the first match to be played following the coronavirus stoppage.
La Liga said the government gave authorization on Saturday for squads to practice together. Until now, players had been limited to individual training before ...
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The Ukrainian Premier League restarted Saturday but one game was called off when an unspecified number of soccer players and staff tested positive for the coronavirus.
The league said players and staff from last-placed Karpaty Lviv had tested positive ahead of Sunday's match against Mariupol.
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BERLIN (AP) - German flagship airline Lufthansa agreed Saturday to a compromise worked out between the government and the European Union, overcoming a major hurdle toward final approval of a 9 billion-euro ($10 billion) bailout from Berlin.
Lufthansa said in a statement it had agreed to the compromise worked out ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Friday said he will allow youth sports to resume games with spectators in the stands this summer as he moves to continue lifting coronavirus restrictions.
The Republican governor said low-contact youth sports teams can start practicing on June 8 ...
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ZACHARY, La. (AP) - A fight at a Waffle House in Louisiana landed a Tulane University football player in jail and a teenage girl in a hospital, police said.
Zachary Police Chief David McDavid told The Advocate the early Monday morning fight that led to the arrest of Tyler Judson, ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to take action to bring the city of Minneapolis "under control," calling violent protesters outraged by the death of a black man in police custody "thugs" and saying that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Trump tweeted after protesters torched ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Liverpool is unlikely to win the Premier League at Anfield after police included the leader's key games among six it wants to be played at neutral venues in a bid to prevent fans from gathering outside when the competition resumes.
Police originally wanted neutral venues for ...
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Scrawled or masterfully crafted on walls and roads are messages of hope and warning.
Street art is getting inspiration from the coronavirus pandemic gripping the globe, offering some comic relief, wit and beauty in a world where people are cut off from each other.
In some cases, the ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei believes the newly passed national security law for Hong Kong augurs the end for the semi-autonomous city.
Ai was arrested at Beijing's airport in April 2011 and held for 81 days without explanation during a wider crackdown on dissent ...
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Authorities on Friday marked the 35th anniversary of the Heysel Stadium tragedy where 39 people died during fan violence at the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels.
Flowers and wreaths were laid at a remembrance plaque early Friday at the King Baudouin Stadium, ...
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LE PECQ, France (AP) - Hold that smile, Mona Lisa. The Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles will remain off-limits for the immediate future, too.
None of France's three most iconic tourist sites will reopen when the country lifts most of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions next week. Some ...
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The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships won't be held as planned in 2022 because of a crowded international sporting schedule brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Canada was scheduled to host the quadrennial event in 2022 ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The MotoGP races in Britain and Australia are the latest to be canceled on the international motorcycle racing circuit because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizers on Friday said COVID-19 pandemic "and resulting calendar changes have obliged the cancellation of both events."
The British Grand Prix had ...
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PARIS (AP) - Hassan N'Dam, former middleweight boxing champion of the world, wanted to repay the French hospital that cared for his father-in-law through his bout with COVID-19.
Perhaps with Champagne? Or chocolate? No, N'Dam thought: "These are things that won't last. I wanted to leave something quite memorable."
...PARIS (AP) - Struggling French carmaker Renault on Friday announced 15,000 job cuts worldwide as part of a 2 billion-euro cost-cutting plan over three years.
Renault said on Friday that nearly 4,600 jobs will be cut in France in addition to more than 10,000 in the rest of the world. ...
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A sampling of thoughts from some of the more than two dozen athletes from 11 sports that The Associated Press spoke to about resuming competition amid the coronavirus pandemic:
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"Some players like Steve Nash used to lick his hands. Some people still have that in their routine. Some people ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A proposal that paves the way for legalized sports betting in some Louisiana parishes is headed to Gov. John Bel Edwards' desk.
If the Democratic governor agrees to the measure as expected, voters in each of the state's 64 parishes will decide in the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Jonathan Karp, who has worked with authors ranging from Sen. Edward Kennedy to Susan Orlean, has been named the new CEO of Simon & Schuster. He replaces Carolyn Reidy, who died two weeks ago.
Karp, who joined the company in 2010, most recently served as president ...
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations after French public television aired documentaries on the North African country's anti-government protest movement, one of which contained shots of young people kissing and drinking alcohol.
The Algerian foreign ministry said in a statement Thursday that ...
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An Alabama teenager has died in what authorities called an accidental drowning in a state park lake, authorities said.
Jamari Smith, 18, went under the water while swimming with friends at Chewacla State Park in Auburn on Wednesday afternoon, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said in a statement. Firefighters found ...
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - With the sound of skin slapping skin and an echoing oomph of air from lungs as players collided at pace, the National Rugby League led the charge for elite sports returning to action in Australia.
Home advantage didn't help the Brisbane Broncos in losing to the ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A self-described "master thief" career criminal is hoping to catch a break on his prison sentence from burglarizing a Brink's warehouse during which he accidentally set millions of dollars on fire.
Sean Murphy and two other men were convicted of breaking into the Brink's facility in ...
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Like dozens of other veteran spellers in their final year of eligibility, Anson Cook had big plans for this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 13-year-old eighth-grader from Potomac, Maryland, was a two-time participant in the bee, and last year he finished ...
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ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch Grand Prix became the fourth Formula One race canceled this season because of the coronavirus pandemic, after organizers chose on Thursday not to host it without spectators.
It was to be the first Dutch GP since 1985, but F1 wants to start the season ...
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Bologna says a test carried out on a member of its staff who was suspected of having coronavirus has come back negative.
The club says that a "further, definitive test" will be carried out in ...
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The typical pay package for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies topped $12.3 million last year, and the gap between the boss and their workforces widened further, according to AP's annual survey of executive compensation.
Median pay for CEOs in the survey climbed 4.1% last year. For the typical ...
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The Washington Capitals have 11-to-1 odds to win the 2020 Stanley Cup following the NHL announcing its 24-team return-to-play format Tuesday.
Caesars Sportsbook pegged a trio of contenders as co-favorites: the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Vegas Golden Knights, all at 6-to-1.
The Colorado Avalanche come in ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - When country singer Kip Moore wasn't performing, he was traveling the world to places like Iceland and Costa Rica looking for the next great wave to surf, or a cliff to climb or a remote trail to hike. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Georgia-born ...
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LeBron James spoke out against the death of a black Minnesota man on Monday, posting a split photo of a police officer kneeling on the man's neck and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling before an NFL game.
The top of the photo contains the words: "This... is why"
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NEW YORK (AP) - NBC "Tonight" show host Jimmy Fallon has apologized for doing an impersonation of fellow comic Chris Rock while in blackface during a 2000 episode of "Saturday Night Live."
Fallon tweeted on Tuesday that "there is no excuse for this."
Discussion of Fallon's 20-year-old skit surfaced this ...
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MADRID (AP) - Spain's top sports government official says fans may be back in soccer stadiums beginning next season.
Irene Lozano, president of the Spanish Sports Council, believes that conditions could be in place by the fall to allow fans back, with some restrictions.
"We haven't ruled that out," ...
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PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) - A third-grade teacher and coach at a Portsmouth elementary school has been named Rhode Island's teacher of the year.
Ashley Adamson, who teaches at Hathaway Elementary, was honored Tuesday by the state Department of Education in a surprise outdoor ceremony at which everyone wore masks and ...
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Alex Ovechkin's wife Nastya Shubskaya Ovechkina gave birth to the couple's second son, Ilya Alexandrovich Ovechkin, early Wednesday morning.
"27.05.2020 Our son was born, Ilya Aleksandrovich Ovechkin," Shubskaya wrote in Russian on Instagram. "55 cm 3800 g! We are the happiest."
Ovechkin posted the same photo on his Instagram with ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering after Twitter moved a day earlier to add fact checks to two of his tweets.
The president can't unilaterally regulate or close the companies, which would require action by Congress or the ...
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Premier League clubs have voted unanimously to resume contact training in the latest step toward restarting the soccer season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The league says players are now able to train as a group ...
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Rosy as the news might sound, Gary Bettman made no promises in announcing the NHL has the framework of a plan in place to return to the ice.
"We hope," the commissioner said, "that this is a step back toward normalcy."
The league and its players overcame a significant hurdle ...
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LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called "The Ickabog," which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
The "Harry Potter" author said Tuesday she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime ...
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A Pennsylvania man has agreed to plead guilty to bribing Georgetown University's former tennis coach $50,000 to get his daughter admitted as a fake athletic recruit, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Robert Repella, 61, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, was expected to plead guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit mail ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's a way different kind of year, and so The ESPYs will be, too. For the first time, the show will feature three hosts in remote settings and a changed focus. Instead of honoring the past year's top athletes and moments in sports, the show is ...
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There's an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of "On the Record," a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.
In the early morning darkness of Dec. 13, 2017, former music executive Drew Dixon walks ...
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"Red Dress in Black & White," by Elliot Ackerman (Alfred A. Knopf)
If you know your Bosphorus from phosphorus and Gezi Park means something to you, you'll probably love Elliot Ackerman's new novel. If the strait that separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey and the 2013 demonstrations against ...
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ZURICH (AP) - The president of Haiti's soccer federation has been suspended from the sport while under investigation for alleged sexual abuse of young women players at the national training center.
FIFA said its ethics committee investigators removed Yves Jean-Bart from duty for 90 days. That interim ban can be ...
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Two men who shot a campaign video without a permit for a district attorney candidate in Georgia were accused of damaging government property.
Christopher Mandel Black, 23, and Erik Deangelo Whittington, 24, were booked into jail Friday, several days after the "Get Out And Vote" ...
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HENDERSON, Tenn. (AP) - Freed-Hardeman University has announced that actor and activist Gary Sinise will speak at the Tennessee school's annual benefit dinner later this year.
The event is set for Dec. 4 and helps to raise funds for scholarships at the university.
Sinise has been an advocate for the ...
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - He was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles largely behind him. He had enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, preparing to become an electrician, just like his uncles. But first, he decided, he would take a break. College could wait until ...
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan arts groups are struggling to operate as people divert their donations to needed services during the pandemic, community leaders said.
Arts organizations are dealing with the same challenges as restaurants or other businesses that need large gatherings to operate, the Lansing State Journal reported.
...BALTIMORE (AP) - Four people were killed and two were injured in shootings across Baltimore on Sunday, according to police.
The killings marked the deadliest day this month, according to The Baltimore Sun, which reported that 118 people have been killed in gun violence so far this year.
The ...
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The Euroleague basketball season has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic and no championship will be awarded.
The league says it considered and rejected various plans for continuing the season, including proposals from many ...
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida team is selling people the "ultimate baseball experience" by putting their oceanview stadium up for rent on AirBnB for $1,500 a night.
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos says guests will have access to the clubhouse, a large bedroom, the batting cage and the field.
...The Italian Winter Sports Federation was making a formal request on Monday to postpone next year's Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo until March 2022.
Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malagò revealed the plans during an interview with RAI state TV on Sunday night.
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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's professional baseball season will open on June 19 under a plan that excludes fans.
League commissioner Atsushi Saito made the announcement on Monday after an online meeting with representatives of the league's 12 teams.
The announcement came as the state of emergency was lifted in Tokyo ...
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The Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) would like to postpone next year's Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo until March 2022.
Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malagò revealed the plans during an interview with ...
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Young and single, Thatcher Demko has plenty of time on his hands, with little to do. Quarantining to play hockey wouldn't be a problem for the Vancouver Canucks goalie.
"I don't have too many roots," the 24-year-old said. "I've been living pretty much out of my car for the most ...
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MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's metamorphosis from refugee to the first Somali-American in Congress has been well-documented. Now, Omar is out with a new memoir that offers her own spin on her path to prominence, starting with her childhood in Mogadishu. "This is What America Looks Like: My Journey ...
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Two months ago they were pulling down rebounds for Cave Spring High School's boys basketball team.
Today, Parker Huffman and Matt Cagle are grabbing groceries off the top shelf.
The two Cave Spring seniors stood out in the winter of 2019-20, helping the Knights win a ...
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"The Match: Champions for Charity" begins Sunday and features an exciting matchup for a good cause. Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning will square off against Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in an 18-hole event at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested in Southern California on Friday.
Leaf, 44, was arrested on a domestic battery charge in Palm Desert, which is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, according to booking information provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department ...
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Fired NASCAR star Kyle Larson won the World of Outlaws race Saturday night in Pevley, Missouri, a day after finishing second behind brother-in-law Brad Sweet in the first Sprint Cup event with live fans in the dirt series' return from a coronavirus pandemic suspension.
With attendance limited and other safety ...
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Eddie Sutton waited so long to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He couldn't hang on long enough to make it to the ceremony.
The man who led three teams to the Final Four and was the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA ...
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A Bournemouth player is one of two positive tests for COVID-19 to emerge from the Premier League's second round of testing, the club said on Sunday.
The team said "medical confidentiality means the player's name ...
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NEW DELHI (AP) - From her village in eastern India, 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari reflected on her desperate 1,200-kilometer (945-mile) bicycle journey home with her disabled father that has drawn international praise.
"I had no other option," she said Sunday. "We wouldn't have survived if I hadn't cycled to my village."
...MIAMI (AP) - A Florida high school football coach was suspended as administrators investigate whether he held practice against rules and stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
The Miami Herald reports that Miami Northwestern Senior High School has launched an investigation when it learned there had been ...
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BOSTON (AP) - The Maine International Film Festival will be held at a drive-in theater; crowds packed some Massachusetts beaches amid summerlike temperatures; and Vermont's largest annual event has been canceled for the first time.
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The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July, the clearest sign yet that the league believes the season can continue amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The National Basketball Players Association is also part of ...
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PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - For nearly a decade, McCracken County's Sophia Shiben, Danni Poat and Isabella McKinney had been waiting their turn.
As youngsters, they'd trooped together in small local tournaments and turned summers into extra swings, building for when they were older, taller, faster, stronger.
As high-schoolers, they'd spent ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana turkey hunters had their best season in nine years, bagging 2,117 birds from April 4 to May 3.
That's almost 15% more than last year, and the best since 2,580 birds were harvested in 2011, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday ...
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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - German World Cup winner Mario Götze will leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season when his contract expires.
Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said Saturday that he spoke with Götze in the last few days and they agreed he would move on for next ...
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Bill Maher, one of President Trump's fiercest critics on cable television, voiced regret Friday over Congress having conducted the impeachment proceedings he previously championed.
"Impeachment turned out to be a horrible thing," the liberal comic said during the latest episode of his weekly HBO program, "Real Time with Bill Maher."
...INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The postponement of the Indianapolis 500 from Memorial Day weekend until late August because of the coronavirus pandemic has created a "void" for businesses near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that rely on spending by race fans and tourists, local officials said.
Connie Harris, executive director of the ...
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - It was little surprise and ultimately hard to miss the boost in prominence esports, i.e. competitive video games, during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.
After years building massive online audiences, esports has broadened its place in the modern mainstream during the days ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Two men have been indicted on charges using small explosions to rob ATMs in Florida.
A federal grand jury in Tampa returned indictments Wednesday charging Mawdo Malick Sallah, 33, of Clearwater, Florida, and Kirk Douglas Johnson, 34, of Anderson, South Carolina, with eight counts each, according ...
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Employees of all businesses are required to wear face coverings when interacting with the public and when they are within 6 feet (2 meters) of a co-worker or customer, under an ordinance passed in Nashua in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Telegraph of Nashua reports ...
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Jerry Sloan, the Hall of Fame coach who was a fixture for decades in Utah and took the Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, died Friday. He was 78.
The Jazz said he died from complications of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Sloan had been in ...
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RUMFORD, Maine (AP) - A driver who fatally struck a bicyclist has been charged with manslaughter and operating under the influence of drugs, according to Rumford Police Chief Tony Milligan.
Alger Aleck is expected to be arraigned Friday in the death of an unidentified cyclist who died Thursday, WGME-TV reported.
...ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) - A high school football player designated as a star recruit for colleges by ESPN is accused of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend.
Luke Hill, 18, faces charges including attempted first-degree murder after allegedly firing gunshots that struck a home in Accokeek, Maryland, on Monday ...
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For more than a year, "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, insisted they were innocent of charges in the college admissions bribery case. They accused investigators of fabricating evidence against them and seemed eager to bring their fight to trial.
Now they're preparing for ...
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SOAVE, Italy (AP) - Riccardo Muti will conduct a youth orchestra in an open-air concert launching the annual Ravenna Festival next month in what organizers billed Friday as Italy's first live classical music performance since its strict lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The Italian government is permitting concerts ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - In April, as the coronavirus was ravaging New York, Susan Jones learned her older brother had been diagnosed with a blood cancer.
His supervisor at work launched a GoFundMe page to help with costs, and Jones shared it on Facebook. What happened next stunned her.
...MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia University is selling off the old WVU Coliseum seats before installing new ones later this year, the college said this week.
WVU basketball season ticket holders can buy their own seats for $100 and the general public can get them for $150. The ...
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Two high-profile PGA Tour golfers said this week that they will not come to the U.S. to play in the first several events of the tour's mid-pandemic restart, highlighting the potential travel obstacles non-American golfers will face.
Adam Scott told the Australian Associated Press that when the tour ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A bitterly divided Senate panel voted along party lines Thursday to advance President Donald Trump's choice to head the Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded international broadcasters that have been the subject of harsh criticism from the White House.
After rejecting eight Democratic requests to postpone ...
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Police in a Phoenix suburb on Thursday identified a 20-year-old man as the suspect in a shooting at a recently reopened shopping and entertainment district that injured three people and sent panicked people running for cover.
Armando Hernandez, Jr. was detained after he was confronted by ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as "Jane Roe," her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was an abortion rights advocate, but, in a twist, she became a born-again Christian in ...
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Luke Hill, a former four-star football recruit who has played for St. John's College High School in the District and for St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, was arrested and charged with felony attempted first-degree murder and felony first-degree assault Tuesday.
Hill, 18, was also charged with six misdemeanors. ...
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The latest NHL return-to-play scenario being discussed in multiple reports would include 24 teams, but rather than start with a round-robin tournament, as reported last weekend, the league would go straight into the playoffs and give eight teams first-round byes.
One of those teams: the Washington Capitals.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis partnered with the Frontline Foods nonprofit to sponsor 100 meals for staff at two Rhode Island hospitals helping in the fight against the coronavirus.
Davis, who grew up in Central Falls, was joined by members of the cast of "How to ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A high school principal's online meeting to plan a virtual graduation ceremony was hijacked by someone who played porn videos for students and parents, news outlets reported.
"As you might imagine I'm both mortified and angry," Dreher High School Principal Kevin Hasinger wrote in an email ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa movie theaters, museums, zoos and wedding reception venues will reopen Friday, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday as she expressed confidence the state can respond if there's an outbreak.
Also reopening in time for Memorial Day activities are state campground restrooms, showers and cabins. Camping ...
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Indigo Girls, "Look Long" (Rounder)
"Look Long" is the Indigo Girls' first studio album in five years, a passionate and tuneful collection on which the combined voices of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers sound as instinctive and magical as ever.
Recorded in England at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, it's ...
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Victor Wainwright and the Train, "Memphis Loud" (Ruf)
Here's an hour-long set to help fill the void created by all of those canceled summer music festivals.
"Memphis Loud" was tracked live in the studio by Victor Wainwright and the Train, creating a vibe suitable for a crowd enjoying a sunny, ...
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Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated. But every Monday morning, one group of older New Yorkers is finding plenty to laugh about.
In a raucous hourlong kickoff to each week, the moment's gloomy news disappears into a staccato of jokes, ...
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BOSTON (AP) - The New England Patriots and the New England Revolution are planning to plant a flag garden near Gillette Stadium to honor some of the state's residents who have died in the service of the nation.
The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund usually plants about 37,000 U.S. flags on ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is giving grants to the cities she's called home through her $12 million coronavirus relief fund.
She announced Wednesday that her Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation will donate money to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago; Baltimore; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee; and Kosciusko, Mississippi, ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles firefighters said a body was found on Venice Beach early Wednesday, days after former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was caught in a rip tide while swimming with his son.
Gaspard's 10-year-old son, Aryeh, was rescued and several other swimmers made it ...
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgium coach Roberto Martínez has signed a new contract to lead the Red Devils through the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The Belgian federation said on Wednesday that the 46-year-old Martínez, who previously coached Premier League teams Everton and Wigan, will also continue in his role as ...
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Former Chicago Bulls forward Horace Grant denounced the ESPN documentary "The Last Dance" as a downright lie and called former teammate Michael Jordan a snitch.
In an interview Tuesday on ESPN 1000 in Chicago, Grant tore into the claim by Jordan on the smash-hit 10-part series that he was the ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The return of live golf to television brought 2.35 million viewers across all platforms, which NBC Sports says was 16% higher than the final of the Dell Match Play last year.
The TaylorMade Driving Relief on Sunday from Seminole Golf Club was shown from 2 p.m. to ...
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"Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth." by Benjamin Taylor (Penguin Books)
For 20 years, Benjamin Taylor was a confidant of Philip Roth. Over the course of their friendship they talked often and intensely - about books, sex, fathers, food, politics, baseball, Jewishness and more. Crucially, Taylor was at ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Des Moines has agreed to spend $75,000 to settle a lawsuit filed after an officer sprayed pepper spray at a 17-year-old girl and threw her to the ground at a downtown bus station.
The City Council approved the settlement last week after it was accepted ...
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A song took aim at an alleged abuse of power by Poland's ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. It rose to the top of the chart of a public radio station. Then it disappeared.
The public broadcaster is now accused of censorship. The scandal, which has been ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - LeBron James, Jimmy Fallon, Spotify and HBO are among the 2020 Webby Award winners for internet excellence.
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced the winners Tuesday.
Fallon's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" won a Webby for best website promoting a celebrity, ...
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LE PECQ, France (AP) - How's this as an antidote for coronavirus blues: A genuine painting by Pablo Picasso on your wall.
After an eight-week delay caused by France's COVID-19 lockdown, the Christie's auction house in Paris is hosting a raffle draw Wednesday for "Nature Morte," an oil on canvas ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo Olympics officials are incensed that their games emblem has been used in the cover design of a local magazine that combines the logo with the novel coronavirus.
Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said in an online news conference on Tuesday that organizers had requested the Foreign ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The city of Charleston on Monday created an online art database for people to use during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly 250 works of public art can be viewed on the database along with a mapping function through seven different areas of the city.
"While we are ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - As Walt Disney World prepares to allow some third-party shops and restaurants to open at its entertainment complex later this week, it's posting a warning.
While enhanced safety measures are being taken at Disney Springs, "an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Geoff Johns, the former president and chief creative officer of DC Entertainment, considered his sister akin to a superhero, but instead of otherworldly strength or special powers, her special gift involved her generous heart and sense of adventure.
"She always wanted to help people. She was ...
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At funerals, he made the organ moan, and at weddings, it thundered in joy. On Christmas, bells twinkled; on Easter, trumpets blasted. He delivered victorious graduation marches and bellowing birthday celebrations, blaring the pipes and vibrating the pews every Sunday in between.
He was unassuming, egoless and largely anonymous, but ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a dispute over whether the major pro sports leagues and the NCAA have to pay millions of dollars to a New Jersey horse racing association over sports betting litigation.
The case now goes back to federal ...
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Monumental Sports and Entertainment owner Ted Leonsis said Sunday that he believes when the NBA, NHL and WNBA seasons resume amid the coronavirus pandemic, it will happen in host cities rather than in every team's home arena.
Appearing on CNN's "The Situation Room," Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards, ...
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Throughout the ESPN's "The Last Dance," the central question of the documentary explored why anyone would want to break up the Chicago Bulls' dynasty in the 1990s. In the 10th and final episode, Michael Jordan said he would have returned to the Bulls for another season and wanted to chase ...
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Asian Americans, more than any other group, are using digital devices and streaming services for their television viewing, according to a report made public Monday.
The Nielsen company study said that Asian Americans are becoming key consumers and influencers in entertainment and gaming.
And Asian Americans are proving to ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Elvis Presley's Graceland says it will reopen Thursday after it shut down tours and exhibits due to the new coronavirus outbreak.
The tourist attraction in Memphis, Tennessee, said Sunday that it has adjusted its tours, and restaurant and retail operations, since it closed in March.
...NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will look somewhat like high school ball this year under protocols to deal with the new coronavirus, with showers at ballparks discouraged and players possibly arriving in uniform, like they did when they were teenagers.
Team personnel will be banned from eating at restaurants ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - Buffalo Bills defensive lineman Ed Oliver was arrested Saturday by police in the Houston area and charged with drunk driving and illegally carrying a gun.
Montgomery County sheriff's deputies pulled Oliver over after receiving reports around 9 p.m. of someone driving recklessly in a construction area north ...
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In quarantine, Bryce Harper has been thinking of how baseball can resume amid the coronavirus pandemic. And on Saturday, he shared them with the world.
Posting on Instagram, the Philadelphia Phillies star laid out his approach to how he'd like to see MLB return — proposing some outside-the-box ideas in ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - It was a long night for Tommy Bettin.
His dance studio, Fred Astaire Dance Studio Richmond in Chesterfield County, would close after one final day of ballroom dance classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His mind would not shut down until he formulated a plan.
"A ...
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RUMFORD, Maine (AP) - A movie that was released on Friday features the winter landscape of western Maine as a backdrop for an outdoorsman's story of survival.
"Blood and Money" was written and directed by Cumberland native John Barr, and features many of the places he visited as a kid. ...
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NEW YORK — Over the past few years, author Curtis Sittenfeld has gotten to know Hillary Clinton in a way uniquely suited for a novelist - by writing a work of fiction about her.
"I was definitely an admirer of Hillary before I started the book, but writing from her ...
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MIAMI (AP) - The aroma of buttery vanilla-nutmeg waffles and crispy fried chicken floats up from the Overtown bed and breakfast's busy kitchen to the empty 22 guest rooms upstairs.
Jamila Ross and Akino West haven't had a guest at their Copper Door Bed & Breakfast since March 15.
Yet ...
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Washington Redskins receiver Cody Latimer was arrested Saturday in Colorado and charged with assault in the second degree and four other charges, according to the Douglas County Police Department.
Police responded to a call reporting shots fired just after midnight. When they arrived, officers found three individuals inside and after ...
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CAMDEN, Tenn. (AP) - For 30 years, eight boxes of reel-to-reel tapes bearing the label "George Jones albums" rested abandoned and forgotten in a bank vault in New Orleans.
Six years and a court battle spanning two states later, those same boxes now sit in a bank vault in Benton ...
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NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (AP) - A track worker at a Wisconsin raceway was killed during a school bus race Friday night while attempting to move a damaged bus, authorities said.
Edward Nicholson, 62, of River Falls, died after the bus rolled onto him at Cedar Lake Speedway near New Richmond, ...
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SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (AP) - A southern Indiana amusement park plans to begin reopening the popular destination in mid-June with reduced capacity, a virtual queuing system and other safeguards against the coronavirus.
"It's important that we open slowly and safely, so we want to make sure we have Holiday World ...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Jeff Sessions, the former Alabama senator seeking to reclaim his seat after serving as President Donald Trump's attorney general, has written an open letter to Alabama voters explaining his recusal from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sessions has gone on the ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Kevin Hart found an upside to putting his name to a charitable cause during the coronavirus pandemic: the comedian offered a walk-on role in a future film to a health-care worker in the COVID-19 fight.
Henry Law, an anesthesiologist in New Jersey, got the call from Hart ...
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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Mike Tatoian remembers when Dover's first NASCAR race of the season was canceled.
While it was difficult news, the president and CEO of Dover International Speedway knew there was still an August race slated for the Monster Mile.
At the time, Tatoian remembers not being overly ...
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UFC President Dana White and his friend President Trump officially share a distaste for The New York Times' reporting after UFC 249.
A recent piece by the newspaper's Kevin Draper elicited an expletive-laced response by Mr. White just days after the businessman's organization bucked the coronavirus pandemic in ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country star Keith Urban is used to playing massive stages full of lights, speakers and screens in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans, but his latest gig was mostly just him and two other musicians playing on a flatbed truck in front of about ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Brazilian exchange student made one request of his host before his study abroad semester was cut short and he returned home to Sao Paulo:
Take me to Rocky.
On the way to the Philadelphia airport, Joao Martucci, who studied linguistics at West Chester University, took a ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Over the past few years, author Curtis Sittenfeld has gotten to know Hillary Clinton in a way uniquely suited for a novelist - by writing a work of fiction about her.
"I was definitely an admirer of Hillary before I started the book, but writing from ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn (AP) - During a recent songwriting session, singer-songwriters Sarah Loethen and Christoffer Wadensten pieced together the lyrics and melody of a song they were writing about the global pandemic.
Loethen played the first verse and Wadensten, who performs under the artist name Meadows, came up with ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian prosecutors have dropped money laundering charges against "The Wolf of Wall Street" film producer and stepson of ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak in a move slammed by Human Rights Watch on Friday as a "triumph for impunity and corruption."
Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said ...
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Over its many years, the Eurovision Song Contest has come to be a sign of the times. So it is perhaps fitting that, in coronavirus times, nothing will be happening on Saturday at the scheduled venue of the Ahoy Hall in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. ...
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This year's college graduates won't get to take their triumphant walk across the stage. They won't get to toss their caps amid a sea of classmates. Instead, they have to settle for online ceremonies while their diplomas are mailed home. But at least one aspect of the traditional graduation ceremony ...
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Since 2000, Prince George's County has produced some 25 NBA players and more than a dozen WNBA players — including stars like Kevin Durant and Victor Oladipo.
That's the focus of "Basketball County: In the Water," a new documentary from Showtime which airs Friday at 9 p.m. Durant plays a ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - In a new video featuring some of the state's notable residents, South Carolina's lieutenant governor is promoting an effort to encourage residents to participate in the U.S. Census this year.
Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette heads up the state's Complete Count Commission, a collaborative effort of hundreds ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a former youth football coach's 15-year prison sentence for raping the sister of one of his players after luring her to his Fort Wayne home with the promise of a cheerleading coaching position.
An Allen County jury found ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells is writing a biography of the pioneering African-American journalist and activist.
One Signal Publishers announced Thursday that Michelle Duster's "Ida B. the Queen" will come out next February. Duster will collaborate on the book with Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis. ...
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World No. 4 golfer and one-time major championship winner Justin Thomas will follow Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in having his face on the cover of an official PGA Tour video game.
Thomas was named the cover athlete for "PGA Tour 2K21," which will release Aug. 21. First announced last ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Fiction by Ken Follett, Matt Haig and Sue Miller will be among the dozens of upcoming releases excerpted in two free e-book compilations.
"Buzz Books 2020: Fall/Winter" and "Buzz Books 2020: Romance" were released Thursday by the online industry publication Publishers Marketplace. Featured works include ...
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By the time spring arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, the pandemic had the world firmly in its grip.
The vernal equinox arrived March 19, the day California handed down the first statewide stay-at-home order in the United States. Most of the country would soon follow suit. In the coming weeks, ...
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