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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The game between the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves was postponed Wednesday night because of smoky conditions inside the Mexico City arena. The matchup will be made up in Minnesota at a later date. The arena was evacuated about 45 minutes before the scheduled 9:30 p.m. EST tipoff when a […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jameis Winston will learn whether he faces prosecution Thursday when a state attorney finally announces the results of an intensive investigation into sexual assault allegations against the quarterback for top-ranked Florida State. The alleged incident occurred nearly a year ago, but it wasn’t until last month that Tallahassee police turned over […]
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson, financial analyst and Tom Morning Show special commentator, donated $25 million to the After School Matters program in Chicago. The program serves 4500 teenagers during the school year and 5500 in the summer. The money will be used to keep kids in the program and provide […]
DETROIT (AP) — Shirley Lightsey’s phone keeps ringing. As head of a group of Detroit retirees, she’s trying to keep up with calls from anxious pensioners who fear their monthly payments are at great risk now that a judge says the bankrupt city can cut them. Unions and pension funds are pledging to appeal a […]
Who wears naked white girls as art? If you think the question is weird, here’s the answer: It’s a black man named Nate Hill, a performance artist from Brooklyn, New York. So you’re probably asking: “What the hell?” Well, we are, too. But it’s true. Hill, 36, has created a controversial project he calls “Trophy […]
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with killing a Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding three others during a shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport made his first court appearance Wednesday with bruises on his face and a bandage on his neck. It was the first time Paul Ciancia has been seen […]
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy accused of killing his high school math teacher pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery charges on Wednesday. Philip Chism is charged in the Oct. 22 death of Colleen Ritzer, a popular teacher at Danvers High School. Ritzer’s body was found in woods near the […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As gunfire boomed over and over in the background, a janitor begged a 911 dispatcher to send help, saying, “There’s still shooting going on, please!” A woman breathlessly reported seeing a gunman run down a hall. And a teacher said she was holed up in her classroom with her children but […]
When Houston police spotted Landry Thompson (pictured left), a 13-year-old Tulsa, Okla., dancer in the company of two Black men, Josiah Kelly (pictured right), 22, her dance…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama turned his focus Wednesday to the pocketbook issues that Americans consistently rank as a top concern, arguing that the dream of upward economic mobility is breaking down and the growing income gap is a “defining challenge of our time.” “The basic bargain at the heart of our economy has […]
When it comes to sexual assault accusations, some people try to take more precautions than others when they feel like they have more to lose.…
BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s Kenyan-born uncle, who ignored a deportation order more than two decades ago, on Tuesday was granted permission to stay in the United States. Judge Leonard Shapiro made the decision after Onyango Obama, 69, testified that he had lived in the U.S. for 50 years, been a hard worker, paid […]
