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Ohio St, LSU, Clemson, Georgia in CFP position; Utah, Oklahoma next
Ohio State will go into championship weekend as the top team in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s rankings, followed by LSU, Clemson and Georgia. Utah was fifth, Oklahoma sixth and Baylor seventh in the committee’s second-to-last top 25 released Tuesday. The final rankings that set the pairings for the...
Report: Rudy Giuliani in frequent contact with Devin Nunes, White HouseVideo
WASHINGTON — A new report from Democrats compiling evidence on impeachment revealed contact between President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the intelligence committee. The report released Tuesday includes phone records obtained from AT&T and Verizon that show Giuliani also was...
Police: Mother tied son’s hands during California fire
SANTA PAULA, Calif. — Authorities say a woman placed a plastic bag over her 3-year-old son’s head and tied his hands as their Santa Paula home burned. Santa Paula police say 47-year-old Maricela Magana Ruiz and her son were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire on Sunday. Firefighters found...
Undersized Marquette star Markus Howard finds ways to dominate
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Markus Howard continues to find ways to dominate basketball games despite his undersized stature. The 5-foot-11 Marquette preseason All-American and reigning Big East player of the year leads the nation in scoring at 26 points a game. “We need Markus to be the player and...
Masters field could be biggest in more than 50 years
NASSAU, Bahamas — Seven tournaments from the six largest tours over the next three weeks could shape the field for the Masters and, perhaps, pave the way for the largest gathering at Augusta National in more than 50 years. The Masters invites the top 50 from the final world ranking...
New Jersey Devils fire coach John Hynes, formerly of Penguins’ AHL club
The Devils fired coach John Hynes, the former coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, on Tuesday. General manager Ray Shero announced the move roughly 20 minutes before Hynes was to speak to the media before the Devils game against the Golden Knights at Prudential Center. Shero said...
Carolina Panthers fire coach Ron Rivera after nine seasonsVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Ron Rivera era has come to an abrupt end in Carolina. The Panthers fired their all-time winningest coach with the team on a four-game losing streak and headed to its third non-playoff season in four years. “I believe this is the best decision for the long-term...
Gun background checks are on pace to break record in 2019Video
Background checks on gun purchases in the United States are climbing toward a record high this year, reflecting what the industry says is a rush by people to buy weapons in reaction to the Democratic presidential candidates’ calls for tighter restrictions. By the end of November, more than 25.4 million...
Brother of man killed by cop gets award for hugging her
PLANO, Texas — The brother of a man killed by a Dallas police officer has accepted an award from a law enforcement organization for hugging the officer after she was convicted of murder. The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration gave 18-year-old Brandt Jean the award Tuesday for his “display of...
House releases report on evidence for Trump impeachment
WASHINGTON — The House released a sweeping impeachment report Tuesday outlining evidence of what it calls President Donald Trump’s wrongdoing toward Ukraine, findings that will serve as the foundation for debate over whether the 45th president should be removed from office. The 300-page report from Democrats on the House Intelligence...
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to meet in U.S. over Nile dam dispute
CAIRO — Egypt says officials from the three Nile basin countries will meet in the United States to “assess the results” of their recent negotiations about Ethiopia’s soon-to-be-finished mega-dam project, which Cairo says threatens its water supply. Tuesday’s statement by Egypt’s irrigation ministry says the meeting in Washington next week...
Former prosecutor says corrupt congressman Duncan Hunter got ‘great’ dealVideo
SAN DIEGO — California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring with his wife to use at least $150,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses under a plea deal that a former federal prosecutor called “great” for the congressman who had faced 60 counts. The...
Kamala Harris suspends Democratic presidential bid
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris told supporters on Tuesday that she was ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. “I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,”...
Study finds racial gap narrows in prison, jail, parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report by the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice says racial gaps have narrowed across the American criminal justice system between 2000 and 2016, the most recent data available. Among the findings: • The imprisonment rate for black people and Hispanic people dropped about 30% between...
Workers fired from Google plan federal labor complaint
SAN FRANCISCO — Four workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, claiming it unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes. The former employees said Tuesday they are preparing to file unfair labor practice charges with the National...
Man shot to death in York County movie theater; woman wounded
Authorities say a man was shot and killed and a woman was wounded inside a movie theater in York County. West Manchester Township police said officers were called to the Regal Cinemas shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday. Police said a single shooter shot both victims in a theater and then...
Student, officer injured in another high school shooting
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A police officer confronted an armed student at a Wisconsin high school Tuesday morning and both were wounded, police said, in the second such shooting at a school in the state in as many days. The latest shooting happened at Oshkosh West High School. The student and...
Drake is Spotify’s most streamed artist of the decade
NEW YORK — Drake is the king of streaming: the rapper has been named Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the decade. Spotify announced Tuesday that Drake has been streamed 28 billion times in the past 10 years. Ed Sheeran came in second, while Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Eminem round out...
Pete Townshend regrets not staying to mourn after Who stampede in Cincinnati in 1979
NEW YORK — Forty years after a stampede left 11 people dead and 23 injured at a Who concert in Cincinnati, Pete Townshend says he’s always regretted not sticking around to deal with the aftermath. Instead, the band left the Riverfront Coliseum on Dec. 3, 1979, and moved on to...
Trump says world ‘has to be watching’ the violence in Iran
LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he supports the demonstrations in Iran and urged the world to watch the Iranian government’s violent effort to quash protests that he says have killed “thousands of people.” Speaking in London, where he is attending the NATO leaders summit, Trump said,...
Harvard grad students strike over pay, health, protections
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University’s graduate students are going on strike after failing to reach a labor contract with the administration. A union representing the school’s graduate students began picketing Tuesday after more than a year of negotiations. The labor group says Harvard has failed to offer fair pay, health...
Jacksonville University discontinues football program
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville University has decided to discontinue its football program. The school made the announcement Tuesday, saying it spent more than a year evaluating its athletic department and exploring ways to position itself for long-term growth and success. Athletic director Alex Ricker-Gilbert says “ultimately, one option stood out...
Cincinnati Zoo names its new baby giraffe
CINCINNATI — A giraffe born recently at the Cincinnati Zoo now has a name. The male calf born Nov. 23 has been named Theo. Zoo officials said in a news release Monday that they picked that name because it means “divine gift.” “He was the gift that our team needed...
Joe Biden sees fundraising improvement after rough summerVideo
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president’s fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals. Biden’s campaign would not say exactly...
Marijuana vaping busts on rise; over 500K seized in 2 years
NEW YORK — As health officials scrutinize marijuana vaping, it’s increasingly on law enforcement’s radar, too. From New York City to Nebraska farm country to California, authorities have seized at least 510,000 marijuana vape cartridges and arrested more than 120 people in the past two years, according to an Associated...
