By BECKY BOHRER and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper and gold resource in the world because of concerns about its environmental impact on a rich Alaska aquatic
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Shakeel Moore scored a career-high 22 points, Tolu Smith had 15 points and eight rebounds and Mississippi State beat South Carolina 66-51 on Tuesday night for its second SEC victory of the season. Mississippi State (14-8, 2-7), which was coming off an 81-74 victory over No. 11 TCU behind Smith’s career-high
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department announced on Tuesday that it has reopened a cold case from 1994. CPD released a statement that it reopened the 1994 murder of the 43-year-old Columbia resident Virginia Davis. Davis was found dead in her home in the 1500 block of Patsy lane on June 6, 1994. Timothy
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La palabra “Ãntimo” se utiliza con frecuencia para describir documentales sobre famosos, pero sin duda se aplica a “Pamela, a Love Story”, que en un momento dado muestra a Pamela Anderson tumbada en la bañera mientras se leen partes de sus diarios como voz en off. El resultado es una mirada
Continue Reading By The Associated Press American forward Matthew Hoppe was loaned to Hibernian of the Scottish Premier League for the rest of the season  by Middlesbrough of England’s first tier League Championship. A 21-year-old from Yorba Linda, California, Hoppe joined Middlesbrough from Spain’s Mallorca last summer but made just six league appearances, all as a second-half
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A car with dark tinted windows circles the block a few times before swerving onto the sidewalk. A handful of armed plainclothes police officers jump out and order everyone out of a double-parked car so they can search it, striking terror in the seconds before red and blue lights flash
Continue Reading By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United has completed the loan signing of midfielder Marcel Sabitzer from Bayern Munich as cover for the injured Christian Eriksen. Eriksen could miss most of the remainder of the season because of an ankle injury, sustained during United’s 3-1 win against Reading in the
Continue Reading BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Longtime University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has been fired following an investigation into alleged harassment, bullying and verbally abusive conduct. McKeever led the Golden Bears to four NCAA team titles over 29 years. She coached the U.S. women’s swim team at the London Olympics in 2012, the first
Continue Reading GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A man at the center of an intense police search in Oregon after a violent kidnapping last week was seen walking a dog Tuesday in the same part of southern Oregon where the victim had been tortured, police said. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, was spotted Tuesday morning in the Grants
Continue Reading By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Two monkeys taken from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday in an abandoned home after going missing the day before from their enclosure, which had been cut. But no arrests have been made, deepening the mystery at the zoo that has included other cut fences, the escape
Continue Reading ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Diego Castillo and the Seattle Mariners have gone to salary arbitration, with the relief pitcher asking for $3,225,000 and the team offering $2.95 million. Richard Bloch, Melinda Gordon and Brian Keller heard the case. A decision is expected Wednesday. A 29-year-old right-hander, Castillo was 7-3 with a 3.64 ERA and
Continue Reading BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Longtime University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has been fired following an investigation into alleged harassment, bullying and verbally abusive conduct. McKeever led the Golden Bears to four NCAA team titles over 29 years. She coached the U.S. women’s swim team at the London Olympics in 2012, the first
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The man convicted of helping kill a prominent snake breeder in Montgomery County is asking for a new trial. Attorneys for Michael Humphrey filed his appeal on Jan. 26 in the state’s Eastern District Court of Appeals. The appeal says Judge Jason Lamb should not have allowed a key witness to testify
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell who lay in state in a Sydney cathedral on Wednesday as police sought a court order to prevent protesters from disrupting his funeral. Pell, who was once the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican and spent more than
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J. Edgar Hoover are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards. Former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo has won an honorary award for lifetime achievement. Last
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El juicio por narcotráfico contra Genaro GarcÃa Luna, exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México, continuó este martes en Nueva York. El juicio contra Genaro GarcÃa Luna, exsecretario de Seguridad Publica de México, en EE.UU.: quién es, de qué lo acusan y quiénes son los testigos Uno de los testigos de la
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, Kevin Flower, Stephanie Elam and Taylor Romine, CNN Videos purportedly capturing the moments before the shooting death of a double-amputee man holding a knife after a stabbing attack are raising questions about whether police used excessive force in the Southern California city of Huntington Park. On Thursday afternoon, Huntington Park Police Department
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By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN Top Ukrainian officials have in recent days escalated their public lobbying campaign for US-made F-16 fighter jets, arguing they need them urgently to defend against Russian missile and drone attacks. But that push is being met with skepticism by US and allied officials who say the jets would
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN Top Ukrainian officials have in recent days escalated their public lobbying campaign for US-made F-16 fighter jets, arguing they need them urgently to defend against Russian missile and drone attacks. But that push is being met with skepticism by US and allied officials who say the jets would
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James is back in the lineup for the Los Angeles Lakers for their game against the New York Knicks, his first game at Madison Square Garden in three years. James moved well during a pregame workout Tuesday and the Lakers upgraded him from questionable to available. James sat out Monday
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