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NBA bans Clippers owner for life

NBA bans Clippers owner for life


NBA bans Clippers owner for life

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Basketball commissioner issues ban, $2.5 million fine in wake of racist comments.


Storms tear through South, killing dozens

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Deadly tornadoes strike central, southern U.S.A chain of deadly tornadoes stretching from Okla. to Ala. leaves a trail of destruction.


Doctor: 3 victims critical in FedEx shootings

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:08 AM PDT

Photos of the day - April 29, 2014An armed package handler opened fire Tuesday at a Ga. FedEx hub, injuring 6, police said.


Protesters seize new building in eastern Ukraine

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:41 AM PDT

Pro-Russian activists storm an administration building in the center of Luhansk, Ukraine, one of the largest cities in Ukraine's troubled east, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, as demonstrators demand greater autonomy for Ukraine's regions. The action on Tuesday further raises tensions in the east, where insurgents have seized control of police stations and other government buildings in at least 10 cities and towns.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Protesters demanding more power for Ukraine's regions stormed the government building in Luhansk with baseball bats Tuesday, seizing control of a key site in one of the largest cities in Ukraine's troubled east.


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Attacks hit 2 major Syrian cities, kill 54 people

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:19 AM PDT

In this photo which AP obtained from the Syrian official news agency SANA, and has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, damages are seen after a series of mortar shells hit Damascus, killing more than a dozen people and wounding scores in Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The attacks in the Syrian capital came a day after President Bashar Assad announced his candidacy for the June 3 presidential election. (AP Photo/SANA)Two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of the capital, Damascus, killed 14, officials and state media said.


NBA bans Clippers owner for life

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:51 AM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers NBA basketball team owner Donald Sterling attends the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly HillsBasketball commissioner issues ban, $2.5 million fine in wake of racist comments.


Tornado Aftermath: Survivors tell their stories

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:31 AM PDT

Tanisha Lockett searches through the remains of her aunt's child care business in Louisville, Miss., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The seven-year-old business was leveled among with a auto repair business next door and a private residence. Numerous businesses, residences and the community hospital were destroyed or heavily damaged after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Louisville is the county seat and home to about 6,600 people. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)A powerful storm system was menacing a large swath of the South early Tuesday, killing more than two dozen people from Arkansas to Alabama over more than two days of destruction. Here are the some stories from people in Mississippi and Alabama that made it through the frightening chaos.


Italy court reveals new details in Amanda Knox case

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:36 AM PDT

Knox reacts while being interviewed on the set of ABC's "Good Morning America" in New YorkAn Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox in her roommate's 2007 murder says the wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money the night of the murder.


Kerry: U.S. taped Moscow plotting Ukraine chaos

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he boards a plane from Paris on March 31, 2014 for a trip to the Middle East to work on talks about the Middle East peace processThe secretary of state claimed in a private meeting that the U.S. intelligence community has recordings of pro-Russian forces being managed by government handlers in Moscow.


Death toll increases as tornado cleanup begins in the South

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 08:39 AM PDT

Wade Mills searches through the remains of his automotive repair business in Louisville, Miss., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The six-year-old business was leveled among with a daycare center next door. Numerous businesses, residences and the community hospital were destroyed or heavily damaged after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Louisville is the county seat and home to about 6,600 people. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)More bad weather is expected today, the third day harsh spring weather.


NAACP wants to meet with NBA boss over Sterling flap

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:04 AM PDT

NBA Commissioner Adam SilverWASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP wants a meeting with NBA commissioner Adam Silver to discuss Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the racist comments he allegedly made in a recorded conversation.


Attacks hit Syria's 2 major cities, kill 50 people

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:50 AM PDT

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian parliament speaker says Assad has declared his candidacy for the June 3 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)A car bomb went off in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing 36 people just hours after a mortar attack on the capital, Damascus, killed 14, government officials and state media said.


Crews rescue father, 2 kids in S.C. national park

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:12 AM PDT

Search for a father and his two children lost in Congaree National ParkSearch crews have located a father and his two children who had been missing for more than two days in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park southeast of Columbia, officials said Tuesday.


Six wounded in attack at Ga. FedEx facility

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 10:13 AM PDT

FedEx Workplace Shooting Results in Multiple InjuriesPolice storm the center and find the suspected gunman dead.


Father and son tell of a 'very different' twister

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

How one Arkansas family survived deadly tornadoes, but lost everythingHow one Arkansas family survived deadly tornadoes, but lost everything.


As fallout mounts, NBA to discuss Sterling probe

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 12:43 AM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and V. StivianoFrom Michael Jordan to LeBron James, from Magic Johnson to Kobe Bryant, from President Obama to prominent corporate partners of the NBA, the condemnation of racist comments purportedly made by Donald Sterling has come from all circles and has shown that the issue extends far beyond the Los Angeles Clippers.


Obama headed home after 4-country Asia tour

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 04:57 AM PDT

President Barack Obama ended a four-country swing through Asia and headed for home Tuesday, still confronting the challenge of how to deal with Russia's threatening moves toward Ukraine. The issue overshadowed an Obama tour that was meant to reassure anxious allies in the orbit of a rising China that the U.S. will always be there to defend them.

Sterling banned for life by the NBA

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:24 AM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and V. StivianoNEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.


Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:50 AM PDT

FedEx Employee Lisa Aiken, wearing bandana, is embraced by a co-worker as other FedEx employees gather at a skating rink following a shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Ga., on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A shooter described as being armed with an assault rifle and having bullets strapped across his chest opened fire Tuesday morning at a FedEx station outside Atlanta, wounding at least six people before police found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. "He had bullets strapped across his chest like Rambo, a huge assault rifle and he had a knife," Aiken said. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brant Sanderlin)KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A FedEx employee wearing bullets draped across his chest "like Rambo" opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police and witnesses said.


Court upholds EPA rule on cross-state pollution

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:11 AM PDT

FILE - This July 1, 2013 file photo shows smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states. In a 6-2 decision, the court upheld a rule adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2011 to limit emissions from plants in more than two-dozen Midwestern and Southern states. The pollution drifts into the air above states along the East Coast, and the EPA has long struggled to devise a way to control it. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that blows downwind and leads to unhealthy air.


Italy court: Knox, Kercher fought on day of murder

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 08:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 file photo, Amanda Knox talks to reporters, in Seattle. A court in Florence that convicted Amanda Knox in her British roommate's 2007 murder says the wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money the night of the murder. The appellate court on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, issued a 337-page explanation for its January guilty verdicts against Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Knox, 26, was sentenced to 28 ½ years while Sollecito, 30, received 25 years. Knox has been in the United States since 2011, when an earlier appellate trial that overturned her lower court conviction. Sollecito remains in Italy. The release of the court's reasoning opens the verdict to an appeal back to the supreme Court of Cassation. If the high court confirms the convictions, a long extradition fight for Knox is expected. Kercher, 21, was found dead in a pool of blood in the apartment she and Knox shared in the town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)MILAN (AP) — An Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox in her roommate's 2007 murder said in lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that the victim's wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money on the night of the murder.


White supremacist gets probation in North Dakota

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2014 file photo white supremacist Craig Cobb, right, sits next to his attorney Ryan Heintz at Cobb's change of plea hearing at the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D. A North Dakota judge sentenced Cobb on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave. Cobb has been jailed since mid-November when he was arrested on seven felony terrorizing counts for scaring residents while patrolling Leith with a gun. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary, File)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge sentenced a white supremacist Tuesday to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave and has left behind a legacy of fear.


Justices wary of unlimited cellphone searches

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:28 AM PDT

A Supreme Court visitor takes pictures with her cell phone outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, during a hearing. The Supreme Court is considering whether police may search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of allowing police unbridled freedom to search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant.


'A Gentleman's Guide' leads Tony nominations

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:08 AM PDT

FILE - This undaed file theater image released by The O+M Company Jefferson Mays, center, during a performance of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York. The musical romp in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/The O+M Company, Joan Marcus, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday. Nominations were spread out for most other shows, reflecting the lack of a juggernaut this year.


SKorean president apologizes for ferry response

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:23 PM PDT

South Korean President Park Geun-hye pays tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUTJINDO, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president apologized Tuesday for the government's inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing nearly two weeks after the accident.


Kerry backs off Israel 'apartheid' comment

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:15 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he had chosen the wrong word in describing Israel's potential future after coming under withering criticism for saying the Jewish state could become an "apartheid state" if it doesn't reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

North Korea says it will conduct live-fire drills

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:04 PM PDT

A passenger gets a refund of his ticket for Yeonpyeong island in the western sea at Incheon port passenger terminal in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. North Korea notified rival South Korea on Tuesday that it planned a live-fire drill near the countries' disputed western sea boundary, a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it unsuccessfully pushes for outside aid. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Yun Tae-hyun) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea notified rival South Korea on Tuesday that it planned a live-fire drill near the countries' disputed western sea boundary, a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it unsuccessfully pushes for outside aid.


In your car when a tornado strikes? Here's what to do

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Friends and family sift through debris at the home of Daniel Wassom after is was destroyed by a tornado, Monday, April 28, 2014, in Vilonia, Ark. Wassom died in the tornado trying to shield a family member. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Sunday's deadly tornadoes that struck throughout the central and southern United States left at least 16 dead and many more injured or dealing with devastating property damage.


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