ATLANTA| April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) An Alabama mayor says the last train car full of New York City sewage sludge that has stunk up her town has finally been emptied. For more than two months,
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LONDON| April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Global stock markets traded in fairly narrow ranges Thursday following a solid rebound based on waning fears about a trade war. Oil prices though pushed ahead to touch fresh multi-year
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TRENTON, N.J. | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)New data show that the number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the U.S. fell dramatically last year. They showed their biggest drop in 25 years. The decline
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SAN ANTONIO | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)The wife of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has died. She was 67. The Spurs confirmed Erin Popovich’s death Wednesday. The team didn’t provide further details. “We mourn
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WASHINGTON | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local): 8:05 a.m. A U.S. ambassador says his country is maintaining a “maximum pressure campaign” to convince North
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STOCKHOLM | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Another member of the Swedish Academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize said Thursday she is resigning, bringing the total number of board members who are quitting the prestigious institution
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PHILADELPHIA | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer. He thought nothing of it when he
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WASHINGTON | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)The “Black Panther” is returning to his alma mater to give the commencement address at Howard University. The university announced Wednesday that Chadwick Boseman will give the keynote address at
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KANSAS CITY, MO – Carthage, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court yesterday, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in southern Missouri
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FORT DIX, N.J. | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)The pharmaceutical-industry entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving drug has been placed in a low-security federal prison in New Jersey. Martin Shkreli was moved
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SPRINGFIELD, MO – A Springfield, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court yesterday, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 for her role in a $718,000 tax fraud conspiracy. Nancy Lorine Walker, 56, of Springfield, was sentenced by
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BEIRUT | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Syrian state media say hundreds of rebels fighters in a town northeast of Damascus have handed in their weapons and started to leave under an evacuation deal. Under the
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS, which is expected to find thousands of new exoplanets orbiting
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BERLIN | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) A nationalist councilwoman in Berlin has been ridiculed online for proposing the closure of one the city’s most famous techno clubs because of its long opening hours as well
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HONG KONG – FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, announced the launch of a new route which, for the first time, connects the FedEx APAC
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BANGKOK | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has agreed to step up investments in Thailand. The founder of the online shopping giant, Jack Ma, met with Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha,
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HONOLULU, HI – Hawaii Governor David Ige emphasized collaboration yesterday as he announced the launch of a pilot program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), which aims to improve public safety and reduce criminal activity
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AUSTIN, TX – Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday attended and spoke at a celebration for the State of Israel’s 70th Independence Day, hosted by the Israeli Consulate in Houston. Joining Governor Abbott in celebrating this
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WARSAW, Poland | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) People in Warsaw pinned paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital began a day of commemorations Thursday on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. | April 19, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Very little separated San Jose and Anaheim in the regular season, with the Ducks edging out the Sharks by one point for second place in the Pacific
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state’s National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as
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BANGKOK | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where
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SAN JOSE, Calif. | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Tomas Hertl scored the tiebreaking goal 9:09 into the third period, Martin Jones was spectacular in goal yet again, and the San Jose Sharks completed a first-round
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The lights dimmed and the crowd of men and women erupted into applause and hoots as Hollywood’s blockbuster “Black Panther” premiered in Saudi Arabia’s first movie theater.
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| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)A look at what’s happening around the majors today: SLUMPING STANTON Giancarlo Stanton looks to make an impact in pinstripes when New York opens a series against Toronto at Yankee Stadium.
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PHOENIX | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky share similar origin stories. Teachers, long tired of low wages and a dearth
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BOERNE, Texas | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage is also
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Ryan LaMarre started this series as Minnesota’s extra player. He got the Twins a split in extra innings, and gave Eddie Rosario a memory he’ll never
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DENVER | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Filip Forsberg scored another creative goal, Pekka Rinne rebounded from a rocky performance with 31 saves, and the Nashville Predators withstood a furious rally by the Colorado Avalanche for
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PHILADELPHIA | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Bill Cosby’s lawyers turned to their star witness in the comedian’s sexual assault retrial, countering the harrowing accounts of a half-dozen accusers with a woman who says chief
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PALM BEACH, Fla. | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He’s met with the
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WASHINGTON | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) President Donald Trump said that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he
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NEW YORK | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Six outs from getting swept at home by Washington, the New York Mets stunned their NL East rivals with a nine-run rally instead. Yoenis Cespedes launched a grand
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HOUSTON | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Chris Paul had 27 points and Gerald Green came off the bench to score 21 as the Houston Rockets used a huge second quarter to cruise to a 102-82
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LOUIS | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) A St. Louis judge is expected to rule Thursday on whether to dismiss a felony criminal indictment against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens due to mistakes by the prosecutor and
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WASHINGTON| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local): 8:15 p.m. CIA Director Mike Pompeo raised the plight of three U.S. citizens held in North Korea during
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HONG KONG| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)Asian shares rose on Thursday as improving optimism about the global economy helped investors shake off worries about geopolitical risks for the moment. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index
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HAVANA| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro’s place as the president of Cuba on Thursday as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term
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MEXICO CITY | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The remnants of a migrant caravan of Central Americans that angered President Donald Trump were continuing their journey north through Mexico toward the U.S. border Wednesday. Organizer Irineo
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CLEVELAND| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The situation was dire, requiring playoff dominance. LeBron James delivered. No surprise there. Taking matters into his own hands, James scored 46 points and added 12 rebounds as the Cleveland
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BOERNE, Texas| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage is also being
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WASHINGTON | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) Rising costs. Delayed shipments. A baffling bureaucracy. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported aluminum and steel are disrupting business for American companies that buy those metals, and many are
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NEW YORK | April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)The 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday with pugnacious political words from Robert De Niro and the tender opening-night premiere, “Love, Gilda,” an intimate celebration of the beloved
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HAVANA| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that
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PHILADELPHIA| April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The Latest on the plane that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia (all times local): 10:50 p.m. The two pilots of a Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing
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LAS VEGAS|April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)David Copperfield testified Wednesday that he didn’t know until he was sued that a British tourist claimed to have been seriously injured while taking part in an illusion during a performance
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NEWARK, N.J.|April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) A feisty Nikita Kucherov scored two goals, set up another and knocked New Jersey‘s top defenseman out of the game with a big hit, and the Tampa Bay Lightning moved
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HOUSTON |April 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)In his first public comments since his wife’s death, former President George H.W. Bush said Wednesday that he used to tease his spouse of 73 years that he had a complex
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