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FILE - Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver watches the team play against the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Phoenix, Dec. 11, 2019. The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies." The findings of the league's report, published Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, came nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise.
FILE - Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver watches the team play against the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Phoenix, Dec. 11, 2019. The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies." The findings of the league's report, published Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, came nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise.
PayPal said Friday that the company will no longer sponsor the Phoenix Suns if owner Robert Sarver remains part of the franchise when his suspension ends.
PayPal said its current partnership deal with the Suns ends after the coming 2022-23 season, meaning it will expire during Sarver’s one-year suspension from the NBA. Sarver was suspended this week, plus fined $10 million, after an investigation showed a pattern of lewd, misogynistic, and racist speech and conduct during his 18 years as owner of the Suns.
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The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order that temporarily barred it from reviewing a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month. The department made the request Friday with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The legal tussle appears certain to further slow the department’s own investigation into the hoarding of top-secret documents and other classified records at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House, and the possible obstruction of that probe.
A gold judicial collar made of glass beads that belonged to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sold at auction for more than $176,000. The piece was part of a collection of about 75 items of Ginsburg’s that were sold to benefit charity. In total, bidders paid nearly $517,000 for items in the online auction which ended Friday. Sunday marks the two-year anniversary of the liberal icon’s death at 87. The judicial collar was the item with the highest purchase price, and its sale marks the first time any of the late justice’s signature neckwear has been available for purchase. Her family donated some of the justices’ most well-known collars to the Smithsonian.
RENTON, Wash. — Seahawks rookie running back Kenneth Walker III has been given clearance to play Sunday against the 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif.
Zimbabwe has started removing the horns of its entire rhino population to deter poaching.
Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself two days after she scolded them when they abruptly rested their case. The Broward Public Defender’s Office said in a motion Friday that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer held a longstanding animosity toward lead defense lawyer Melisa McNeill. Prosecutors said in a response that Scherer has been respectful to both sides. Cruz’s attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but rested at the start of Wednesday’s court session after calling only about 25 of them.
A Nevada judge has ordered a former deputy state attorney general accused of killing a 19-year-old woman in Hawaii 50 years ago to remain jailed without bail until he is arraigned next week on a fugitive charge. 77-year-old Tudor Chirila Jr. made a brief appearance Friday in Reno Justice Court. Judge Scott Pearson granted his request for a continuance and scheduled his arraignment for Sept. 21. Chirila was arrested in Reno this week after Honolulu police filed a criminal complaint in Hawaii district court accusing him of second-degree murder in the 1972 fatal stabbing of Nancy Anderson. Police say DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene
LOS ANGELES — Melanie Ramos, a 15-year-old student at Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood, loved to travel and dreamed of one day joining the Army.
LOS ANGELES — A Superior Court judge late Thursday ordered Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials to stop searching certain computers seized as part of sprawling raids tied to an investigation into County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a domestic viole…
Max Homa moved into position to defend his title at the Fortinet Championship, shooting a 5-under 67 to share the early 36-hole lead with Danny Willett at the PGA Tour’s season opener Homa won twice last season and will play in next week's Presidents Cup as a captain's pick. He says he feels comfortable at Silverado Resort & Spa. Willett shot a bogey-free 64 to match Homa's two-day total of 12-under 132. The English player kept his PGA Tour card for this season because of players defecting to the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series. Justin Lower was two shots back after a 71.
This is how much Florida has paid an aviation company to relocate ‘unauthorized aliens’
LOS ANGELES — The Chargers received encouraging news on quarterback Justin Herbert when tests Friday revealed only fractured rib cartilage, according to coach Brandon Staley.
Former Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrímsson has been hired to coach Jamaica’s men’s national soccer team. He replaced Paul Hall, who quit in June after CONCACAF Nations League matches against Mexico and Suriname. Hall was hired after Theodore Whitmore left in December, eight matches into World Cup qualifying. The 55-year-old Hallgrímsson was on the coaching staff of Iceland’s national team from 2013-18. The former defender coached Qatar’s Al-Arabi from 2018-21. Jamaica plays Argentina in an Sept. 27 exhibition at Harrison, New Jersey.
NEW YORK — After announcing earlier in the week that he would be stepping down as team president as soon as his successor is identified, Sandy Alderson held a press conference at Citi Field on Friday to explain his decision.
The world road cycling championships get under way on Sunday with one of host country Australia's biggest new stars in doubt for the men’s road race. Fortunately that event is on the final day of the titles — Sept. 25 — and Giro d’Italia winner Jai Hindley might have time to recover from the COVID-19 which he tested positive for earlier this week in Europe. The Australian team still hopes that Hindley will travel from his European base to join them in Wollongong south of Sydney, site of the championships, for the elite road race. The men’s and women’s individual time trials are set for the opening day Sunday.
Cities from Anchorage to New Orleans are shuttering their pandemic-era hotels that were used to house the homeless as funding dwindles and leases run out. In Denver, one of the last hotel shelters closed its doors Friday, pushing 138 residents out of the rooms. The Quality Inn in Denver, leased from its private owner by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, provided rooms for those over 65-years-old and people at greater risk for severe COVID-19 illness. The hotel rooms offered homeless people security, privacy, and stability. The programs, however, also sparked a national trend of states and cities purchasing hotels to convert into permanent housing.
Wreckage from a floatplane crash that killed 10 people in Mutiny Bay over Labor Day weekend will likely be recovered later this month, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
German Marquez rebounded and Ryan McMahon homered.
A fight has broken out over who should be left in charge of Anne Heche’s estate.
A woman who went missing after flash floods sent mudslides hurtling through her mountain town in Southern California has been found dead under mud, rocks and other debris. Thunderstorms late Monday triggered the mudslides that unleashed rocks, trees and earth that washed away cars, buried homes and impacted 3,000 residents in two remote communities in the San Bernardino Mountains. First responders, including K-9 units, searched for Doris Jagiello amid the devastation in Forest Falls. The body of the 62-year-old woman was found Thursday, buried under several feet of mud.
WASHINGTON — Rising GOP pushback against a short-term stopgap funding bill into December that would pave the way for a lame-duck omnibus package is at minimum a political headache for party leaders, and at worst points to market-rattling brinkmanship around fiscal deadlines next year.
Sandy Alderson has achieved one of the goals he set upon his return to the New York Mets. A day after announcing he will resign as team president when a successor is found, Alderson says “the Mets are far more respected than they have been in recent years.” Now 74, Alderson was the Mets’ general manager from 2010-18 and stepped down after being diagnosed with cancer. He returned as team president in November 2020 when Steven Cohen bought the Mets from the Wilpon and Katz families.
Shelby Jordan, whose spectacular career at Washington University in St. Louis earned him a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame and an 11-year NFL career, has died. He was 70. Jordan died on Sept. 9, according to statements released by the Hall of Fame and the New England Patriots. Neither gave a cause of death or said where his death occurred. Jordan was a seventh-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in the 1973 NFL Draft. He was an offensive lineman in the NFL with the Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A conservative gathering this month in Charlotte will feature U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and other Republicans.
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Aric Almirola continued NASCAR's trend of non-playoff drivers stealing the show with a pole-winning run Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. The Saturday night race at Bristol is the first playoff eliminator and the 16-driver field will be cut by four. Christopher Bell is the only driver locked into the next round because non-playoff drivers Erik Jones and Bubba Wallace won the first two rounds. Now it will be Almirola leading the field to the green flag after Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Chase Briscoe couldn’t knock him from the pole in Friday final run.
Aric Almirola continued NASCAR's trend of non-playoff drivers stealing the show with a pole-winning run Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. The Saturday night race at Bristol is the first playoff eliminator and the 16-driver field will be cut by four. Christopher Bell is the only driver locked into the next round because non-playoff drivers Erik Jones and Bubba Wallace won the first two rounds. Now it will be Almirola leading the field to the green flag after Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Chase Briscoe couldn’t knock him from the pole in Friday final run.
A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social media law that companies like Meta Platforms Inc. and Twitter Inc. say will prevent them from blocking hate speech and extremism.
Point guard Dennis Schröder is returning for a second stint with the Los Angeles Lakers. Schröder’s agency, Priority Sports, announced the deal on social media. The German guard spent the 2020-21 season with LeBron James and the Lakers, averaging 15.4 points and 5.8 assists per game. Los Angeles offered him a four-year contract extension worth more than $80 million during the season, but he turned it down to seek more money in free agency. Schröder struck out in the market and signed a $5.9 million deal with the Boston Celtics, who then traded him to Houston late last season.
Judge approves fund as part of $490 million settlement between University of Michigan, late doctor's sex-assault victims.
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. The ruling Friday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech. But the decision is not likely the last word on a legal battle that has stakes beyond Texas and could affect how some of the world’s biggest tech companies regulate content by their users. A similar law was also passed in Florida and ruled unconstitutional by a separate appeal court. The Texas law has been challenged by tech trade groups that warn that it would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech.
A judge has approved a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor. The order allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million settlement negotiated with the school. Robert Anderson died in 2008 after working at the university for nearly 40 years. He was director of the campus Health Service and a physician for multiple sports teams, including football. Former athletes, students and others who had no connection to the university said they were molested by Anderson during routine physicals or other visits. The settlement was announced in January, but the final details took months to wrap up.
Police in Virginia are searching for a man found guilty earlier this week of conspiring to kill a college student who was a nephew of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. Norfolk police say a jury found Rashad Dooley guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of Christopher Cummings in 2011. Dooley wasn’t in court and police said Friday that three warrants for failure to appear were issued for his arrest. Dooley is one of four Newport News men charged in the case last year, more than 10 years after Cummings, a student at Old Dominion University, was fatally shot and his roommate was injured.
Residents on Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced for what forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, accompanied by strong winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding. The storm is the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. Warnings anticipate winds reaching hurricane-force speeds in places, water levels reaching up to 18 feet above normal high tide in some communities and widespread power outages and areas of flooding and erosion. The storm also is influencing weather patterns far from Alaska — a rare late-summer storm is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California.
The top two picks in the 2016 draft will be under center Sunday at Ford Field. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff was selected No. 1 by the Los Angeles Rams and Washington quarterback Carson Wentz was selected by Philadelphia one pick later. Wentz beat Goff in 2017, and Goff won three years later in a rematch. Washington is coming off a 28-22 win over Jacksonville and is aiming for its first 2-0 start since 2011. Detroit dropped its opener 38-35 to Philadelphia, giving up 30-plus points for the eighth time in 18 games under coach Dan Campbell.
As the U.S. attorney in Kansas in 2019, Stephen McAllister said he asked the FBI to initiate an investigation into Roger Golubski, a former detective long suspected of various criminal activities.
A Texas judge has expanded her order blocking the state from investigating families of transgender youth who have received gender- affirming medical care. Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction Friday preventing the state from investigating members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc. over the care. The group has more than 600 members in Texas. Meachum in July issued an order blocking investigations against two families of transgender children who had sued the state. The ruling was the latest against the state’s efforts to label gender-affirming care as child abuse.
North Carolina’s hospitals and hospital systems have unveiled an offer that could shake up stalled negotiations on legislation that would expand Medicaid to cover hundreds of thousands of low-income adults. The North Carolina Healthcare Association said it sent an offer on Friday to Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Both the House and Senate approved expansion measures in June but no agreement was reached before the General Assembly's primary work session ended. Senate leader Phil Berger this summer accused the association of refusing to compromise on “certificate of need” rules for medical facilities. The association's offer contains changes and outright repeals to those rules.
President Joe Biden is meeting with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American detained in Russia, Paul Whelan. The meetings Friday at the White House are the first face-to-face encounter between the president and the relatives of Griner and Whelan. Administration officials say the sessions are meant to underscore Biden’s commitment to bringing home Americans held overseas and to establish a personal connection, but are not an indication that negotiations with Russia for their release have reached a breakthrough. A national security spokesman told reporters Friday that the U.S. had made a serious offer to get the Americans home but the Russians had not responded to that offer.
For the second time in less than a year, Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly finds himself convicted of serious federal child-sex crimes and staring at a lengthy prison term.
Stricter air quality regulations are coming for northern Colorado businesses after the Environmental Protection Agency downgraded the area to a category for “severe” violators of ozone standards. Drivers may have to be pay higher gas prices too. That’s because the reclassification announced Friday prohibits the sale of conventional gasoline within one year. The Colorado area was one of six areas to get downgraded by the EPA along with the Chicago area; the Dallas-Forth Worth and Houston areas in Texas; parts of Connecticut, the New York-New Jersey-Long Island area and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians in southern California.