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Jurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder

July 13, 2013, 10:27 pm
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FILE -This combo image made from file photos shows Trayvon Martin, left, and George Zimmerman. On Saturday, July 13, 2013, jurors found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Martin in Sanford, Fla. The six-member, all-woman jury deliberated for more than 15 hours over two days before reaching their decision Saturday night. (AP Photos, File)

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman blinked and barely smiled as a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Supporters of Martin's family who had gathered outside the courthouse yelled out "No! No!"

The jury had been given the chance to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter but did not do so, despite asking for a clarification of the charge earlier in the evening.

Zimmerman's wife, Shellie Zimmerman, had tears in her eyes after the six-member, all-woman jury delivered its verdict Saturday night.

After hearing the verdict, Judge Debra Nelson told Zimmerman he was free to go.

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Lincecum throws 1st no-hitter, beating SD 9-0

July 14, 2013, 6:57 am
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Freak is back.

Tim Lincecum tossed aside his recent struggles and pitched his first career no-hitter and the second in the majors in 11 days, a gem saved by a spectacular diving catch by right fielder Hunter Pence in the San Francisco Giants' 9-0 win over last-place San Diego on Saturday night.

Lincecum has won two Cy Young Awards and two World Series rings. Now he has something really remarkable — a no-hitter in which he threw a whopping career-high 148 pitches.

"Right now I think I'm just kind of coming down and don't know where to be emotionally," a calm Lincecum said.

The slightly built right-hander was in control from his first pitch until his last, which settled into left fielder Gregor Blanco's glove and set off a wild celebration in front of a pro-Giants crowd at Petco Park.

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Quotes and reaction to Zimmerman verdict

July 14, 2013, 6:58 am
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A jury of six women found neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty of all charges on Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Here are some quotes from key figures involved in the case:

"We're ecstatic with the results. George Zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense."

— Mark O'Mara, one of George Zimmerman's attorneys, said at a news conference after the verdict.

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Asiana flight attendants make news with bravery

July 14, 2013, 7:01 am
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before Asiana Flight 214 crash-landed in San Francisco, the last time the Korean airlines' flight attendants made news it was over an effort by their union earlier this year to get the dress code updated so female attendants could wear trousers.

Now, with half of the 12-person cabin crew having suffered injuries in the accident and the remaining attendants receiving praise for displaying heroism during the emergency evacuation, the focus has shifted from their uniform looks to their heroic actions.

In the July 6 crash three members of the crew were ejected from the plane's sheared off tail section while still strapped in their seats. Those who were able, meanwhile, oversaw the emergency evacuation of nearly 300 passengers — using knives to slash seatbelts, calling pilots who slung axes to free two colleagues trapped by malfunctioning slides, fighting flames and bringing out frightened children.

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Cory Monteith, star of hit show 'Glee,' found dead

July 14, 2013, 7:04 am
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series "Glee" but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead in a hotel room, police said. He was 31.

Monteith, who played the character Finn Hudson on the Fox TV series about a high school glee club, was found dead in his room on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Vancouver's waterfront at about noon Saturday, according to police.

Deputy Police Chief Doug Lepard said there was no indication of foul play. Monteith's body was found by hotel staff after he missed his check-out time, Lepard said.

"We do not have a great deal of information as to cause of death," Coroner Lisa Lapointe said.

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Washington's newest power couple: Max and Dave

July 14, 2013, 7:06 am
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Welcome to the "Max and Dave Show," a campaign-style swing around the country featuring two of the most powerful members of Congress rallying support for their effort to overhaul the nation's tax laws — and, just maybe, change the way Washington works.

Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and Rep. Dave Camp, a Republican from Michigan, are Washington's newest power couple — and an odd one during these politically deadlocked days in Washington.

They are lawmakers of different states, different parties and they're a decade in age apart. Yet, Camp and Baucus are developing a close friendship as they try to rally other lawmakers to their cause.

Their secret: Burgers, beer and a culture of working toward public policy answers that Americans seem to want in Washington — even when there's no solution in sight.

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D-Backs first big-league team to broadcast in Navajo

July 14, 2013, 7:11 am
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PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly 92 years after a major league game was first broadcast on radio, the Arizona Diamondbacks became the first big-league team to have its game broadcast in Navajo.

Dan Arnold and George LaFrance had the play-by-play call of Saturday night's game against the Brewers on KTNN, a Navajo-language AM station broadcasting from Window Rock in northern Arizona.

Though the team said Saturday's game was the first baseball game to be broadcast in Navajo, such broadcasts are not new to Phoenix area professional teams. KTNN broadcast Phoenix Suns games in Navajo during the 1990s.


Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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Famously filthy Massachusetts river hosts community swim

July 14, 2013, 7:16 am
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BOSTON (AP) — The Charles River may be famous for its filth, but it's clean enough now for its first public swim since the 1950s.

The Boston Globe reports (http://bo.st/13YvHhh) dozens jumped into the river Saturday in swimsuits, not hazmat suits.

Over the past eight years, the river has hosted a mile-long race for elite swimmers. But Saturday's event was the first time in decades officials allowed a community swim.

The water quality meets standards for swimming most days, a big improvement since the EPA gave it a grade of D in 1995. But the bottom remains polluted, so the swimmers had to avoid it.

Some swimmers described the water as orange or resembling beef broth. Charles River Conservancy head Renata von Tscharner said she preferred to describe it as resembling tea.

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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.bostonglobe.com


Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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JK Rowling revealed as writer of crime novel

July 14, 2013, 7:18 am
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LONDON (AP) — An ex-military man tries his hand at writing, publishes a debut detective novel, and wins critical acclaim. But here's the twist in the tale: The true identity of the author is none other than "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling.

It's impressive literary wizardry by Rowling, who said she relished the freedom of writing "The Cuckoo's Calling" under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

"I hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," she said in a statement released by her publicist on Sunday. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name."

"The Cuckoo's Calling," a story about a war veteran turned private investigator who is called in to probe the mysterious death of a model, was published to rave reviews in April by Sphere, part of publisher Little, Brown & Company.

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Twitter gives France data in anti-Semitic posts

July 14, 2013, 7:28 am
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PARIS (AP) — Twitter has given French authorities information that can help identify the authors of a series of racist and anti-Semitic tweets that carried French hashtags, and the social media site also has agreed to work with a Jewish student group that sued for the data on other ways to fight hate speech.

The president of the Union of Jewish Students of France said Saturday that his organization, known as UEJF, was withdrawing a $50 million lawsuit against San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., which was originally filed as a means to pressure the company to comply and "end Twitter's indifference."

"We got Twitter to respect the laws of our country," Jonathan Hayoun said in a telephone interview. Propagating racial and anti-Semitic hatred is against French law.

Twitter's policies require international users to comply with local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and the social network's free-wheeling style has in the past been stymied by European legislation. For instance, Germany restricts the use of Nazi-related symbols and slogans, such as the swastika or the phrase "Heil Hitler." Twitter blocked a neo-Nazi account in Germany last October.

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Firm asks N.Y.ers to swap Adirondack land for mine

July 14, 2013, 7:30 am
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LEWIS, N.Y. (AP) — In a ballot proposition that has split environmental groups, a mining company is asking New Yorkers to let it expand its pit mine into 200 acres of constitutionally protected Adirondack forest land so it can follow a vein of a white, crystalline mineral called wollastonite.

In exchange for the land and the ore beneath, NYCO Minerals Inc. proposes giving the state at least 1,500 acres of forest land if the wollastonite deposit is as rich as the company expects it to be. The number of acres would be greater than 1,500 if the state Department of Environmental Conservation determines that the royalty value of the wollastonite is more than $1 million.

While some environmental groups call it a good deal because it will preserve about 100 jobs and provide new access to mountain peaks and trout streams, others say it's wrong to amend the "forever wild" clause of the state constitution for the financial benefit of a private company.

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British agency: 787 fire not caused by battery fault

July 14, 2013, 7:32 am
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LONDON (AP) — A fire on an empty Boeing 787 plane at London's Heathrow Airport didn't appear to be caused by faulty aircraft batteries, a British investigative agency said Saturday.

Investors in Boeing, which calls its newest plane a Dreamliner, had feared that Friday's blaze meant that a battery overheating problem that grounded the whole fleet of such planes in January had not been fixed. News of the fire on the Ethiopian Airlines plane sent Boeing shares down 4.7 percent on Friday.

But Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch said there was "no evidence of a direct causal relationship" between the Dreamliner's batteries and the fire.

"There has been extensive heat damage in the upper portion of the rear fuselage, a complex part of the aircraft ... it is clear that this heat damage is remote from the area in which the aircraft main and APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) batteries are located," the agency said in a statement.

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New England's love affair with natural gas cools

July 14, 2013, 7:34 am
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — New England's love affair with natural gas appears to be showing strain as the regional power grid operator voices worry about too much demand on limited supplies and a leading environmental group criticizes the fuel it once supported.

The changing mood follows more than a decade of explosive growth in the use of natural gas to heat and especially to power the six-state region's homes and businesses. Natural gas industry leaders say they are poised for continued rapid growth despite the warning bells being rung in other quarters.

In 2000, about 15 percent of New England's electricity was produced at generating stations that burned natural gas; in 2012, that number had grown to 52 percent, according to ISO-New England, the independent system operator that manages the regional power grid.

ISO-New England spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said this past week that the organization is in the midst of a major study to determine if the region's power grid has become too reliant on natural gas and, if so, what might be done to address the issue.

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Verlander removed from All-Star roster (7-14-13)

July 14, 2013, 3:55 pm
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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit right-hander Justin Verlander left Sunday’s game against the Texas Rangers with a tight right quad muscle, shortly after having his no-hit bid broken up in the seventh inning.
Verlander had already been replaced on the American League All-Star team by Baltimore’s Chris Tillman. Under baseball’s labor contract, pitchers who start on the Sunday before the All-Star game may opt not to participate.
Verlander held the Rangers without a hit until Mitch Moreland’s double to right-center with two outs in the seventh. He retired Elvis Andrus for the third out of that inning and then came out of the game.
He fell seven outs short of his third career no-hitter.
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Markets shored up by China's 7.5 percent growth

July 15, 2013, 6:32 am
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LONDON (AP) — Relief over China's economic growth rate helped shore up the mood in financial markets Monday ahead of a raft of U.S. corporate earnings and retail sales figures.

The world's second-largest economy grew 7.5 percent from a year earlier in the second quarter. Though the figure is down on the previous quarter's 7.7 percent, there had been fears that it may have fallen below 7 percent in the wake of efforts by the country's monetary authorities to clamp down on risky lending. A sharp drop would hurt companies around the world that have become increasingly reliant on breakneck Chinese growth to boost earnings.

"China's growth rate might still be on a steadily declining path, but investors were happy enough to see it come in line with expectations, growing by 7.5 percent in the second quarter," said Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG. "Beijing was keen to emphasise that internal consumption was picking up the slack, and helpfully retail sales rose strongly during June."

Combined with an easing in tensions over Europe's financial crisis and diminishing fears about the Federal Reserve's plans to rein in its monetary stimulus, the figures bode well for markets.

"We could be in for a week of quiet, steady gains for stock markets," he said.

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Loblaw buying Shoppers Drug Mart in $12B deal

July 15, 2013, 8:12 am
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NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian food and drugstore operator Loblaw Cos. is buying Shoppers Drug Mart in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about 12.4 billion Canadian dollars ($12 billion).

The deal would give Loblaw access to the growing small-urban store segment. Shoppers Drug Mart shareholders will own about 29 percent of the combined company.

Loblaw will pay 33.18 Canadian dollars in cash and 0.5965 of its shares for each share of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. This comes to 61.54 Canadian dollars per Shoppers Drug Mart share.

Shoppers Drug Mart stockholders can choose 61.54 Canadian dollars in cash or 1.29417 Loblaw common shares plus a penny in cash for each share they own.

The maximum amount of cash to be paid by Loblaw will be about 6.7 billion Canadian dollars and the maximum number of Loblaw shares to be issued will be approximately 119.9 million.

The deal is expected to close in six to seven months.


Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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Mud Hens win twice (07-15-13)

July 15, 2013, 9:03 am
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -Toledo scored in only three innings, but had four runs on two different occasions in an 11-3 win over Toledo Louisville. The Mud Hens are 41-58 in the International League West.
Toledo's top hitters were: Danny Dorn, 2-for-4, grand slam home run; Danny Worth, 3-for-4, two doubles, two RBI; and Argenis Diaz, 2-for-5, two RBI.
On Saturday, Jose Alvarez and Justin Souza combined on a three-hitter as the Mud Hens blanked the Bats, 10-0.
Alvarez went the first seven innings, allowing three hits and one walk with four strike outs. Souza pitched the final two innings, walking two and striking out two.
Ben Guez, Mike Cervenal, Worth and Dorn each hit home runs for the Mud Hens, who had 14 hits in the game.
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Diamond Roundup: 07-15-13

July 15, 2013, 9:05 am
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Leading hitters: UB - Alec Ross, three singles; A.J. Tracy, Devin Dilbone, two singles each; Jack Brown, two singles, double. SPP - none reported.
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Fast, friendly service, knowledge at BG Battery

July 15, 2013, 9:07 am
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George Roth, Jr. (left) and Dennis Emch of BG Battery. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune)
"We take pride in friendly service," says George Roth, manager of BG Battery. "Anybody can buy a battery from 20 places in Bowling Green, but our key to success is fast, friendly service and we will never forget that. Our efficiency, knowledge of the product, and we like what we're doing-that's the difference."
BG Battery, 803 S. Main St., has been open since last September. Roth says his Bowling Green customers have been "Wonderful. They're embracing us, right from the get-go. Within the first month we were probably seeing a dozen customers a day. I thought the focus was going to be college kids, but it turns out customers come from every direction, from 10 to 15 miles away. We do a lot of farm business."
"Our primary business is auto, truck and farm batteries. Then we spread out into all the other little button cells and accessory batteries" including "dog collar batteries, cell phone, cordless phone, camera camcorder, hearing aid, motorcycles and watch batteries."
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Acupuncture offers a variety of ways to help patient

July 15, 2013, 9:15 am
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Dr. Paul L. Silcox demonstrates the use of acupuncture. Dr. Silcox just opened an office in Bowling Green. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune)
Dr. Paul Silcox is offering the Bowling Green area a much-needed, if unorthodox, type of healing.
"Acupuncture does wonders for pain relief and chronic pain relief," Dr. Silcox explains. "I've worked with people who've had ringing in the ears and acupuncture has been wonderful in reducing that or getting rid of it all together."
The Chinese have been finding relief through acupuncture techniques for over 3500 years. "It's something that us Westerners here in the United States have not been as familiar with. Acupuncture has only been here since the early 1970's."
Silcox has been a practicing chiropractor for 35 years and picked up acupuncture a few years ago.
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