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Steve Almasy

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Chicago City Council set to vote on $2.9 million settlement for woman who police found naked when...

The Chicago City Council is set to vote Wednesday on a proposed $2.9 million settlement for Anjanette Young, who was found naked and distraught during a mistaken police raid in 2019, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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Intense storm spawns tornadoes, including first ever observed in Mi...

An intense storm system moving from the Rockies into the Plains is producing severe weather, tornadoes and extreme fire danger while also bringing widespread damaging winds on Wednesday.
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Covid leads to NFL, NHL postponements, NCAA delays and cancellations

Covid-19 is causing headaches for professional leagues and university sports programs, who find themselves faced with having to reschedule games or find new opponents in the upcoming days.
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These are the latest Covid-19 postponements and cancellations in pr...

Covid-19 has become the main opponent of several professional leagues and university sports programs as teams are forced to change their game plan in the face of positive tests or coronavirus exposure.
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Hall of Famer Bill Fitch, who led Boston Celtics to NBA title in 19...

The basketball world is mourning the death of Bill Fitch, the legendary Hall of Fame NBA head coach who won the NBA Finals in 1981 with the Boston Celtics. He was 89.
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Rams photographer left with fractured spine after falling off stage...

An NFL photographer who fell Wednesday from a stage at the Rams’ Super Bowl rally in Los Angeles has a fractured spine, according to a GoFundMe page raising money for her bills.
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Derek Chauvin to be sentenced Thursday on federal charges

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, already jailed on state murder charges for his role in the death of George Floyd, will learn his federal sentence Thursday when he appears in a US District Court.

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Venus Williams bows out in first round of women's singles at US Ope...

A day after her sister Serena advanced to the second round of the singles play at US Open tennis tournament, Venus Williams was not as fortunate, losing in straight sets to Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium.
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Some Lahaina residents returned to their burned out neighborhood wh...

More than a month after catastrophic flames raced across Lahaina, annihilating most of the historic town and killing 97 people in Maui, some residents were finally able to return to the charred remains of their homes Monday. According to CNN affiliate KHNL, residents in what has been designated Zone 1C were able to go to their properties in western Lahaina on Monday. “I think we need this day,” Tawni Smith Katayama told the station before she and her grandmother went to see what remained of thei…
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Louisiana State University football captain recovering from ‘extens...

Louisiana State University Tigers football player Greg Brooks Jr. has been diagnosed with a rare type of cancerous brain tumor, his family, the athletics department and a Baton Rouge hospital announced Wednesday. According to Dr. Catherine O’Neal, the chief medical officer at Our Lady of the Lake Health, Brooks, who played in the first two games of the season, had “extensive surgery” three weeks ago to remove a tumor from between his cerebellum and brain stem. “Greg’s speech and ability to comm…
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Mother and then-boyfriend charged in 1988 cold case where girl’s bo...

After nearly 35 years, authorities investigating the killing of a small girl found in a dump site, one of Georgia’s oldest unsolved cold cases, have charged the child’s mother and her boyfriend at the time with murder and other offenses, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced in a Monday news conference. “Baby Jane Doe,” publicly identified Monday as 5-year-old Kenyatta “KeKe” Odom by GBI Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrist, was found December 21, 1988, by road workers who came across…