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Shuttle bus driver sues NHL's Senators in harassment case

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A former Ottawa Senators assistant general manager and the NHL hockey team were sued for negligence on Friday over allegations he harassed a hotel shuttle bus driver last year in Buffa...

May 17, 2019

Author of flattering Trump biography gets pardon from Trump

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire onc...

May 17, 2019

Utility, regulatory failures led to biggest US gas leak

LOS ANGELES - A blowout at a Los Angeles natural gas well in 2015 that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing, safety failures by a utilit...

May 17, 2019

Texas officer fired after shooting black man in traffic stop

ARLINGTON, Texas - A Texas police officer has been fired after he was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop last year. In a statement Fr...

May 17, 2019

Kim Kardashian West reveals Psalm as new baby's name

NEW YORK - To messages of support and puzzlement, Kim Kardashian West has, seemingly, revealed her newborn's name: Psalm West. The beauty mogul, reality star, law student and wife of Kanye West took t...

May 17, 2019

Officials: PG&E equipment sparked deadly California wildfire

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. power lines sparked a Northern California blaze that killed 85 people last year, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century, state fire officia...

May 17, 2019

'Jersey Shore' star's ex-girlfriend accused of battering him

LAS VEGAS - A lawyer says "Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro's on-again-off-again girlfriend will fight a misdemeanour domestic battery charge alleging she attacked Ortiz-Magro at a Las Vegas club...

May 17, 2019

NY Mayor Bill de Blasio could be latest White House hopeful

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to visit a pair of early voting states ahead of an expected entry into the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race. De Blasio is scheduled to appear Thursday...

May 17, 2019

Huawei hit by US export controls, potential import ban

In a fateful swipe at telecommunications giant Huawei, the Trump administration issued an executive order Wednesday apparently aimed at banning its equipment from U.S. networks and said it was subject...

May 17, 2019

Business manager sentenced for defrauding Ne-Yo, McKnight

NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey man who served as business manager for Ne-Yo has been sentenced in Ohio to more than seven years in prison for defrauding the R&B singer in a sports beverage scheme. Ke...

May 17, 2019