Hawks coach Budenholzer arrested on DUI charge

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• Hawks coach Budenholzer arrested on DUI charge
• US stocks edge up after positive economic reports
• Police: Sister killed as 8-year-old boy drove car
• NFL to pay $765M to settle concussion lawsuits
• Nasdaq: outage due to 'unacceptable' glitches
• Woods says back is fine and he's ready to go
• A look at Syria developments around the world
• Congo conflict spills over into Rwanda
• Tigers' Cabrera day to day with abdomen ailment
• Bolt made to work for 100-meter win at Weltklasse
• Japanese film highlights film industry absurdity
• UN powers hold new Syria talks
• States offered more time to ignore education law
• Teary Errani gone from US Open; Williams moves on
• Nasdaq takes some blame for 3-hour breakdown
• US making case for action against Syria
• Report: Secret budget cited 4,000 NSA leaks
• Amid doubts, Obama and Cameron make a case for Syria strike
• FTC: Medical lab's lax security led to data leak
• Twins' Mauer set on returning this season
• Stronger economic reports push stock market higher
• AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no 'slam dunk'
• Google Android exec poached by China's Xiaomi
• Convicted Wikileaks soldier doing well in prison
• GOP senator: 'No common ground' in budget talks
• Liberace's one-time Vegas mansion sells for $500K
• 'Black budget' shows CIA swells in size: Snowden leak
• Mont. judge's apology rejected by victim's mother
• Pakistan to hold retrial of doctor who helped CIA
• Feds won't sue to stop marijuana use in 2 states
• Voight worked for scale for 'Midnight Cowboy' role
• Iraq officials: 2 vehicle bomb blasts kill 24
• Italian court insists Berlusconi devised tax fraud
• US recognizes same-sex couples for tax purposes
• Safety inspection blitz of oil shipments launched
• Chemical allegations in Syria haunt ally Iran
• Third friend of Boston bombing suspect indicted
• Iraq officials: 2 vehicle bomb blasts kill 23
• Tigers' Miguel Cabrera leaves A's game with injury
• Judge: NFL, players to settle concussion lawsuits

Hawks coach Budenholzer arrested on DUI charge Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:11 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer has apologized for his arrest on a driving under the influence of alcohol charge.

US stocks edge up after positive economic reports Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing slightly higher on Wall Street after encouraging reports on the U.S. economy.

Police: Sister killed as 8-year-old boy drove car Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — Half an hour after putting her two children to bed, a Phoenix mother discovered they were gone. Frantic and fearful they had been kidnapped, she called police, who spotted her car near her apartment and tried to pull it over.

NFL to pay $765M to settle concussion lawsuits Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:08 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL has agreed to pay more than $750 million to diagnose and compensate potentially thousands of retired players who are suffering dementia and other brain injuries they blame on the violent, bone-jarring collisions that pro football has long celebrated in its highlight reels.

Nasdaq: outage due to 'unacceptable' glitches Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:05 PM PDT Nasdaq on Thursday took partial blame for the three-hour shutdown of the country's second largest exchange last week, which it blamed on "a combined series of technology events."

Woods says back is fine and he's ready to go Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:03 PM PDT NORTON, Mass. (AP) — On and off the golf course, Tiger Woods didn't look anything like the player who only four days ago dropped to knees with back pain.

A look at Syria developments around the world Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:02 PM PDT United Nations experts are investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria as the United States and allies prepare for the possibility of a punitive strike against President Bashar Assad's regime, blamed by the Syrian opposition for the attack. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 355 people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack.

Congo conflict spills over into Rwanda Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:01 PM PDT KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Fighting from the war in eastern Congo that pits U.N. and Congolese forces against rebels spilled over into Rwanda on Thursday when 10 shells landed in a Rwandan border town and a nearby village, killing at least one person, authorities said.

Tigers' Cabrera day to day with abdomen ailment Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:55 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers superstar Miguel Cabrera left Thursday's game after hurting his abdomen while making an awkward slide trying to stretch a single into a double.

Bolt made to work for 100-meter win at Weltklasse Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT ZURICH (AP) — Usain Bolt had to work hard for his 100-meter victory in 9.90 seconds at the Weltklasse Diamond League meet Thursday.

Japanese film highlights film industry absurdity Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT VENICE, Italy (AP) — Japanese director Sion Sono wants to set the records straight: It was Bruce Lee and not Quentin Tarantino who transformed the yellow jumpsuit into a piece of film iconography.

UN powers hold new Syria talks Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT The five permanent members of the UN Security Council held new talks Thursday on the Syria chemical weapons crisis but made no apparent progress on UN action.

States offered more time to ignore education law Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — States can request permission to ignore parts of the No Child Left Behind education law through the spring of 2016, the Education Department said Thursday.

Teary Errani gone from US Open; Williams moves on Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Sara Errani's eyes filled with tears when describing how she felt during her lopsided loss at the U.S. Open.

Nasdaq takes some blame for 3-hour breakdown Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Nasdaq OMX Group says a three-hour trading halt last week was partly the result of issues within the company's control.

US making case for action against Syria Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama faced pushback Thursday on a potential military strike against Syria, with wary lawmakers in both the U.S. and Britain demanding more proof that Bashar Assad's government was responsible for a suspected chemical weapons attack. Even so, military action could come within days.

Report: Secret budget cited 4,000 NSA leaks Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret intelligence budget files provided by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden show that the surveillance agency warned in 2012 that it planned to investigate up to 4,000 reports of possible internal security breaches, according to a new disclosure published Thursday.

Amid doubts, Obama and Cameron make a case for Syria strike Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:49 PM PDT By Mark Hosenball and Oliver Holmes WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his allies sought to convince cautious lawmakers and the public of the need to strike Syria although officials conceded on Thursday they lacked conclusive evidence that President Bashar al-Assad ordered his forces to use chemical weapons against civilians. Obama's top national security officials were due to brief Congress on Syria later on Thursday and Britain said armed action would be legal, but any intervention looked set to be delayed until U.N. ...

FTC: Medical lab's lax security led to data leak Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday accused a small Atlanta-based medical lab that specializes in cancer detection of not doing enough to protect its patients' online records, resulting in the leak of Social Security numbers and birth dates of more than 9,000 consumers.

Twins' Mauer set on returning this season Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:39 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins star Joe Mauer has not considered sitting out the rest of the season to let his concussion heal.

Stronger economic reports push stock market higher Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market edged higher on Thursday as positive news for the U.S. economy outweighed worries about escalating tensions with Syria.

AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no 'slam dunk' Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no "slam dunk," with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.

Google Android exec poached by China's Xiaomi Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT China's Xiaomi has poached a key Google executive involved in the tech giant's Android phones, in a move seen as a coup for the rapidly growing Chinese smartphone maker.

Convicted Wikileaks soldier doing well in prison Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:33 PM PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — A lawyer for Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning said in a blog post on Thursday the soldier is doing well as she goes through processing at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth.

GOP senator: 'No common ground' in budget talks Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican senator says talks between a group of eight Senate Republicans and the White House over how to strike a bipartisan budget agreement are not yielding a deal.

Liberace's one-time Vegas mansion sells for $500K Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:29 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — A mansion once owned by Liberace has sold for a half-million dollars.

'Black budget' shows CIA swells in size: Snowden leak Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:28 PM PDT The CIA has mushroomed into the largest US spy agency with a nearly $15 billion budget as it expands intelligence, cyber sabotage and overseas covert operations, secret leaked documents showed Thursday.

Mont. judge's apology rejected by victim's mother Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:28 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of a teenage rape victim says a Montana judge is "just covering his butt" after he apologized for saying that her daughter was "older than her chronological age."

Pakistan to hold retrial of doctor who helped CIA Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:27 PM PDT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior judicial official on Thursday overturned the prison sentence of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden and ordered his re-trial, citing procedural problems with the initial trial.

Feds won't sue to stop marijuana use in 2 states Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic change in drug policy, the Justice Department said Thursday that it won't sue to stop the states of Colorado and Washington from allowing recreational marijuana use as it issued a sweeping national policy statement that outlines its top priorities for pot enforcement.

Voight worked for scale for 'Midnight Cowboy' role Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:24 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — It was Jon Voight's portrayal of male prostitute Joe Buck in the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy" that put him on the path to becoming an acting legend. Now he says he was paid a pittance for the part.

Iraq officials: 2 vehicle bomb blasts kill 24 Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb hidden inside a pickup truck loaded with vegetables exploded in a market north of Baghdad, the deadlier of two vehicle bombings that killed 24 people in Iraq on Thursday.

Italian court insists Berlusconi devised tax fraud Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Italy's supreme court Thursday defended its decision to uphold the tax fraud conviction of Silvio Berlusconi, saying the evidence was clear that the former premier had devised a scheme to help his media empire pay less tax.

US recognizes same-sex couples for tax purposes Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:16 PM PDT The US government on Thursday announced that legally married gay couples will be treated the same as married couples for federal tax purposes.

Safety inspection blitz of oil shipments launched Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal inspection teams have been conducting spot safety checks of rail shipments of crude oil from the booming Bakken oil region in Great Plains states in response to last month's rail disaster in Canada, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Chemical allegations in Syria haunt ally Iran Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For more than a generation, Iranian papers have regularly posted the announcements: Another veteran from the 1980s war with Iraq has died of complications blamed on exposure to chemical weapons from Saddam Hussein's arsenal. Each one is buried with a hero's honors.

Third friend of Boston bombing suspect indicted Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:12 PM PDT A US grand jury on Thursday indicted a college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for lying to police during the investigation.

Iraq officials: 2 vehicle bomb blasts kill 23 Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:11 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say bomb blasts at a market north of Baghdad and another on the outskirts of the capital have killed 23 people.

Tigers' Miguel Cabrera leaves A's game with injury Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:06 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers superstar Miguel Cabrera has left another game with an injury.

Judge: NFL, players to settle concussion lawsuits Posted: 29 Aug 2013 12:05 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL has reached a tentative $765 million settlement over concussion-related brain injuries among its 18,000 former players, agreeing to compensate sufferers, pay for medical exams and underwrite research.

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