| Casey grabs Memorial lead as McIlroy slides Posted: 30 May 2014 04:25 PM PDT  Dublin (United States) (AFP) - Paul Casey fired a six-under par 66 on Friday to seize the halfway lead at the US PGA Tour's Memorial tournament as overnight leader Rory McIlroy endured a nightmare day. England's Casey had six birdies and an eagle with two bogeys on the Muirfield Village course with his 12-under total of 132 giving him a three-stroke cushion over Masters champion Bubba Watson going into the weekend. Fellow American Chris Kirk was a further stroke back in third after a 70 for 136, and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (67) shared fourth place with American Martin Flores (68) on 137. "There was a couple of mistakes in there, but that's Muirfield Village.
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| 'Arsenio Hall Show' canceled after 1 season Posted: 30 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Arsenio Hall Show" has been canceled because of low ratings, ending Hall's late-night comeback bid after a single season.
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| Casey surges, McIlroy tumbles at the Memorial Posted: 30 May 2014 04:16 PM PDT  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Paul Casey expected to be chasing someone Friday in the Memorial, figuring it would be Rory McIlroy.
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| Man returns $125,000 that fell from armored truck Posted: 30 May 2014 04:14 PM PDT FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Salvation Army worker in California is being rewarded for his decision to return a bag containing $125,000 that fell from an armored truck. |
| Los Angeles sues JPMorgan over 'predatory loans' Posted: 30 May 2014 04:14 PM PDT  Los Angeles filed suit Friday against JP Morgan Chase, saying the US bank pushed minorities into higher risk loans they couldn't afford, helping trigger the foreclosure crisis. The city is trying to recover damages for decreased tax revenues, arguing the rash of foreclosures caused property values to drop, and for the extra money it spent on city services because of the foreclosures. "LA continues to suffer from the foreclosure crisis -- from blight in our neighborhoods to diminished revenue for basic city services," City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a statement. Company spokesman Jason Lobo said the bank would "vigorously" defend itself against the lawsuit.
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| NBA cancels Sterling hearing after Clippers deal Posted: 30 May 2014 04:10 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NBA has canceled its hearing to consider Donald Sterling's ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, saying the team will be sold to Steve Ballmer.
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| Cleveland police officers indicted in large chase Posted: 30 May 2014 04:04 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — Six officers in Cleveland's troubled police department were indicted Friday in a November 2012 car chase that ended with two unarmed suspects dying in a hail of 137 shots, was decried as a racially motivated execution and is part of a wide-ranging federal investigation.
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| NATO says bulk of Russian troops pulling back from Ukraine border Posted: 30 May 2014 04:01 PM PDT By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia is in the process of pulling back around two-thirds of the troops it had close to the border with Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, a far more significant withdrawal than NATO has previously estimated. Rasmussen also announced that ambassadors from Russia and NATO countries would meet in Brussels on Monday for the first time since March 5, soon after Moscow provoked the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War by seizing Ukraine's Crimea region. Taken together, the two announcements could point to a slight easing of tensions between the Western military alliance and Russia over Moscow's annexation of Crimea and what NATO sees as Russian interference in eastern Ukraine. |
| Valeant sweetens offer for Allergan again Posted: 30 May 2014 03:57 PM PDT Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has sweetened its offer to buy Botox maker Allergan for the second time this week. |
| Casey Kasem's daughter granted visitation Posted: 30 May 2014 03:56 PM PDT  PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state judge on Friday granted a daughter of ailing radio personality Casey Kasem regular visits after she raised concerns about his well-being.
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| Fans cheer on US World Cup team in Times Square Posted: 30 May 2014 03:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A crowd of about 2,000 filled part of New York's Times Square to cheer the U.S. World Cup team during a televised send-off pep rally Friday night.
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| SEC ponders potential move to 'Division IV' Posted: 30 May 2014 03:49 PM PDT  DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference sent a strong message to the NCAA on Friday: provide the Big Five some autonomy or they'll form their own division.
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| AP Source: Dementia kept Sterling out of team sale Posted: 30 May 2014 03:44 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person close to the Sterling family says Donald Sterling was stripped of his ability to act as a trustee of the family's fortunes, including the Los Angeles Clippers, after two neurologists determined he was suffering from dementia. |
| Sterling set to sue as NBA eyes $2 bn Clippers sale Posted: 30 May 2014 03:43 PM PDT  As the NBA prepared to review ex-Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer's $2 billion deal to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, a lawyer for Donald Sterling said Friday the embattled owner planned to sue. Attorney Maxwell Blecher told AFP that a lawsuit would be filed against the NBA, although he did not offer details as to damages Sterling might seek or whether the lawsuit would in fact challenge the sale to Ballmer that was negotiated by Sterling's wife Shelly. Ballmer and Shelly Sterling issued a joint statement late Thursday saying they had signed an agreement for Ballmer to purchase the club for an NBA record of $2 billion.
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| Obama says goodbye to White House press secretary Posted: 30 May 2014 03:41 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Jay Carney became the news instead of just delivering it Friday, when President Barack Obama unexpectedly interrupted the daily media briefing to announce Carney's resignation after three and a half years as his primary spokesman.
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| Giants RHP Matt Cain on 15-day DL with hamstring Posted: 30 May 2014 03:40 PM PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring, one day ahead of his scheduled start against the St. Louis Cardinals. |
| Google taking requests to censor results in Europe Posted: 30 May 2014 03:39 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is accepting requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the world's dominant search engine.
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| Donald Sterling to sue NBA after wife's Clippers deal Posted: 30 May 2014 03:36 PM PDT  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, under fire for racist remarks, will sue the National Basketball Association for $1 billion in damages for terminating his ownership of the team, his attorney said on Friday. Attorney Maxwell Blecher told Reuters that Sterling would file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The move came a day after Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, struck a record $2 billion deal with former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to sell the franchise under orders from the league. The NBA said earlier on Friday that it would go ahead with a vote on Tuesday on terminating Donald Sterling's ownership of the Clippers, although it signaled that his wife's proposal to sell the team was its preferred outcome.
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| Medicare ban on sex reassignment surgery lifted Posted: 30 May 2014 03:29 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Medicare can no longer automatically deny coverage requests for sex reassignment surgeries, a federal board ruled Friday in a groundbreaking decision that recognizes the procedures are medically necessary for some people who don't identify with their biological sex.
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| Migrants dropped off at bus stations in Arizona Posted: 30 May 2014 03:26 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — By the time the women arrived disheveled and hungry at the bus station in Phoenix, they had already spent weeks traveling with young children.
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| Obama accepts veterans affairs chief resignation with 'regret' Posted: 30 May 2014 03:25 PM PDT  By David Lawder and Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned on Friday after a political firestorm over widespread delays in veterans' medical care, leaving President Barack Obama with a freer hand to address systemic problems bedeviling the agency. Obama announced that he accepted Shinseki's resignation "with considerable regret," after the two met on Friday to review initial findings of an internal audit of scheduling abuses at VA facilities across the country. The audit found that patient appointment wait times had been misrepresented at least once at over 60 percent of the 216 VA sites surveyed. It also said, with growing demand for services, a 14-day goal for medical appointments instituted under Shinseki was "simply not attainable" for the VA and should be scrapped.
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| SEC loses insider trading case against New York fund manager Posted: 30 May 2014 03:16 PM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suffered a loss on Friday when a jury cleared a New York hedge fund manager and two others accused of engaging in a $1.3 million insider trading scheme in 2001. A federal jury in Manhattan found Nelson Obus, a fund manager at Wynnefield Capital Inc, not liable on an SEC claim he traded on inside information about a takeover of industrial products supplier SunSource Inc. The jury also found Peter Black, a Wynnefield analyst, and Thomas Strickland, a former employee at General Electric Co's GE Capital who worked on the deal, not liable on insider trading charges.
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| Barbour faces off with tea party at GOP conference Posted: 30 May 2014 03:14 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even as Republicans preach the need for solidarity, divisions between the tea party and the GOP establishment are clear at a national conservative summit.
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| Obama to meet Ukraine president-elect in Poland Posted: 30 May 2014 03:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ukraine crisis and awkward moments around Russian President Vladimir Putin promise to dominate President Barack Obama's trip to Europe next week. |
| Highlights from AP interview with FDA's Hamburg Posted: 30 May 2014 03:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Highlights of The Associated Press interview Friday with Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration: |
| Death threats against Mandela in 1990 US trip Posted: 30 May 2014 03:10 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigated multiple death threats against Nelson Mandela during his 1990 visit to the United States and relied on an informant for details about the anti-apartheid leader's trip, according to newly released documents.
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| Are the L.A. Clippers really worth $2 billion? Posted: 30 May 2014 03:08 PM PDT A high-profile NBA franchise in a major media market was suddenly available. A handful of power brokers from the technology, entertainment and venture capital fields were lining up for a chance to join the party. |
| Talks at 5 Vegas casinos may avert planned strike Posted: 30 May 2014 03:08 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — A strike planned for the weekend at downtown Las Vegas casinos is looking less likely after a fifth holdout property struck a deal with unions and last-minute negotiations were scheduled at all others without a contract. |
| Man who accosted Pitt pleads no contest to battery Posted: 30 May 2014 03:07 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who accosted Brad Pitt on a red carpet pleaded no contest to battery Friday and was ordered to stay away from the actor and Hollywood red carpet events.
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| US Veterans Affairs secretary resigns amid scandal Posted: 30 May 2014 03:07 PM PDT  President Barack Obama's under-fire Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday, paying the price for an expanding scandal over failures in health care for America's retired warriors. "Secretary Shinseki offered his resignation. The president said that an initial review by Shinseki, 71, had found that delays and other management failures in veterans' health care were not confined to one facility in Arizona, but were systemic and nationwide.
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| Zuckerberg, wife gift $120M to California schools Posted: 30 May 2014 03:06 PM PDT  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| A place in history for gay, transgender Americans Posted: 30 May 2014 03:05 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The announcement Friday that the National Park Service will begin installing markers at places of importance to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans is a step toward including them in the national narrative — and components of education, supporters said.
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| Zuckerberg, wife gift $120M to CA schools Posted: 30 May 2014 03:01 PM PDT  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| With country in turmoil, Ukraine gets a fight Posted: 30 May 2014 03:01 PM PDT  Oleksandr Usyk was so excited about winning heavyweight gold at the London Olympics that he broke into a traditional Ukrainian dance in the ring to celebrate.
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| Toddler severely burned in drug raid in Georgia Posted: 30 May 2014 02:59 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Officers raiding a Georgia home in search of a drug suspect used a flash grenade not knowing children were inside, severely burning a toddler who was sleeping just inside the door, authorities and the boy's family said.
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| Exclusive: Intel TV creator leaves Verizon months after deal Posted: 30 May 2014 02:59 PM PDT  By Noel Randewich and Liana B. Baker SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Erik Huggers is leaving Verizon Communications Inc just five months after joining the company via the acquisition of the Intel Corp "OnCue" streaming service he developed, signaling the communications giant's waning interest in providing an Internet-delivered TV service. The former BBC executive, who told Reuters on Friday he is departing the company, had worked on OnCue for Intel for more than two years before Verizon bought it in January to accelerate a push into video services, including TV channels delivered over the Internet, known as an "over the top", or OTT, service. While other companies have been talking up their plans to deliver such a service, a source familiar with the matter said that Verizon was now moving away from the OTT strategy and that the departure of Huggers, who was a proponent of an Internet-only service, reflected that.
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| East Ukraine quiet raises leadership questions Posted: 30 May 2014 02:55 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The scruffy rebels who normally wander about the headquarters of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic were mostly out of view on Friday, replaced by a disciplined new faction who showed up a day earlier with an armored personnel carrier and anti-aircraft gun.
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| Texas' top prosecutor: Drug source can be secret Posted: 30 May 2014 02:48 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials are refusing to say what threats were behind a key letter that led the state attorney general to reverse his long-held position that the identity of Texas' execution drug provider should be made public.
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| Motorola to close Texas smartphone factory Posted: 30 May 2014 02:45 PM PDT  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Google's Motorola Mobility handset unit announced Friday it will shutter its North Texas factory by the end of this year, barely a year after it opened with much fanfare as the first smartphone assembly plant in the U.S.
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| Banks to lead new daytime talk show Posted: 30 May 2014 02:39 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Tyra Banks will lead a new television show with a panel of experts talking about fashion, entertainment and other lifestyle topics starting next year.
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