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    Sutter Union's Cory McIntyre, center, runs past Paradise's Josh Alvies, left, and Ashton Wagner, right, during the first quarter of a Northern Section Division III high school football playoff game in Yuba City, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. Paradise had an undefeated season and made it to the section championship game a year after the deadliest wildfire in California history that killed dozens and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings including the homes of most of the players. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
    December 01, 2019 - 3:13 am

    Paradise’s dream football season ends 1 year after fire

    YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Lukas Hartley stood in the endzone on Saturday night as raindrops mingled with his tears after his high school football team lost a division championship game. “I didn’t cry this bad when my house burned down,” he said. The senior running back was a leader of the Paradise...
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    FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, men carry the remains of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, before they are buried at a family cemetery in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico. Extended families gathered Thursday, Nov. 28, for the traditional meal in Colonia LeBaron, where three women and six children were killed in the Nov. 4 ambush. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
    November 28, 2019 - 7:17 pm

    Families in US enclave in north Mexico hold sad Thanksgiving

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thanksgiving arrived with a sense of loss, but also a sense of solidarity, in enclaves of U.S. dual-national families in northern Mexico, coming almost four weeks after nine of their relatives were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen. Extended families gathered Thursday for the...
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    In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, photo, Abdul Jabar, who lost four members of his family, speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Jalalabad city east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Anger is mounting over the increasing numbers of civilians dying in misdirected US aerial strikes and heavy- handed tactics of CIA-trained Afghan force. Some Afghans calling for Americans to be tried in Afghan courts. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
    October 06, 2019 - 8:08 am

    Anger grows at civilian deaths by US, Afghan forces

    JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — The workers were sleeping on the mountainside where they had spent a long day harvesting pine nuts in eastern Afghanistan. Some were in tents, others lay outside under the stars, when the U.S. airstrike tore into them. Only hours before the Sept. 19 strike, the...
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    September 26, 2019 - 6:21 pm

    Correction: Swamp Rodent Invasion story

    LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — In a story Sept. 25 about swamp rodents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Central Valley is an agricultural region 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of Sacramento. The Central Valley region spans about 400 miles (645 kilometers) from Redding to Bakersfield...
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    September 26, 2019 - 2:00 pm

    Caltech gets $750M pledge for sustainability research

    PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The California Institute of Technology says it has received a pledge of $750 million from philanthropists and entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick to support research into environmental sustainability. Caltech says Thursday the commitment is the largest ever for such...
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    June 12, 2019 - 8:11 am

    BC-GA--Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Awards, GA

    Please join us on Saturday, June 22, 2019 for the 2019 Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Annual Awards Banquet at Twelve Atlantic Station Hotel, 361 17th Street Northwest, Atlanta, 30363. The hotel telephone number is (404) 961-1212. Check-in will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, followed by...
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    June 11, 2019 - 7:30 am

    BC-GA--Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Awards, GA

    The 2019 Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Annual Awards Banquet will be held June 22 at Twelve Atlantic Station Hotel, 361 17th Street Northwest, Atlanta, 30363. The telephone number is (404) 961-1212. Check-in will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, followed by lunch and the awards presentation...
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    June 10, 2019 - 8:23 am

    BC-GA--Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Awards, GA

    The 2019 Georgia Associated Press Media Editors Annual Awards Banquet will be held June 22 at Twelve Atlantic Station Hotel, 361 17th Street Northwest, Atlanta, 30363. The telephone number is (404) 961-1212. Check-in will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, followed by lunch and the awards presentation...
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    FILE - In this July 29, 2008, file photo, Ice Cube, left, and director John Singleton, laugh during the ESPN panel for the documentary series "30 for 30" at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. Singleton, who died Monday, April, 29, 2019, brought issues of gang violence, the crack epidemic and police brutality gripping South Central Los Angeles in the early 1990s and influenced a generation of people of color. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
    April 30, 2019 - 7:09 pm

    John Singleton's work resonated to diverse audiences

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Much has been made about how John Singleton brought the issues gripping black youth in South Central Los Angeles to mainstream audiences with his 1991 classic "Boyz N the Hood." But the themes of that film, and his others about African Americans in Southern California, also...
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    Fallen trees line the roads leading into the small community of Learned, Miss., Thursday, April 18, 2019. Several homes were damaged by fallen trees in the tree lined community. Strong storms again roared across the South on Thursday, topping trees and leaving more than 100,000 people without power across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
    April 19, 2019 - 4:21 am

    Storms batter South, kill 2 in Mississippi, 1 in Alabama

    LEARNED, Miss. (AP) — Strong storms again roared across the South on Thursday, killing two Mississippi drivers and a woman in Alabama while leaving more than 100,000 people without power across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. National Weather Service forecasters said they believe...
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