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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors say a West Des Moines man has been sent to prison for bank embezzlement. Brian Madison, of West Des Moines, was sentenced Friday to 18 months and ordered to pay $259,000 in restitution. He also must serve five years of supervised release after he leaves prison. Prosecutors say Madison moved cash from his teller drawer at TruBank into an unmonitored teller drawer and modified cash count sheets so officials conducting the counts wouldn't have known to look for the money.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Strip headliner David Copperfield is due to return to the witness stand in a lawsuit by a British tourist who claims he was seriously hurt in a fall while taking part in one of Copperfield's signature illusions in 2013. The magician resumes testimony Tuesday after last week revealing secrets behind a trick that appears to make volunteer audience members vanish onstage and appear a few moments later in the back of the theater. Plaintiff Gavin Cox of Kent, England, alleges... Читать дальше...

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Last month, filmmaker Lee Unkrich, a longtime member of Pixar Animation Studio’s creative team, won his second Academy Award as director of the Best Animated Film of 2017. Unkrich’s first Oscar was for directing Toy Story 3; his latest is for Coco—now released on DVD—a critically acclaimed smash, with a global box office gross of nearly $800 million.

If this works, then stats really are for losers, I guess.

Josh Allen has been hyped for a full year before the 2018 NFL Draft as a potential No. 1 pick, and it still really might happen, to the bafflement of pretty much everyone not employed by the league.

There’s never been a bigger disconnect between what the NFL apparently thinks and what the armchair analysts think.

Personnel people see a prototype athlete whose flaws they can correct, while fans, statisticians, tape-grinders of varying expertise... Читать дальше...

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• "Orbiting" is a new dating trend. It's when a person doesn't completely ghost but keeps involved with you from a distance.
• For instance, a person might ignore your texts yet views your Instagram stories.
• Orbiting might be a manifestation of the fear of losing out on a potential dating opportunity.

You might know orbiting as the thing that the moon does around the earth. You might also know Orbit as a brand of gum. But there's a new meaning to the word, and you probably won't like it.

Just a normal April series against an inter-divisional opponent, Nothing significant here.

After seeing Ronda Rousey’s rise to fame, Vanes Martirosyan feels that he is ready for his upcoming title fight against Gennady Golovkin.

Light flyweight Commonwealth champion Galal Yafai opens up to Bad Left Hook’s James Copley about his remarkable rise.

The win wasn’t as convincing as preferred, but it will definitely do.

SEATTLE — As Brian Schmetzer was only too happy to point out in Sunday’s postgame press conference, there is no such thing as a “must-win” game in April. Hyperbole aside, though, the home game against Minnesota United got pretty close.

It wasn’t just that the Sounders came into the match winless, it was that they had already lost two very winnable home games. LAFC has proven themselves to be a better-than-normal expansion team... Читать дальше...

Bantamweight prospect Merab Dvalishvili is planning to appeal the controversial loss he suffered to Ricky Simon at UFC Atlantic City.

Like frost melting on snow-blasted trees and like hundreds of denizens camping out in front of the Apple store, we are slowly warming up to the upcoming draft. College seasons are in full swing and prep baseball is just a month away from state tournaments.

Retired NFL defensive end Stephen White sees a raw pass rusher with some questions about where he fits on a defensive line.

The Hulu drama has returned as a grimmer, broader, angrier show that still excels at exploring one perspective above all others.

Like frost melting on snow-blasted trees and like hundreds of denizens camping out in front of the Apple store, we are slowly warming up to the upcoming draft. College seasons are in full swing and prep baseball is just a month away from state tournaments.

POMPEY are braced to hear from the Football Association following the use of smoke bombs on Saturday.

Kiefer, Kowanz und Balkenhol bekommen neues Geleit, wenn die Salzburg Foundation ihr neues Wunschprojekt umsetzt: eine Biennale.

In the wake of an E. coli outbreak that has made more than 50 people in 16 states sick, Americans are now being warned to toss out any romaine lettuce they might have bought in a grocery store.

ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C.—Yazmin Garcia Rico was on her way to Guilford College in Greensboro in 2011, her car packed with belongings to start her final semester, when she was pulled over on Interstate 40.

Watch a video of a bear, who was freed from a car by the police in the US state of Colorado, after the animal had decided to explore the strange thing, it ran across during a nighttime stroll.

Doing good is good for you. Volunteering for as little as two to 2.5 hours each week can be beneficial for your health, a new study suggests. Unitedhealthcare and VolunteerMatch studied 2,705 volunteers age 18 and older and found that 75 percent of those who volunteered in the past year said it made them feel...

A simple explanation of the allegations against the EPA administrator.

For the first time in its history on Tuesday, Facebook released a look at its internal guidelines for which posts are and aren’t fit to remain on its platform, shedding light on the company’s policies against bullying, “cruel and insensitive” posts, and hate speech.