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The woman called 911 from a hotel room rented in Spitzer's name on Saturday evening, saying she had cut herself and was distraught and having a breakdown, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case. Hospital staff contacted police, who spoke to the woman and she told them she was leaving shortly for Moscow and did not want to press charges, the officials said. The police department issued a statement confirming that detectives were "investigating allegations of an assault... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Authorities say two arrests have been made after several incidents involving the drug LSD at a suburban Philadelphia university that sent several people to the hospital. Police in Radnor said a man who appeared under the influence of drugs assaulted a woman and then public safety officers on the campus of Villanova University just after midnight Friday.

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, longtime Cornell University faculty member and resident composer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic has died. Stucky won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his "Second Concerto for Orchestra," commissioned for and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer from 1988-2009.

(AP) — The Marysville School District board of directors plans to put a $230 million bond measure on the April 26 special election ballot. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1PAiP6q ) that the bond measure was presented to the school board on Friday and will be on the agenda for action on Tuesday.

Cruz is trying to weaken Trump's standing among South Carolina's social conservatives and evangelical Christians, a key voting bloc in Saturday's contest. Speaking to hundreds of supporters, Cruz said he intends to make the presidential race a referendum on the Supreme Court and the importance of electing a president who will nominate conservatives. Cruz said before his rally that a vote for Trump would be a vote for doing away with Second Amendment gun rights, predicting that the billionaire businessman... Читать дальше...

Bird shot a combined 18-for-28 from the floor, including 9-for-16 from three-point range, over the pair of victories. In Cal’s 83-63 rout of the Ducks last Thursday, the Vallejo native tied his career high with 24 points, while chipping in six rebounds, two assists and two steals. Two days later, in the Bears’ 83-71 win over the Beavers, Bird totaled 23 points, seven rebounds and four assists with no turnovers.

Cal receives 8 votes in AP poll Pundits are taking notice of Cal’s three-game win streak. Monday morning, the Bears received eight votes in the AP poll to check in at No. 37 overall. Yet six programs from the conference — Utah, Arizona, Colorado, USC, Cal and Oregon — made ESPN’s latest mock NCAA Tournament bracket, also released Monday. Washington and Oregon State were included among ESPN’s first eight teams out. The Bears moved up from a No. 11 seed to a No. 8 seed in that projection. In recent home wins over Stanford... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Two Jewish professors at Wheelock College have filed federal workplace discrimination complaints against the school alleging they were subject to anti-Semitic discrimination. The complaint says Wheelock president Jackie Jenkins-Scott and other administrators retaliated by accusing Dines and Silverman of using racist language in their classes.

Washington’s triple album, “The Epic,” was released in 2015 on Brainfeeder Records to rave reviews from major and independent media outlets across the board. On the album, Washington — who played saxophone and arranged strings on rapper Kendrick Lamar’s instantly iconic “To Pimp a Butterfly” and was a tour saxophonist for venerable rapper Snoop Dogg — leads a 10-piece band, a 32-piece orchestra and a 20-person choir, forging a considerable pop culture following and hip-hop fan base that believe jazz is “cool” again. Читать дальше...

The trio watched videos depicting violence by jihadists, tried to get pipe bombs, planned an attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas last year and researched travel to the Middle East so they could join Islamic State fighters, investigators say. Two of the men brought semiautomatic rifles and an Islamic State flag to the May 3 contest featuring cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims and died in a shootout with police before hurting anyone attending the event in suburban Dallas. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem... Читать дальше...

(AP) — President Barack Obama and the leaders of Southeast Asian nations are gathering in Southern California for an unprecedented two days of talks on economic and security issues and on forging deeper ties amid China's assertive presence in the region. The summit was conceived as part of Obama's mission to raise the U.S. profile and help set the agenda in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific, where China's territorial claims over disputed waters have raised international concerns and led to friction with ASEAN countries. Читать дальше...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A computer glitch led to a brief price war between two gas stations in northwest Ohio, allowing some drivers to fill their tanks for pennies per gallon. Ohio's average price for a gallon of regular gas was $1.55 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and WEX Inc. That's down from $2.29 a year ago.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck spend Valentine's Day togetherJennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are seen in Brentwood on June 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Bauer-Griffin/GC) Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck reunited for their first Valentine’s Day since their split to enjoy a family vacation with their children. The estranged couple, which announced its separation last summer (Jun15), was spotted boarding a private plane with daughter Seraphina, seven, and son Samuel, three, at Van Nuys Airport in California on Friday. Читать дальше...

In an age when countless true-crime shows depict suspects routinely tripped up by DNA extracted from a microscopic fiber or bead of sweat, the case against Lodzinski — with no DNA evidence and no eyewitnesses — will focus attention on the challenges inherent in prosecuting and gaining convictions for long-ago crimes. Defense attorney Gerald Krovatin said he plans to cast doubt on that theory by pointing out that no forensic evidence ties Lodzinski or her son to the blanket. In a transcript of grand... Читать дальше...

[...] in the winter, there is nothing quite as satisfying as a thick stew or hearty soup that bubbles away gently all day, slowing filling the house with welcoming aromas while I'm off at work, running errands or spending the day at my daughters' school. [...] many of the ground turkey packages offered will have higher fat and calorie count than 95 percent lean ground beef. For a 4-ounce serving, lean ground beef boasts 24 grams of protein and just 160 calories and 4 grams of fat! To make this dish even easier... Читать дальше...

Author Pat Conroy has pancreatic cancer, promises hard fight BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Author Pat Conroy says he has pancreatic cancer, but promises he will fight the disease hard and finish a novel he owes his fans.

The decision is the latest setback for the wider Brotherhood, once seen as the main political beneficiary of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings but hit hard in recent years by government crackdowns. Disagreements focused on whether to participate in elections in Jordan and the nature of ties with the parent movement and the militant group Hamas, the Brotherhood branch in the Palestinian territories.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's environmental agency leader says federal rules on lead in drinking water need a complete overhaul. Environmental Protection Agency Director Craig Butler says lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, and a northeastern Ohio village has put a spotlight on problems with federal guidelines.

(AP) — The Northwest Power and Conservation Council predicts the electricity needs of Northwest states can be met in the next 20 years mostly through conservation efforts, with little need to construct new power plants. The council said some utilities might have to build new plants to help integrate inconsistent natural resources such as wind power into the grid.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A court decision forcing the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the statehouse grounds last year so angered Republican leaders in Oklahoma that several measures have been introduced in an effort to bring it back.

(AP) — Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. "Working his way through Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, Iraq and Turkey, he covered events as a million Kurdish refugees were driving out of Iraq into Turkey, found ways to process his film, made prints and got them transmitted back to The Washington Post," Settle told the newspaper in a recent email. Besides Dona Snead, other survivors include a son... Читать дальше...

Al-Shabab, Somalia's Islamic extremists, claimed on their radio station that their fighters have seized the crashed drone with the missiles. In a separate development U, a Somali police officer says a bomb killed a former Somali defense minister in Mogadishu Monday.