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Attorneys for Bradley Young argued charges should be dropped because Butler County sheriff's detectives listened to four recorded calls between the jailed suspect and a defense attorney and improperly gathered information. Young pleaded not guilty to murder, child endangerment and involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Kinsley Kinner.

Jim Pugh, the veteran keyboard player who toured the world with Etta James and Robert Cray and now roams the Central Valley and Bay Area byways looking for unknown musicians to savor and record, first heard the Filipino American singer Aireene Espiritu a few years ago at the Folk Alliance conclave in Oakland. The second batch, out next month and the basis for a tour coming to Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage on June 19 and the San Jose Jazz Festival in August, serves up a pleasing array of sounds. Читать дальше...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police are seeking a man suspected of ramming a patrol car and fleeing from officers. The pickup stopped for a stoplight on International Airport Road at Minnesota Drive and an officer blocked it with a patrol car.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ninety-nine New York schools missed out on being labeled "Reward Schools" because not enough students took the state's math and English assessments last year and for some it may have cost more than bragging rights. [...] it conflicts with the widespread belief there would be no harm in parents' sitting their children out of the Common Core tests.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Twenty more felony charges were filed Wednesday against a former Las Vegas high school science teacher and girls' swimming coach accused of forcing a teenage student into a sexual relationship. Jonathan Avery Scheaffer, 23, said nothing in court while Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joseph Sciscento set bail at $100,000 and said Scheaffer will have to serve house arrest and can't have contact with minors or his alleged victim pending a preliminary hearing Aug. 31.

MIAMI (AP) — For 17 years, a South Florida couple grew vegetables in a front-yard garden until a new town ordinance was passed limiting such gardens to backyards. [...] the couple is asking a judge to uproot the ban they claim violates their constitutional rights.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The man who police say shot and killed a masked intruder at his Providence home has been arraigned on felony marijuana charges. The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1OdwMKs) Juan Mejia was ordered held without bail Wednesday on charges of possessing one to five kilos of marijuana and related crimes.

FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Utah prosecutors will soon decide whether to pursue the death penalty against a man accused of beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old son to death over potty training, a defense attorney said Wednesday. If convicted, he could face capital punishment under Shelby's Law, a 2007 statute that made child-abuse deaths into potential death penalty cases even if the defendant didn't intend to kill the child. Schoenenberger was investigated for child abuse in 2010, when he was accused of pulling a neighbor boy off a bicycle... Читать дальше...

A coalition of immigration and civil rights advocates on Wednesday released a report saying detained immigrants with attorneys fare much better than those who represent themselves at deportation hearings. Public Counsel Staff Attorney Talia Inlender says the coalition hopes Los Angeles County will start funding lawyers for detainees under a pilot program.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were: 02-05-08-09-12-13-14-16-18-20-22-23 (two, five, eight, nine, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three)

The Wayne County sheriff's office says firefighters were called to the house in Walworth shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday. The sheriff's office says the fire is believed to have been sparked by an electrical malfunction.

A survey of 136 caretaker organizations also shows 23 percent staff turnover last year, another factor forcing other employees to work 6.4 million hours of overtime.

The sheriff's office says a trucker called 911 about 8:45 a.m. Wednesday after seeing a motorist veer off Interstate 94 in Harrison Township and into the ditch. Deputies found the driver unresponsive in the front seat of the locked and running vehicle.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles official who took a job with a company he awarded a lucrative state contract has reached a proposed settlement of alleged ethics violations. The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/1TYBzlm ) Walters awarded Express MVA a contract providing it with BMV workstations and allowing it to charge a lucrative "convenience fee" that effectively doubled the cost of services typically available only at license branches.

(AP) — A Black Lives Matter organizer who was found guilty of interfering with an arrest by police in Southern California was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail and three years' probation. In the past, Richards has spoken out against the actions of police, including the killing of Kendrec McDade, a black 19-year-old who was shot while running away from two Pasadena police officers in 2012. The use of the word "lynching" for group interference with police only loosely matches the historical conception of lynching ... Читать дальше...

With his move Wednesday, Ryan is turning his back on a promise that he would safeguard lawmakers' rights to take on a range of contentious issues when the House debated annual spending bills. When House worked on an energy bill in May, Democrats pushed through a symbolic measure supporting Obama administration policies that bar federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Ryan, R-Wis., is telling GOP colleagues that debate rules for upcoming spending... Читать дальше...

Eric Buterbaugh celebrated the launch of his fragrance collection, Eric Buterbaugh Florals, at Saks Fifth Avenue at an intimate dinner.

The Cavaliers haven’t made an official announcement, but the news was reported by ESPN and cleveland.com. Jefferson played 26 minutes in Game 2, scoring 12 points on 4-for-6 shooting with five rebounds.

Goats loose on Hwy. 24 turn CHP officers into wranglers Around 50 bleating and jumping goats broke free from their enclosure and made their way onto all four lanes of Highway 24, just west of the Caldecott Tunnel about 1 a.m., said Officer Sean Wilkenfeld, a spokesman for the Oakland office of the California Highway Patrol. Officers were called to the scene to wrangle the goats up and move them off the highway. The goats made their escape from a nearby enclosure, where they were being used by... Читать дальше...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has ordered candy maker Mars to stop selling M&Ms in the Scandinavian country, at least not with the customary lower-case letters it uses on the packaging and on the colorful chocolates.

CHICAGO (AP) — An overwhelmed 12-year-old contestant who passed an audition on "So You Think You Can Dance" has expressed her excitement by vomiting on judge Paula Abdul.

Sports calendar, June 8-9 Baseball Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia MLBNet L.A. Angels at N.Y Yankees MLBNet Boston at Giants CSNBA (680) Golf 2a Thu. PGA Europe: NBA Finals Warriors at Cleveland Channel: 7 Channel: 10 (810,1050) Soccer Copa America Channel: 66 Peru Channel: 66 Softball College World Series Championship, Game 3: Auburn vs. Oklahoma ESPN Track and field NCAA championships ESPN2 Baseball MLB draft MLBNet Golf PGA Europe: Rust-Oleum Championship GolfCh. Senior Players Championship GolfCh. Читать дальше...

Bauer1129_CalaChef Gabriela Camara of Cala. Photo: The Chronicle 2015 Related Links The French Laundry, Manresa, Benu and Meadowood listed on tail end of World’s 50 Best Restaurants Food & Wine has announced its second annual Restaurants of the Year Awards. The list, which is comprised of what the magazine considers to be America’s most exciting crop of new restaurants, will be included in the publication’s July issue. It’s a diverse and thoughtful bunch this year (see full list below), that includes two restaurants with Bay Area roots. Читать дальше...

“Honeyglue,” a tone-deaf, gooey romance between a gender-bending thief and a terminal cancer patient, has to be one of the most wildly inconsistent movies of the year. The by-the-numbers yet not-by-the-numbers tale begins when Morgan (Adriana Mather, a convincing cancer patient) meets Jordan (Zach Villa, a nice screen presence) at a dance club. There’s a germ of an idea in throwing androgyny into the story mix, but writer-director James Bird doesn’t make it pay off dramatically: A subplot about... Читать дальше...

Most people have never been edited, and those who benefit from it most tend to forget that the editing ever happened. Yet just as no one ever finds and compliments your hairstylist when you happen to look good, no one thinks about editing, and so it’s a particular pleasure to see “Genius” make it onto the screen. The movie is the story of the editor Max Perkins and his relationship with the eccentric novelist Thomas Wolfe, and about midway through we figure out which one the filmmakers consider to be the genius. Читать дальше...