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Wiener beating Kim in dollars, Aug. 3, Bay Area, D1 An item in the City Insider column misspelled Ahsha Safai’s name in some editions.

Bay Area rapper E-40 and Long Beach’sWarren G have been added to the Outside Lands music festival lineup for 2016, officials announced Wednesday, Aug. 3. The rappers’ set, which will actually be outside the tent so all-ages can catch E-40 and Warren G, is expected to feature “Saturday,” a track released in 2015 but recorded with Nate Dogg before the producer died in 2011. “I think it’s great that Heineken and OL are giving festival goers the chance to be part of a true West Coast hip-hop experience,” said Warren G in a press release.

The commissioner of higher education leads the Missouri Department of Higher Education, which is the board's administrative arm. Mulligan, chief of staff for the University of Missouri system, has also been an assistant commissioner for the department, as well as general counsel and legislative liaison.

Helicopter mechanic Evan Welsch, who snapped photos of the bear, said about 30 Forest Service and National Park workers had gathered around to see the spectacle when it was suggested that the driver back up near a tree to give the animal an escape route.

(AP) — A Bay St. Louis man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of a former University of Southern Mississippi dance team captain and her boyfriend. Autopsies showed Quintini died of multiple gunshot wounds, while Mueller died of a single gunshot to his head. Bay St. Louis Police Chief Mike DeNardo said investigators were still waiting on forensic evidence and expect to bring more charges in the case.

Noah Westerfield started taking classes in January at Yoga to the People, a small studio a block off Cal’s campus, to improve his flexibility. Once he mastered basic poses, the defensive end realized that the benefits of yoga are more mental than physical. Regular visits to Yoga to the People helped set the foundation of what coaches suspect will be a bounce-back season for Westerfield. Ten months after he was removed from the travel squad for lackluster focus, the junior is emerging as one of Cal’s most dependable players. Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has suspended sophomore wide receiver DeAndre McNeal for an unspecified violation of team rules. A school spokesman said McNeal was suspended but provided no details Wednesday and it was unclear if and when he will be allowed to return.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was responsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million U.S. payment to Iran. Reacting to a Wall Street Journal story published Wednesday that described the delivery of the cash to Tehran in January, Trump accused Clinton on Twitter of having opened talks to give Iran the money. Trump expanded on his remarks later, saying the money was a ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback assured the public that the income tax cuts he championed would stimulate the Kansas economy, supply plenty of money for schools and give other states a "pro-growth" policy model to follow. [...] voters, including many Republicans, appear to have rejected that idea in the face of budget woes and court battles over education funding. The governor contends that regional and national economic trends such as slumps in agriculture and energy production are offsetting the benefits of the tax cuts. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Donald Trump cried foul over what he describes as a "rigged" electoral system, his loosely defined claims challenged the essence of America's democratic process and more than 200 years of peaceful transfers of power from one president to the next. Trump raised concerns Monday after courts rejected tough voter ID rules put in place for the first time in a presidential election in states including North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. In all, 17 states are slated to have new restrictions... Читать дальше...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire voters are largely dismissing Donald Trump's new criticism of Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte as campaign chatter that reflects more poorly on the businessman than it does on Ayotte. Ayotte, who is in a tough re-election fight against Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, says she will vote for Trump but is not endorsing him. Democratic officials say Ayotte's maneuvering proves she's spineless, while Republican leaders counter Trump's criticism shows she's an independent thinker. Читать дальше...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic leaders approved the addition of five sports to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, including the return of baseball-softball and the introduction of youth-oriented events such as skateboarding and surfing. The five were put forward for inclusion last year by Tokyo organizers, taking advantage of new IOC rules that allow host cities to propose the inclusion of additional sports for their own games. "Today's historic decision by the IOC is a 'home run' for the Olympics... Читать дальше...

Zane Tackett, Bitfinex’s director of community and product development, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. “As we account for individualized customer losses, we may need to settle open margin positions, associated financing, and/or collateral affected by the breach,” Bitfinex said in the post. Gox, an exchange based in Tokyo, in which hundreds of thousands of bitcoins were stolen in a heist that experts and law enforcement officials are still trying to unravel. In June, a hacker... Читать дальше...

Time Warner Inc., which owns HBO, TNT and TBS, took a 10 percent stake in Hulu for $583 million, in another step blurring the lines separating cable TV from Internet video services. Hulu’s other equity stakeholders already include the parent companies of ABC, Fox and NBC — Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox and Comcast’s NBCUniversal. Hulu already has a deal with CBS to carry Showtime for an extra fee, while HBO has a similar arrangement with an online TV service called Sling TV. Hulu, founded in 2006... Читать дальше...

Both the exhibit and the accompanying book, “Portrait of a City, 1940-1960,” published in 2014 by Princeton Architectural Press, came out of a file cabinet full of negatives that hadn’t been looked at for five decades. Lyon had a day job as a freelance magazine and commercial photographer, and worked on his own project whenever he had a minute. Because he also worked at night, he liked to catch the fog filtered by the streetlamps and headlights. Once printed, the images showed his hometown in just the right nostalgic mist... Читать дальше...

Attorney for ex-UNC faculty member disputes NCAA charge RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The attorney for a former North Carolina women's basketball academic counselor and faculty member who is accused of wrongdoing by the NCAA is pushing back against the charge — and the investigative process itself. The NCAA gives schools and individual parties named for violations 90 days to respond to charges outlined in a Notice of Allegations (NOA). The NCAA enforcement staff has 60 days to respond, which would eventually... Читать дальше...

Boos for Rotten Tomatoes, Ripple buys Hoodline, and Rio soars Rotten Tomatoes, a movie-review site owned by Comcast and Warner Bros., is getting its own negative reviews. A Change.org petition signed by 15,000 people is calling for the site to be shut down over a low rating for “Suicide Squad,” a movie based on DC Comics characters and distributed by Warner. Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t issue its own reviews, instead calculating a rating based on other online critiques. Ripple, a San Francisco startup... Читать дальше...

Moon Express, based in Cape Canaveral, announced Wednesday that it had received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to set a robotic lander on the moon. [...] more than the prize, company officials say that it will be the opening of a profitable frontier for entrepreneurs. The approval reflects an effort to encourage 21st century commercial space endeavors while staying within an international space treaty written 49 years ago when outer space was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union... Читать дальше...

Which movies do you always watch on TV? Over the years I’ve noticed that there are a handful of movies that I watch to the end each time I come across them on TV. Hello Mr. Leonard: A few years ago, I was flipping around and ended up watching most of “The Godfather” on TV, with commercials, even though I had the Blu-ray on the shelf. [...] these kinds of experiences are rare for me because I pretty much never watch TV, except for the news. Dear Mick: I agree that Haley Joel Osment did an outstanding... Читать дальше...

The state worked fast to soften the law before November's election, moving from requiring voters to show one of seven forms of suitable ID — a list that included concealed handgun permits, but not college IDs — to letting those without such an ID to sign an affidavit. The joint proposal was the result of negotiations between Texas, the Justice Department and minority rights groups who sued over the 2011 law, which a federal appeals court said last month violated the federal Voting Rights Act. North... Читать дальше...

A spokesman for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday that a temporary compromise with the U.S. Justice Department and minority rights groups was made under time constraints and a court order. Texas agreed Wednesday to weaken its voter ID law, which federal courts have said discriminated against minorities and the poor and left more than 600,000 registered voters potentially unable to cast a ballot. The state worked fast to soften the law before November's election, moving from requiring... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Fifteen human skulls are among more than 100 items that went unaccounted for in a routine inventory at the University of Connecticut Health Center. The Hartford Courant reports UConn officials submitted a report last month to the state auditor's office saying the skulls could not be found during two internal searches and an independent inventory by a private company.