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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Roger Federer took a look around as he entered the stadium court at the Miami Open, immediately feeling the energy of the crowd. He gave them quite a show. Federer advanced to the fourth round at Key Biscayne on Monday, beating Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-4. Federer, who was facing

SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Texas Rangers have released veteran first baseman James Loney from his minor league contract. A week before the season opener, the Rangers also Monday optioned knuckleballer Eddie Gamboa to Triple-A Round Rock and reassigned outfielder Jared Hoying to minor league camp. Loney, a non-roster invitee, hit .174 with one homer in

NEW YORK — Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity is calling on CBS News to release the full tape of his interview with Ted Koppel for “Sunday Morning,” in which the veteran “Nightline” anchor answered “yes” when Hannity asked if Koppel thought he was bad for America. The exchange between two different generations of television news

TRENTON, N.J. — The owners of a New Jersey jewelry store who used the business to further one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice have been sentenced. Forty-nine-year-old Vijay Verma received a 14-month prison term Monday, and 78-year-old Tarsem Lal got a year of home confinement.

In advance of a hearing that could reshape sex abuse reporting guidelines in Olympic sports, a Senate panel released more than 330 pages about the U.S. Olympic Committee’s efforts to make sports safe for children. The hearing is for a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that calls for organizations overseeing Olympic sports to

SCRANTON, Pa. — Despite an adverse legal ruling, landowners in northeastern Pennsylvania are planning to continue their fight to drill for natural gas in the Delaware River watershed. Wayne Land and Mineral Group LLC is battling the Delaware River Basin Commission for the right to drill on its 180-acre property in Wayne County. The agency

The Raiders have been on the move quite a bit in their nearly six decades as a pro football franchise. The team will switch cities yet again. On Monday, NFL owners approved the franchise’s eventual move from Oakland to Las Vegas. Here’s a look at some of the major moves for one of the NFL’s

NEW YORK — “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins will follow up his Oscar-winning film with a drama series for Amazon based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad.” Amazon announced Monday that it will develop the TV series, with Jenkins writing and directing the adaptation of the 2016 National Book Award winner. Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” is

SAO PAULO — Bonded by an air crash which killed 71 people in November, Brazilian club Chapecoense and Colombia’s Atletico Nacional said they will play a South American cup final next week. The first leg of the Recopa Sudamericana final, between the champions of the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Libertadores, will be staged in

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State has hired former Virginia Tech coach James Johnson as an assistant. New coach Kevin Keatts announced the hiring Monday. Keatts and Johnson were teammates at Ferrum College from 1991-93, and Keatts says he’s a good fit because of “my comfort level in his approach (and) his knowledge of the

WASHINGTON — The Latest on contacts between President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Russian officials (all times local): 4 p.m. A Russian state bank says it has met with President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of a series of meetings on future strategies. Vnesheconombank (v-NESH’-ay-CON’-ohm-bank) or

CLEVELAND — Dennis Felton stood at a podium with Cleveland’s burgeoning skyline serving as a fitting backdrop for his new basketball home. “This isn’t just any city,” Felton said after being introduced Monday as Cleveland State’s 15th coach. “This is a city that’s on fire.” He meant that symbolically, of course, perhaps unaware of how

It is supposed to help protect human-rights activists, labor organizers and journalists working in risky environments, but a GPS-enabled “panic button” that Colombia’s government has issued to about 400 people could be exposing them to more peril. The pocket-sized devices are designed to notify authorities in the event of an attack or attempted kidnapping. But

PARIS — Monaco’s prosecutor and police chief say four people have been arrested and almost all the stolen pieces of jewelry have been found, two days after an armed heist at a luxurious Cartier jewelry shop in Monte Carlo. Jacques Doremieux and Richard Marangoni said at a news conference Monday that they have established at

PATERSON, N.J. — The Latest on a shooting in New Jersey involving hip-hop star Fetty Wap (all times local): 2:15 p.m. A man arrested after a shooting involving hip-hop star Fetty Wap in his New Jersey hometown is facing assault charges after police say he pistol whipped someone. Court documents show that Raheem Thomas was

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — A New York City police detective has been arrested on charges that he exposed himself outside the Long Island homes of four teenagers. Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/2nYMlNI ) says Detective Richard Francis is charged with public lewdness, trespassing and child endangerment. After the first three incidents in February, police questioned a registered sex

When Andong Song started playing hockey in China at age 6, he wore figure skates on his feet and had to use the straight parts of short-track speedskating rinks for practice. His father brought back equipment from his travels one piece at a time, and his family moved to Canada a few years later so

RENO, Nev. — UConn junior Gabby Williams, a former basketball star at Reed High School in Sparks, has been named to the second squad of The Associated Press All-America team. Two of her UConn teammates, Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson, were named Monday to AP’s first team. Williams is averaging 13.2 points and 8.4

BOSTON — Chicago Bears wide receiver Deonte Thompson has testified in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez. The former New England Patriots tight end played football with Thompson at the University of Florida. Thompson testified Monday about a Florida party he invited Hernandez to in February 2013. Hernandez smiled when Thompson referred to

PHOENIX — NFL owners approved the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas at the league meetings on Monday. The vote was a foregone conclusion after the league and Raiders were not satisfied with Oakland’s proposals for a new stadium, and Las Vegas stepped up with $750 million in public money. Bank of America also is

“Conviction” (Minotaur), by Julia Dahl Julia Dahl’s examination of the myriad communities that exist — sometimes not so harmoniously — in Brooklyn, New York, fuels her third excellent novel featuring freelance reporter Rebekah Roberts. In “Conviction,” Dahl effectively uses the backdrop of the Crown Heights riots that pitted the Hasidic and black communities against each

FAIRVIEW, N.J. — A New York City woman has recovered her wedding and engagement rings from a New Jersey dump with some help from sanitation workers. Shannon Lombardo says she accidentally threw out the rings, which were in a paper towel. She called 311 and the city delayed pickups from her Upper West Side building

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Baltimore Orioles will have a new starter for their April 3 opener for the first time in the last four years. Manager Buck Showalter said Monday that right-hander Kevin Gausman to start against Toronto. The move to start the 26-year-old Gausman wasn’t unexpected. Showalter had ruled right-hander Chris Tillman out of

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into the U.S. as a pregnancy surrogate and instead forced her into domestic labor through abuse. Acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Morrow on Monday said 47-year-old Esthela Clark of Jacksonville pleaded guilty to forced labor and faces

ANDERSON, Ind. — An eastern Indiana woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the neglect of her 15-year-old niece who weighed just 40 pounds when she was admitted to a hospital. The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin (http://bit.ly/2nFb1KF ) reports that the 23-year-old aunt from Anderson was sentenced Monday on six counts of neglect.