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NEW ORLEANS — Visitors who ooh and ah at the Audubon Zoo ‘s newest baby will be saying the colobus monkey’s name: Ua. That’s “flower” in Swahili. The threatened monkey is fuzzy and white, but will become black with white fur around her face, a white tail tuft and an elegant, long white fringe hanging

MANITOWOC, Wis. — Green Bay Packers receiver Geronimo Allison has reached a deal with prosecutors to settle a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. Allison will pay $330.50 to settle the charge after it was amended Tuesday to an ordinance violation. WLUK-TV reports he also will be required to complete community service. The charge against Allison stems

Stock indexes wobbled between modest gains and losses Wednesday, as the White House unveiled broad outlines of its plan to slash tax rates but left many of the details to be determined. On Wednesday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slipped by 1.16 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,387.45. The Dow Jones industrial

PITTSBURGH — Gift Ngoepe was aware of the significance of the moment when he put on his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for the first time in the regular season. The Pirates recalled the infielder from Triple-A Indianapolis on Wednesday, making him the first player from Africa to reach the major leagues, according to the team. “It’s

PHILADELPHIA — One day away from discovering where their professional paths will lead, NFL draft prospects gathered for some impromptu football. The site: Shriners Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The players: patients at the hospital — all of whom tugged at the heart strings of these physical specimens. “This is what it’s all about,” LSU safety

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Except for his backpedaling hairline, LeBron James shows no visible signs of age. At 32, still in his prime, and still at the top of his game, he’s defying time. “Benjamin Button,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue called him, referring to the fictional character who ages backward. LeBenjamin? Following a regular season in

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall says his mind is clear and his body refreshed after a trying 2016 season in which he dealt with hamstring injuries and blowback for taking a knee during the national anthem. “I’m feeling good,” Marshall said. “I worked hard this offseason. I strengthened my legs as a whole,

NEW YORK — The chief White House photographer of President Barack Obama’s administration has a book coming in November. Little Brown and Company announced Wednesday that it had acquired Pete Souza’s “Obama: An Intimate Portrait,” which will include more than 300 pictures. Souza’s time with Obama dates to 2005, when Obama was a freshman senator

WASHINGTON — The moribund Republican health care bill received a jolt of life Wednesday when the conservative House Freedom Caucus endorsed a revised version of the measure. But a leading GOP moderate criticized the reshaped legislation as a conservative exercise in “blame-shifting and face-saving” that wasn’t winning new support from party centrists, leaving its fate

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Eric Thames left the game against the Cincinnati Reds in the top of the eighth on Wednesday. Thames appeared to be favoring his left hamstring and came out before the Reds batted. Manager Craig Counsell came out to first and talked with Thames before taking him out of the

RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s parliament has approved a new coalition government created to end months of political and economic deadlock. The Chamber of Representatives voted 208- 91 on Wednesday for the government of new Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani, of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development. Forty deputies abstained. Before the debate, El Othmani

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse has signed Canadian high school star forward Oshae Brissett to a national letter of intent to play for the Orange next season. The 6-foot-8, 195-pound Brissett, of Mississauga, Ontario, played for Athlete Institute Prep this past winter. Brissett, who verbally committed to Syracuse in November, is rated as a three-star recruit

BLANCHESTER, Ohio — The Latest on a woman found in a pit in her neighbor’s shed (all times local): 5 p.m. Police say an Ohio woman who was kidnapped and kept trapped in a small pit in her neighbor’s shed had reported receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from him. Blanchester police say the

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby and his delegates are speaking out in select media interviews Wednesday, a month before jury selection starts in his Pennsylvania sex assault trial. Cosby tells a black news service that he is working on new material and hopes to resume his entertainment career. “I think about walking out on stage somewhere

NEW YORK — “Net neutrality” regulations, designed to prevent internet service providers like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter from favoring some sites and apps over others, are on the chopping block. The head of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, on Wednesday proposed undoing the Obama-era rules that have been in place since 2015. Here’s

IRVING, Texas — Lexi Thompson paused, tears welling up in her eyes, when asked about how difficult things have been since a viewer-cited penalty cost her what appeared to be a sure victory in the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year. Thompson stopped for more than 30 seconds after starting to answer the question

MILFORD, Pa. — The Latest on the trial of a survivalist who ambushed two troopers at a state police barracks (all times local): 4:25 p.m. A prosecutor has asked jurors to give the death sentence to a man who ambushed two Pennsylvania troopers, while the gunman’s lawyer is requesting mercy. Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are debating a proposed compromise that might help them revive stalled legislation to roll back much of Democratic President Barack Obama’s health care law. The broader bill would rework subsidies for private insurance, limit federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people and cut taxes on upper-income individuals used to finance Obama’s

RICHMOND, Va. — Excessive livestock manure from millions of turkeys, chickens and cows in Virginia is making its way into the Shenandoah River, polluting the scenic waterway with unsafe levels of E. coli, according to a new report from an environmental advocacy group. The Environmental Integrity Project analyzed hundreds of state records for the report

President Donald Trump’s order for the government to review national monuments created by several of his predecessors sets up a legal showdown over whether one chief executive has the power to undo another’s decisions. At stake are federal lands revered for their natural beauty and historical significance. The review goes well beyond a few declarations

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming will hold a wolf hunt for the first time in four years this fall now that a federal court has lifted endangered species protection for wolves in the state, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said Wednesday. Planning is now underway for the hunt in northwestern Wyoming, which will probably be

NEW YORK — ESPN is laying off about 100 employees, including former athletes-turned-broadcasters Trent Dilfer, Len Elmore and Danny Kanell, in a purge designed to focus the sports network on a more digital future. The cuts will trim ESPN’s stable of on-air talent and writers by about 10 percent. The 36-year-old network has been squeezed

MADRID — While Lionel Messi helped Barcelona to trounce Osasuna 7-1, Cristiano Ronaldo was rested by title rival Real Madrid in its 6-2 rout of Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league on Wednesday. Barcelona and Madrid remain level on 78 points at the top of the standings after their comfortable victories, keeping the title

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Indiana State University’s president plans to step down after leading the school for more than nine years and growing its enrollment by nearly one-third. The school announced Wednesday that President Daniel Bradley intends to leave office next January. Indiana State trustees chairman David Campbell says Bradley oversaw a period of unprecedented

CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has left Wednesday’s game against the Royals with a mild right hip flexor strain. Abreu was injured as he went to his right for a Cheslor Cuthbert ground ball in the fifth inning against Kansas City. Abreu dropped the ball and was charged with an error