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Anne Heche will reportedly be removed from life support with organ donations set to begin
Anne Heche’s organ recipients have been selected, and the actress is set to be removed from life support Sunday afternoon, according to a report. The organ transplant procedures will begin once Heche is off life support, TMZ reported. Details including how many recipients were identified or which organs will be donated have not been revealed. Heche was declared brain dead earlier in the week following a fiery car crash, but her body was kept on life support to determine whether her organs could be a match for donation, a representative for the actress said in an update Friday. California consi...
New York Daily News
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Sideline Chatter: Maybe he’d been waiting for a text to steal a base
You make the call: (1) out; (2) safe; (3) you’re safe but your cellphone is out! Pirates rookie Rodolfo Castro slid safely into third base in a 6-4 win over the D-backs — but the impact knocked his phone out of his back pocket. He didn’t realize the gaffe until umpire Adam Hamari pointed it out. “You stay around the game and you see things you haven’t seen before,’’ Pirates manager Derek Shelton told AP. “It’s just one of those things we move forward from and tell him, ‘You can’t do that.’ ’’ Headlines— At TheBeaverton.com: “ ‘How do we make baseball more exciting?’ asks only sport with mandat...
The Seattle Times
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One year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan, refugees find support from all corners of Chicago
CHICAGO — A year ago, former Afghan soldiers Rahimullah Zaland and Khan Madin Ashana fled their home country as the United States withdrew the last of its troops in dramatic airlifts in the final weeks of August. They spent months traveling separately through different countries, looking for a safe haven before landing in Chicago. “When I came here to Chicago, I was not used to the environment because this place was really cold,” Zaland said. “I arrived here in the winter; it was really difficult for me to manage my life here in the beginning. I had to solve so many personal problems in the fi...
Chicago Tribune
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Editorial: A cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie and free speech
New York’s Chautauqua Institution describes itself as “a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity.” On Friday morning, the worst in humanity came calling on Chautauqua, New York, when an assailant rushed the stage and attacked the great author Salman Rushdie, stabbing him several times, it appeared, in the neck. It was immediately apparent that his injuries were grievous. Rushdie, who refused to be cowed by a 1989 fatwa from the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who did not care for one of Rushdie’s books, lived a profoundly se...
Chicago Tribune
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Connecticut dad shoots teen son while instructing him on guns: cops
A Connecticut teen was accidentally shot by his father Friday afternoon as the older man was instructing him about guns, according to authorities. Police said that the 17-year-old, whose name along with his father’s was not released, sustained a gunshot wound to the shoulder just after 3 p.m. Friday in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford, the Hartford Courant reports. “The father was planning on getting his son acclimated with firearms in order to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future” at the time of the incident, Meriden Police said in a statement. Authorit...
New York Daily News
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Rest or rhythm? Storm have playoff momentum, MVP race to consider in regular-season finale.
SEATTLE — On the eve of an otherwise meaningless regular-season finale, Noelle Quinn is wrestling with the mind-bending conundrum that has baffled many playoff-bound coaches. Should the Storm coach rest her starters, specifically the 41-year-old Sue Bird, or maintain the same lineup and rotations for the noon game Sunday against the WNBA-leading Las Vegas Aces? Before you answer, keep in mind Seattle already has locked up the No. 4 seed and will be at home for the first two games in a best-of-three, first-round playoff series against the No. 5 Washington Mystics that starts Thursday at Climate...
The Seattle Times
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Alec Baldwin must have pulled trigger in ‘Rust’ shooting, FBI report says
Alec Baldwin must have pulled the trigger on a revolver in the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” last year, according to an FBI forensics report. The feds found that the old school weapon, a .45 Colt (.45 Long Colt) caliber F.lli Pietta single-action revolver, could not be fired without someone pulling the trigger, ABC News reported Friday. Investigators found that an accidental discharge was impossible in the quarter-cock, half-cock and full cock hammer positions, according to ABC News. The gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components we...
New York Daily News
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In Florida, loved ones of prisoners banned from wearing #visitsmatter T-shirts
ORLANDO, Fla. — When Ann Beal Salamone went to visit her son in prison last week she wore a white T-shirt with “MY VISITS Matter” written in the center of a big red heart. On her way out, another visiting mother noticed the T-shirt and asked where she could get one as well. The two women began to chat and were joined by a correctional officer. “We were all there, I could tell you, thinking about how important it is for our loved ones to have family and friends that care and love them,” she said. As positive of an experience it was for Salamone, it won’t happen again under a new directive impos...
Orlando Sentinel
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First confusion, and finally some relief, as 'Remain in Mexico' begins wind down in San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Moments after his immigration case was heard Wednesday, a 51-year-old Cuban asylum seeker sat on a bench in the back of the courtroom and wept openly. He had just learned that he would be allowed to fight his case from inside the United States instead of returning again to Tijuana under the "Remain in Mexico" program. He'd been waiting more than two months in Tijuana for his immigration court case under the program, known officially as Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP. "In this moment, I am free," he told the Union-Tribune in Spanish a few minutes after he was officially release...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Kevin Radke keeps coming back to horse racing, and he wants to win Longacres Mile for first time
SEATTLE — It probably won't be hard to find jockey Kevin Radke during Sunday's Longacres Mile. He will be riding Papa's Golden Boy, the horse expected to take the early lead. Can Radke help the horse ration his speed and keep him in front? It's a question Radke didn't think he would be pondering a couple of years ago. He had retired from riding — again — and was living the good life with his wife on his Auburn farm, purchased with the help of two garbage businesses that he started and sold. Having broken more than 40 bones during a successful but injury-riddled riding career, he had had enough...
The Seattle Times
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