Q: Ira, John Collins or Myles Turner and call it a day. We’re only a power forward away. –Eddie. A: The problem is that the Heat are a team with limited trade assets, so once they go out in one deal, any other deal is likely precluded. At this point, at this stage of July,…
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Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones was placed on the active/physically unable to perform list on Friday ahead of the team’s Tuesday report date for training camp. The Dolphins announced Jones’ PUP designation along with placement of defensive back Elijah Campbell on the active/non-football injury list. Jones underwent a lower left leg surgery in March and…
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Three weeks into the process, the NBA free-agent list not only mostly has been picked clean, but the best of what remains comes with strings attached, from the felony domestic-violence charges against Miles Bridges, to the August court date for Montrezl Harrell regarding the three pounds of marijuana seized from his car, to Collin Sexton…
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By Steve Peoples and Mead Gruver | Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city. Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles…
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SpaceX launched 46 more Starlink satellites into orbit from California on Friday. The satellites were carried aboard a Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:39 a.m. The satellites were to be deployed later from the rocket’s second stage to join the Starlink constellation, a space-based broadband internet system with…
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Californians can sue anyone who manufacturess, distribute, transports, imports or sells dangerous firearms, including so-called ghost guns, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday, July 21, during an event in Santa Monica. Newsom on Friday also touted several other bills aimed at preventing gun violence, which he signed the day before.…
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By ASHRAF KHALIL | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump was convicted on Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon, 68, was convicted after a four-day trial in federal court in…
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Unemployment rose in June across Southern California as inflation crimped employer payrolls. Los Angeles County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.3% in June, up from a revised 5.2% in May, according to figures released Friday, July 22 by the state Employment Development Department. The 5.3% rate was well below the 9.7% rate in…
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Johnny Egan, who played for the Baltimore Bullets and five other NBA teams and recorded more than 5,000 points, 2,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds in his 11-year career, died Thursday in Houston at the age of 83. He suffered a fall in May, according to former NBA columnist and friend Peter Vecsey. The news of…
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Power line sparks have been identified as the likely cause of a fire that burned 154 acres near Emerald Bay in February, Laguna Beach officials said this week. A five-month investigation conducted by Orange County Fire Authority investigators into the wind-driven Emerald fire determined that the sparks from electrical arcing led to the blaze that…
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