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Bengals extend LS Clark Harris, sign WR Auden Tate

CINCINNATI (UPI) -- The Cincinnati Bengals have signed long snapper Clark Harris to a contract extension and signed wide receiver Auden Tate off the practice squad. Cincinnati announced the roster moves on Monday. The Bengals also placed linebacker Carl Lawson on injured reserve. Harris, 34, entered the league as a seventh-round pick by the Green Bay Packers in the 2007 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-5, 250-pound Rutgers product also suited up for the Green Bay Packers before signing with the Bengals […]

todayNovember 5, 2018 61

Decision 2018

Two millennial women face off in tight Detroit area House race

CANTON, Mich. (UPI) -- The affluent suburbs northwest of Detroit will send a millennial woman to Congress in November. The question is, will the voters of Michigan's 11th District stick with the Republican Party -- as they have for most of the last 135 years -- by electing Lena Epstein, 37, or step out of their comfort zone to elect a Democrat, 35-year-old Haley Stevens? The verdant subdivisions and lake communities of the district have sent a male Republican to […]

todayNovember 5, 2018 53

Business & Lifestyle

Chemicals used in Deepwater Horizon spill were ineffective, study says

THE GULF OF MEXICO (UPI) -- The chemical dispersants used to clean up oil after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 were ineffective and unneeded, a new study says. Researchers report in a study published this week that dispersants used in the largest oil spill in U.S. history -- 210 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf over 87 days after a BP oil rig exploded -- played no role in its clean up. […]

todayNovember 4, 2018 72

National

Florida teen charged with killing mother, burying her body over poor grade

DeLAND, Fla. (UPI) -- A Florida teenager was charged with murder after confessing to killing his mother over a poor grade report, authorities said. The 15-year-old boy confessed to strangling his mother, 46-year-old Gail Cleavenger, with a rope in their family's home early Friday then using a wheelbarrow to load her into her van and bury her beneath a fire pit, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. He also implicated two friends, who he said helped him bury his mother […]

todayNovember 4, 2018 30

NFL

Business & Lifestyle

NFL to play four games in London in 2019

NEW YORK (UPI) -- The NFL will feature four regular-season games in London next season, with two at Wembley Stadium and two at the new stadium being built for Premier League team Tottenham. The league did not announce which teams would travel across the Atlantic Ocean or when the games will be played. "The NFL in London is going from strength to strength and I am delighted that we will have four games in the capital next year, with Tottenham Hotspur's […]

todayNovember 4, 2018 41

Illinois

Swastikas painted on 200 headstones in Illinois, suspect arrested

GLEN CARBON (UPI) -- Police in southwestern Illinois arrested a man suspected of vandalizing cemetery headstones with swastikas. Nearly 200 headstones were found spray-painted Saturday morning, less than two days before Memorial Day. "They also painted swastikas on our old office building and on two of our family estate mausoleums," Mark Johnson, grounds superintendent at the cemetery, told the Belleville News-Democrat. The vandalism took place in a cemetery in Glen Carbon, a small town located 19 miles northeast of St. Louis. […]

todayMay 28, 2018 59

Business & Lifestyle

Nashville currently the favorite to host 2019 NFL Draft

BRISTOL, Conn./NEW YORK (UPI) -- Nashville is the leading contender to host the 2019 NFL Draft, ESPN reported on Thursday. Las Vegas, Denver, Kansas City and the combination bid from Cleveland/Canton, Ohio, are also being considered. It would mark the first time for any of those respective cities to host the draft. A decision is expected to be announced during the league's spring meeting May 22-23 in Atlanta, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed in an email to The Tennessean. Should Nashville […]

todayMay 14, 2018 64

Entertainment News

70 new Rick and Morty episodes are in the works

ATLANTA, Ga./LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Seventy new episodes of the animated comedy series Rick and Morty have been ordered for Turner's Adult Swim programming block. Show creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland announced they are heading back to work in an Instagram video shot while the two were showering together Thursday. "Adult Swim has made a long-term deal with the creators that will include 70 new episodes of the critically acclaimed series that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous […]

todayMay 14, 2018 43

Business & Lifestyle

Conan O’Brien’s TBS talk show changing to half-hour format

LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Conan O'Brien will be introducing a new half-hour format to his latenight TBS talk show Conan, starting in January 2019. O'Brien said the change will allow him to focus more on digital content and help him modernize the late-night talk show format, which traditionally involves hour-long episodes that feature multiple celebrity interviews. O'Brien will also spend more time focusing on other ventures with TBS, including a live stand-up tour featuring emerging comedians and turning Conan segment Clueless Gamer into its […]

todayMay 6, 2018 38

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