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NBA owners in holding pattern on Clippers’ sale
 

Commisioner Adam Silver said the league is waiting for the trial between Donald and Shelly Sterling to conclude so the NBA can finalize the sale of the team to Seattle’s Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. The league’s owners met for four hours at Wynn Las Vegas for their annual summer meetings.

 
‘Counting Cars’ ready to roll

The History channel series set at Count’s Kustoms is back with a batch of new episodes.

 
Dozens of giant 2-pound African snails seized at Los Angeles airport

U.S. customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized a shipment of several dozen live giant African snails, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also voracious pests that can eat paint and stucco off houses, officials said on Monday.

 
20 dead, 150 hurt in Moscow subway accident

A subway train derailed Tuesday deep below Moscow streets, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of morning rush hour.

 
Border Patrol detains activist/journalist Vargas in Texas

Prominent immigration activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who has lived and worked in the U.S. without legal documentation for years, was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Tuesday at a South Texas airport.

 
KFC probes whether scarred girl was asked to leave

KFC Corp. says it’s investigating allegations that an employee in Jackson, Mississippi, asked a 3-year-old to leave a restaurant because her facial injuries frightened other patrons. A spokesman says KFC is also giving $30,000 toward her medical bills.

 
Casey Kasem, king of the Top 40, dead at 82

Casey Kasem, the smooth-voiced radio broadcaster who became the king of the top 40 countdown, has died at age 82.

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Griffith describes violent relationship with victim

Jason “Blu” Griffith said the woman he’s accused of killing had previously stalked, threatened and harassed him after the two ended their sexual relationship in spring of 2010.

 
Families remember victims as 9/11 museum opens

Victims’ friends and relatives, rescue workers and survivors of the terrorist attack descended into the subterranean space and revisited the tragedy as the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum was dedicated by President Barack Obama as a symbol that says of America: “Nothing can ever break us.”

 
Roommates buy $20 couch, find $40K inside

For all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbors thought they’d won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.

 
Businesses, strip club evacuated after L.A. oil pipeline bursts

After a high-pressure pipe burst, spewing 10,000 gallons of crude oil into the streets of L.A., businesses were evacuated, sending some to the hospital with respiratory issues and causing drivers to abandon their oil-covered vehicles.

 
Howard Hughes Corp. announces Oct. 9 opening for Downtown Summerlin

A year after the Howard Hughes Corp. broke ground on Downtown Summerlin, a 1.6 million-square-foot retail and shopping environment near Charleston Boulevard and the 215 Beltway, the company announced an Oct. 9 opening for the development.

 
Teen scoops up 3-foot carp from flooded street

A northern Ohio teenager is reeling in attention for a big catch after he spotted a 3-foot carp swimming in receding floodwaters on his street and scooped it into his arms as his mother caught the scene on video.

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