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Hataoka, Pedersen share early lead in LPGA Tour's LA Open
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nasa Hataoka and Emily Kristine Pedersen shared the lead at 4-under 67 halfway through the first round Thursday in the LPGA Tour's DIO Implant LA Open. Hataoka closed with a birdie ...
Apr 21, 2022

Texas author who set series of novels along border dies
DALLAS (AP) - Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, an award-winning Texas author who began in the 1970s writing a series of novels that told the stories of people living in a fictional county along the Texas...
Apr 21, 2022

Arizona Supreme Court reinstates massive income tax cuts
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state's voters do not have the right to reject a massive income tax cut approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov, D...
Apr 21, 2022

Cantlay and Schauffele open with 59 to lead Zurich Classic
AVONDALE, La. (AP) - Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele are a good team even when they're playing for cash and not just a flag. Cantlay holed a 25-foot eagle putt early and chipped in from 40 feet ...
Apr 21, 2022

Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas' oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at th...
Apr 21, 2022

Tenn gov calls off execution, citing oversight in plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's governor announced Thursday that he was calling off what was to have been the state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, granting a temporary reprieve...
Apr 21, 2022

TNRD libraries introduce new guitar borrowing program
KAMLOOPS - Locals can now jam out easier with the help of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) library's new guitar lending program. Through the initiative, TNRD libraries will lend guitars to...
Apr 21, 2022

Merritt Secondary awarded B.C. School Sports, School of the Year
MERRITT, B.C. - It's time to make room in the cabinet, as Merritt Secondary School (MSS) has been named B.C. School Sports, School of the Year. In a normal year, the honour would be humbling but the p...
Apr 21, 2022

B.C. provides First Nations with $74-million grant to make up for lost gaming revenue
VANCOUVER - British Columbia First Nations that have been affected by the pandemic and last year's wildfires and flooding will receive $74 million in grant money to make up for the loss of shared gami...
Apr 21, 2022

"I am honoured by it": Stella Black becomes latest Freedom of the City recipient in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Stella Black may have thought the 'career chapter' of her life was over, but this week the City showed it hasn't forgotten what she's done to better the community - awarding Black with the ...
Apr 21, 2022

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