PA Headlines 3/10/18
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three federal judges are considering whether to halt the use of a Pennsylvania congressional district map imposed last month by the state Supreme Court, while a similar request is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The judges heard argument Friday about whether to issue a preliminary injunction sought by eight Republican U.S. House members and two senior Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate.
The judges didn’t say when they’ll rule on the injunction or on the defendants’ request to dismiss the lawsuit. The defendants are elections officials under Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and 18 Democratic voters who got a 2011 map declared unconstitutional in January. The Republican officials argue the state justices overstepped their authority in enacting their own map and should have given lawmakers more time to craft a replacement.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s luck with an aggressive expansion of casino gambling has hit the skids for the moment. Owners of the state’s most expansive casino licenses didn’t bid in Friday’s auction of the fifth mini-casino license authorized under a four-month-old state law aimed at scraping up cash for Pennsylvania’s threadbare treasury.
The minimum bid was $7.5 million, and the first four rounds raised $120 million. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board says it’ll hold a new round of bidding March 21 that allows bids by license owners that already won the rights to a mini-casino license, as well as the owners of two smaller casinos, Valley Forge Casino Resort and Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin. Each mini-casino can have 750 slot machines and 30 table games. Bidding could eventually open up to other entities.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The National Rifle Association has awarded more than $237,000 in grants to 25 Pennsylvania schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis. The NRA Foundation grants went to school programs including the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps and rifle teams. More than 80 percent of the grants were provided as equipment rather than cash.
Only a fraction of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts received awards between 2010 and 2016. Besides schools, other Pennsylvania recipients of the NRA grants include 4-H groups, Boy Scout troops, private gun clubs and local chapters of the NRA’s own Youth Hunter Education Challenge program. The AP analysis of the NRA Foundation’s public tax records shows that more than 120 groups got a total of $2.4 million.
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Features
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is getting deeper into the professional sports streaming game, partnering with Major League Baseball to air 25 weekday afternoon games in an exclusive deal. The games will be available to Facebook users in the U.S. on Facebook Watch, the company’s video feature announced last August, via the MLB Live show page. Facebook said Friday that recorded broadcasts also will be available globally, excluding select international markets.
The package, MLB’s first digital-only national broadcast agreement, precludes teams from televising those games on their regional sports networks. Facebook’s selection will come from among the nine games per season teams can lose from their local telecasts to national video partners, which include Fox and ESPN.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like President Donald Trump is getting the military parade he wants in Washington — though he may get no tanks for the effort. A Pentagon planning memo issued Thursday and released Friday says the parade being planned for Nov. 11, Veterans Day, will “include wheeled vehicles only, no tanks — consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.”
Big, heavy tanks could tear up District of Columbia streets. But the event will “include a heavy air component at the end of the parade,” meaning lots of airplane flyovers. Older aircraft will be included as available.
The memo from the office of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offers initial planning guidance to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose staff will plan the parade along a route from the White House to the Capitol, and integrate it with the city’s annual veterans’ parade. Northern Command, which oversees U.S. troops in North America, will execute the parade.
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Sports, Scores & Skeds
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BOYS BASKETBALL
PIAA Class 1A First Round
Lourdes Regional 71, Greenwood 33
Millville 59, Lincoln Leadership 40
PIAA Class 4A First Round
Harrisburg Bishop McDevitt 60, Danville 45
Middletown 66, Montoursville 57
Valley View 64, Mifflinburg 45
PIAA Class 5A First Round
GIRLS BASKETBALL=
PIAA Class 2A First Round
Old Forge 48, South Williamsport 35
Southern Columbia 45, Northwest Area 34
PIAA Class 3A First Round
Holy Redeemer 44, Hughesville 34
Loyalsock 53, Camp Hill Trinity 48
Mount Carmel 52, Notre Dame Green Pond 26
Here are the AP scores from yesterday’s sports events:
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INTERLEAGUE
Final Miami 5 Boston 4
Final N-Y Mets 4 Detroit 4
Final Oakland 2 Milwaukee 0
Final Chi Cubs 6 L-A Angels 1
Final San Francisco 10 Seattle 7
Final Arizona 7 Kansas City 2
Final L-A Dodgers 6 Kansas City 4
Final San Diego 2 Chi White Sox 0
Final Cleveland 8 Colorado 5
Final Houston 4 St. Louis 2
Final Atlanta 3 N-Y Yankees 1
Final Cincinnati 6 Texas 3
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Minnesota 4 Tampa Bay 3
Final Toronto 8 Baltimore 5
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 4
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NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Detroit 99 Chicago 83
Final Indiana 112 Atlanta 87
Final Toronto 108 Houston 105
Final Milwaukee 120 N-Y Knicks 112
Final Utah 95 Memphis 78
Final Washington 116 New Orleans 97
Final Denver 125 L.A. Lakers 116
Final Portland 125 Golden State 108
Final Sacramento 94 Orlando 88
Final L.A. Clippers 116 Cleveland 102
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Columbus 3 Detroit 2
Final Calgary 2 Ottawa 1
Final Dallas 2 Anaheim 1
Final Minnesota 5 Vancouver 2
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TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (1) Virginia 64 (19) Clemson 58
Final (2) Villanova 87 Butler 68
Final OT Providence 75 (3) Xavier 72
Final (12) North Carolina 74 (5) Duke 69
Final (8) Cincinnati 61 SMU 51
Final (9) Kansas 83 Kansas St. 67
Final (11) Wichita St. 89 Temple 81
Final (13) Tennessee 62 Mississippi St. 59
Final (18) West Virginia 66 (14) Texas Tech 63
Final OT (15) Arizona 78 UCLA 67
Final Alabama 81 (16) Auburn 63
Final (21) Houston 84 UCF 56
Final San Diego St. 90 (22) Nevada 73
Final Arkansas 80 (23) Florida 72
Final (25) Rhode Island 76 VCU 67
TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE
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INTERLEAGUE
Pittsburgh at Baltimore 1:05 p.m.
N-Y Mets at N-Y Yankees 1:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia 1:05 p.m.
Washington at Houston 1:05 p.m.
Chi White Sox at Chi Cubs 3:05 p.m.
L-A Angels at San Francisco 3:05 p.m.
Cleveland at San Diego 3:10 p.m.
Kansas City at Arizona 3:10 p.m.
San Francisco at L-A Angels 3:10 p.m.
Seattle at Cincinnati 8:05 p.m.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston at Minnesota 1:05 p.m.
Detroit at Toronto 1:07 p.m.
Oakland at Texas 3:05 p.m.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami at St. Louis 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta at Pittsburgh 1:05 p.m.
Colorado at Milwaukee 3:05 p.m.
Chi Cubs at L-A Dodgers 9:05 p.m.
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NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Phoenix at Charlotte 5:00 p.m.
Washington at Miami 7:30 p.m.
Memphis at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Oklahoma City 8:30 p.m.
Orlando at L.A. Clippers 10:30 p.m.
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Winnipeg at Philadelphia 1:00 p.m.
Montreal at Tampa Bay 1:00 p.m.
Vegas at Buffalo 1:00 p.m.
Chicago at Boston 1:00 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado 3:00 p.m.
Washington at San Jose 4:00 p.m.
St. Louis at L.A. Kings 4:00 p.m.
N-Y Rangers at Florida 7:00 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Toronto 7:00 p.m.
New Jersey at Nashville 8:00 p.m.
Minnesota at Edmonton 10:00 p.m.
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TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(12) North Carolina at (1) Virginia 8:30 p.m.
Providence at (2) Villanova 6:30 p.m.
Memphis at (8) Cincinnati 1:00 p.m.
(18) West Virginia at (9) Kansas 6:00 p.m.
(21) Houston at (11) Wichita St. 3:30 p.m.
Arkansas at (13) Tennessee 3:30 p.m.
Southern Cal at (15) Arizona 10:00 p.m.
Saint Joseph’s at (25) Rhode Island 1:00 p.m.
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