ATLANTA (AP) — Enes Kanter Freedom refused to sit in a suite the Atlanta Dream and State Farm Arena arranged for the former NBA player's protection at Wednesday night's Game 3 of the WNBA Finals against the Golden State Valkyries and instead left the game. Freedom demanded he be allowed to sit in...
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A regular-season game in October wouldn’t normally attract much attention for the Ottawa Senators. But this one was different. Former captain Brady Tkachuk was booed loudly in his return to Ottawa with the Florida Panthers, four months after requesting a tr...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream are halfway toward their ultimate goal of winning the franchise's first WNBA championship. They know there is still work to do. But with a huge Atlanta crowd behind them and Reese dominating the last two games, there's reason to be...
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — With fans chanting “We don’t need you!,” the Ottawa Senators defeated Brady Tkachuk and his Florida Panthers 5-1 on Wednesday night. Tkachuk, who spent eight seasons in Ottawa, including five as captain, was given a hostile reception in his return. He was b...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The votes are in for our Week 8 Team of the Week. Weslaco East earned the top spot with 770 votes, or 53% of the vote. Los Fresnos came in second with 355 votes, or 24% of the vote, and Harlingen came in third with 352 votes, or 23%. ValleyCentr...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Our weather remains mostly quiet, but a coastal trough could bring a few showers, especially across Hidalgo and Starr counties. Keep an umbrella handy, just in case. High pressure continues to build across the central United States will help tem...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Day three of the punishment phase in the Rogelio Martinez case were met with tense moments as prosecutors challenged defense witnesses who described Martinez differently from the man convicted of murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalt...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani needs offseason rest, not surgery, for knee and biceps injuries that led to his worst offensive numbers since he joined the Los Angeles Dodgers before the 2024 season. “It was just an unfortunate game of whack-a-mole,” Andrew Friedman, president o...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Two children and one adult were sent to the hospital on Wednesday evening after a shoulder lane crash on the expressway in Edinburg. The crash occurred on the 4200 block of the southbound lanes of Interstate Highway 69-C. A preliminary report f...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs expressed contrition as he returned to practice Wednesday and talked to reporters for the first time since pleading no contest to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a May altercation with his then-girlfriend dur...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Local and state officials gathered in San Carlos on Wednesday to break ground on a new lift station project. The station will be built between the San Carlos and La Blanca communities, located east of Edinburg along State Highway 107. This proj...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Criminal complaints obtained by ValleyCentral detail the events that occurred when a 44-year-old man was stabbed to death at a parking lot in San Juan earlier this month. Four men have been charged with murder for their alleged involvement in th...
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San Benito Mayor Pedro “Pete” Galvan S AN BENITO — In a courtroom-like setting, the city commission’s majority reprimanded Mayor Pete Galvan for “threatening” city Economic Development Corporation officials, warning he could pull the agency’s funding. During a tense meeting Tuesd...
