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Best known for his work as the butler on “Soap” and its spinoff “Benson,” Guillaume also starred in stage musicals, including as the first African-American lead in “Phantom of the Opera.” His 2002 biography detailed a troubled early life.

MIAMI (AP) — A popular Florida city commissioner has resigned and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor campaign finance charge. The Miami Herald reports that Michael Grieco emailed his resignation to the Miami Beach city clerk Tuesday morning. He later appeared in Miami-Dade County criminal court to plead no contest to accepting a campaign donation […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic congressman is calling for an investigation into a $300 million contract awarded to a small company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority awarded the contract to Whitefish Energy Holdings to help crews restore transmission and distribution lines damaged or destroyed […]

King Lake is southeast of Arlington

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Back on the active roster, Corey Seager was in the starting lineup at shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series opener against the Houston Astros. Seager missed the NL Championship Series with a back injury, sustained in Game 3 of the Division Series on Oct. 9. Chris Taylor […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones is expressing opposition to a proposed half-cent sales tax increase that would be used to give police officers a raise, calling the proposal “tone-deaf.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jones on Tuesday joined activists and advocacy organization in denouncing Proposition P, which will be decided […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to threatening a federal official after a voicemail message was left at the office of an Ohio congressman mentioning last summer’s shooting at a Congressional baseball practice. Prosecutors say 68-year-old Stanley Hoff entered the guilty plea Tuesday to one count of threatening to assault and murder […]

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie says much of the work done by New Jersey’s emergency responders when Superstorm Sandy hit nearly five years will remain unknown to the public but not unappreciated. The Republican governor made the comments Tuesday while speaking at the National Guard Army warehouse in West Orange. The event […]

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — A jury has convicted a 52-year-old suburban Detroit man of second-degree murder and felony murder in the 1991 fatal beating of his ex-girlfriend’s mother in Midland County. The eight-woman, four-man jury found Michael T. McIntyre guilty Tuesday in the slaying of 43-year-old Diana Ross at her Lee Township mobile home. The […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A 38-year-old California woman has pleaded guilty to making and passing $100 bills in Montana, defrauding businesses throughout the state of about $45,000. The Billings Gazette reports Misty Nicole Marcum of Bakersfield, California, pleaded guilty Tuesday to counterfeiting as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors. She faces up to 20 […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 72-year-old union treasurer in Connecticut will spend less than a year behind bars for embezzling more than $70,000 from the organization. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Andrew Thibodeau, of East Hartford, was sentenced Tuesday in Hartford federal court to three months in prison, followed by a year of supervised release. […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Department of Corrections says a 29-year-old inmate killed himself on Monday. Randy N. Aguilar was found during a security check after what appears to be a suicide. The department says staff provided life-saving measures until paramedics arrived. Aguilar has been in custody since Oct. 17 for violating terms of his […]

Seattle police say an investigation found the officer was paid just under $24,000 for 55 days he didn't work.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service is floating a steep increase to entrance fees at 17 of its most popular sites next year. Visitors to the Grand Canyon and other parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the current $30 fee. At others, the hike is $25 to $70. A 30-day […]

When Heather Szilagyi was flying from Vancouver, B.C., to London, she and her daughter were bitten and rendered miserable by bedbugs. The airline finally acknowledged the problem and made amends after Szilagyi posted images of her 7-year-old’s bleeding, infected welts.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has handed the U.S. government a victory in its fight against lawsuits opposing a decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed Brooklyn judges to expeditiously decide if a court can properly review the decision […]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — West Des Moines police will soon join other Des Moines-area departments in requiring its officers to wear body cameras. The Des Moines Register reports that West Des Moines officers will begin wearing the cameras Nov. 1. Officers will wear them at all times, but the cameras will only record […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — An opera singer still performing after two double lung transplants has debuted a song inspired by her lung donor’s immigrant roots. Charity Tillemann-Dick and her lung donor’s daughter sang the song together in front of about 200 doctors and medical executives at a Cleveland medical summit on Tuesday. The donor was a […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An elected school board member in Las Vegas has been banned from directly contacting district employees and visiting schools without approval over allegations of harassment. Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky issued a memo Tuesday notifying school workers in the nation’s fifth-largest school system of the restrictions imposed on Trustee Kevin Child. […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — At least two retired judges have agreed to oversee Montana court cases without being paid. The Missoulian reports former Judge James Wheelis is going to oversee two double-murder cases in Missoula along with another case there while former Judge Richard Simonton has been asked to oversee dozens of cases in the […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The owner of a Delaware food service company has been sentenced to 23 months in prison for stealing almost $1 million from federal programs to feed low-income school students. Frank Dolce of Primos Food Service was sentenced last week after pleading guilty in March to tax evasion and theft from the […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One Obama administration action that may be safe under President Donald Trump is the renaming of North America’s tallest peak to Denali. The Alaska mountain came up during a lengthy conversation that the state’s Republican U.S. senators had with Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in March. The Alaska Public Radio […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The top counsel to the Oregon Legislature has released a letter from the Senate president to a state senator who was accused of inappropriate touching on women in the Capitol. In the letter written Friday, Sen. Peter Courtney told Sen. Jeff Kruse that two new allegations had surfaced against him. Courtney […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is further delaying Obama-era protections for students defrauded by for-profit colleges. The Education Department posted a notice in the Federal Register saying it wants to delay the Borrower Defense rule until July 1, 2019, while a new rule is being written. The regulation allows students to have their loans […]

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske (suh-GAV’-skee) is running for re-election. The Las Vegas Republican who previously served more than 15 years in the state Legislature announced her bid Monday for a second, four-year term in 2018. Cegavske said in a statement her priorities include modernizing business registration and licensing […]