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Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
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The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
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Getty Images fileCHARLOTTE, N.C. - NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield's wife took out a restraining order against her husband's stepmother on Tuesday, three days after she allegedly assaulted the family living on their property and issuing death threats, ESPN reported.
Mayfield’s estranged stepmother was accused of trespassing on the suspended NASCAR drivers’ property.
A criminal complaint filed in North Carolina District Court shows Lisa Mayfield was accused of four misdemeanor counts of simple assault and one misdemeanor count of second-degree trespassing for an incident that allegedly occurred Saturday night at the driver’s Catawba County home.
A Sept. 14 court date was set for Lisa Mayfield, who was released Sunday on the condition she can not access any property owned by Jeremy Mayfield.
Mayfield was suspended in May for failing a random drug test. NASCAR says he tested positive for methamphetamines, and Lisa Mayfield said in sworn testimony she personally witnessed the driver use the illegal drug at least 30 times.
He disputed her claims, alleged she was paid by NASCAR for her testimony and accused her of killing his father. Jeremy Mayfield has claimed he’s in the final stages of filing a wrongful death lawsuit against his former stepmother. Police ruled Terry Mayfield’s death in 2007 a suicide.
Lisa Mayfield responded by filing a defamation-of-character suit against Mayfield.
The latest twist in the family drama came Saturday night, when Mayfield and his wife, Shana, claim an intoxicated Lisa Mayfield showed up at their home after the couple had left to attend a race in Gaffney, S.C.
“Our caretakers that work on our property heard her beating on our door, saying she was going to ... kill us,” Shana Mayfield told The Associated Press.
Shana Mayfield said a caretaker and his wife approached Lisa Mayfield, who allegedly began hitting the caretaker and then pushed their pregnant daughter.
“Luckily, we got back in time as the cops were taking her away,” Shana Mayfield said.
A Mayfield employee alleged in the criminal complaint that Lisa Mayfield punched him in the chest and kicked his wife in the crotch. The worker also claimed Lisa Mayfield hit his daughter in the arm, and her fiance in the chest.
“She has been told several times to stay away from our home,” Jeremy Mayfield said in the report, adding he has “two ’no trespassing’ signs at the entrance of my driveway because of her. She hit my employee and made racial remarks to him and his family. (She) also threatened me, my wife and threatened to kill all of us."
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