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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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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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.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A federal judge denied a request by Blues player Mike Danton to move his murder conspiracy trial away from the St. Louis area.
U.S. District Judge William D. Stiehl ruled Tuesday that extensive media coverage of the case hasn’t been harmful enough to merit a change of venue.
“The court cannot find that these articles and news stories are predominantly inflammatory or prejudicial,” Stiehl wrote. “Indeed, many are sympathetic to the defendant’s situation.”
But Stiehl will allow potential jurors to be questioned about how pretrial publicity has affected their views of Danton and co-defendant Katie Wolfmeyer.
Danton has been jailed since his arrest April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks eliminated the Blues from the playoffs. He is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his agent, David Frost.
Wolfmeyer, 19, of the St. Louis suburb Florissant, is accused of trying to hire a would-be hit man, who turned out to be an informant. Frost wasn’t hurt and has maintained he wasn’t the intended target.
Danton and Wolfmeyer face the same murder-for-hire conspiracy charges.
Jury selection is expected to begin Sept. 1 for Danton, with a trial scheduled to begin Sept. 7 in East St. Louis.
The judge noted that the jurors are drawn from across 11 counties in Southern Illinois, a larger area than typical court jurisdictions from which trials have been moved out of concern for publicity.
Wolfmeyer’s attorneys haven’t objected to holding the trial in East St. Louis, and they want her to be tried alongside Danton.
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