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LL Flooring reverses course and will keep hundreds of stores under new owner 09/09/2024 10:21am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� After securing a last-minute buyer, LL Flooring is reversing course on shutting down all of its stores. The hardwood flooring retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators signed an agreement with private equity firm F9 Investments for a sale of its business on Friday afternoon. Un Sports on TV for Tuesday, Sept. 10 09/09/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Sept. 10 COLLEGE GOLF 9:30 a.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: Second Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich. 4:30 p.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: Second Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand US agency, seeking fewer pedestrian deaths, seeks design changes largely for increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks 09/09/2024 10:06am • DETROIT (AP) ��� US agency, seeking fewer pedestrian deaths, seeks design changes largely for increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks. 7 years after deadly crash, blind intersection on winding Loudoun Co. road will soon be eliminated 09/09/2024 09:48am • Sunday marked seven years since a Loudoun County, Virginia mother was killed when an out-of-control, dilapidated food truck plowed into her station wagon on a dangerous stretch of Evergreen Mills Road outside Leesburg. Now, the county is acquiring nearby land to eliminate the blind intersecti School districts race to invest in cooling solutions as classrooms and playgrounds heat up 09/09/2024 09:28am • Ylenia Aguilar raised her two sons in Arizona ��� first in Tucson and later Phoenix, so they���re no strangers to scorching heat. Just recently, Phoenix hit its 100th straight day at or above 100 F (37.8 C), shattering the record set in 1993. She remembers scary moments ���seeing soccer kids and my LL Flooring founder to rescue company from bankruptcy 09/09/2024 09:21am • Richmond, Virginia-based LL Flooring, the former Lumber Liquidators, which announced plans to liquidate and close all stores last week, has agreed to a last minute deal that will save thousands of jobs and keep hundreds of its stores open. Late Friday, the company said an agreement was reached wi Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts 09/09/2024 09:11am • An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall���s ���Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses,��� a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different. Although the individuals who recount their tales vary, from engineers to schoolgirls, their message i UN rights chief urges voters to beware 'strongman' politicians who 'throw glitter in our eyes' 09/09/2024 08:42am • GENEVA (AP) ��� The U.N. human rights chief on Monday urged voters to be wary of ���strongman��� politicians and personalities "that throw glitter in our eyes��� as more elections loom in a busy electoral calendar this year. Volker T��rk didn't mention leaders or countries by name, but alluded to a Takeaways from AP's report on the dilemmas facing Palestinian Americans ahead of US election 09/09/2024 08:05am • Many Palestinian Americans, in recent months, have been reeling from the double blow of the rising Palestinian death toll and suffering in Gaza and their own government���s support for Israel in the war. Alongside pro-Palestinian allies, they���ve grieved, organized, lobbied and protested as the kil Huge payout expected for a rare coin bought by Ohio farm family and hidden for decades 09/09/2024 08:00am • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ��� Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value. But they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more t AU Pro Basketball for women will play 2025 season in Nashville after stops in Las Vegas, Dallas 09/09/2024 08:00am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Athletes Unlimited will play its fourth women's basketball season in Nashville starting Feb. 5 through March 2, league officials announced Monday. AU Pro Basketball debuted in Las Vegas in 2022 and played the 2023 and 2024 seasons in Dallas. The 2025 season featuring 24 ga Big Lots files for bankruptcy 09/09/2024 07:16am • New York (CNN) — Big Lots, the beleaguered discount retailer that previously warned it had ���substantial doubt��� about its survival, has filed for bankruptcy.As part of its Chapter 11 filing, the retailer announced that private equity firm Nexus Capital Management is acquiring ���substantial Will Los Angeles 2028 be the moment when the Paralympics conquer America? 09/09/2024 05:47am • Los Angeles, you���re next. Paris raised the game for the Paralympics, with more than 4,000 athletes as well as 2.4 million tickets sold, which was second only to the London Games of 2012. Now the challenge for U.S. organizers is to top it with another breakout moment for para sports. ���We want to 'The needs are really, really enormous': High demand for volunteer tutors for DC-area students 09/09/2024 04:39am • With classes back in session, a major drive is underway to recruit a legion of volunteer tutors needed for students throughout the D.C. area. At the Adams Morgan Day festival on Sunday, the D.C. Tutoring and Mentoring Initiative spread word about the need for 60,000 volunteer tutors and mentors n South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s 09/09/2024 04:26am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s. The report by the T