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Lawyer: Clippers sale could miss August deadline 07/19/2014 02:40pm • LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A lawyer for the man offering to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion told a judge Friday that Donald Sterling's stalling tactics are threatening to doom the sale by pushing it past a contractual deadline.At a hearing to set parameter Police: Mom, grandparents nearly starved boy, 7 07/19/2014 01:40pm • GREENVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy was nearly starved to death, suffered regular beatings and resorted to catching insects to eat during brief times he was allowed outside, police said in charging his mother and grandparents with assault and other offensesChild welfare workers, responding to a In Iraq, Syria, militants try to govern as a state 07/19/2014 03:10am • ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- Across the broad swath of territory they control bridging Syria and Iraq, extremist militants from the group known as the Islamic State have proven to be highly organized administrators. Flush with cash, they fix roads, police traffic, administer courts, a Sabathia scheduled for season-ending knee surgery 07/18/2014 08:52pm • MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- CC Sabathia is scheduled for season-ending surgery on his right knee next week, ending any hope of him returning to the New York Yankees' ravaged rotation this year.Sabathia will have surgery Wednesday, and general manager Brian Cashman said he thin Bills report for camp facing injury concerns 07/18/2014 08:31pm • JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Some two weeks later, Bills general manager Doug Whaley can still recall being surprised after he learned starting linebacker Kiko Alonso had sustained a season-ending knee injury."Absolutely it was a shock," Whaley said Friday, when Bills veteran NY doctor convicted of manslaughter in 2 overdoses 07/18/2014 07:09pm • JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A doctor accused of peddling painkiller prescriptions to addicts -- including some who died of overdoses and one who later killed four people in a pharmacy holdup -- was convicted Friday in what was believed to be the first manslaughter case against a Ex-Kentucky senator Ford being treated for cancer 07/18/2014 06:32pm • BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Former U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford from Kentucky says he is undergoing treatment for lung cancer.The former four-term Democrat says he was recently diagnosed with a malignancy on one of his lungs.Ford will turn 90 in September.Ford issued a stateme Q&A: Players' lawyer discusses NFL settlement 07/18/2014 06:31pm • MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey lawyer Craig Mitnick represents about 1,400 players in the NFL concussion lawsuit, from ex-quarterbacks Mark Rypien and Jeff Hostetler to practice squad unknowns. Some of his clients suffer from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS 07/18/2014 05:20pm • The Associated Press Copyright 5/8/2013 Publishers Weekly. Week ending 7/13/2014, powered by Nielsen Bookscan 5/8/2013 The Nielsen Company.HARDCOVER FICTION1. "Act of War" by Brad Thor (Atria Books)2. "Invisible" by Patterson/Ellis (Little, Brown)3. "Top Secret Twenty-One" by Janet Evanovich (Banta Twins are born 12 hours apart on different days 07/18/2014 03:30pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The Muldowney twins will share plenty of things in life, but the same birthday isn't one of them.Tammy Muldowney gave birth to her first child, daughter Kennedy Clare, at around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo.Muldowney and husband Bryan, from near Daily app: Find stuff to share with your online audience 07/18/2014 07:54am • Data Doctors Ruling sparks debate on retroactive gay rights 07/18/2014 06:14am • DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A new Connecticut Supreme Court ruling is adding to the debate on whether gay marriage rights should be applied retroactively and qualify same-sex couples for rights and benefits for which they weren't entitled before state laws allowed them to m Amoebas eat girl's eyeballs 07/17/2014 10:46pm • WASHINGTON -- It sounds like an urban legend gone viral, but unfortunately for Taiwanese student Lian Kao, it is very much true. According to a doctor at Taipei's Wan Fang Hospital, Kao, 23, recently went blind due to eyeball-eating amoebas. The girl had knowingly left her contact lenses in for Some defend founder of Mexican shelter 07/17/2014 10:22pm • OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press ZAMORA, Mexico (AP) -- About 500 people marched through this western Mexico city Thursday in support of the embattled but highly regarded founder of a shelter raided amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse and filthy living conditions.Shelter founder Rosa del Judge sets new Dec. 8 trial date for James Holmes 07/17/2014 07:31pm • DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Defendant James Holmes had been scheduled go on trial in October, but District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. ordered a delay because a doctor requested more time to complete Holmes' second sanity evaluation.Samour announced the new date Wednesday.Separately,