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Elliott looking to maintain NASCAR Nationwide lead 08/01/2014 04:30pm • LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- Chase Elliott is in the midst of one of the best rookie seasons in NASCAR Nationwide series history.The race Saturday at the Iowa Speedway could go a long way in determining whether Elliott ends such a promising year with a title.Though Elliott has Repairing burst Los Angeles main could take days 08/01/2014 03:00pm • CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Repair crews on Thursday were shoring up a giant hole in the middle of Sunset Boulevard caused by a ruptured pipe, as officials at the water-logged University of California, Los Angeles, continued to assess damage from the 20 million gallons tha Amputee jumper won't contest team exclusion 07/31/2014 08:16am • NESHA STARCEVIC AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- A German amputee long jumper will not contest the decision by his national federation to exclude him from the upcoming European Championships.Paralympic champion Markus Rehm, however, said Thursday he would use all means at his disposal to Audit: D.C. fails to collect nearly $400K in rent at Eastern Market 07/30/2014 04:42pm • D.C. officials failed to collect nearly $400,000 in rent from merchants operating in Eastern Market’s South Hall for fiscal 2011 and most of fiscal 2012, according to a D.C. Auditor's report detailing what appears to be widespread financial mismanagement at the historic fresh foods market on C African summit to close roads throughout downtown D.C. 07/30/2014 04:28pm • WASHINGTON -- A slew of street closures are on tap for downtown Washington. The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will welcome African heads of state and government leaders to the nation's capital from Monday, Aug. 4 to Wednesday, Aug. 6. The continent-wide summit is the largest event any U.S. preside Glen Echo Labor Day Art Show Looking For Entries 07/30/2014 03:25pm • The 44th annual Labor Day Art Show at Glen Echo Park is looking for entries. The event typically draws more than 250 artists with works in a wide range of artistic media, including, sculpture, painting, glass, jewelry, photography and furniture. From noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, Sa Indy officials seek new ways to attract fans 07/30/2014 01:39pm • MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles keeps looking for ways to fill seats.He has a full weekend of NASCAR and sports car races leading up to the Brickyard 400. He's kept motorcycles on the summer schedule at Indy and added road races an German federation drops amputee jumper from team 07/30/2014 12:42pm • NESHA STARCEVIC AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Germany excluded an amputee long jumper from its team for the European Athletics Championships on Wednesday, saying the athlete's carbon-fiber prosthesis gives him an unfair advantage.Paralympic champion Markus Rehm won the long jump at the Gov. Haley urges Atlantic Beach to end Bikefest 07/29/2014 02:27pm • BRUCE SMITH Associated Press ATLANTIC BEACH, S.C. (AP) -- Gov. Nikki Haley urged the Atlantic Beach Town Council on Tuesday to end the town's annual biker festival and promised to work to help transform the tiny beachfront community into a family-friendly destination that tourists from across the na In Iraq's Mosul, radicals unleash their vision 07/29/2014 05:04am • VIVIAN SALAMA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of Islam. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 84 UN rights chief: Flight 17 possible war crime 07/29/2014 01:12am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may be a war crime, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Monday.Pillay, the U.N.'s top human rights official, called for a thorough investigation into the violation of international law that Syrian casualties surge as jihadis consolidate 07/28/2014 02:17pm • SAM KIMBALL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- More than 2,000 Syrians -- almost half of them pro-government forces -- have been killed in just over two weeks of fighting in Syria, marking one of the worst death tolls in the country's three-year civil war, opposition activists said Monday.The reports r Olympics get ready, rugby sevens is on the way 07/27/2014 06:35pm • DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- The road to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic debut of rugby sevens took a lively detour on the weekend to the home of Scottish football's Rangers.It even declared a first-time Commonwealth Games champion.Played before nearly 200,000 spectato Despite Clinton: O'Malley in Iowa amid 2016 talk 07/27/2014 09:12am • KEN THOMAS Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Martin O'Malley's latest foray into Iowa began, appropriately, in a place called Clinton.The Maryland governor is filling the void in Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond during the early stages of the 2016 presidential race, campaigning for fellow Demo Harvick grabs yet another pole with big run at IMS 07/26/2014 09:34pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The season-long rivalry between Hendrick Motorsports and Team Penske heads into the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Kevin Harvick will try to crash their party.Harvick, Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski swept the top three spot