A judge in California will hear arguments Thursday on whether Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit seeking to force the N.C.A.A. to share revenue with student-athletes should be a class action.
Two more apartment complexes near Arizona State University in Tempe have been purchased for a combined $5.58 million, with the goal of transforming them into high-density student housing.
Colliers International brokered the deal between buyers Jay Chernikoff and Michael Christiansen of Renue on Orange, LLC and seller Steve Heimler of California. Renue on Orange plans to take the two apartments and renovate them into student housing, said Trevor Koskovich of Colliers International.
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By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of step" with medical ethics and international norms. Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, saying the Guantanamo force-feeding policy was also out of synch with policies in the civilian federal prisons. ...
By Tim Gaynor and Alex Dobuzinskis PHOENIX/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Arizona wildfire whipped up by strong winds threatened hundreds of homes on Wednesday, even as firefighters were gaining an edge on a California blaze raging near a pristine wilderness, authorities said. More than 500 firefighters were battling the Doce Fire, which has burned through 7,000 acres of chaparral, pine and juniper since Tuesday morning near Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix, the Prescott National Forest said in a statement. ...
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