FIGHTING FOR LA CLIPPERS

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A couple of boxing superstars are reportedly interested in purchasing Los Angeles Clippers.

Just hours following an announcement issued by NBA commissioner Adam Silver to ban owner Donald Sterling for life, he said he would urge league owners to force Sterling to sell the team.

De La Hoya and Mayweather, have both told reporters they are serious about making a bid for the LA Clippers.

1010 WINS?

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It's not likely to win final approval, but while Democrats are pushing to increase the federal minimum wage, this appears to be another bill getting buried in Congress. However, this hot button issue, may bring voters to the polls in November.

US Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa has introduced legislation boosting the current $7.25 hourly minimum in three steps until it reaches $10.10 in 2016. His minimum wage bill is widely expected to be voted by the Senate.

FOUL MOUTHED FAT CAT?

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The NBA has decided to ban Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racial comments.

Sponsors dropped their advertising sponsorships with the LA's Clippers, while more and more superstar basketball players line up to condemn Donald Sterling and wanted him to step aside.

The NAACP has rescinded their previous plans to award him for his past financial support following allegations that LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling apparently made racial comments in a controversy that has drawn international scorn, and many question his future with that major league franchise.

KILLER TORNADOES

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Over thirty twisters have bee reported over the past several hours in our nations middle region.

Just a few years ago a tornado devastated the Little Rock area, and now once again the local residents unfortunately found themselves huddling in the dark wondering how they would rebuild after the most powerful tornado yet this year carved a path through their city and others nearby, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma.

THEY'RE BACK TO REPRESENT US?

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The US House of Representative and US Senate members are expected back to work on Monday following a couple of weeks worth of non deserved vacation, and they'll do more of what these politicians have been doing, a whole lot of nothing the people want them to do.

Dead on arrival are important issues like immigration, a tax overhaul, stiffer gun laws, increasing the minimum wage, bringing back unemployment benefits and money for the Highway Trust Fund to keep road and bridge construction.

SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK

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This annual national observance focuses on preparation, communications and response during dangerous weather events

The national effort coincides with the National Weather Service’s communications exercise that provides governmental, private and volunteer partners the opportunity to practice skills usually applied under stress, and provides public safety and preparedness officials, broadcast media and citizens the opportunity to test methods of receiving emergency weather messages and plans for responding to a weather emergency.

THIS WEEK IN HER AND HISTORY

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This Week in History, Apr 27 - May 3

Apr 27, 4977 B.C.
Universe is created, according to Kepler. On this day in 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets. Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Germany. As a university student, he studied the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' theories of planetary ordering. Copernicus (1473-1543) believed that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system, a theory that contradicted the prevailing view of the era that the sun revolved around the earth.

Apr 28, 1945
Benito Mussolini executed. On this day in 1945, "Il Duce," Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country.

SANTIFICOS

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The streets of Rome all around the Vatican were filled wall to wall for blocks with the faithful, as the greatest moment in holy history, while Pope Francis canonized two saintly predecessors hailing them as models for the faithful with their goodness and heroic virtues.