Julio Jones scorches Eagles as Falcons win Dan Quinn's debut

ATLANTA (AP) — In his first game with that big contract, Julio Jones was worth every penny. Jones hauled in nine passes for 141 yards, including a pair of touchdowns, and the Atlanta Falcons came back after squandering a 17-point halftime lead to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 26-24 Monday night in the coaching debut of Dan Quinn. “You just trust the preparation, let it rip and have fun,” Quinn said. “That’s what we did.” He sure enjoyed...

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Take This Job And Shove It' author owes IRS $466

CINCINNATI — Country music singer-songwriterDavid Allan Coe pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Cincinnati to income tax evasion and owes the IRS more than $466,000, officials said. Coe, 76, who wrote the song, Take This Job And Shove It, has owed the Internal Revenue Service for outstanding taxes since at least 1993, court documents say. Between 2008 and 2013, officials said, he either failed to file...

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VF all-male comedy cover sparks outrage

Talk about a stark image. Vanity Fair released its October 2015 feature on the titans of late-night television, and something was missing: a single woman. Instead, there sat a boys' club of Stephen Colbert,Conan O'Brien, Trevor Noah, James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Larry Wilmore, Jimmy Fallon and Bill Maher. The headline the magazine chose was "Why Late-Night Television Is...

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Bond denied for S.C. cop charged with murder in black man's death

A former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the April shooting an unarmed black man in the back will remain jailed, according to a court order. Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, 33, has been denied bond. He is charged with killing Walter Scott, 50, following an April traffic stop for a broken taillight. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman issued an order Monday afternoon saying that...

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REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath dies

Reo Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath has died, the band announced on its website andFacebook page Sunday. He was 65. Band frontman Kevin Cronin said in a message that "my longtime friend and collaborator Gary Richrath passed away earlier (Sunday)." He did not disclose a cause of death. "I feel so sad," Cronin wrote. "Gary was both a unique guitarist and songwriter, and the embodiment of the tough guy with a...

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For EU, the strains of a humanitarian crisis

WASHINGTON — European Union interior ministers holding an emergency meeting in Brussels agreed Monday to resettle an initial group of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the EU ambassador to the United States says. But they'll need more time to resolve conflicts over a proposal to deal with 120,000 more and then with a flood of migrants that have followed. "The war in Syria has created the greatest humanitarian tragedy probably of our generation,"...

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Donald Trump's Great Wall — it didn't work for the Ming Dynasty either

Donald Trump is vowing to build a wall along the U.S. Southern border with Mexico, likening it to the Great Wall of China and even dubbing his proposed border barrier "The Great Wall of Trump." It's a key part of a tough-on-immigration stance that has powered him to front-runner status in Republican polls and will likely be touted again by the billionaire real estate developer at Wednesday's debate. Yet, just as the Ming Dynasty’s 13,000-mile...

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