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(7 stories) Border rivals prepare for their last shot

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Border rivals prepare for their last shot
Border rivals prepare for their last shot (The Kansas City Star)
It all ends today, or at least that’s what we are left to believe. A rivalry built on blood and stoked by time and tears will reach its conclusion — for the time being, anyway — today at Allen Fieldhouse.Missouri is leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference, and Kansas has made it clear it has little interest in ... (more)

Hot tub installation on campus roof a mystery (Denver Post)
Officials are puzzled over a mysterious hot tub that was installed - and then removed - from the roof of a building on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.

Photo leads Wash. police to bank rob arrest (El Paso Times)
Armed with a good surveillance photo and a little help from the neighbors, police in Spokane, Wash., made an arrest in a downtown bank robbery less than an hour after the crime.

Ohio man given choice of Facebook apology or jail (KBCI CBS 2)
A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his freedom of speech.

Cops in riot gear break up shoe riot (WISH-TV Indianapolis)
More than 100 law enforcement officers in riot gear broke up an out-of-control crowd waiting to buy a new basketball shoe timed to be released during the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando.

Porn played on Best Buy TVs, customers shocked (wtsp)
According to CBS affiliate WSPA, customer Gloria Berg was in the store with her son and his children when the store's 55-inch screen TVs displayed the offending photograph of a man and woman.

I thought YOU had the loot (WANE-TV Fort Wayne)
Spanish police say hooded thieves crashed a van into a courier service warehouse vault and made off with sacks of valuables on Thursday.

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