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NBA basketball team representatives sit onstage at the start of the NBA draft lottery, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Cavaliers win NBA draft lottery again

What's not to like? Being in the lottery every year. Nick Gilbert expects the Cleveland Cavaliers are through with it, and if so he sent them out a winner again. The Cavaliers and their owner's son beat the odds for the second time in three years, winning the lottery Tuesday ...

Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Chris Perez wipes sweat from his forehead after giving up a solo home run to Seattle Mariners' Raul Ibanez in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Cleveland. The Indians won 5-4. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Indians' Perez deletes Twitter account

Indians closer Chris Perez deactivated his Twitter account following two rough outings, and after receiving a slew of negative comments. Perez took down (at)chrisperez54 on Monday, not long after the two-time All-Star gave up a ninth-inning home run to Seattle's Endy Chavez. It was the second straight poor performance by ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio House of Representatives shows Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor. Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday. Taylor is a vocal critic of the federal health care law. (AP Photo/Ohio House of Representatives, file)

APNewsBreak: Feds to run high-risk plan in Ohio

Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday. A similar scenario is playing out in 17 other states, creating uncertainty for tens of ...

Bernie Brunner, of Springfield, Pa., holds a flag during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of their groups, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Philadelphia.  The Internal Revenue Service gave extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Protesters rally over IRS' tea party scrutiny

Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups. A crowd packed the sidewalks in front of and across the street from a Cincinnati federal building housing ...

Ohio project examines premature births

The March of Dimes is spending $10 million in Ohio for collaborative research into the problem of babies being born prematurely. The project will draw on the expertise of hospitals in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati to try to explain why babies are born too soon and to find ways to ...

JPMorgan Chase in Ohio sees tax credit approval

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is among several companies that have received approval for job creation tax credits in Ohio. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved assistance for 10 projects expected to create more than 1,100 jobs and retain more than 21,000 positions statewide. The tax credit body reviewed ...

Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Johnny Cueto throwss during the first inning of the baseball game against the New York Mets at Citi Field Monday, May 20, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bruce homers to back Cueto in Reds' win over Mets

Things weren't going well for Johnny Cueto in his return from the disabled list, so he had a conversation — with himself. That's all it took. Cueto responded to the pep talk by striking out six of his last seven batters, then Jay Bruce helped make him a winner by ...

FILE - In this May 15, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named ...

AP source: Treasury told WH of IRS disclosure plan

A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups. The official said Monday that Treasury told the White House in late April about a possible speech in which IRS official Lois Lerner would make ...

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie speaks at the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems in Honolulu on Monday, May 20, 2013. Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)

Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise. Roughly ...

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