Ravens say TE Pitta out for year, sign Shiancoe

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) ? Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta is lost for the season after undergoing hip surgery, a major blow to the team's bid to repeat as Super Bowl champions.

Pitta was hurt Saturday, the third day of training camp, when he collided with safety James Ihedigbo in the back of the end zone while going for a pass from Joe Flacco.

He was operated on Saturday night.

"Dennis out for the year," coach John Harbaugh said Sunday. "It's the type of thing that he's not going to be able to come back from this year. There's enough damage in there."

Harbaugh said Baltimore won't know the full extent of Pitta's injury until getting the results of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam. But this much is certain: Pitta won't be part of the team's effort to win back-to-back titles.

Pitta was one of the centerpieces of the Ravens' offense during their run to a Super Bowl championship last season, and he was expected to take on an even bigger role this season after Baltimore traded top wide receiver Anquan Boldin during the spring.

The 28-year old Pitta, a fourth-round pick of the Ravens in 2010, had 61 catches last year, second on the team behind only Boldin. His seven touchdowns ranked second among receivers behind Torrey Smith.

Pitta also had 14 catches for 163 yards and three touchdowns in Baltimore's four playoff games, including four catches for 26 yards in the Ravens' 34-31 Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers.

Visanthe Shiancoe, a 33-year-old free agent, played in only four games last season with New England. But he played in all 16 games in each of the previous nine seasons ? the first four with the New York Giants and the next five with Minnesota.

He has 243 career catches for 2,677 yards and 27 touchdowns.

Shiancoe joined the team for practice Sunday and work Boldin's old number, 81.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ravens-te-pitta-sign-shiancoe-221402679.html

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Weiner Spent $45,000 To Private Eyes To Investigate His Own Lie That His Twitter Account Had Been Hacked

By Alan with comments July 28, 2013 12:36

The money came out of campaign funds.

Weiner paid T&M Protection Services with his campaign donors? funds and ordered the investigators to track down the ?hackers? who ?broke into his Twitter account? and sent lewd photos.

Weiner?s story about his account being hacked was, of course, a lie and he knew it at the time. For a week and a half, he maintained that he did not send the suggestive pictures posted to his Twitter account in May 2011?

The New York Daily News reports that Weiner hired the private investigators in an attempt to cover his tracks ? spending $43,100 from his campaign warchest on a wild goose chase?

?They?ll be looking into whether someone had my password,? he explained to CNN at the time.

He insisted that the investigators would get to the bottom of the matter and figure out who had attempted to besmirch Weiner?s good name.

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US says Israeli-Palestinian talks to start Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume long-stalled direct peace talks on Monday following six months of frenetic shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry.

The State Department announced Sunday that the two sides had accepted invitations from Kerry to come to Washington "to formally resume direct final status negotiations." In a statement, department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the initial meetings would begin Monday evening and continue Tuesday.

She said Kerry had called both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday and said they agreed that the talks would "serve as an opportunity to develop a procedural work plan for how the parties can proceed with the negotiations in the coming months."

"Both leaders have demonstrated a willingness to make difficult decisions that have been instrumental in getting to this point," Kerry said in the statement. "We are grateful for their leadership."

Kerry had announced on July 19 in Amman, Jordan, that negotiators from the two sides would be coming to Washington in a "week or so" after having agreed on a basis for resuming negotiations after a five-year break. However, he warned that the agreement was still being formalized.

Sunday's carefully worded statement offered no details of the framework for the resumption of the talks that broke down five years ago, although both sides' positions are well known.

The statement was released shortly after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to release 104 long-term Palestinian prisoners convicted of deadly attacks, meeting a longstanding Palestinian demand.

Associated Press

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Manager of defunct hedge fund pleads guilty to fraud

By Terry Baynes

(Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager pleaded guilty on Friday to defrauding investors in a $12.6 million scheme, more than five years after the fund collapsed under the weight of failed real estate loans.

Lloyd Barriger, who operated Gaffken & Barriger, a Monticello, New York-based investment fund, pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to charges of securities fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors accused Barriger of bilking more than 70 investors from July 2006 to March 2008 by soliciting millions of dollars for a fund he falsely presented as a safe and liquid investment. He continued to promise investors an 8 percent return, even as the fund defaulted on a $20 million line of credit and held an increasingly delinquent portfolio, according to an indictment filed in February.

"Once again, belief in hedge funds by hopeful investors proved to be sadly misplaced," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "In this case, the perpetrator was not in a sleek Manhattan building but rather in Sullivan County."

Barriger's lawyer, federal defender Mark Gombiner, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Barriger, 57, of Damascus, Pennsylvania, faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, who is overseeing the case, scheduled a sentencing hearing for November 15.

In addition to a prison term, federal prosecutors will seek at least $12.6 million in forfeited assets, representing the proceeds of the charged crimes, the indictment said.

The case is USA v. Barriger, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 11-416.

(Reporting By Terry Baynes in New York; Editing by Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/manager-defunct-hedge-fund-pleads-guilty-fraud-002525003.html

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Golf charity Saturday to benefit military families

ANCHORAGE - This weekend a local company is teaming up with a national charity to help veteran and active military families here in Alaska.

Thirty-four teams of four golfers each will be teeing off early Saturday to raise funds for the nonprofit Soldiers and Families First.

The money is used to help military families by covering rent or other bills, which can be hard when a loved one deployed.

But it?s not just about the money.

?It doesn't matter -- I mean even if you want to call and talk to us, we?ll do that too? and that?s free. It?s just that we have a passion to make sure veterans and their families are getting taken care of,? said David Craig of Soldiers and Families First.

If you want to help -- or you are in need of some help, click here for the organization?s website.

Source: http://www.ktva.com/news/local/Golf-charity-Saturday-to-benefit-military-families-217181011.html

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NBA star's abortion contract uncovered

(The Examiner) J.J. Redick signed an abortion contract with model Vanessa Lopez who used to be his girlfriend. The Orlando Sentinel reports on July 23 that the NBA star had an unusual contract with Lopez. The couple eventually ended their relationship.

The Los Angeles Clippers player dated Vanessa Lopez, but they signed an abortion contract after the model claimed Redick was the father of the child she was expecting. The original document reveals J.J. Redick did not believe the paternity claims. However, the contract asked Lopez to get an abortion in exchange for a year of dating Redick. If the NBA player failed to maintain a relationship with the former model for a year, then he would pay her $25,000.

Source: http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/nba-stars-abortion-contract-uncovered/

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