..., defended the decision, saying that the team prefers that young players “get in a rhythm” playing in the minors for a while rather than make their major-league début in the first game of the season. During his thirteen years in baseball, he said, he has never had a young prospect play on Opening Day.
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MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma - Two people have been found dead in an apartment near the Muskogee city limits, officials say.
The bodies were found in an apartment in the back of a strip club and an adult toy store on Highway 69. The Coco Bongos club entrance is surrounded by yellow crime tape.
Officials told News On 6 that an over-the-road truck driver who lives in another one of the apartments came home from a job on Sunday at about 4:30 p.m. and found the bodies.
An employee at Christie's ...
2 Found Dead In Apartment Attached To Muskogee Strip Club - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
The bodies were found in an apartment in the back of a strip club and an adult toy store on Highway 69. The Coco Bongos club entrance is surrounded by yellow crime tape.
Officials told News On 6 that an over-the-road truck driver who lives in another one of the apartments came home from a job on Sunday at about 4:30 p.m. and found the bodies.
An employee at Christie's ...
2 Found Dead In Apartment Attached To Muskogee Strip Club - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
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...ith willfully violating safety rules in the death of 62-year-old Jose Melena, who was cooked to death inside an industrial oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant, the Los Angeles Times reports. Prosecutors say that workers unaware Melena was making repairs inside the pressurized steam cooker loaded 12,000 pounds of tuna into it and turned it on, CBS Los Angeles reports. Melena cooked to death and a colleague discovered his charred remains.
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As Riots Follow Freddie Gray's Death in Baltimore, Calls for Calm Ring Hollow - The Atlantic
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