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Owners reject Sacramento Kings’ move to Seattle

NBA Commissioner David Stern takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following an NBA Board of Governors meeting Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Dallas. NBA owners voted Wednesday to reject the Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle, the latest in a long line of cities that have tried to land the franchise.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

DALLAS (AP) — Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson flashed a few smiles when his bid to save the city’s NBA franchise finally succeeded. Just not too many.

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NBA owners reject Sacramento Kings move to Seattle

NBA Commissioner David Stern takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following an NBA Board of Governors meeting Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Dallas. NBA owners voted Wednesday to reject the Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle, the latest in a long line of cities that have tried to land the franchise.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

DALLAS (AP) — The Kings are staying in Sacramento, and Seattle will have to wait for another NBA franchise.

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Family drama adds intrigue to Ill. governor’s race

In this March 13, 2013 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn  speaks on concealed carry in Springfield, Ill. Quinn may face two Democrats from politically powerful Illinois familes in the race for governor in 2014. Both Williams Daley, the former White House chief of staff and son of the famous big-city mayor, and Lisa Madigan, the popular attorney general whose father has controlled the state capitol for more than a quarter century, are considering a primary challenge to Quinn. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Politics has long been a family business in Illinois, a place where who you know — and who you’re related to — matters more than most. But the family drama shaping up around the next governor’s race adds a new layer of intrigue in a Capitol already grappling with huge financial problems.

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Russians attempt to topple Google in Vietnam

A Vietnamese man uses a laptop to go online by a 3G device inserted into a USB pot at a cafe in Ha Noi, Viet Nam on Wednesday, May 14, 2013. Close to a third of Vietnam’s 90 million people are online and men and women browsing phones and tablets are ubiquitous in the cafes of its towns and cities. The country’s potential for growth, young population and good Internet infrastructure have made it an attractive destination for regional and international investors and startups in content provision, e-payment and other services. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen).

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That’s not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also contend with a jittery, authoritarian government seeking to clamp down on freedom of expression online.

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Texas firefighters focused concern on toxic gases

In this April 18, 2013 file photo, smoke rises near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, the night before. Four weeks after the explosion, investigators have yet to announce what prompted the fire and touched off the massive explosion that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

WEST, Texas (AP) — When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on tanks of chemicals, hoping to prevent a catastrophe.

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