Judge tosses out some evidence in Aaron Hernandez case
Updated 10:35 pm, Tuesday, August 26, 2014
A judge on Tuesday granted a request by former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez to suppress evidence from two cellphones and three iPads taken from his home in a search during a 2013 murder investigation.
Bristol County, Mass., Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh ruled that police were not entitled to take those items because they didn't specifically list them in a search warrant for Hernandez's North Attleborough home on June 18, 2013.
The items were seized during an investigation into the killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. Hernandez is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Lloyd, whose body was found in an industrial park about a half-mile from Hernandez's home. Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
Hernandez is charged separately in the killings of two men in Boston in 2012 after a brief encounter at a nightclub. He has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
Labor Day change for NASCAR
Darlington Raceway will return to its traditional Labor Day weekend date next season in one of the few significant changes to NASCAR's 2015 Sprint Cup Series schedule.
To get the South Carolina track back to Labor Day weekend after an 11-year absence, Atlanta Motor Speedway gave up the date. Atlanta now goes to the second race of the season March 1.
Darlington will be run on Sept. 6, according to the schedule released Tuesday.
The season will still open with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 22.
NASCAR's annual stop at Sonoma Raceway will be June 28.
One of the bigger changes came to Daytona's second race date, traditionally held on the Saturday night of the July Fourth weekend.
That race will now be on Sunday, July 5. That change is for 2015 only, though, as track President Joie Chitwood said the date would return to Saturday in 2016.
WNBA: Elena Delle Donne scored 17 of her 34 points in the fourth quarter, including the winning jumper with 8.4 seconds left, as the Chicago Sky rallied from 20 points down to beat the host Atlanta Dream to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
Shoni Schimmel's jumper put the Dream up 80-77 with 29 seconds left, but Delle Donne made two jumpers in the last 24 seconds.
Olympics: Berlin and Hamburg have announced their intention to bid for the Olympics in 2024 or 2028.
Lawmakers in both cities approved plans to present a bid to the German Olympic Committee.
The committee will decide Dec. 6 whether to bid for the Olympics. The Germans also have to decide whether they will bid for the 2024 Games or the 2028 Olympics.
Hamburg wanted to bid for the games in 2012 but lost the internal competition to Leipzig, which was then defeated as the games went to London. Berlin lost a bid for the 2000 Olympics.
-- Almost two years before the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first competitors have qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Games.
The same three teams took the medals at the 2012 London Olympics.