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The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan.

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KENTUCKY - UPCOMING - SPORTS

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COLLEGE SPORTS STATES

DESCRIPTION: Louisiana is poised to hike taxes on sports betting to pump more than $24 million into athletic departments at the state’s most prominent public universities. Legislation pending before Gov. Jeff Landry would make Louisiana the first to funnel more money to college sports since a landmark settlement with the NCAA cleared the way for schools to directly pay athletes. But more seem almost certain to follow with their own, creative new ways to gain a home-state advantage — or at least keep pace — in the rapidly evolving, highly competitive field of college sports.

UPCOMING: By 06/17/2025 01:01 a.m. EDT, ('Photo', 'DigitalPlans', 'Text')

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NORTH CAROLINA - UPCOMING - SPORTS

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COLLEGE SPORTS STATES

DESCRIPTION: Louisiana is poised to hike taxes on sports betting to pump more than $24 million into athletic departments at the state’s most prominent public universities. Legislation pending before Gov. Jeff Landry would make Louisiana the first to funnel more money to college sports since a landmark settlement with the NCAA cleared the way for schools to directly pay athletes. But more seem almost certain to follow with their own, creative new ways to gain a home-state advantage — or at least keep pace — in the rapidly evolving, highly competitive field of college sports.

UPCOMING: By 06/17/2025 01:01 a.m. EDT, ('Photo', 'DigitalPlans', 'Text')

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SOUTH CAROLINA - UPCOMING - NEWS

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MOTHER EMANUEL AME 10 YEARS

DESCRIPTION: Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina holds a service marking 10 years since a mass shooting during a Bible study.

UPCOMING: By 06/17/2025 01:00 p.m. EDT, ('Photo', 'LiveVideo', 'Video', 'Text')

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TENNESSEE - UPCOMING - NEWS

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IMMIGRATION-NEW DETENTION CENTERS

FORMATS: ('Photo', 'Video', 'DigitalPlans', 'Text')

    1. WITH: ICE-NEW DETENTION CENTERS

      2. DESCRIPTION: No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to the Republican Trump administration’s push for more space to hold immigrants for deportation.

      3. SENT: By 06/16/2025 06:00 a.m. CDT

    4. WITH: ICE-NEW DETENTION CENTERS-LOCALIZE IT

      5. DESCRIPTION: LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Private prisons operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts. 1,400 words.

      6. UPCOMING: By 06/16/2025 06:00 a.m. CDT

    7. WITH: ICE-NEW DETENTION CENTERS-TAKEAWAYS

      8. DESCRIPTION: LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Private prisons operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts. About 1,000 words, with Mainbar, Localize It, photos, video.

      9. UPCOMING: By 06/16/2025 06:00 a.m. CDT

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US DEATH PENALTY-TENNESSEE

DESCRIPTION: A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was intellectually disabled and could not be executed for two 1987 killings, the state Supreme Court said Monday.

UPCOMING: By 06/16/2025 04:58 p.m. CDT, ('Photo', 'Text')

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WEST VIRGINIA - UPCOMING - NEWS

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ABORTION

DESCRIPTION: The abortion funding system across the country is battered three years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enforce bans. An initial surge of donations has subsided, scores of clinics have closed, advocates fear that federal policy will result in more shutting down.

UPCOMING: By 06/17/2025 10:00 a.m. EDT, ('Photo', 'DigitalPlans', 'Text')

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