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Bystander dies after being shot by NYPD undercover officer
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) – New York City police say a bystander has died after he was accidentally shot by a plainclothes officer who also shot an armed suspect three times after an undercover gun buy...
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Rowan County clerk closes office ahead of gay rights protest
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – The Kentucky clerk at the center of a conflict over same-sex marriage closed her office Saturday ahead of a rally protesting her refusal to issue marriage licenses. The protest...
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Oregon hemp farmer says startup going slow
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – One of Oregon’s first hemp farmers says a lack of seed is making it tough to get going. Josephine County Commissioner Cheryl Walker says that fertile seed is expensive and hard...
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Katrina’s wrath and rebuilding marked on 10th anniversary
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Mississippi and Louisiana marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by ringing church bells, laying wreaths and celebrating the resiliency of a region still...
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Teen charged with pushing Texas boy into pond in drowning
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) – An East Texas teenager is accused of pushing his pregnant girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew into a pond so the boy would drown to make room for the unborn child to live at their home....
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Ignacio strengthens into Category 4 hurricane near Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) – The Big Island of Hawaii is bracing for high winds, heavy rain and ocean swells of up to 20 feet as strengthening Hurricane Ignacio approaches the state. Ignacio has grown to a Category...
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Police: NY woman killed infant, lived with body for 3 months
BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) – An upstate New York woman has been arrested on a murder charge after police say she killed her infant child and then lived in an apartment with the baby’s body for three months....
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Police: Mom shot answering front door was likely targeted
RIVERVIEW, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say a Florida mom home with her two children has been shot multiple times after answering her front door. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials say 37-year-old...
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Spa Stunner! American Pharoah loses in Travers to Keen Ice
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) – Triple Crown winner American Pharoah came up short in the $1.6 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, losing to Keen Ice by three-quarters of a length before a sold-out and...
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Sales of unearthed Atari games total more than $100,000
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) – A cache of Atari game cartridges dug up in a New Mexico landfill last year has generated more than $100,000 in sales over the last several months. The April 2014 dig ended...
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In reversal, abundant grain trains available for harvest
STERLING, N.D. (AP) – With a record fall harvest fast approaching, farmers are expecting to get the trains they need to move crops to market. It’s a turnaround from the past two years when elevators...
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Fed Vice Chair Fischer keeps open possibility of Sept. hike
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer is leaving the door open for a rate increase in September. He says the factors that have been keeping inflation below the Fed’s target...
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US businessman arrested in Sierra Leone ‘blood diamond’ case
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) – A legal aid organization says Spanish authorities have arrested a businessman with dual American-Belgian citizenship who is accused of enslavement and pillaging “blood...
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Trump’s deportation idea similar to 1930s mass removals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for mass deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, as well as their American-born children,...
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Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and ice
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he...
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Police investigate motive in ambush of Houston area deputy
HOUSTON (AP) – The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy will be arraigned this week. Online jail records show that 30-year-old Shannon...
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Woman delivers hand grenade to police, prompts evacuation
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – A hand grenade a woman found in her grandfather’s belongings prompted police in Vermont to evacuate their department and surrounding homes after she brought it into the...
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Fan dies after fall from upper deck at Atlanta Braves game
ATLANTA (AP) – The U.S. flag flew at half-staff at Turner Field on Sunday, one day after a fan died following his fall from the upper deck into the lower-level stands during a game between the Atlanta...
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University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A statue of Jefferson Davis has been removed from its place on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin after a failed appeal by a Confederate heritage group. Crews could be...
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Shark takes bite out of surfer’s board in Calif.
MORRO, Calif. (CNN) – Elinor Dempsey says a shark almost took a bite out of her, but chomped on her surfboard instead. Dempsey says she was waiting for a wave off Morro Strand State Beach in...
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