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Gas prices climb across WA through April
MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…
US Forecast
US Forecast for Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Quarantine requirements may delay return to in-person school
Shannon Silver had planned to take her family on a trip from her home in Connecticut to visit relatives in Ohio just before the start of the school year for her two children.
5 people wounded in shooting at flea market in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — At least five people were wounded, including one critically, in a shooting at a flea market in San Antonio on Sunday, police officials said.
The Nation's Weather
The Nation's Weather for Tuesday, August 18, 2020
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
Biden's convention: Left and Not-So-Left unite against Trump
Lottery State-by-State-All
The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Monday:
Lightning sparks new wildfires across California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge wildfire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes nort…
Tuesday Spotlight, ADVISORY
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Somalia forces end rebel siege of Mogadishu hotel; 15 killed
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's security forces on Sunday ended a nearly five-hour siege by Islamic extremists at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital, said police and a government spokesman.
Farmers pay Arizona city official with goat for outside job
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona city official making $107,000 a year resigned after an investigation found he used city workers for an outside job involving an attempt to secure irrigation water for farmers who paid him …
California's Golden State Killer faces life prison sentence
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a former police officer, faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 13 rape-related charges and 13 murder counts stemming from crim…
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Monday, August 17, 2020
Chief: Protester kicks at biker during Sturgis rally
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — A protester was arrested after kicking at a biker during the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in western South Dakota, the police chief said Sunday.
States wrestle with playing high school football amid COVID
THRALL, Texas (AP) — As heat waves rose from the crackling grass next to a cotton field that stretched far into the distance, Rick Porter watched his young football players struggle through a preseason practice.
Lockdown deaths in India ignite debate on police brutality
NEW DELHI (AP) — For two and a half minutes the popular Indian radio DJ described in graphic detail what she said was the torture and killing of a father and son in police custody.