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UPDATED: Former Moses Lake doctor arrested after shootout with U.S. Marshals in Florida
STUART, Fla. — Former Moses Lake surgeon Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, has been arrested in Florida after an altercati…
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2 men die in head-on crash after 1 strikes large pig in road
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — Two men died from injuries they suffered when their vehicles collided head-on after one of them struck a large pig in northern Indiana, a sheriff said.
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Study: 1 to 2 million tons of US plastic trash go astray
More than a million tons a year of America's plastic trash isn't ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, accor…
El Salvador landslide kills 6; 35 missing
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least six people were killed and 35 were missing after a landslide during torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defense officials said Friday.
Mississippi city won't lose lights after threat over debt
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An entire city in Mississippi that was
Amid civil unrest, National Guard arrives in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Pennsylvania National Guard arrived in Philadelphia on Friday following days of protests, store break-ins and ATM thefts after a Black man holding a knife was shot at 14 times by police, kil…
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'Gruesome' crash kills 21, mostly young children, in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president is expressing sadness over a “gruesome vehicle accident” in which 21 people, most of them young school children, were killed.
UK thief who sold stolen penguins on Facebook sent to prison
LONDON (AP) — A former birdkeeper who stole a pair of penguins from a British zoo and sold them on Facebook was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison.