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Before, after photos show magnitude of Dorian destruction in Bahamas
ABACO, Bahamas — At least 30 people died in the Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian passed over, and the number could be “significantly higher,” Bahamian health minister Duane Sands told The Associated Press in a telephone interview late Thursday. The victims are from Abaco and Grand Bahama islands and include some...
Ohio TV meteorologist faces child pornography charges
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A longtime Columbus television meteorologist arrested for possessing child pornography has made his first court appearance. A Franklin County Municipal Court judge set bond Friday for 60-year-old Mike Davis at $50,000 with conditions that he can’t have internet access or unsupervised contact with minors and must surrender...
Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow
MEXICO CITY — Mexico says the number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has fallen by 56% since an agreement with U.S. officials three months ago to reduce the flow. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard declared the measures a success Friday. He also said the deployment of the National Guard...
U.S. added 130,000 jobs in August amid trade war
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in August, a sign that hiring has slowed but remains durable amid economic weakness and President Donald Trump’s trade war with China. The job gain was boosted by the temporary hiring of 25,000 government workers for the 2020 Census. Excluding all government hiring,...
Man pleads guilty for trying to access Trump’s tax returns
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man behind an attempt to hack the IRS to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns has pleaded guilty. Andrew Harris pleaded guilty Thursday to two computer fraud counts in federal court. The 23-year-old faces up to two years in prison and $200,000 fine. Harris and 22-year-old...
Hurricane Dorian comes ashore at North Carolina’s Outer Banks
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Dorian has come ashore at Cape Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, marking its first U.S. landfall since it slammed into the Bahamas days ago. Dorian sideswiped most of the Southeast seaboard from Florida to Carolinas in recent days before its eye made landfall Friday morning....
Dorian grazes Carolina coast, aims for Outer Banks
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hurricane Dorian sideswiped the Carolinas with shrieking winds, tornadoes and sideways rain Thursday as it closed in for a possible direct hit on the dangerously exposed Outer Banks. At least four deaths in the Southeast were blamed on the storm. Twisters spun off by Dorian peeled away...
U.S. investigators eye possible causes of California boat fire
LOS ANGELES — U.S. investigators on Thursday were examining potential ignition sources of a deadly fire on a scuba diving boat, including electronics aboard the vessel where 34 people were killed off the coast of Southern California. Investigators know photography equipment, batteries and other electronics were stored and plugged in...
Michigan State faces record federal fine in Nassar sexual abuse scandal
Federal regulators Thursday slapped Michigan State University with a $4.5 million fine stemming from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. The fine is the largest on record against a university charged with failure to protect students from sexual abuse. The largest fine prior to this was $2.4 million the U.S....
Iran poised for faster centrifuges as nuclear deal collapses
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran was poised Thursday to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster as the 2015 nuclear deal unravels further and a last-minute French proposal offering a $15 billion line of credit to compensate Iran for not being able to sell its crude oil abroad...
Hurricane Dorian rakes Carolinas as it moves up the coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses as it pushed northward toward the dangerously exposed Outer Banks. Leaving at least 20 people dead in its wake...
Maryland police: Man who threatened co-workers had gun stash
PASADENA, Md. — Authorities in Maryland say they found an arsenal of nearly 150 guns in the home of a man whose colleagues said he threatened to shoot them at work. News outlets report Anne Arundel County police charged Mark Edward Rutkowski on Tuesday with one count of making a...
Couple who spent $450 for an iPhone instead got 2 bars of soap
A couple who saved money to buy their 14-year-old daughter an iPhone were left with a dud. And suds. Fox 2 Detroit reported the Michigan couple had bought an iPhone for $450 on the Letgo app and scheduled to meet the 18-year-old seller. At the exchange in the parking lot...
All soda — even diet — linked to risk of early death, study says
In researchers’ continuing mission to ruin everything fun, a new expansive study shows that sodas — even diet ones — could be deadly. And it’s not like the study was quick and dirty. Published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers looked at more than 450,000 people in 10 European...
Dorian creeps up U.S. coast; near-record storm surge fearedVideo
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A weakened but still deadly Hurricane Dorian crept up the Southeastern seaboard Wednesday, and millions were ordered to evacuate as forecasters said near-record levels of seawater and rain could swamp the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas. The storm, which ravaged the Bahamas with more than a...
Tampa apartment complex was built atop segregation-era graveyard
Residents of Tampa’s Robles Park Village were brought to tears when they learned that their homes were built on the site of an all-black cemetery that from the segregation era. The Tampa Bay Times reported that ground-penetrating radar has detected at least 120 coffins of the long-lost Zion Cemetery below...
Florida man buys, sends 100 generators to Bahamas
If society has you thinking otherwise, just remember: “There are still good people left in the world!” Jacksonville, Fla., resident Alec Sprague wrote that in a Facebook post about witnessing an extremely generous and much needed act of kindness while visiting his local Costco store. Sprague said that while he...
California becomes first state to ban fur trapping
SACRAMENTO — California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the American West to international trade. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he had signed a bill into law making it illegal to...
Investigation to determine if charges filed in California boat fire
LOS ANGELES — The captain and crew who leapt from a burning dive boat off Southern California saved themselves as 34 people perished below deck. Whether their escape from the Conception before dawn Monday was the only viable option, an act of cowardice or even a crime has yet to...
Ohio students accused of serving crepes tainted with body fluids face charges
POWELL, Ohio — Seven Ohio middle school students accused of being involved in serving teachers crepes tainted with bodily fluids face juvenile felony charges. The Columbus Dispatch reports several teachers at Olentangy Hyatts Middle School in Powell ate crepes reportedly laced with semen and urine during a cooking class May...
Trump offers altered hurricane chart, appearing to double down on ‘Alabama’ warningVideo
President Trump presented a doctored Hurricane Dorian map to possibly justify the fact he had warned that the state of Alabama was in direct path of the storm. The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward...
Woman sexually assaulted at Stanford reveals her identityVideo
SAN FRANCISCO — The woman who read a searing statement at the sentencing of the college swimmer who sexually assaulted her at Stanford University— causing a public outcry that led to the judge in the case being recalled— has revealed her identity. For years, Chanel Miller was known in legal...
Feds: Man sold rapper Mac Miller drugs before overdose death
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sold counterfeit opioid pills to Mac Miller two days before the rapper died of an overdose. A Drug Enforcement Agency affidavit unsealed after the arrest of Cameron James Pettit alleges that Miller asked him for oxycodone...
Roller coaster stolen from Ohio fair
Crime certainly has its ups and downs. And a recent theft in Ohio just goes to prove it. Police in Marysville, Ohio, were called to investigate the theft of a roller coaster from the Union County Fairgrounds. The stolen ride — the Go-Gator — is a kiddie coaster, described as...
Woman pecked to death by her own rooster
A woman in Australia was killed in a freak rooster attack. And experts say it should be a warning to us all. As published in the journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, a 76-year-old Australian woman was gathering eggs on her rural property when her own rooster attacked her, pecking...
