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Police: Remains in store were those of man missing since ’09
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Authorities say the remains of a western Iowa man who was reported missing in 2009 were found this year inside a closed supermarket where he’d worked. The Council Bluffs Police Department said in a news release Monday that the man’s been identified through DNA analysis as...
Lottery players would get refunds under $4.3M settlement
DES MOINES, Iowa — Thousands of lottery players who bought tickets for drawings that were rigged by an insider could be eligible for refunds under a tentative $4.3 million legal settlement. A judge still must approve the deal from lawyers for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit and the Multi-State Lottery...
Mother: Family will sue cruise company over toddler’s death
INDIANAPOLIS — The mother of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico says there are “a million things” the cruise company could have done to prevent her death. Kimberley Wiegand told NBC’s “Today” show Monday that her...
Firefighters battle wildfire in Portugal, 32 people hurt
COLOS, Portugal — More than 1,000 firefighters and 14 water-dropping aircraft battled a major wildfire Monday amid scorching temperatures in Portugal, where forest blazes wreak destruction every summer. As temperatures reached almost 104 degrees in the afternoon, and a wind blew up, the blaze that had been largely contained overnight...
Stevens praised as ‘brilliant man’ at Supreme Court ceremony
WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was remembered as a “brilliant man” with a “deep devotion to the rule of law” during a ceremony Monday at the court where he served for nearly 35 years. The 99-year-old Stevens died last week after suffering a stroke. Justice Elena...
Iran says it arrested 17 Iranians allegedly recruited by CIA
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran said Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some of them have already been sentenced to death. The arrests took place over the past months, and...
Louisiana officer suggested U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot
GRETNA, La. — A Louisiana police officer posted a comment on his Facebook page calling U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “vile idiot” and suggesting that she be shot. Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson said Friday that his officer’s post was “disturbing,” but he doesn’t believe it constitutes an actual threat....
Woman billed $100 for spilling Skittles in back seat of Uber
Next time you grab an Uber, you might want to make sure you don’t leave anything behind. Especially if the car’s owner has to clean it up. Days after her ride, a woman in England got a bill from the ride-sharing company for 80 pounds — aka $100 — to...
NYC mayor calls for probe as many wait for power in the heat
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday of power outages that came at the end of this weekend’s oppressive heat, saying he no longer trusts utility Con Edison after it decided to turn off power to thousands of customers. Around 30,000 customers in Brooklyn were...
House fire devours Baptist church in Savannah, Ga.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A house fire spread to a house of worship next door, all but destroying the First Metropolitan Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia. Savannah Fire Rescue firefighters responding to a two-story house fire late Sunday found the flames had already spread to the First Metropolitan Baptist Church and...
A new species of shark has been discovered, and it glows
A group of researchers has discovered a new species of pocket shark, which was caught in the Gulf of Mexico nearly a decade ago. The shark is only 5.5 inches long and has been identified as the American Pocket Shark, based on its similarities to a specimen captured in the...
Authorities: 8 hurt by lightning at Florida Gulf Coast beach
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. — Authorities say a lightning strike at a Gulf Coast beach in Florida has left eight people hurt, one of them critically. Clearwater Deputy Fire Chief Marvin Pettingill told local media outlets that the lightning strike occurred at Clearwater Beach after midday Sunday after lifeguards had left...
Could coastal mansions become eligible for disaster aid?
OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — On an exclusive Connecticut peninsula, where signs warn outsiders to stay off private roads, eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards along the Long Island Sound are poised to become eligible for taxpayer-funded disaster aid. That’s despite the fact that the Fenwick neighborhood of Old Saybrook is...
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló will not seek re-election, leaves his party
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party. Protesters said they were not...
1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87
LOS ANGELES — Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern California, his daughter said. Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly...
Great white shark leaps from water to snatch fish off lineVideo
ORLEANS, Mass. — A family fishing in Cape Cod Bay had an up close and personal encounter with a great white shark that leaped out of the water to snatch a fish they had caught right off the line. Doug Nelson, of Franklin, who caught the leaping shark on video...
U.S. hotels caught up in fight over housing detained migrants
DETROIT — There’s a new target in the clash over immigration: hotels. Advocacy groups and unions are pressuring Marriott, MGM and others not to house migrants who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. For decades, the U.S. government has occasionally detained migrants in hotels, and Acting ICE...
Tennessee banker wins annual Hemingway Look-Alike contest
KEY WEST, Fla.— Persistence paid off for a retired Tennessee banker who won the weekend’s Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his eighth try. Joe Maxey, 68, of Cedar Hill, triumphed during the three-round contest that concluded Saturday night at Key West’s Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a frequent hangout for Nobel Prize-winning author...
Feeling blue? Oregon students can take ‘mental health days’
SALEM, Oregon — Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. But...
ESPN reasserts political talk policy after attack on TrumpVideo
NEW YORK — ESPN is making sure that its employees know there is no change in the network’s policy to avoid talking about politics unless it intersects with sports after radio talk show host Dan Le Batard criticized President Donald Trump and his recent racist comments and ESPN itself on...
Hong Kong police launch tear gas in latest mass protest
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police launched tear gas at protesters Sunday after a massive pro-democracy march continued late into the evening. The action was the latest confrontation between police and demonstrators who have taken to the streets for over a month to protest a proposed extradition bill and call...
Miss Michigan stripped of crown over ‘offensive’ tweets
Just four days into her reign as Miss Michigan, Kathy Zhu was stripped of her title over her offensive social media tweets. Zhu, 20, got the crown June 14, but by Thursday she was out. This is insane. @MissWorldLtd Beauty Queen @PoliticalKathy stripped of her Miss Michigan title for...being a...
What consumers can do as regulators weigh compounds’ risks
WASHINGTON — At first, Tomas Monarrez didn’t notice the labels when he went shopping for pots and pans. “Completely toxin free!” said a big green message on a line of nonstick frying pans in the cookware aisle at a store in the nation’s capital. “No PFOA!” boasted the label on...
Florida ‘pill mills’ were ‘gas on the fire’ of opioid crisis
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida survives on tourism, but a decade ago thousands of visitors made frequent trips to the state not to visit its theme parks or beaches. Instead, they came for cheap and easy prescription painkillers sold at unscrupulous walk-in clinics. For a while, few in authority did...
Some asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico help each other
SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico — A small group of asylum seekers finds space under a canopy on the side of a road leading into the United States, chatting to pass the time as a blazing desert sun pushes the heat into triple digits and fumes roll in from dozens...
