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Death toll in Mexico border shootings rises to 29
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Friday that five attackers have died in a clash with soldiers the northern border state of Tamaulipas, bringing the state’s death toll in two days of presumed gang-related violence to 29. A group of armed assailants attacked a military patrol Thursday on a highway...
China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon’s far side
BEIJING — China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon’s far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the lunar surface. The pictures on state broadcaster CCTV showed the Jade Rabbit 2...
Rare penny sells for more than $200K at auction
BOSTON — A rare copper penny that a Massachusetts man found in his lunch money more than 70 years ago has been sold at an auction for more than $200,000. The 1943 penny is one of 20 that were accidentally minted when the federal government was trying to conserve copper...
U.S. official says troop withdrawal from Syria has started
BAGHDAD — After days of back and forth over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pullout American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday the process of withdrawal has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the...
Surgeon fined $3,000 for removing kidney he thought was tumor
WELLINGTON, Fla. — The Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman’s healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor. The Palm Beach Post reports Ramon Vazquez was responsible for cutting Maureen Pacheco open in 2016 so...
Report: U.S. approved thousands of child bride requests
WASHINGTON — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by the Associated Press. In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl. The approvals...
Feds to examine limo 3 months after wreck that killed 20
ALBANY, N.Y. — Some federal employees furloughed under the government shutdown may be recalled to start examining a limousine that crashed in rural upstate New York three months ago, killing 20 people, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. An NTSB statement said with the help of the county court,...
US Postal Service fined $150,000 after heat-related death of LA mail carrier
LOS ANGELES — The United States Postal Service is facing nearly $150,000 in fines after the heat-related death of a Los Angeles mail carrier last summer. Peggy Frank, 63, was found dead in her non-air-conditioned mail truck on July 6, the same day temperatures in the Los Angeles neighborhood of...
Wisconsin man, 21, arrested in teen’s abduction, her parents’ killing
BARRON, Wis. — A 21-year-old man is jailed in the deaths of a Wisconsin couple he killed because he wanted to kidnap their teenage daughter, investigators said Friday, a day after the girl approached a stranger along a rural road saying she’d been abducted in October and held against her...
Wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegations against McCarrick, officials confirm
D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and reported them to the Vatican in 2004 despite his public denials, church officials confirmed Thursday evening. Robert Ciolek, a former priest who reached a settlement with the church in 2005 after reporting abuse and misconduct by...
Report: Renewables, natural gas will power most new electric capacity in 2019
Much of the new electric generating capacity in 2019 will come from renewables and natural gas, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Thursday. The agency based its projections on the latest monthly inventory of electric generators. It was unclear whether the inventory included the December startup of the Tenaska...
Kentucky lawmaker hopes state’s action leads to demise of Roe v. Wade
FRANKFORT — With Kentucky embroiled in three abortion-related court cases and lawmakers considering tougher restrictions almost certain to draw a legal challenge, a leading Republican senator said Thursday that he hopes the state’s actions lead to a Supreme Court review of the Roe v. Wade ruling. Anti-abortion lawmakers hope to...
Report: Ex-Nazi camp guard deported by U.S. dies in Germany
BERLIN — Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived an unassuming life in New York City for decades until his past was revealed and he was deported to Germany last year, has died, German media reported Thursday. He was 95. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Westfaelische Nachrichten...
Oregon begins killing sea lions after relocation fails
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon wildlife officials have started killing sea lions that threaten a fragile run of winter steelhead in the Willamette River. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife obtained a federal permit in November to kill up to 93 California sea lions annually below Willamette Falls south of...
Freeway closed after human waste spills from truck
ERIE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A freeway in southeastern Michigan just north of the state line with Ohio has been closed after a truck hauling human waste rolled over and spilled its contents along the roadway. The crash happened about 9:40 a.m. Thursday on northbound Interstate 75 near Monroe County’s Erie...
Louisiana police officer fatally shot while leaving for work
SHREVEPORT, La. — A recently graduated Louisiana police officer has been fatally shot as she was leaving for work on the night shift. Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond says Officer Chateri Payne had graduated from the police academy Nov. 16, and was shot outside a home Wednesday night. He couldn’t...
3 school employees charged with abuse of autistic student
STANFORD, Ky. — Court documents show that three Kentucky school employees have been charged with criminal abuse involving a special-needs student. News outlets report the incident occurred Jan. 3 at Lincoln County High School in a special education class. A criminal summons for teacher Rebecca Spurlock said teacher’s aide Janie...
Norovirus outbreak sickens 277 on Oasis of the Seas
MIAMI — Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is returning to a Florida port a day early and giving passengers full refunds of their fare after 277 guests and crew members were hit with an outbreak of Norovirus as it sailed to Jamaica. Cruise line spokesman Owen Torres told The...
Cops: Burglar who ate officer’s chicken dinner in closed police substation left own ID
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — To identify the burglary suspect who broke into a closed Florida police substation and ate an officer’s chicken dinner, detectives didn’t need to lift fingerprints or get DNA from the discarded meal. The ID cards authorities say the suspect left behind did the trick. Boynton Beach...
As Trump visits border, Texas landowners prepare wall fight
HIDALGO, Texas — As President Donald Trump travels to the border in Texas to make the case for his $5.7 billion wall , landowner Eloisa Cavazos says she knows firsthand how the project will play out if the White House gets its way. The federal government has started surveying land...
Rebel drone bombs Yemen military parade, kills at least 6
SANAA, Yemen — A bomb-laden drone launched by Yemen’s Shiite rebels exploded over a military parade for the Saudi-led coalition and its allies on Thursday near the southern port city of Aden, killing at least six people in a brazen attack that threatened U.N.-brokered peace efforts to end the yearslong...
Trump threatens emergency declaration ahead of border visit
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if he can’t reach a deal with Democrats to fund his promised border wall. He headed to the U.S.-Mexico border to draw further attention to his case after negotiations with lawmakers blew up. The...
Police: Ohio man doing doughnuts crashes new carVideo
RIVERSIDE, Ohio — Police say a man doing doughnuts in a just-purchased car struck a power pole in Ohio, sending him and his two children to the hospital. Authorities tell the Dayton Daily News the man was doing the stunt in a Pontiac G8 in a snowy parking lot in...
Man working on helicopter decapitated at Florida airport
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Authorities say a man was hit in the head by the main rotor blades and killed while working on a helicopter at a Florida airport. A Hernando County Sheriff’s Office news release say 62-year-old Salvatore Disi died Thursday afternoon near the hangars at Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport....
Vatican moves quickly toward punishing ex-cardinal McCarrick for sexual abuse
Vatican investigators have finished collecting evidence in the sexual abuse case of disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, according to a person familiar with the investigation, indicating that the Catholic Church is moving quickly toward sentencing the cleric in its secretive justice system. The former prominent archbishop of Washington, who now stands...
