KALISPELL, Mont. – Authorities in northern Montana have recovered the body of a Japanese woman who went missing during a fishing trip in November. The Flathead Beacon reports (http://bit.ly/1AD5lSV ) that 75-year-old Fuki Nishibayashi’s (FOO’-kee nish-uh-BY’-ashee) body was found Tuesday in Mission Lake near Cut Bank. Three people were believed …
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TROY, Ohio – Two teenage sisters died and two other children were hospitalized after a relative found all four unresponsive Friday from a suspected carbon monoxide leak in their western Ohio home, officials said. Sisters Dionanna Bishop, 14, and Dejah Bishop, 13, died at a local emergency room, said Dr. …
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Retired California public employees are flocking to Idaho with their pension funds and becoming the financial “lifeblood” of at least one Idaho town, ruffling feathers with some locals who are taking issue with the “liberal baggage” of the new residents. The Los Angeles Times reported this month the town of …
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Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared to have been kicked off a popular New York beach on Friday amid closures that were enforced due to dangerous conditions from Hurricane Erin. Photos show Blinken — who served under the Biden administration — and a friend relaxing on beach chairs in …
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A car crash that seriously injured former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New Hampshire on Saturday night was not a targeted attack, a spokesman for the 81-year-old said. The New Hampshire State Police said the former mayor and his driver, Theodore Goodman, were traveling on Interstate 93 and …
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More than 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in one night this week after a campus worship program that was reportedly attended by hundreds. The baptisms took place Tuesday night in a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn venue, which is located about half a mile from Auburn University’s …
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A Georgia couple got a scary surprise recently after they discovered a 4-foot ball python living in their front yard. “Definitely was not expecting a python, I was like that definitely doesn’t belong there,” homeowner Ellen Snyder said of unwanted guest at their suburban Atlanta home. While the snake isn’t …
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SEATTLE – The Justice Department’s report on Ferguson is resonating with other communities where residents feel its findings sound familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly minority town, patterns of racial profiling and profit-driven law enforcement. Felix Vargas, chairman of a Hispanic organization in the Washington city of …
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PAWNEE, Okla. – The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality says medical waste including used vials and syringes has been found in the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma. Agency spokeswoman Erin Hatfield says the department was notified Monday of the discovery in Pawnee County and will send investigators to the scene …
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GADSDEN, Ala. – Defense lawyers are asking a jury to spare the life of an Alabama woman convicted of running her granddaughter to death. Jurors will be back in court in Gadsden on Wednesday for a sentencing hearing for 49-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard. The jury convicted Garrard of capital murder …
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