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What makes these the 100 deadliest days on the road ��� and what you can do about it 07/03/2024 05:28pm • We are now in the middle of what some road safety advocates refer to as the 100 deadliest days ��� the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day when millions of Americans hit the road. Whether by car, by bike or on foot, there���s more people traveling, more traffic and more crashes. Just since Me 2 more people charged with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with a bag of cash plead not guilty 07/03/2024 05:03pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Two of five people charged with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country���s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Said Shafii Farah and Abdulkarim Shafii Man tells jury he found body but had no role in fatal attack on Detroit synagogue leader 07/03/2024 04:41pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A man charged with killing a Detroit synagogue leader during a violent overnight encounter denied any role Wednesday, telling jurors that he never entered her home but had discovered and touched her bloody body outdoors. Michael Jackson-Bolanos repeatedly said ���absolutely not��� w Hendrick Motorsports has dropped sponsor Hooters because restaurant chain could not pay team 07/03/2024 04:36pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Hendrick Motorsports has dropped longtime sponsor Hooters, saying the restaurant chain known for chicken wings and skimpy wait-staff outfits could not meet its financial commitment to the NASCAR team. Hooters had sponsored the No. 9 car driven by NASCAR Cup Series champion C Los Angeles to pay $21M to settle claims over botched fireworks detonation by police 3 years ago 07/03/2024 03:44pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Los Angeles will pay more than $21 million to settle claims by residents of a neighborhood where police bungled the detonation of a cache of illegal fireworks three years ago, injuring 17 people and displacing dozens of others. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved t Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest 07/03/2024 02:35pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Ron Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a Phoenix convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a heat wave. Now using a wheelchair, the 62-year-old lost his j Richard Petty, 'The King' of NASCAR, says camp for seriously ill children is family's true legacy 07/03/2024 01:48pm • Richard Petty, with a record 200 Cup Series wins, seven championships and a first-ballot inductee into the Hall of Fame, is considered NASCAR's greatest driver. He is spending the season celebrating 75 years of NASCAR participation by his famous family ��� basically since the inception of the stock Josh Berry will race Wood Brothers No. 21 after closing of Stewart-Haas team 07/03/2024 01:37pm • CONCORD, N.C. (AP) ��� NASCAR Cup Series rookie Josh Berry has signed to drive the Wood Brothers' No. 21 car next season after the shuttering of his current Stewart-Haas Racing team. The announcement came Wednesday. The team said Berry signed a multi-year contact. He takes over the No. 21 ride from Severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to the deadly stampede at an Indian festival 07/03/2024 12:34pm • HATHRAS, India (AP) ��� Severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival that killed at least 121 people in northern India, authorities said Wednesday, as the faithful surged toward the preacher and chaos ensued among the quarter of a million attendees. As po After years-long effort, IndyCar is ready to unveil its hybrid engine system this weekend in Ohio 07/03/2024 11:12am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� On the second floor of an upscale steakhouse in downtown Indianapolis, just days before their engines would be put to the test against each other in the Indianapolis 500, engineers from Chevrolet and Honda sat side-by-side and shared a toast. In a collaboration of rivals, they Movie Review: More Minion mayhem in 'Despicable Me 4' 07/03/2024 09:33am • Should a review of a ���Despicable Me��� movie be a thoughtful analysis or just a list of the funny stuff the Minions do in it? As much as I might believe in the value of film criticism, I kind of suspect that even the finest points of assessment would be dismantled about as fast as a Minion can say Open on July 4th: Retailers and airlines. Closed: Government, banks, stock market 07/03/2024 09:31am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Fourth of July holiday, also known as Independence Day, celebrates the Second Continental Congress��� unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, a document announcing the colonies��� separation from Great Britain. One year later, according to the Lib How did a religious gathering in India turn into a deadly stampede? 07/03/2024 07:39am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) ��� More than 120 people died Tuesday in a stampede after a large religious gathering in northern India, one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years. Authorities are investigating. The stampede among thousands of attendees is believed to have begun as the event, led by a Missing nuts and bolts caused last year's deadly construction elevator accident in Sweden 07/03/2024 07:31am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A construction elevator that killed five people when it collapsed last year in Stockholm was missing the bolts that were supposed to hold its mast together, authorities said Wednesday. The deadly crash ���was caused by failure to perform relevant safety inspections of th Strike kills family as Israeli evacuation order sparks panicked flight from southern Gaza city 07/03/2024 07:02am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family on Tuesday after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone. The Hamdan family ��� around a dozen peopl