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Victim identified in Southern California homicide case, 41 years after her remains were found 06/15/2024 05:30pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A victim whose skull was found by children in a Southern California city in 1983 has been identified 41 years after her remains were first discovered, authorities said. The Orange County Sheriff's Department identified the victim Friday as Maritza Glean Grimmett, a Panaman Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity 'megaprison' for gang members as part of a crackdown 06/15/2024 04:40pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity ���megaprison," part of the government's larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to overhaul its long-troubled prison system. President Xiomara Castro unveiled a series of emergency mea NASCAR's Cup Series comes to Iowa, but it's not the same track the drivers remember 06/15/2024 04:00pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) ��� Christopher Bell likes that the NASCAR Cup Series will be at Iowa Speedway for the first time. Heading into Sunday's race, the .875-mile track isn���t quite the one he remembers. Bell has seven top-five finishes in nine starts at the track in NASCAR���s other series, including Muslim pilgrims converge at Mount Arafat for daylong worship as Hajj reaches its peak 06/15/2024 02:09pm • MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) ��� Following the footsteps of prophets beneath a burning sun, more than 1.83 million Muslims from around the world congregated Saturday at a sacred hill in Saudi Arabia for worship and reflection amid a sweltering heat. The ritual at Mount Arafat, known as the hill o The US supports 'a just and lasting peace' for Ukraine, Harris tells Zelenskyy at Swiss summit 06/15/2024 01:58pm • OBB��RGEN, Switzerland (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday pledged America's full support in backing Ukraine and global efforts to achieve ���a just and lasting peace��� in the face of Russia's invasion, representing the United States at an international gathering on the war and meetin Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it 06/15/2024 01:05pm • A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years Dutch tourist found dead on Greek island and 4 other foreign tourists are missing on 3 islands 06/15/2024 12:36pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern Greek island of Samos, local media reported, the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing. Some, if not all, had set out on hikes in blistering hot Kansas lawmakers poised to lure Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri, despite economists' concerns 06/15/2024 11:57am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A 170-year-old rivalry is flaring up as Kansas lawmakers try to snatch the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs away from Missouri even though economists long ago concluded subsidizing pro sports isn't worth the cost. The Kansas Legislature's top leaders endorsed helping the German police shoot to death an Afghan man who killed a compatriot, then attacked soccer fans 06/15/2024 10:14am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in eastern Germany, police said Saturday. The 27-year-old Afghan citizen first attacked a 23-year-old Slovakia great Hamsik hopes Euro 2024 games can bring unity after shooting of prime minister Fico 06/15/2024 09:24am • MAINZ, Germany (AP) ��� Slovakia���s most storied player in modern soccer said Saturday he hopes European Championship games can unite the nation after the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico. Marek Hamsik is an assistant coach now with Slovakia after playing the last of his record Philippines seeks UN confirmation of its vast continental seabed in the disputed South China Sea 06/15/2024 07:06am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� The Philippines has asked a United Nations body to formally recognize the extent of its undersea continental seabed in the South China Sea, where it would have the exclusive right to exploit resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday, in a move that rejec Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Paris' Seine River less than 2 months before Olympics 06/15/2024 04:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday. Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persist Today In History: June 15, More than 1,000 killed in New York steamboat disaster 06/15/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, June 15, the 167th day of 2024. There are 199 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York���s East River. On this date: In 1215, England Tire troubles hit NASCAR drivers during practice at Iowa Speedway 06/14/2024 08:22pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) ��� NASCAR���s inaugural Cup Series practice at Iowa Speedway turned into a test for tires and created questions about the quality of race Sunday will produce. There were five separate tire problems Friday, the first day Cup cars have ever turned laps at the track located 30 minute Second suspect arrested in abduction of 2 Louisiana children and death of one of them 06/14/2024 06:51pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A second suspect was arrested Friday in connection with the abduction and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi, Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said. Wade told WJTV-TV that the suspect, a 32-year-old woman, is an acquaintance of a 36-year-old ma