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Wildfires in Southern California torch dozens of homes and force thousands to evacuate 09/11/2024 11:05pm • WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) ��� Three major wildfires in Southern California's mountains east of Los Angeles torched dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate, officials said Wednesday. At least a dozen people, mainly firefighters, were treated for injuries that were mostly heat-relate A partial bridge collapse in eastern Germany disrupts traffic. No one was injured 09/11/2024 10:41pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge partially collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden and interrupting the heating system for a city nicknamed "Florence on the Elbe��� for its Baroque architecture. No one was injured w Thousands in the dark as Hurricane Francine strikes Louisiana, raising flood fears 09/11/2024 10:00pm • MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) ��� Hurricane Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 storm that knocked out electricity to more than a quarter-million customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along th Flash flood sweeps away hamlet as Vietnam's storm toll rises to 155 dead 09/11/2024 09:29pm • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 30 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155 on Wednesday. Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV said the torrent of water gushing down from a mountain in Lao C An Ohio city reshaped by Haitian immigrants lands in an unwelcome spotlight 09/11/2024 09:13pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) ��� Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice. Not Springfield, Ohio. Its story of economic renewal and related growing pains has been thrust into the national conversation in a presidential election year ��� and maliciou Brazil's Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation 09/11/2024 07:30pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ��� In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own government say threatens to vastly increase destruction of the world���s largest tropical forest ��� 2 people walk away after a small plane crashes at a Denver-area golf course 09/11/2024 07:09pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A small plane crashed and landed upside down on a Denver-area golf course Wednesday, but both people on board were able to walk away, authorities said. One person who had minor injuries did not want to be taken to the hospital, South Metro Fire Rescue said in a post on the social pla Saints alter schedule as Hurricane Francine arrives, but continue preparation for Cowboys 09/11/2024 06:58pm • METAIRIE, La. (AP) ��� New Orleans Saints coaches decided to spend Wednesday night at team headquarters as Hurricane Francine struck southeast Louisiana, figuring it would be safer and more productive than trying to commute home right when the worst weather was arriving. ���We���ll probably find a c Trump falsely accuses immigrants in Ohio of abducting and eating pets 09/11/2024 06:16pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he has promoted throughout his campaigns. There is no evide Diver's body is recovered from Lake Michigan shipwreck 09/11/2024 05:58pm • KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) ��� Authorities have recovered the body of a diver who went missing while exploring a Lake Michigan shipwreck. The Kenosha County Sheriff���s Department said in a news release that authorities recovered the body of 72-year-old Patrick Kelly of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, from the Late-blooming American standout Lauren Coughlin prepares for Solheim Cup debut at age 31 09/11/2024 05:55pm • GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� Lauren Coughlin has discovered the more she talks about her golf ��� good or bad ��� the better she plays. The newest and perhaps unlikeliest standout in American women's golf, Coughlin is known as much for her candor as her ball-striking. She makes her Solheim Cup debut th Officers pummeled Tyre Nichols because he fled, a form of 'run tax,' prosecutor says 09/11/2024 05:55pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� Three former Memphis police officers charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after they punched, kicked and struck him with a baton in an attack that a prosecutor says was punishment because he tried to run away. The former offi A Colorado man is charged with arson in a wildfire that destroyed 29 homes 09/11/2024 05:37pm • LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado man was charged with arson after an investigation into a wildfire this summer that destroyed 29 homes and caused more than $30 million in property damage, authorities said Wednesday. Jason Alexander Hobby, 49, was arrested Tuesday, Larimer County Sheriff John Feye Private power companies in Puerto Rico are under scrutiny as officials demand fewer outages 09/11/2024 04:52pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Two private power companies came under scrutiny Wednesday while they presented plans to stabilize Puerto Rico���s crumbling electric grid as officials demanded immediate action to minimize chronic power outages. The presentations by Genera PR, which operates the genera Justin Timberlake reaches plea deal to resolve drunken driving case, AP source says 09/11/2024 03:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Justin Timberlake is scheduled to enter a new plea Friday in his drunken driving case in New York's Hamptons, prosecutors said. Details of the plea weren't disclosed, but a person with knowledge of the deal said Timberlake has agreed to plead guilty to a less serious offense than t