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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Flash floods and cold lava flow hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 15 people

    Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 15 people and injured several others, officials said Sunday. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in Agam and Tanah Datar districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday. The floods swept away people and submerged mo

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  • USLA Times

    California sisters were offered $5,000 from insurance for storm damage. A jury awarded them $18 million

    Two San Bernardino women said they lived in their home for over five years without heat because of a dispute with their insurance company.

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  • USLA Times

    'Let her go! Let her go!' Fontana officer shoots armed man who put his partner in a headlock

    Body-camera footage released by the Fontana Police Department shows an officer being put in a headlock during a traffic stop in Yucaipa by a man whom authorities have identified as Alan Metka.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Sean 'Diddy' Combs asks judge to dismiss 'false' claim that he, others raped 17-year-old girl

    Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003, saying it was a “false and hideous claim" that was filed too late under the law. “Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old tale against them, which has caused incalculable damage to their reputations and business standing before any evidence has been presented,” says the filing, which also na

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  • USMiami Herald

    Inspectors find moldy food, old food and dirty equipment at Kendall and Hialeah bakeries

    The results of Florida Department of Agriculture inspections.

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  • ScienceLive Science

    Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests

    Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

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  • USAssociated Press

    State trooper who arrested LGBTQ+ leaders in Philadelphia no longer works for state police

    The state trooper who arrested two LGBTQ+ leaders after a contentious traffic stop in Philadelphia is no longer employed by the Pennsylvania state police, officials said Friday. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Adam Reed said the trooper, who has not been named, no longer works for the agency, though it's unclear whether he was fired and when he left the job. In March, Celena Morrison and husband Darius McLean were arrested after a traffic stop on an elevated stretch of highway in the city, part

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