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Slain reporter’s family says Syrian forces targeted her

WASHINGTON (AP) — Syria President Bashar Assad’s forces targeted veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin and then celebrated after they learned their rockets had killed her, according to a sworn statement a former Syrian intelligence officer made in a wrongful death suit filed by her relatives.

Canadian officials say body in bus crash misidentified

HUMBOLDT, Saskatchewan (AP) — Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Justice said Monday one of the deceased in the crash that killed 15 people en route to a hockey playoff game was misidentified, partly because the players all had blonddyed hair and similar builds.

The ministry said the body of Parker Tobin was mistaken for that of Xavier Labelle.

It said Labelle is injured but alive, and Tobin is among the deceased. The accident occurred Friday. Drew Wilby, spokesman for the ministry, said the error was discovered Sunday night.

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Cancer survivor runs marathon for Las Vegas shooting victims

CDC worker’s disappearance partially solved after body found

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities have partially solved the mysterious disappearance of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee with the discovery of his body. But they may never know how he drowned in a river not far from his home.

Fishermen found Timothy Cunningham’s body on Tuesday partially submerged in water and mud on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, fire-rescue department spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said at a news conference.

Ball in Play

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Various groups from around Jennings participated in Sheriff Ivy Wood’s Golf Tournament at the Jennings Golf Club.

Marines killed in California crash include new dad, Iraq vet

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four Marines killed when their helicopter crashed on a training mission in the Southern California desert were identified Thursday as men in their 20s and 30s from the South and Midwest, including one who served in Iraq and another who recently became a father.

Miramar air station in San Diego said those killed included 28-year-old Capt. Samuel Schultz of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and 27-year-old 1st Lt. Samuel Phillips of Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Both were pilots, with Schultz joining the Marines in 2012 and Phillips in 2013.

China vows to ‘counterattack’ US as trade spat worsens

WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s government vowed Friday to “counterattack with great strength” if President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to raise U.S. tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese goods and said negotiations were impossible under current conditions.

Trump’s surprise move Thursday to instruct the U.S. trade representative to consider additional tariffs came a day after Beijing said it would tax $50 billion in American products, including soybeans and small aircraft, in response to a U.S. move this week to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports.

Guard’s last border deployments offer clues to the future

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different environment than it did on its last two deployments to the border with Mexico, with far fewer illegal crossings and more Central Americans than Mexicans coming.

Still, its role is shaping up much the same: moving more Border Patrol agents from behind-thescenes jobs to the front lines.

Facebook: Most users may have had public data ‘scraped’

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s acknowledgement that most of its 2.2 billion members have probably had their personal data scraped by “malicious actors” is the latest example of the social network’s failure to protect its users’ data.

Not to mention its apparent inability to even identify the problem until the company was already embroiled in scandal.

Ladies in Motion

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