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4-time DUI offender gets 17-year sentence for deadly crash
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of driving under the influence for a fourth time was sentenced to 17 years in prison in connection with a crash last year that left a 66-year-old man dead. Tyler James Cummings, 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony DUI with death, two counts of...
3 Iowans die in single-vehicle crash in Missouri
WARSAW, Mo. (AP) — Three people from Iowa were killed when the car they were in went off a road in western Missouri and hit a tree. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the three who died Wednesday in Benton County were all from Fort Dodge, Iowa. The patrol says 20-year-old Richard Davis lost control of...
Cockpit voice recorder of crashed Pakistani plane recovered
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The cockpit voice recorder of the Pakistani airliner that crashed last week was found on Thursday, six days after the passenger plane went down in a crowded neighborhood near the airport in the city of Karachi, killing 97 people on board. The recorder, recovered from among the...
Shooting, chase ends in fatal crash in Kansas City suburb
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A domestic disturbance in suburban Kansas City led to a shooting, then a car chase that ended in a fatal crash, police in Independence said. The incident began Wednesday afternoon when police received calls of the dispute, then of shots fired in an Independence home, the Kansas...
Hungary to commemorate victims of Danube boat catastrophe
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Commemorations will be held Friday on the anniversary of the Danube River tragedy in which a sightseeing boat carrying mostly tourists from South Korea sank after a collision with a river cruise ship that killed at least 27 people. At least 25 out of 33 South Korean tourists died...
Police: Soldier saved lives by stopping shooter on bridge
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A soldier stationed in Kansas saved “countless lives” Wednesday when he hit a man with his car as the man was shooting randomly at people on a bridge near an Army base, a police chief said. One person was injured by the shooter, according to Leavenworth police Chief...
Pakistan says it shot down Indian drone inside Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops shot down a small Indian spy drone as it flew into the country's airspace over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, the military said. In a statement, it said the drone was shot down over the Rakhchikri border village when it entered Kashmir...
South African bans on tobacco, liquor amid virus stir debate
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A soccer mom in one of Cape Town's posh suburbs drops off a cardboard box of blankets to a neighbor. Inside the box are several bottles of red wine. In Johannesburg's Alexandra township, two men in face masks greet each other on a sunny street. One has surreptitiously sold the other a...
Airbus experts probe plane crash that killed 97 in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan announced Tuesday that Airbus experts have opened a probe into last week’s plane crash that killed 97 people when an Airbus A320 went down in a crowded neighborhood near the airport in the port city of Karachi. Initial reports have said the Pakistan International...
Military helicopter crash-lands in Russia, kills 4 on board
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military helicopter crash-landed on an airfield Tuesday in the far eastern region of Chukotka, killing four people, the military said. The crash involving a Mi-8 helicopter may have been caused by a technical malfunction, the Defense Ministry said. Three crew members and a...
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