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• 5 dead as SUV chased by Border Patrol crashes in South Texas

  17-06-2018 23:16
  
  BIG WELLS, Texas — At least five people are dead and several others hurt as an SUV carrying more than a dozen people crashed while fleeing from Border Patrol agents in South Texas.Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd says the SUV went out of control at more than 100 mph and overturned on Texas Highway 85, ejecting those inside.Texas Department of Public Safety officials say four were pronounced dead at the scene midday Sunday. A fifth person died at a hospital.Most of the occupants were belie
  
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• Woman strangles bobcat to death in front yard in Georgia

  17-06-2018 22:44
  
  HARTWELL, Ga. — A 46-year-old woman strangled a rabid bobcat after the animal attacked her in her front yard in northeast Georgia.The Athens-Banner Herald reports DeDe Phillips of Hart County went outside on June 7 to take a picture when the bobcat lunged at her. She then grabbed the cat by its throat and didn't let go.Phillips says she grew up in the country, where her father-in-law was once a trapper of bobcats. As a result, she knew something about the animal's behavior.Phillips says sh
  
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• Kent State plans 50th commemoration of fatal May 4 shootings

  17-06-2018 22:14
  
  KENT, Ohio — Kent State University is planning a series of events starting next year to commemorate 50 years since Ohio National Guard members fatally shot four students there and wounded nine during protests of the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970.The school says its commemoration will start in the fall of 2019 and continue until the actual anniversary in 2020.Kent State says it is in the process of planning events, academic activities and programming to reflect on the impact of the shootings a
  
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• Dog waits with missing girl, 3, in cornfield overnight until help arrives

  17-06-2018 21:01
  
  Remy Elliott, 3, disappeared on Thursday near her home in Qulin, Missouri, KFVS reports. Police officers and volunteers searched the cornfield near the girl's home for nearly 12 hours and when they finally found her on Friday morning, they found her Yorkshire terrier, Fat Heath, waiting by her side.Timber Merritt, Remy's mom, said losing her daughter was stressful. "I looked for her by myself thinking maybe she was just in the woods or somewhere where I just couldn't see her," Merritt told KFVS.
  
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• Man rescues baby deer on the verge of drowning in swimming pool

  17-06-2018 20:07
  
  A baby deer and its mother wandered into a backyard in Augusta, Kansas, on Wednesday and the baby quickly found itself in trouble. When the young deer fell into the family's swimming pool, the mother ran away. But homeowner Walter Burress ran to the rescue.Burress' wife, Diana, caught the whole rescue on video. "I had been outside about five minutes before and [the deer] wasn't in there," she told CBS News. "And then when I went out to water my plants I heard splashing." She turned around to see
  
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• Trump adviser says 'nobody likes' family separation policy

  17-06-2018 19:33
  
  WASHINGTON — A top White House adviser on Sunday distanced the Trump administration from responsibility for separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, even though the administration put in place and could easily end a policy that has led to a spike in cases of split and distraught families.President Donald Trump has tried to blame Democrats, who hold no levers of power in the government today, for a situation that has sparked fury and a national debate over t
  
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• Chris Cornell's daughter pays tribute to late rocker with duet

  17-06-2018 17:40
  
  LOS ANGELES — Chris Cornell's daughter has released a recording of a duet with her late father as part of an emotional tribute to the late rocker on Father's Day.Toni Cornell released the duet of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" on Sunday along with a note thanking her dad for his support of her."You gave me courage when I didn't have any. You believed in me when I didn't. I miss your love everyday," Toni Cornell, 13, wrote in posts that accompanied the song on Instagram and YouTube. "Recor
  
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• Afghan bomber kills 18, Taliban rejects cease-fire extension

  17-06-2018 17:02
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber struck in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second attack in as many days targeting Taliban fighters, security forces and civilians celebrating a holiday cease-fire. The Taliban later rejected an extension to the cease-fire.Najibullah Kamawal, director of the provincial health department, said another 49 people were wounded in the attack, which struck a crowd of people as they left the governor's compo
  
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• Oh Vow: German couple married in tightrope wedding

  17-06-2018 15:36
  
  BERLIN — A couple in eastern Germany was married in a swing dangling from a motorcycle atop a tightrope, 46-feet above the ground.The German news agency DPA reported that a pastor standing in a cage atop a fire service ladder presided over the wedding of Nicole Backhaus and Jens Knorr in the town of Stassfurt on Saturday. The couple exchanged rings in the air but, for safety's sake, waited until they were back on the ground to kiss.More than 3,000 people watched the wedding in the sky, whi
  
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• Ex-3 Doors Down bass player arrested, drugs, weapons found

  17-06-2018 14:44
  
  ST. MARTIN, Miss. — One of the founding members of the rock band 3 Doors Down is back in jail after guns and drugs were seen in his Mississippi home.Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell, in a news release, said 46-year-old Todd Harrell, the band's original bass player, was arrested Friday at his St. Martin home. It's unknown if he has an attorney.Authorities say they were responding to an alarm and when they arrived, Harrell's wife told deputies they argued and it turned physical. While there
  
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• Gunfire erupts at New Jersey arts festival; 22 wounded

  17-06-2018 13:55
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — Two gunmen opened fire at an all-night arts and music festival early Sunday morning, sending people running over each other in the scramble to safety, authorities said. One suspect was killed and 22 people were injured.Of 17 people treated for gunshot wounds, four of them, including a 13-year-old boy, remain in critical condition late Sunday morning, said Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri.The shots rang out around 2:45 a.m. during the Art All Night Trenton festival tha
  
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• 1 dead, 20 injured in New Jersey all night arts festival

  17-06-2018 13:55
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — Shooting broke out at an all-night art festival in Trenton, New Jersey, early Sunday, sending people stampeding from the scene and leaving one suspect dead and 20 people injured, a local prosecutor said.Many of the 20 injured were treated for gunshot wounds, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said Sunday morning. Four of those, including a 13-year-old boy, were in critical condition.He said that two suspects opened fire around 2:45 a.m. during the Art All Night festival
  
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• UK changes course, allows epileptic boy to use cannabis oil

  17-06-2018 13:31
  
  LONDON —The British government changed course Saturday in a case concerning cannabis oil, saying an epileptic boy can be treated with it after his mother said he needed it to survive severe seizures.Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he has agreed to urgently issue a license to allow Billy Caldwell, a 12-year-old from Northern Ireland, to be treated with the oil. He said his decision was based on advice from senior doctors who say that Caldwell, who was hospitalized overnight in London, faces
  
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• Mother of sick boy seeks legalization of medical marijuana

  17-06-2018 13:31
  
  LONDON — The mother of an epileptic boy at the center of a debate over medical marijuana in the U.K. is calling for an urgent meeting with ministers to discuss liberalizing British policy.Charlotte Caldwell said Sunday she also wants assurances from the government that her 12-year-old son Billy will be able to keep receiving cannabis oil once a 20-day emergency supply approved by the government runs out.Caldwell wants to make sure there isn't "another battle" over the medicine that she bel
  
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• Stephen Hawking's ashes buried in Westminster Abbey alongside Darwin, Isaac Newton

  17-06-2018 13:12
  
  LONDON (AP) — The ashes of Stephen Hawking were buried Friday in a corner of Westminster Abbey that honors some of Britain's greatest scientists, between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.More than 1,000 people attended a service of thanksgiving in the ancient abbey for the physicist, who died in March at age 76 after decades of living with motor neuron disease. When he was diagnosed, aged 22, he was given only a few years to live.Hawking conducted groundbreaking research into
  
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• 20 firefighters injured in massive NYC blaze that began at Fire Marshal's home, officials say

  17-06-2018 12:47
  
  Officials said 20 firefighters were injured, four seriously, fighting a massive five-alarm fire Saturday that spanned five houses on Staten Island in New York City. No civilians were hurt.The flames broke out shortly after 7 p.m. at a fire marshal's house, CBS New York reports. Officials said the fire marshal was working at the time and his family was out of town.One firefighter suffered a chest injury when a stairway collapsed on him.Four other buildings were heavily damaged and one sustained m
  
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• 3 hikers stranded overnight rescued by helicopter from California beach cliff

  17-06-2018 12:32
  
  PACIFICA, Calif. -- Three people were rescued Saturday after being stuck overnight on a San Francisco Bay area cliff for more than 12 hours. All three were rescued by a California Highway Patrol, or CHP, helicopter Saturday morning and no one was injured, fire officials said. The saga began around 9:30 p.m. Friday when a man and two teenagers got stuck about 800 feet down the side of a steep cliff in San Mateo County, according to the North County Fire Authority.Firefighters, rescue units and of
  
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• CPD: 1 person in 'very critical condition' after shooting in east Columbus

  17-06-2018 07:36
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Columbus Division of Police says one person is in, "very critical condition" following a shooting in east Columbus.The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the 600 block of Berkeley Road, according to authorities.Police are looking for the person responsible for the shooting.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• Rescue boat Aquarius finally docks in Spain

  17-06-2018 07:28
  
  VALENCIA, Spain — The Aquarius rescue ship, a pawn in Europe's latest battle over immigration, has docked in the Spanish port of Valencia after a weeklong odyssey carrying migrants around the Mediterranean Sea.The boat operated by aid groups SOS Mediterranee Sea and Doctors Without Borders touched land shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday local time with 106 migrants onboard.An Italian coast guard ship had already arrived in Valencia with 270 of the 630 total migrants that the Aquarius saved off
  
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• 1st boat of Aquarius convoy with 630 migrants docks in Spain

  17-06-2018 07:28
  
  VALENCIA, Spain — The first Italian government ship accompanying the migrant aid boat Aquarius has docked at the Spanish port of Valencia.The Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo arrived just before 7 a.m. on Sunday. It will be followed by the Aquarius and another Italian navy ship, the Orione.The Aquarius and the two Italian boats are carrying the 630 migrants rescued by the Aquarius while attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea last week.The Aquarius, a boat operated by t
  
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• Bernie Sanders declining to help son in race fits pattern

  17-06-2018 03:28
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. — An endorsement by Bernie Sanders is one of the most coveted gifts in Democratic politics. But the Vermont senator and liberal darling is notoriously reluctant to back many politicians, including, it turns out, his own son.Sanders has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for not publicly endorsing his son, Levi, in his race for a New Hampshire congressional seat. But people who know him say Sanders, a potential top-tier contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee
  
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• Man suspected of defrauding more than 1,000 Walmart stores

  17-06-2018 01:21
  
  YUMA, Ariz. — Authorities say a man suspected of making fraudulent returns at more than 1,000 Walmart stores across the U.S. has been arrested in Arizona.The Yuma Police Department says 23-year-old Thomas Frudaker was apprehended Wednesday after store employees noticed a suspicious transaction and contacted police.Police spokeswoman Edith Ruiz says Frudaker went to return a computer from which police believe he had removed certain parts. She says investigators suspect Frudaker made a simil
  
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