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Folks in rural part of Panhandle ask: Where's the help?
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - More than two weeks after the powerful eyewall of Hurricane Michael passed over Bay County, Mark Ward wonders when the power will work again. And the sewer. And the water. “W...
Oct 26, 2018
Matthew Shepard, symbol for gay rights, laid to rest in DC
WASHINGTON - After 20 years without a permanent resting place, the remains of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student whose brutal murder in 1998 has come to symbolize the plight of the LGBTQ c...
Oct 26, 2018
Hate crime considered in Kentucky grocery shooting
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. - The fatal shooting death of two black grocery patrons by a white gunman is being investigated as a possible hate crime, a U.S. official said Friday. Federal investigators are exam...
Oct 26, 2018
Head of secretive North Carolina sect named in fraud scam
The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of h...
Oct 26, 2018
Abe's Beijing visit underscores warming China-Japan ties
BEIJING - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a second meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang on Friday during the first formal visit to Beijing by a Japanese leader in nearly seven years that her...
Oct 26, 2018
US sanctions on Iran pressure Tehran's regional allies
BEIRUT - Giant posters on the streets of Beirut’s southern Shiite suburbs display an armed Hezbollah fighter in uniform, holding the group’s yellow banner and Lebanon’s national flag...
Oct 26, 2018
Philippine island once called 'cesspool' reopens to tourists
BORACAY, Philippines - Boatloads of tourists sailed Friday to the Philippines’ Boracay island, which officials reopened to visitors after a six-month closure to clean waters the president had ca...
Oct 26, 2018
German state vote in Hesse tests Merkel's unhappy coalition
BERLIN - The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as the central state of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. Sunday’s election has become a...
Oct 26, 2018
South Sudan peace deal bumpy as rebel leader doesn't return
BARCELONA, Spain - South Sudan’s government is spending millions of dollars next week to celebrate a “final final” peace deal to end a five-year civil war. One problem: The rebel lea...
Oct 26, 2018
Police: High, naked woman tried to bite off man's genitals
HANAHAN, S.C. - Police in South Carolina say a naked woman tried to bite off a man’s genitals and then rushed on all fours at responding officers, who shocked her with a stun gun. WCSC-TV report...
Oct 26, 2018