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Residents flee as wildfires threaten homes in Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE/ PORTLAND, Oregon - Firefighters in Washington state and Oregon were grappling on Wednesday with blazes that have blackened more than 200 square miles of terrain across the Pacific Northwest, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes.
Diaries reveal horrific details of three women held in Ariel Castro's Cleveland home

Court documents filed Wednesday detail the horrifying conditions in which a "remorseless" Ariel Castro held the three women he kidnapped and locked up for years in his Cleveland home.
Texas executes man who killed truckers in road rage

AUSTIN — Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of killing two truck drivers in a fit of road rage after one of the drivers pulled a truck in front of his motorcycle on the highway. Douglas Feldman, 55, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:28 p.m.
San Diego mayor didn't get sexual harassment training, lawyer says

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has never received sexual harassment training, said his lawyer in a letter to the city attorney’s office.NBC 7 has obtained a letter from attorneys representing Filner in a sexual harassment suit brought by former employee Irene McCormack Jackson.
Zimmerman had gun in glove box when pulled over in Texas

George Zimmerman was pulled over in Texas this weekend for speeding – and had a gun with him, police said.
Man sentenced to 165 years in prison for sexually abusing children in Haiti

A man who sexually abused children at a center for poor youth he operated in Haiti was sentenced to 165 years in prison in Florida on Wednesday, according to the United States Department of Justice.
Woman receives 5-20 year sentence for hiring a hitman to kill husband — after he begs for leniency

Julia Merfeld, the Michigan woman caught on video hiring a hitman to kill her husband, has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.On Tuesday, Merfeld, 21, of Muskegon, pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of her 27-year-old husband, in lieu of divorcing him.
As flames raged, Scoutmaster's training helped rescue co-worker at Florida propane plant

A maintenance worker said he put his Scoutmaster training to work to save a severely burned colleague as a series of massive explosions rocked a propane tank plant in Florida on Monday night.
Rap lyrics lead to arrest in unsolved Va. murder

Rap lyrics may have been the break police in Newport News, Va., needed to solve a double murder from 2007.
Deputy shot, inmate critically wounded at Boston hospital

A prisoner tried to wrestle a gun away from a sheriff's deputy Wednesday at a Boston eye and ear hospital, firing a bullet into the deputy's leg, before a second deputy shot the inmate in the chest, authorities said.