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A six-year-old Florida girl was in critical condition Sunday after being shot by her 13-year-old brother Saturday night in a city just north of Fort Lauderdale.Neighbors said the two children were playing a game when the shooting occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday in Oakland Park, a city in Broward Country."They were playing hide and go seek. I don't know how it went down but he shot his sist...
An undetermined roadside ignition in grass and debris off the Ventura Freeway in Southern California sparked the Springs Fire, officials said on Sunday.Officials are calling it an "undetermined roadside ignition of grass and debris" that started the region's largest wildfire so far this year that scorched nearly 44 acres along the Ventura and Los Angeles county lines.Now that firefighters hav...
A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove North Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the population has steadily grown since the international community banned commercial whaling nearly 50 years ago.Hawaii Fishermen's Alliance for Conservation and Tradition Inc., a coalition of fishing clubs and groups from across the islands, filed a pet...
A man who police hoped to question in the disappearance of a 24-year-old Minnesota woman died Saturday night — two days after shooting himself in a parking lot outside the Eden Prairie police station.David Marshall Roe, 24, was considered a person of interest in the disappearance of Mindy Matula. He was confirmed dead Saturday night by the Hennepin County medical examiner, KARE.com reported. Polic...
CAMARILLO, Calif. - A flow of damp air from the Pacific Ocean helped firefighters in their battle against a huge wildfire burning through coastal mountains in Southern California.Fire crews on Saturday worked to create miles of containment lines as the high winds and hot, dry air of recent days were replaced by the normal Pacific air, significantly reducing fire activity.The 43-square-mile blaze a...
