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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sections of Interstate 55 near the south Louisiana community of Manchac are resembling a junkyard of mangled cars as a result of morning crashes blamed on a “superfog” of smoke from marsh fires and dense morning fog. School buses were being used Monday to transport stranded drivers away from the mess.

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to ban the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene. The chemical is known as TCE. It’s used in a range of consumer products, including automobile brake cleaners, furniture care products and arts and crafts spray coating. The EPA wants to ban manufacturing,

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsies have confirmed that five people who died when a chemical tanker overturned in central Illinois last month died from exposure to caustic anhydrous ammonia fumes. Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said Monday the official results confirmed preliminary findings from the Sept. 29 crash involving a tanker carrying the agricultural fertilizer

By ARON HELLER Associated Press KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Ohad Munder-Zichri’s ninth birthday is on Monday. But instead of celebrating at home with his family and friends, he is believed to be somewhere in Gaza, one of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the militants’ devastating Oct. 7 incursion. The fourth-grader from

LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) — Donald “Don” J. Laughlin, a resort owner and the namesake of a southern Nevada town that he turned into a tourist destination, has died. He was 92. Laughlin died Sunday at his penthouse home at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Diana Fuchs, the resort’s marketing director, said Monday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal authorities have announced the arrest of the fifth and final suspect wanted in an ambush shooting that killed a 14-year-old and wounded several other teenagers outside a Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage last year. U.S. marshals said 17-year-old Dayron Burney-Thorn was arrested Monday in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood after more

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A search warrant released Monday says investigators found methamphetamine while searching the home of a Minnesota man who’s now charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five drug task force officers. Documents released earlier shows that investigators suspected 64-year-old Karl Thomas Holmberg and his wife of

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A mother is suing a shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on a gang rape and other abuse he endured there. Agape Boarding School has been subjected to a wave of litigation as a series of abuse allegations emerged, but the case

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia. Under a plea agreement approved by a federal judge on Monday, prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for 31-year-old Jareh Sebastian

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street swung to a mixed finish Monday, continuing a monthslong run where it’s slavishly followed the cue of the bond market. The S&P 500 slipped 7.12 points, or 0.2%, to 4,217.04, coming off its worst week in a month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

By ARON HELLER Associated Press KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Ohad Munder-Zichri turned 9 on Monday. But instead of celebrating at home with his family and friends, he was somewhere in Gaza, one of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the militants’ devastating Oct. 7 incursion. The 4th-grader from the central Israeli city

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for making repeated racist phone calls to a Billings church. Joshua Leon Hiestand was sentenced Friday for making harassing telephone calls. Prosecutors say Hiestand went to a Presbyterian church in November 2020 seeking help and that a 72-year-old Black

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to ban the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene. The chemical is known as TCE. It’s used in a range of consumer products, including automobile brake cleaners, furniture care products and arts and crafts spray coating. The EPA wants to ban manufacturing,

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Investigators say they found a Georgia murder suspect who had been missing more than seven months while looking for four men who escaped from jail. Deputies say a woman told them on Monday that Christian Demond Williams had shot and wounded himself after someone shot through the door of a Macon

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia. Under a plea agreement approved by a federal judge on Monday, prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for 31-year-old Jareh Sebastian