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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman…
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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman…
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz raised the roasted turkey leg like a sword in his Iowa State Fair…
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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman year…
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By BILL BARROW Associated Press CLAYTON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is a conservative by any measure. As the Republicans seeks a second…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecution spent three weeks telling jurors how Nikolas Cruz murdered 14…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has mild symptoms of COVID-19 and has canceled his planned…
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis voiced worry Sunday about the situation in Nicaragua, where police…
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LONDON (AP) — The first day of a planned strike at Britain’s biggest container port started Sunday, joining a series of walkouts by…
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Local officials in eastern Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan say heavy flooding from seasonal rains has left dozens of people…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the…
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By INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Echoing down the corridors of eastern Ukraine’s Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital are…
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities are investigating a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people. In both cases,…
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By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The daughter of an influential Russian political theorist often referred to as “Putin’s brain”…
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By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali authorities have ended a deadly attack by Islamic extremists in which 21 people…
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By PAUL WISEMAN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers MECKENHEIM, Germany (AP) — Martin Kopf needs natural gas to run his family’s company,…
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By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press CHONGQING, China (AP) — China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by…
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Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say nine people were arrested at the Kentucky State Fair, which closed early Saturday night…
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Two Russians and a Ukrainian were arrested for alleged espionage at a military plant in southern Albania, the Albanian…
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man in Indonesia has tested positive for monkeypox, making him the country’s first confirmed case of the disease.…
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KING ABDULLAH SPORTS CITY, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Oleksandr Usyk kissed the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine and looked to the Saudi Arabian sky as he…
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dorli Rainey, a self-described “old lady in combat boots” who became a symbol of the Occupy protest movement when she was…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Recounts of election results in eight of nine Kansas counties appear to confirm that voters soundly rejected an amendment to…
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Baltimore family is suing an appraiser and a mortgage lender after their home was allegedly…
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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KWANONGOMA, South Africa (AP) — The new king of South Africa’s Zulu nation Misuzulu kaZwelithini was…
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HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman’s diamond wedding ring is back on her finger after a man with a metal detector responded to her social…
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with…
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are investigating a crash that killed two men who were thrown from an all-terrain vehicle when it struck a…
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DeSOTO, Texas (AP) — Police in suburban Dallas say a security guard at a lounge has been fatally shot by a customer. Lt. Chris Huerta says…
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CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month. Busey, 78, was charged…
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republicans have picked Rudy Yakym to replace U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski on the November ballot, after Yakym won the…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Ballots haven’t even been printed yet, but already a group of landlords, apartment…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it was the subject of a “propaganda attack” by a…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demolition of a 19th-century church in Philadelphia has begun following a yearslong battle by some neighbors to save the…
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R.J. RICO Associated Press (AP) — When Kristin Martin found out her husband was being transferred to Naval Base San Diego, securing housing for…
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By R.J. RICO Associated Press When Kristin Martin found out her husband was being transferred to Naval Base San Diego, securing housing for their…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A potential tropical storm is heading for the U.S.-Mexico border area, and could cause rains and flash flooding in northeastern…
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.’s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday…
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BERLIN (AP) — On the second anniversary of the poisoning attack on Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, Germany and the United States hailed…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted…
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By PAUL BYRNE and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities reported shooting down Ukrainian drones Saturday in…
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Officials in southern Turkey say at least 15 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with emergency teams handling an…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, often knocks President Joe Biden for high inflation and a looming…
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By MARK PRATT Associated Press A bronze statue of an enslaved woman from Massachusetts who went to court to win her freedom in 1781 has been unveiled…
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By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press LONGQUAN, China (AP) — Hundreds of persimmon trees that should be loaded with yellow fruit lie wilted in Gan…
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By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press Family, friends and fans have paid tribute to French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who died last week at age 89.…
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press BULLA HAGAR, Kenya (AP) — The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in…
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By KOSTYA MANENKOV and KARL RITTER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — In a leaked video, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin is seen dancing and…
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s close financial oversight by European Union creditors is ending.…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese chemical tanker ship crashed into a cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan, the…
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By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center…
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By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Survivors and faith leaders rallied Friday at the Utah State Capitol to demand change to a state…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans…
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By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts…
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By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MELIPEUCO, Chile (AP) — Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the…
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By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MELIPEUCO, Chile (AP) — Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the…
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By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an…
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BY ADAM BEAM and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to extend the…
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DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park’s most popular sites will reopen to the public on Saturday, two weeks after…
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By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a complaint from a group of workers who said they were…
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A lawsuit alleging a Mississippi school district discriminated…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona; Reps.…
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified…
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WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A tanker truck hauling gasoline in Yellowstone National Park rolled over Friday and spilled an estimated 4,800…
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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Construction is set to begin on a long-awaited national museum that will honor the U.S. Coast Guard. A special keel-laying…
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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a third attempted murder charge against a man accused of shooting an eastern Indiana police officer in…
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By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — The Montenegrin government has collapsed in a no-confidence vote that followed a…
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles…
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MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storm warnings have been issued for a stretch of the lower Texas Gulf Coast and part of Mexico’s northeast shoreline…
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By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have arrested a former attorney general and issued warrants for…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has failed to reach agreement on whether to extend…
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon has chosen former state Rep. Shane Hernandez of Port Huron as her…
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WYATT, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a young mother is the third member of her family to die in a gas explosion at her Missouri home.…
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Caleb Sharpe, who shot one classmate to death and wounded three others five years ago in a Washington state high school,…
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By CAROLE FELDMAN and CHRISSIE THOMPSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department has terminated federal recognition of an…
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By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In a victory for Georgia’s Republican governor, a federal judge has reinstated a work…
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By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents and abortion rights advocates together spent more…
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By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s inspector general says a state trooper should have been disciplined for being…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida grand jury empaneled after a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland high…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against guards and…
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By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanessa Bryant testified Friday that she was only beginning to grieve the loss of her husband,…
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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has awarded $50,000 to a northern Virginia landlord who was shot three times with…
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday accused the Russian leader of launching a “brutal attack” on Ukraine in an imperialist,…
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters says he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch…
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By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia official has filed a defamation lawsuit against Attorney General…
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says two Georgia Public Service Commission elections will not occur this…
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By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections…
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By JONATHAN DREW and GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court has opened the door to nullifying a voter ID mandate…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie’s behalf during a rally Friday on…
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MATTAPOISETT, Mass. (AP) — A huge fire at a Massachusetts marina turned several boats, buildings and vehicles into burned-out shells Friday,…
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate has hit a record low. The California Employment…
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say an aide of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who was recently arrested on…
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday said Sen. Lindsey Graham’s appearance before a special grand jury…
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees…
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By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Las Vegas man has pleaded not guilty in a California court to charges that he killed one…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned airlines that his department could draft new rules around…
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By AMY BETH HANSON and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in…
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WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say three people and a dog were killed after two small planes collided in Northern California while trying…
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida utility has been fined $500,000 and placed on three years’ probation for a 2017 deadly explosion at a coal-fired…
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