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North Dakota lawmaker's plane took off without runway lights before deadly crash

North Dakota lawmaker's plane took off without runway lights before deadly crash

A North Dakota state senator took off from a remote Utah airport last month with his wife and two young sons in the plane without the runway lights on a dark night with no moonlight and crashed just a minute later killing everyone aboard. 
by The Associated Press

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Fire burns former Lake Street Kmart building in Minneapolis

Fire burns former Lake Street Kmart building in Minneapolis

Fire crews responded to the call at about 5 a.m. and found flames and thick smoke coming from the vacant Kmart department store at Lake and Nicollet, just west of Interstate 35W. The building was scheduled for demolition next March.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox and MPR News Staff

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Former St. Paul teacher killed in attacks in Israel

An Israeli schoolteacher who spent six years teaching in St. Paul is being remembered for his devotion and connection to his students after he was killed in Israel during the recent Hamas attacks.
by Regina Medina

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Jewish summer camp staff, alumni mourn Israeli friend killed in attack

Jewish summer camp staff, alumni mourn Israeli friend killed in attack

Staff and alumni of a local Jewish summer camp are mourning the death of an Israeli man killed in the Hamas attack on Saturday. The website TC Jewfolk reports that Netta Epstein, 21, died in his apartment just outside the Gaza Strip while protecting his girlfriend from an exploding grenade.
by Matt Sepic

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Over 2,000 feared dead after powerful earthquakes hit Afghanistan

Over 2,000 feared dead after powerful earthquakes hit Afghanistan

Images shared by Afghan journalists showed at least one village reduced to rubble after a series of quakes flattened stone and mudbrick homes in the country's west.
by Diaa Hadid

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