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Rescuers race to free people trapped by Hurricane Helene after storm kills at least 30 in 4 states
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached at least 30 across four states. According to an Associated Press tally Friday, the deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Authorities ID artist killed in shooting in St. Paul’s Lowertown
Authorities on Friday identified the woman killed in an apparently random shooting while working on an outdoor art project in St. Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood on Wednesday evening.
University of Wisconsin fires former porn-making chancellor who wanted to stay on as a professor
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has voted unanimously to fire a communications professor Joe Gow who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system’s campuses for making pornographic films. The board on Friday rejected his wish to remain a professor.
Actress Maggie Smith, star of stage, film and ’Downton Abbey,’ has died aged 89
Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89.
Legal questions about Pennsylvania mail-in ballots loom as voting starts
As voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania start receiving mail ballots, multiple legal fights over how the ballots of mail-in voters should be counted are still playing out in the courts.
New recruits for Minneapolis Police Department include first Somali-American woman, first non-U.S. citizen
The newest officers to join the Minneapolis Police Department include the city’s first Somali-American woman to wear the badge and the first non-U.S. citizen. They were among a group of 23 new officers sworn in at a ceremony Thursday night.