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Police search for missing 6-year-old Washington girl

More than 100 officers from 10 law enforcement agencies are involved in the search for a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her home near Bremerton over the weekend, the Kitsap County sheriff’s office said Tuesday.

Utah home destroyed by landslide, 20 others evacuated

A landslide struck an upscale suburban Salt Lake City community on Tuesday, destroying a home and forcing evacuations as a rain-soaked hillside tumbled from above.

 
14 injured when NYC tour buses collide

A crash involving two double-decker tour buses injured 14 people and left Times Square blood-spattered on Tuesday afternoon.

 
Passer-by pulls mom, 2 kids from Hollywood motel pool

A mother and two of her children were hospitalized in grave condition Tuesday after she jumped in to a motel pool in Hollywood to help the struggling kids and all three were pulled from the water by a passer-by who learned CPR just last week, authorities said.

 
Woman with Ebola arrives at Atlanta hospital

A second American aid worker infected with Ebola arrived Tuesday in Atlanta, where doctors will closely monitor the effect of an experimental drug she agreed to take even though its safety was never tested on humans.

British police arrest man on suspicion of bomb threat aboard airliner

British police arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat aboard a Qatar Airways plane bound for Britain that forced Royal Air Force fighter jets to escort the jet to a safe landing.

 
125 feared dead after Bangladesh ferry sinks

Families of scores of people presumed dead after their ferry capsized in central Bangladesh accused authorities on Tuesday of launching a feeble rescue effort and leaving their loved ones trapped inside the vessel for more than 24 hours.

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2 women charged after close call on train bridge

Prosecutors filed criminal charges Monday against two women who they say were caught on video surviving a close call with a freight train on a bridge 80 feet high in southern Indiana.

Couple dead after Lake Tahoe boat crash

Authorities say a husband and wife are dead after their boat crashed into a dock in the middle of the night at Lake Tahoe.

 
‘Odds are’ patient doesn’t have Ebola, says NY doctor

A man who visited West Africa last month and is at a New York City hospital being tested for possible Ebola likely doesn’t have it.

US sent Latin youths undercover in anti-Cuba mission

Fernando Murillo was typical of the young Latin Americans deployed to Cuba by a U.S. agency to work undercover. He had little training in the dangers of clandestine operations — or how to evade one of the world’s most sophisticated counter-intelligence services.

 
1 dead, 2,500 stranded in Calif. mudslides

Crews cleared roads in an area where some 2,500 had been stranded after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California, while authorities estimated that between 6 and 8 homes were badly damaged and likely uninhabitable.

Missing 6-year-old last seen in her bed

Sheriff’s deputies in Washington are searching for a missing 6-year-old girl who was last seen Saturday night when she went to bed at the family home in east Bremerton.

Israel withdraws most ground troops from Gaza Strip

Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip on Sunday in an apparent winding down of the nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis dead.

Earthquake kills 367 in southern China

A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.

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