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Mechanical problem caused deadly hay wagon crash
 

Maine, like most states, doesn’t have strict regulations for hayrides, including the one that lurched down a steep hill and into a tree over the weekend, killing a 17-year-old girl and injuring more than 20 others.

 
FAA traffic site near Chicago returns to full operation

Full operation was restored on Monday at a Chicago-area air traffic control site that was shut down in September by a fire allegedly set by a field technician, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

 
Hundreds protest at Ferguson police department

Hundreds of protesters converged in the pouring rain on the Ferguson, Missouri, police department on Monday as they launched another day of demonstrations over the August killing by police of an unarmed black teenager.

 
Vatican document: Gays have much to offer Catholic Church

A Vatican document said on Monday that homosexuals had “gifts and qualities to offer” and asked if Catholicism could accept gays and recognize positive aspects of same-sex couples.

 
NJ high school football program rocked by hazing might not return

The New Jersey school superintendent who canceled a high school football season after allegations of hazing among students said he is weighing whether to restore the program after this season.

 
N.H. children injured when wind tosses bounce house

Two toddlers were hurt when an inflatable bounce house they were in was lifted by a gust of wind and blown about 40 feet at a Nashua, New Hampshire, farm.

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Stearman flight a reward for Henderson veterans

An 88-year-old former Air Force flight nurse and her 86-year-old husband, a former Air Force pilot, were given a special treat for their service to the nation last week — a free ride in a 1942 Stearman biplane above Boulder City.

 
Patient quarantined in Boston, CDC confirms Texas Ebola case

A Texas health worker has contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian who died of the disease at a Dallas hospital last week, raising concern about how U.S. medical guidelines aimed at stopping the spread of the disease were breached.

 
1 dead, 22 injured when Maine hayride flips

Maine state police have identified the 17-year-old killed when a haunted hayride careened out of control down a hill and sent passengers hurtling to the ground.

 
Ex-convict shot in New York after prison release

Two New York City men have been charged with the ambush shooting of a man about 15 minutes after his release from prison.

 
Scary clowns terrorize Bakersfield community

The streets of Bakersfield, California turned nightmarish after reports flooded in claiming that clowns holding machetes and baseball bats were terrorizing the neighborhood.

 
Hundreds continue police shooting death protest in St. Louis

Hundreds are gathered in downtown St. Louis for a second day of organized rallies to protest Michael Brown’s death and other fatal police shootings in the area and elsewhere.

 
JFK airport begins enhanced Ebola screenings

Stepped up efforts by the U.S. to halt the spread of the Ebola virus will start at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, where teams armed with thermal guns and questionnaires will screen travelers from West African countries hit hardest by the outbreak.

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