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(AP) — Police are searching for two people they say stole a dump truck from a housing development then used it to drag an automatic teller machine out of a grocery store in northeastern Pennsylvania. The theft, captured on surveillance video, shows the men were driving a truck from Thornhurst Country Club Estates.

The Oscar winner’s Jackie Kennedy portrayal lands her top prize at Palm Springs Film Festival The Oscar winner will be honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award at this year’s Palm Springs Film Festival gala, for her performance in Pablo Larrain’s “Jackie.” [...] Read: 'Jackie' Star Natalie Portman on 'Daunting' Task of Playing Mrs Kennedy (Exclusive Video) “Natalie Portman truly brings to life one of this country’s most treasured public figures in the acclaimed new film ‘Jackie,'” Festival... Читать дальше...

Every retirement of a beloved staffer is a sad occasion, but it’s also a time to reflect on what they have brought to The Chronicle. Chuck has served as a steadfast advocate, calling out politicians and activists when he thought they didn’t have the city’s best interests at heart, moving us to tears with stories around the struggle for marriage equality, and routinely championing the underdog. David is a longtime San Franciscan, journalist and author. Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s... Читать дальше...

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) — The city council in the St. Louis suburb of University City has suspended City Manager Lehman Walker indefinitely. Walker has been under criticism for much of the six years he has been at University City. The council suspended him during a meeting Tuesday, and also authorized the hiring of a special counsel to represent four council members who have been threatened with a defamation lawsuit by Walker. Former police chief Charles Adams has been appointed interim city manager. Читать дальше...

(AP) — An Arkansas educator who graduated from high school in Omaha has been selected to lead Hastings College in Nebraska. Officials say his mother once taught at Hastings College and his brother and sister-in-law graduated from the school, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.

Student to return to prep school for now after sex case CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily reinstated a teenager at an elite New Hampshire prep school after his mother said he was wrongfully expelled after having sex with another student.

DETROIT (AP) — A police officer who was killed in the line of duty in Detroit has been awarded a citation for valor and posthumously promoted to sergeant. A visitation for Rose is Wednesday at Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, and visitation and funeral Mass are planned Thursday morning at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in St. Clair Shores.

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Trump chooses Mnuchin for Treasury, Ross for Commerce, in transition moves.

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Mnuchin, Trump's campaign finance director, confirms he's been chosen to head Treasury.

Gerald Shmavonian has never slept a night in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Orinda estate that he purchased back in 2013. In fact, in the last three years the historic 1948 home created by the famed architect has only been occupied a handful of times—mostly by non-profit fundraisers for local groups looking to raise money for

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump tweets that he will be leaving his businesses in order to focus on running country as president.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a suspicious bag that caused evacuation of three buildings at the University of Nebraska at Kearney contained no dangerous material. A campus news release says a teacher spotted the bag Tuesday outside the Fine Arts Building. Around 3 p.m. officials evacuated about 400 people from that building, the Health and Sports Center and Cushing Coliseum. Nebraska State Patrol officers sent to the campus determined by 6:30 p.m. that the bag didn't pose a threat to public safety.

In an interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner conducted the day after the presidential election earlier this month, Obama said, "Michelle will never run for office." Obama also said in the interview published online Tuesday that once he leaves office in January, he and his wife will "continue to be very active" on their belief that "when you work with people on the ground at a grassroots level, change happens."

(AP) — Orange County commissioners and University of Central Florida administrators have agreed on a plan to make roads around the campus safer for pedestrians. Media outlets report that commissioners unanimously approved the plan Tuesday, which arose from a two-year study of pedestrian and bicycle safety at UCF.

(AP) — Three people who have dedicated their lives to educating others have been selected to be inducted into the Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame. Skillern, who is still teaching social studies after a 30-year career in Bowling Green and Warren County schools, has been described by former students as a great motivator.

LONDON (AP) — The CIA director says it would be an act of "folly" for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran. John Brennan told the BBC in an interview broadcast Wednesday that it would be "disastrous" to end the deal designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace toward the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus early Wednesday, the official Syrian news agency said, in a strike on an unknown target that caused loud explosions. Israel has been largely unaffected by the Syrian civil war raging next door, suffering only sporadic incidents of spillover fire over the frontier that Israel has generally dismissed as tactical errors of the Assad regime.

The fire blazed through the three-story dormitory housing middle school students in the town of Aladag, in Adana province, late on Tuesday. Authorities, meanwhile, imposed a temporary media blackout that restricts coverage of the fire, citing public order concerns and possible impediments to the investigation.

MADRID (AP) — Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Moroccan man they believe was studying intensely on the internet to carry out attacks against civilians for the Islamic State armed group.

BERLIN (AP) — The unemployment rate in Germany ticked down in November as the labor market in Europe's largest economy remained strong. The Federal Labor Office said Wednesday that the unemployment rate in November fell to 5.7 percent from 5.8 percent the previous month, with a total of 2.53 million people out of work. Adjusted for seasonal factors, the rate remained steady at 6 percent, the lowest it has been since German reunification.

(AP) — A suspected tornado killed three people in Alabama as a line of severe storms moved across the South overnight, authorities said. The three who died were all in a mobile home in the northeastern Alabama community of Rosalie, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen told The Associated Press early Wednesday.

The Decatur Daily reports (http://bit.ly/2fA1Zvw ) how to give the employees a raise has been an issue since September when the previous council allotted $600,000 from reserves to pay for wage increases, but only designated how $240,000 would be spent. Council President Chuck Ard pushed for a cost-of-living raise as a way to make a step toward improving employee pay after a study concluded city employees overall are paid 5 percent less than the average of comparable municipalities.

The central bank says the tests also found weaknesses at Barclays and Standard Chartered based on their balance sheets at the end of last year, but no further action was needed because both have announced plans to increase capital to required levels.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi prince has issued a public call for women to be allowed to drive in the conservative kingdom. The billionaire leads the Riyadh-based investment firm Kingdom Holding Company, which holds stakes in several Western companies, including Twitter.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An employee with the Cirque du Soleil "Luzia" show died after being injured Tuesday night in what was termed an "industrial accident," San Francisco police said. Police said officers with San Francisco Police Department Traffic Collision Investigation Unit and investigators with the state's workplace safety regulator, Cal/OSHA, were investigating.