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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former New Jersey funeral home worker has been charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly leaving a casket on a Philadelphia sidewalk that contained the embalmed organs of an infant. Philly.com (http://bit.ly/2wr33ax ) reports 24-year-old Jeremy Brooks and his attorney haven't commented on the charge. He has a Sept. 21 hearing date. Brooks worked for Stanley's Memorial Chapel in Camden. The casket became damaged during a June 29 funeral in Philadelphia. The baby's body was transferred to a new casket... Читать дальше...

PARÍS (AP) — La policía en Francia sacó de un pantano un automóvil robado hace 38 años. El vehículo está en condiciones sorprendentemente buenas aunque forrado de cangrejos, se informó el viernes. Las autoridades informaron que el Peugeot 104 color azul que fue hurtado en la región de Champaña en 1979, será devuelto a su dueño. En un mensaje en Facebook, la policía dijo que el propietario del pantano avisó a las autoridades del hallazgo el lunes en Chalons-en-Champagne, a unos 160 kilómetros (100 millas) al este de París. Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — It's the car coming back from a watery grave. A blue Peugeot 104 stolen in the heart of France's Champagne country in 1979 is being reunited with its owner — 38 years later — after French police pulled it, in surprisingly good shape but crawling with crayfish, from a murky swamp. In a Facebook posting, police said the pond owner alerted officers in Chalons-en-Champagne, 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Paris, on Monday about the discovery. The car became visible because drought dropped the water level. Читать дальше...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A retired police officer with multiple college degrees has re-enrolled as a freshman at the University of Toledo for the opportunity to step off with the school's marching band. WNWO-TV reports 59-year-old grandmother Virginia Todd took to the field with her clarinet Thursday night for Toledo's football season opener. Todd spent 21 years with the Oregon Police Department outside of Toledo and is now an attorney, a coroner's office death investigator and a full-fledged member of the Rocket Marching Band. Читать дальше...

Early estimates project that as many as 500,000 cars may have been damaged when Hurricane Harvey drenched Houston and Southeast Texas with historic flooding Aug. 25-30.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The mother of a 12-year-old girl is outraged after a middle-school teacher in St. Louis duct-taped her daughter to a chair. KSDK-TV reports that Clorinda Bailey says she has been asking herself, "Why would someone do this?" She learned what had happened Wednesday afternoon when the principal and an administrator from Central Middle School in the Riverview Gardens School District took her daughter home. She said the teacher should have called her or sent her daughter... Читать дальше...

Don’t want a roommate, but can’t afford a one-bedroom? This situation, for renters, means the hunt for a studio apartment is on. But in Berkeley, that can be an expensive endeavor. In this city, apartments as small as 250 square feet rent for $1,500 a month. Prices go steadily up with each added square foot:

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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Eastern Michigan University says preliminary numbers show fall semester enrollment could see the third largest freshman class in the school's history. Figures indicate that 2,795 first-time freshmen will take classes this fall. In fall 2011, the university enrolled 2,130 new freshmen. Eastern says this year's freshman class includes 572 African American, 156 Hispanic, 35 Native American and 66 Asian-American students. Student move-in begins today on Eastern Michigan's Ypsilanti campus. Читать дальше...

A Netflix-and-chill movie for the generation that might have to look up what “Netflix and chill” means, “Our Souls at Night” reunites Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in a sweet, low-key romance that operates best when it eschews plot and just lets us get to know these characters as they get to know each other. Boasting the kind of star wattage that can’t be hidden under all the bushels of Wal-Mart sleepwear and mom jeans that the film can muster, Fonda and Redford prove, five decades after “Barefoot... Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on Kenya's presidential election court challenge (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Lawyers for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta are calling the Supreme Court's nullification of last month's election a "very political decision" but they say they will live with the consequences. Lead counsel Ahmednassir Abdulahi spoke to the court after the six-judge panel ruled 4-2 in favor of the petition filed by opposition candidate Raila Odinga. Odinga claimed that the electronic voting... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pouring more money into a campaign to shore up support for a Chicago-area tax on sweetened beverages. Bloomberg is adding $3 million to the $2 million he has already plowed into a different ad supporting the tax, which went into effect Aug. 1. The new ad features family physician Dr. Javette Orgain. In it Orgain contends soda companies are targeting children. The effort comes as the beverage industry and retailers continue an effort to roll back Cook County's penny-for-ounce soda tax. Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Lawyers for Kenya's president call court's nullification of election 'very political decision'

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Harvey's threat is a thing of the past for New Orleans where residents look ahead to celebrating a Labor Day weekend filled with football, music and parade-filled fun. Thursday marked the beginning of festivities as the annual street party known as Southern Decadence brought in a flood of tourists to help kick off its celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The fun continued Friday and goes through Monday, Sept. 4. Also, New Orleans Saints fans filled... Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's Supreme Court has nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta's election win last month and called for new elections within 60 days, shocking a country that had been braced for further protests by opposition supporters. No Kenya presidential election has ever been nullified. The six-judge bench ruled Friday 4-2 in favor of the petition filed by opposition candidate Raila Odinga. He has claimed that the electronic voting results were hacked into and manipulated in favor of Kenyatta... Читать дальше...

VIENNA (AP) — Austria's Social Democratic Party is going to court over a comment made by the head of its government coalition partner, saying he lied when he said that the Social Democrats accepted a large donation in campaigning ahead of October national elections. The move against Sebastian Kurz of the center-right People's Party comes after Kurz said during a TV discussion that the Social Democrats were given 100,000 euros (nearly $120,000) from a backer as part of what he said was murky campaign funding. Читать дальше...

CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 31, 2017 _____ 171 FPUS55 KVEF 010906 ZFPVEF Zone forecasts for the Mojave Desert and Southern Great Basin National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 205 AM PDT Fri Sep 1 2017 This is an automatically generated product that provides average values for large geographical areas and may not be representative of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site specific forecast...please visit weather.gov/lasvegas and either (1) Select a location... Читать дальше...

TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 31, 2017 _____ HGXZFPHGX FPUS54 KHGX 010858 ZFPHGX FPUS54 KHGX 010857 ZFPHGX Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 357 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 TXZ211-012100- Austin- Including the cities of Bellville and Sealy 357 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 .TODAY...Mostly sunny early in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs around 90. Light winds late becoming northeast around 5 mph. .TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — Rescuers in Texas continue to search for people left behind in Harvey's floodwaters as the downgraded storm heads to other states to dump more rain. Here are some things happening on the ground: THE FORECAST Harvey is expected to dump heavy rain on parts of Louisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky through Friday. The forecast calls for totals ranging from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). Some places could possibly be hit with up to a foot of rain. THE DEAD Some Harvey victims died trying to save other people... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — At least 2 tons of highly unstable chemicals used in such products as plastics and paint exploded and burned at a flood-crippled plant near Houston, sending up a plume of acrid black smoke that stung the eyes and lungs. The blaze that began early Thursday at the Arkema Inc. chemical plant burned out around midday, but emergency crews continued to hold back because of the danger that eight other trailers containing the same compound could blow, too. No serious injuries were reported. Читать дальше...

TX Brownsville TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 31, 2017 _____ 296 FPUS54 KBRO 010857 ZFPBRO Zone Forecasts for Deep South Texas National Weather Service Brownsville TX 357 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 TXZ253-020300- Hidalgo- Including the cities of McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, Mission, and Weslaco 357 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 .TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. .TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds around 10 mph until early morning becoming light. Читать дальше...

CA Phoenix AZ Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 31, 2017 _____ 571 FPUS55 KPSR 010857 ZFPPSR Zone Forecast Product for Southwest Arizona/Southeast California National Weather Service Phoenix AZ 157 AM MST Fri Sep 1 2017 This is an automatically generated product that provides average values for large geographical areas and may not be representative of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site specific forecast, please visit weather.gov/phoenix and either (1) Select a location... Читать дальше...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Today's tense political climate in the United States? "This is nothing," laughs Ama Prisca Nipassa, 17. Now a citizen of the United States, Ama is a rising senior at Belleville East High School and among the teens putting together the second annual Belleville Peace Festival. She lived with her grandparents in Togo, a country in West Africa, until 2010; her mom and older sister had moved to Illinois when Ama was 3. She remembers she and her grandparents had a routine where they went to the beach on weekends... Читать дальше...

Explosions that rocked a Texas chemical plant after it was inundated by Harvey's floodwaters are raising questions about the adequacy of industry preparations for the monster storm and stoking fears of more accidents in the days ahead. The owners of the plant in Crosby, Texas, warned Thursday that further explosions could come as the unstable chemicals there warm up and degrade following a loss of power at the site northeast of Houston. Meanwhile, the scope of the damage from Harvey continues to... Читать дальше...

TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 31, 2017 _____ 365 FPUS54 KCRP 010850 ZFPCRP Zone Forecasts for The Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Plains National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 350 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 TXZ243-012145- Nueces- Including the city of Corpus Christi 350 AM CDT Fri Sep 1 2017 .TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s inland...in the upper 80s coast. Light east winds increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. .TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s... Читать дальше...