Author: Amanda Lee Myers
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Acts of heroism emerge in chaos of Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS — Rob Ledbetter’s battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served as a sniper in Iraq immediately began tending to the wounded, one of several heroes to emerge from the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Amid the massacre in Las Vegas, which left…
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Vegas hospitals swamped with victims after high-rise attack
LAS VEGAS — The victims just kept coming. In cars, in ambulances waiting four or five deep, from the walking wounded to the barely alive, they arrived in droves. “I have no idea who I operated on,” said Dr. Jay Coates, a trauma surgeon whose hospital took in many of the wounded after a gunman…
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Peacock takes out $500 in wine after crashing liquor store
ARCADIA, Calif. — A female peacock has ruffled more than just feathers at a Los Angeles-area liquor store. Without a peep, the peahen strutted into the open door of the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia on Monday. Store manager and college senior Rani Ghanem said he didn’t even know it was there until a…
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Boy killed in San Bernardino classroom was ‘happy child’ with rare disorder
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — An 8-year-old boy shot and killed along with his teacher in a San Bernardino special-education classroom was born with a genetic condition and had survived heart surgery, a school official said Tuesday. Jonathan Martinez had Williams syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by learning delays, mild-to-moderate intellectual disabilities and heart problems, according…
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California’s famous ‘drive-thru’ sequoia toppled by storms
ARNOLD, Calif. — Fans are mourning a giant sequoia in California famous for a “drive-thru” hole carved into its trunk after a massive storm toppled the mighty tree. The tree shattered on impact when it went down Sunday, Calaveras Big Trees State Park volunteer Jim Allday said. “It was majestic,” he said. “Now it’s basically…
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Chris Brown arrested on suspicion of assault with deadly weapon
LOS ANGELES — Police arrested singer Chris Brown on Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman called hours earlier from outside his Los Angeles home and said she needed help. The arrest followed an hours-long standoff and lengthy search of Brown’s home after police produced a search warrant. Baylee Curran…
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Couple wanted in woman’s killing, kids’ kidnapping arrested in southern Colorado
LOS ANGELES — A California couple wanted in connection with a woman’s killing and the kidnapping of her three children in the Los Angeles area were arrested Thursday in Colorado. Joshua Aaron Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22, were arrested without incident in Pueblo, about 40 miles south of Colorado Springs, according to the Los…
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Isla Mujeres, Mexico: Near Cancun but a world away
ISLA MUJERES, Mexico – A half-hour ferry ride from the nonstop party that is Cancun sits an island seductively named Isla Mujeres, or Island of Women. Less than 5 miles long and only a half-mile wide, the tiny Mexican island is an oasis that caters to every set except the rowdy students sowing their oats…
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Trial starts in kids’ forced Grand Canyon hikes
PHOENIX — A federal trial began Wednesday for an Indiana man accused of forcing his grandsons to hike for miles in the Grand Canyon without food or water in brutal August heat. Investigators have said that Christopher Alan Carlson of Indianapolis told them that the boys were overweight and that he thought hiking the Grand…
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Police: Colorado teen missing since 1954 was slain
PHOENIX • A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard’s disappearance stretched into decades. It took a historian, a detective and determined family member to make the connection after more than a half century that these two people were one and…