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POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters have found a fourth body in the burned out remains of motel on the New Jersey shore. Authorities say all other occupants who had been missing have now been accounted for. Eight people were also injured in the fire early this morning that destroyed the Mariner's Cove Motor Inn in Point Pleasant Beach. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a law that will give hundreds of thousands of homeowners living in flood-prone areas relief from big jumps in insurance costs. Lawmakers from both parties supported the measure, which caps flood insurance premium increases at 18 percent a year in most cases. It revises a 2012 overhaul of the government's flood insurance program that left homeowners along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and in flood plains facing unaffordable rate increases.
VIENNA (AP) — The U.S. mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the group's 57 members have agreed to send an observer mission to Ukraine. The American mission says on Twitter that a consensus was reached today at a meeting of OSCE members, who include European Union nations, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. It calls for an initial deployment of 100 civilian monitors. Up to 400 more could be added if necessary.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York police say a 14-year-old boy has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge after gunfire on a Brooklyn bus claimed the life of an innocent bystander. Police Commissioner William Bratton says the victim, 39-year-old Angel Rojas, was not the intended target in the Thursday night incident. He was shot in the back of the head. Investigators suspect the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two gangs that had been taunting each other on social media.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is warning mobsters they will go to hell if they don't repent and renounce their "blood-stained money and blood-stained power." Francis delivered the forceful, off-the-cuff speech to a prayer vigil today for relatives of people killed by the mafia, where the names of 842 victims were read aloud.
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