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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media say a South Korean soldier is at large after killing five comrades and wounding another five at the border with North Korea. The Yonhap news agency reports that a South Korean army private fled after opening fire on his comrades earlier in the evening at an outpost in Gangwon province, east of Seoul.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities today, as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in the western Anbar province. Iraq's Shiite-led government has struggled to push back against Islamic extremists and allied militants who have seized large swaths of the country's north, including the second-largest city of Mosul.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — A central figure in a famous British miscarriage of justice has died. Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly imprisoned for an IRA bombing, died today at his Belfast home following a long battle with cancer. He was 60. Conlon and three others were convicted and sentenced to life for the 1974 bombing of a pub in Guildford, near London, that killed five people. They were exonerated in 1989. Conlon's autobiography, "Proved Innocent," was the basis for 1993 movie "In the Name of the Father" starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas corrections officials are trying to make conditions more bearable in a handful of prison units by installing cooling devices similar to ones used on the sidelines of football games. The state prison system is facing lawsuits alleging that hot prison cells are responsible for numerous inmate deaths, but prison officials insist the cooling devices are a routine upgrade they look at every summer, not a response to the lawsuits.
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Some 1,300 runners are challenging gravity in the 54th annual Run to the Clouds race at New Hampshire's Mount Washington. The 7.6-mile race up the highest peak in the Northeast attracts runners from around the globe. The top of Mount Washington, at 6,288 feet, is home to some of the worst weather on the planet but today's forecast is for partly sunny skies and highs in the mid-70s.
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