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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials say the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli offensive is more than 500. A Gaza health ministry official says rescue workers near the city of Khan Younis pulled 20 bodies from a home flattened in an Israeli air strike. In an emergency session last night, the U.N. Security Council expressed "serious concern" about Gaza's rising civilian death toll and demanded an immediate end to the fighting.
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Local rescue workers today have found another 21 bodies in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week. It's unclear how quickly they'll be transported to refrigerated railcars in the nearby town of Torez, where other bodies are being held. Ukraine's emergency services agency said last night that the total number of bodies found was 251. On board the plane were 298 people.
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — A Pro-Russia rebel leader is denying that rebels are trying to tamper with evidence in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine. Alexander Borodai says the bodies of those killed will be turned over to a team of Malaysian experts he's expecting. A group of investigators that includes Malaysian officials is in Kiev, but the investigators say they won't go into rebel-held areas until they get better assurances about security.
DETROIT (AP) — Jury selection starts today in Detroit in the trial of a 55-year-old man who shot to death a young woman who had been knocking on his door in the wee hours of the morning in November. Prosecutors say Theodore Wafer grabbed his shotgun, opened the front door of his Dearborn Heights home and blasted 19-year-old Renisha McBride in the face. McBride was drunk but unarmed when she had gone to get help after crashing her car. Wafer claims McBride was aggressive and violent and that he acted in self-defense.
CHICAGO (AP) — A study suggests that disadvantaged teens may get more than an academic boost by attending top-notch high schools — their health may also benefit. Risky behavior including binge-drinking, unsafe sex and use of hard drugs was less common among these kids, compared with peers who went to mostly worse schools. The teens were otherwise similar, all from low-income Los Angeles neighborhoods who applied to top public charter schools that admit students by lottery. Results are in Monday's in Pediatrics online.
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