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WASHINGTON (AP) — The European Union and the United States have imposed new tough sanctions on Russia. The coordinated sanctions are aimed at increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his country's support for Ukrainian separatists whom the West blames for shooting down a Malaysian passenger jet nearly two weeks ago.
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court says Boulder County must stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while the court considers an appeal from the state's attorney general. The same court had previously ordered Denver to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but that ruling didn't apply to Boulder.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has won $1.8 million in his two-year fight to prove he was defamed by a military sniper and best-selling author. Chris Kyle claimed in his book to have punched out Ventura at a bar for bad-mouthing Navy SEALs. Kyle was killed at a gun range last year in Texas.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who was struck by a plane that crash-landed on a Florida beach while she vacationed with her family has died from her injuries. Oceana Irizarry's father also was killed Sunday. The two were walking along the beach in Venice when the 1972 Piper Cherokee plane made an emergency landing.
ATLANTA (AP) — The last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 has died in Georgia. Theodore VanKirk, also known as "Dutch," died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Stone Mountain. He was 93.
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