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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Crews in Kansas will begin recovering the bodies of the four people killed when a small plane crashed into a building at the airport in Wichita. A federal investigator says the pilot reported a problem with the aircraft's left engine soon after taking off from the airport yesterday morning. The dead are believed to be the pilot and three people who were in a flight simulator inside the building the plane hit.
LORDS VALLEY, Pa. (AP) — Police in Pennsylvania say it was important that fugitive suspect Eric Frein (freen) be held in handcuffs belonging to the state trooper he's accused of killing. After a seven-week manhunt, Frein was captured Thursday, about 30 miles from the Pocono Mountain state police barracks where one state trooper was shot and killed and another was seriously wounded. Authorities say Frein was found near an empty airport hangar.
KOSLANDA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Authorities in Sri Lanka are warning of more landslides at a tea plantation where a deadly torrent of mud swept away scores of homes this week and may have killed up to 200 people. Disaster officials say about 100 people died Wednesday morning when monsoon rains unleashed a cascade of muddy earth at the tea plantation, but many villagers believe it was double that number.
BEIJING (AP) — A court in China has upheld the death sentences of three men convicted of organizing the brutal knife attack that killed 31 people outside a railway station in the southern city of Kunming in March. Five knife-wielding attackers hacked 31 people to death and wounded 141 before police were able to subdue them. Four of the assailants were shot dead at the scene. Beijing has blamed religion-influenced terrorists with foreign ties for the attack.
DENVER (AP) — A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that voters aren't very interested in traditional wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage as Election Day approaches. Only 32 percent of likely voters who answered the poll call gay marriage an important issue, compared with 91 percent ranking the economy important, 78 percent saying health care is important and 74 percent naming Ebola important.
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