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LONDON (AP) — Governments and aid agencies are rushing doctors, volunteers and equipment to Nepal, a day after the Himalayan country was rocked by an earthquake. U.N. spokeswoman Orla Fagan, who is heading to Nepal, says 14 international medical teams are on the way along with 14 or 15 international search-and-rescue teams. She says preventing the spread of disease is one of the most important tasks facing the aid workers. The quake has killed more than 2,500 people, nearly all of them in Nepal.
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — The Coast Guard continues to search the waters off Alabama, a day after a powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in the Dauphin Island regatta in Mobile Bay. Two people are dead and five are believed missing. The Alabama Department of Public Safety says one body was discovered yesterday and another was found this morning.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A wake is being held in Baltimore for Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died a week ago after being seriously injured in police custody. Across the street from the funeral home, about 40 sympathizers turned up, some holding signs of support. Gray was also remembered at a church service earlier today, where Pastor Jamal Bryant told the congregation that if "you're black in America your life is always under threat." Gray's funeral is tomorrow.
MADRID (AP) — Greenpeace is calling on Spain's government to dedicate more resources to cleaning up an oil spill rising up from a sunken fishing trawler off the Canary Islands. The group says one of its planes detected a 3-mile slick of "thick oil" covering the ocean just above where the Russian fishing boat sank on April 14. Spain's Development Ministry says slicks are being monitored.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California agency that manages the Golden Gate Bridge is asking Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn) for help in restricting the rising number of remote-controlled drones that have been buzzing the famous span. Denis Mulligan, the general manager of the Golden Gate Transportation District, tells the Marin Independent Journal that the unmanned aerial devices pose safety and security threats to the bridge. He says drones have been flying past security fences and sensors and one recently crash-landed on the bridge's roadway.
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