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WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — A fast-growing grass fire in central Washington state has emergency management officials urging some residents to evacuate. Officials say the blaze has damaged or destroyed at least nine structures. An emergency shelter has been opened in a high school for residents from the north end of Wenachee, as firefighters battle the blaze that's now grown to at least 2.6 square miles.
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say a prisoner serving time for second-degree murder escaped with the help of a prison kitchen worker. Authorities believe 29-year-old Kristopher McNeil scaled the fence of the Brown Creek Correctional Institution Saturday. He was taken back into custody 80 miles away after he was spotted walking along a road near the Davidson/Forsyth County line in the central part of the state. Prison worker Kendra Lynette Miller has been charged with helping him.
MALONE, N.Y. (AP) — A convicted killer who escaped from an upstate New York prison is in critical condition after being captured Sunday. David Sweat was shot twice in the torso by a state police trooper who spotted him walking down a rural road near the Canadian border. Sweat and fellow convicted killer Richard Matt escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora on June 6. Matt was shot and killed after police spotted him Friday.
SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) — Police in Tunisia are searching nationwide for more suspects after the slaughter of at least 38 people on a beach on Friday. Police say the student who massacred vacationers on the beach of a resort hotel acted alone during the attack but had accomplices who supported him beforehand. The Interior Ministry says the attacker's father and three roommates have been detained and are being questioned in the capital, Tunis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military officials are having trouble finding enough Syrian rebels to train to fight the Islamic State group. Officials hope to have 3,000 rebels in training by year's end, but right now they have fewer than 100. The main problem has been finding enough Syrian recruits untainted by extremist affiliations or disqualified by physical or other flaws. Training Syrian rebels is central to the U.S.-led effort to create ground forces capable of fighting IS without involving U.S. ground combat troops.
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