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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State officials who've been refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples are being told they must comply with last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling. A federal appeals court has ordered judges in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas to wrap up their gay marriage cases in line with the high court ruling. Also on Wednesday, a federal judge in Alabama told several counties in the state that they could no longer refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — The engine of an Indonesian military plane may have stalled before it crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing 141 people. Indonesia's air force chief says the fact that the plane turned to the right after takeoff Tuesday and was flying at a speed lower than normal suggests engine failure.
UNDATED (AP) — Firefighters are attacking hotspots at a wildfire that's destroyed nearly 30 homes in the central Washington city of Wenatchee. By Wednesday evening, the blaze was 83 percent contained. Officials said earlier that the fire was human-caused, and they're still looking into whether it was set on purpose or an accident. The wildfire has scorched about 2,950 acres. In Nevada, firefighters have declared full containment of a lightning-sparked wildfire covering almost 8 square miles of sage and grass in a remote northern part of the state.
MARICOPA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Arizona have questioned a "person of interest" in the case of a Phoenix-area couple missing for more than a week. Authorities say Michael Careccia and his wife Tina haven't been seen since they left their Maricopa home in their car about 5 a.m. on June 22. Maricopa is about 30 miles south of Phoenix. Their abandoned vehicle was later found about a half-mile away from their home, covered in dirt. On Wednesday, authorities searched the home of a man who lives blocks away from the couple and began digging on the property.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It's been a record-breaking year for shark attacks off the North Carolina coast. On Wednesday, a 68-year-old man was bitten by a shark several times while in waist-deep water off North Carolina's Outer Banks. He's in a hospital in fair condition. Witnesses say the man was pulled under by a shark about 7 feet long. It's the seventh shark attack in the state this year.
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