Wildfires threaten tourist town...NC Jury to get police officer case...NH rape trial

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CHELAN, Wash. (AP) — Scores of homes remain threatened, and mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for more than 2,900 people in a scenic lakeside town in the Cascade Mountains now threatened by large wildfires. Many of the tourists Chelan (shuh-LAN'), Washington counts on for revenue have fled the fires that scorched 155 square miles and burned about 75 homes and businesses. Fire officials are using air tankers to help protect the downtown area. Many other fires are burning in the Northwest.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A jury is expected to begin deliberations today after hearing closing arguments in the case of a white police officer in North Carolina charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of an unarmed black man. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer Randall Kerrick faces up to 11 years in prison if he's convicted. Kerrick's attorneys say the officer feared for his life.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled today in the rape trial of a New Hampshire prep school graduate. Prosecutors say a practice of pre-graduation sexual conquest of younger female students known as the "Senior Salute" will be central to the case. Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie (lah-BREE') of Tunbridge, Vermont has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting a 15-year-old freshman in 2014.

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say there are no injuries today from a second explosion in Bangkok. The blast at a ferry pier comes a day after a deadly bombing that killed at least 20 people. Police say today's explosive was thrown from a bridge but fell into a river. Thailand's prime minister has asked people to report suspicious activity.

BERLIN (AP) — Doctors in Germany say quadruplets born by C-section three months early to a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher are getting healthier and should be able to leave a hospital this month. The mother is believed to be the oldest woman to have ever delivered quadruplets. She already had 13 other children, ages 10 to 44, from five fathers. She traveled abroad to have donated, fertilized eggs implanted, a procedure that's illegal in Germany.