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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York prison worker who helped two murderers escape faces up to seven years in prison when she's scheduled for sentencing this morning. Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell reached a plea deal with prosecutors this summer, admitting to providing tools to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility June 6. Matt was killed by a border agent 20 days later. It took another two days to capture Sweat, who was wounded.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face for the first time in nearly a year today. Despite little signs of a breakthrough on Moscow's military engagement in Syria and the crisis in Ukraine, U.S. officials insist that it's still worthwhile for the two leaders to talk. Obama and Putin are in New York for the annual United Nations summit.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Doctors treating refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe say they're seeing very young children with exposure as temperatures drop. One volunteer with Doctors Without Borders says he's treated a one-month-old baby, and even one 15 days old. Migrants have been walking through cornfields and forests to pass through a small gate that marks the border between Croatia and Serbia. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has been handing out blankets, warm drinks and food.
UNDATED (AP) — A breast cancer study in today's New England Journal of Medicine is good news for patients. The study, led by a researcher at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, found that some women in the early stages of breast cancer don't need chemotherapy. Genetic testing showed that those women were likely to respond to hormone-blocking drugs, and the chemo did little good.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — There's a court battle over a Utah prairie dog. A judge in November struck down endangered species protections for the small, burrowing animals that residents say are taking over the southern town of Cedar City. The judge said the federal government can't regulate animals found in only one state. Lawyers for the federal government and animal rights groups plan to argue in a federal appeals court in Denver today that the ruling could weaken protections for animals all over the country because the majority of endangered species are only found in a single state.
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