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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. This, after North Korea claimed yesterday that it carried out a successful hydrogen bomb test. World powers are looking at ways to punish North Korea for what would be its fourth nuclear test. The South's propaganda broadcasts are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family.
ATLANTA (AP) — A hostage standoff has ended in tragedy in an Atlanta suburb. Police say a man who kept his 2-year-old son hostage for 18 hours has killed the child and himself. Police entered a home in Buford, Georgia late yesterday afternoon when they heard gunfire. Police found 43-year-old Thy Ho and his son Phillip Nguyen, who were taken to hospitals. The standoff began Tuesday night when someone called police to report that a man was threatening to shoot everyone in the home and then take his own life.
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago is scheduled for execution tonight in Florida State Prison. Barring a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-year-old Oscar Ray Bolin will be put to death for abducting a 26-year-old woman from a post office north of Tampa in 1986 and then killing her. Bolin also was sentenced to death for killing a 17-year-old girl.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some Los Angeles residents say they can't remember where they put the umbrella because it rains so little in the state. But now they need it. This week's El Nino-triggered storms have brought welcome rain after four years of drought, but they've also brought angst. Authorities have evacuated 10 mobile homes northwest of Los Angeles because of watery mud from hillsides that burned bare in a June wildfire. Winds were serious enough in San Diego County Wednesday to bring a brief tornado warning.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There was no big winner in last night's Powerball drawing, so this Saturday's jackpot will be worth about $675 million. Lottery officials say that'll be the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history.
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