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WASHINGTON (AP) — A storm that arrived postcard-pretty in the nation's capital today is morphing into a blizzard with gale-force winds pushing heavy snow and coastal flooding. One in seven Americans could get at least half a foot of snow by Sunday. Washington could see up to 2 feet.. Whiteout conditions will develop once the storm joins up with a low pressure system off the coast.
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's prime minister says a shooter opened fire at a high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan on Friday, leaving five dead and two others critically injured, The La Loche Community School is in the remote aboriginal community of La Loche.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An Iraqi-born man living in California has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge that he lied to investigators about traveling to Syria two years ago to fight against the government there. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab faces up to eight years in prison if he's convicted. Prosecutors and a defense attorney say Al-Jayab never planned attacks in the U.S.
CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers whose official accounts of a 2014 fatal shooting of a black teenager by white Officer Jason Van Dyke contradict parts of a squad-car video have been put on desk duty until investigations are complete. Dashcam video shows Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times as he walks away from police officers with a knife at his side.
HONOLULU (AP) — Sitting and lying down on state lands in Hawaii could become illegal under a proposal in the state Legislature. Experts on homelessness say they don't know of any other state with such a ban. State Rep. Isaac Choy, a Democrat., says the bill seeks to align Hawaii's policies with a sit-lie ban enacted by Honolulu in 2014,
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