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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a potential new blow to the nation's nuclear missile personnel. Defense officials say the Air Force is investigating about a dozen airmen at a nuclear missile base in Wyoming for alleged use of illegal drugs -- possibly including cocaine. The service members who are responsible for the nation's nuclear arsenal have been under intense scrutiny recently for a string of lapses in training and personal conduct.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says its warplanes in Syria are flying in support of the Syrian army's offensive to try recapture the ancient city of Palmyra (pahl-MEER'-uh) from the Islamic State group. That's despite a Russian drawdown in Syria that President Vladimir Putin ordered this week in support of the Geneva talks. Russia's Defense Ministry says the Syrian army has seized key hilltop points near Palmyra and has cut supply routes leading to the city.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Lawyers for wrestler Hulk Hogan have summarized their case to jurors in Florida -- telling them that Hogan never consented to the sex video that was put online by Gawker Media. Hogan says it was a violation of his privacy. But lawyers for Gawker, in their own closing arguments, said the video is "not like a real celebrity sex tape," and urged jurors to watch the video, which contains nine seconds of sexual content. Hogan is suing for $100 million.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three Franciscan friars have been arraigned in Pennsylvania. They are charged with allowing a suspected sexual predator to hold jobs where he molested more than 100 children. The suspect killed himself in January 2013 after church officials announced he'd molested students there in Ohio in the 1980s, prompting the Pennsylvania victims to come forward.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coroner's office in Los Angeles is investigating the fatal fall of an electrician from the 53rd floor of an unfinished downtown skyscraper -- both as a possible suicide and as a workplace accident. Officials say any time someone dies at a construction site, it has to be looked at in a work-related way. But they say police and co-workers describe yesterday's death as a suicide. The man fell into a street, striking a car.
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