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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former California governor and senator says he's endorsing Ted Cruz's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Pete Wilson's announcement today at the state GOP convention is a key pickup for the Texas senator. Wilson is regarded as a moderate who could help the conservative Cruz draw support from the political middle. California's primary is June 7.
BOSTON (AP) — A 29-year-old woman is dead after the scooter she was driving was struck by an amphibious sightseeing vehicle in downtown Boston. Her male passenger was injured. It happened this morning near Boston Common. A police spokeswoman says there were about 30 passengers on the vessel, known as a duck boat, when the crash happened.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Investigators in Texas are trying to determine why a teenage girl was killed and another was injured when they were ejected from a ride at an El Paso church carnival. The girls were having fun at a holiday carnival in the parking lot of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church on Friday evening when they were hurled from a spinning ride called "Sizzler."
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VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching for the driver of a big rig that crushed a pickup truck in a Los Angeles suburb unhitched the trailer and fled the scene. A man in the pickup truck died at the scene. The driver was taken to a hospital. Police say the 18-wheeler was involved in a minor crash about a block away before it ran a red light and hit the pickup early today in Vernon.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers at the site of a fatal traffic accident on a North Carolina interstate this morning were pressed into another role when a pregnant woman was stuck in traffic and they helped her deliver her baby. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say the mother and baby girl were taken to a hospital and both are said to be doing well.
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