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LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — Two officials familiar with the investigation into the crash in Texas of a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people say it was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides. The hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture Saturday morning near Lockhart, which is about 30 miles south of Austin. Authorities have said there do not appear to be any survivors.
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) —A wildfire burning out of control near California's Big Sur coast is threatening 2,000 homes. Fire officials say the blaze has already destroyed 57 homes. The fire, a few miles north of Big Sur, has grown to 52 square miles. More than 5,000 firefighters are battling the week-old wildfire that officials expect to linger until the end of August.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Springs Fire Department says Donald Trump had to be rescued from an elevator that was stuck between the first and second floors of a resort. The department was called at 1:30 p.m. Friday to rescue about 10 people, including Trump. The firefighters opened the top elevator hatch and lowered a ladder. Trump and the others used it to climb out of the elevator to the second floor. No injuries were reported.
MUKILTEO, Washington (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of killing three people and wounding a fourth at a small party in the Seattle suburb of Mukilteo early Saturday is expected to be arraigned Monday. He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail today. A spokesman for the University of Washington says a student matching that name and age has been enrolled at the university's campus in Bothell, and was heading into his sophomore year.
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are paying tribute to Dallas police and the five officers who were killed in an ambush in downtown Dallas during a Black Lives Matter rally. In a ceremony before the start of training camp today, Dallas players walked arm-in-arm onto the field with police Chief David Brown, Mayor Mike Rawlings and members of four of the five families of officers who were killed. They all formed a circle for a moment of silence.
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