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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A body has been pulled from floodwaters in Baton Rouge, apparently raising the death toll to seven. A spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish confirms a volunteer patrolling in his boat found the victim in front of a library in Greenwell Springs. But it's unclear if the death was related to flooding that has about 11,000 people in the region still in shelters.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials in California say more than 175 homes, businesses and other structures in the town of Lower Lake have been burned by a wildfire. The community is about 90 miles north of San Francisco. The blaze is being whipped by winds and is only about 5 percent contained. Temperatures are in the upper 90s with no cool down in sight in the coming days. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency because of the fire and a second one in San Luis Obispo County.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says a hospital it supports in northern Yemen has been partially destroyed by an airstrike that killed at least 11 people and wounded at least another 19 others. The international group says it had shared its GPS coordinates with both warring rebel forces and the Saudi-led coalition. The dead include a staffer from the medical group.

CHICAGO (AP) — The police commander who signed off on officers' reports that the 2014 shooting of an unarmed teen was justified, is retiring. Video released shows Officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times and that McDonald didn't lunge at officers. Van Dyke faces charges. Deputy Chief David McNaughton has retired. A statement praises McNaughton's service. There's no reference to the McDonald shooting.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prosecutor in Los Angeles says a German man set nearly 50 fires in an arson rampage because he wanted revenge for his mother's deportation. The prosecution alleged in an opening statement that Harry Burkhart threatened to 'roast America" after his mother, Dorothee Burkhart, was ordered extradited to Germany to face fraud charges.

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