Persistent flood danger in La...Injured Georgia man getting $2 million...Trying to calm China

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The rain has mostly gone away but the flood danger remains in parts of Louisiana south of Baton Rouge. Some residents are struggling to return to flood-damaged homes on foot, in cars and by boat. But rivers and creeks are still dangerously bloated as the water works its way south toward the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of rescues happened and thousands of people wound up in shelters.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who underwent 18 surgeries and amassed more than $1 million in medical bills is getting $2 million from Fulton County to settle the lawsuit filed after he was shot in the head at age 16. The police officer says he accidentally pulled the trigger after he found DeAnthony Cunningham in some woods where he had fled after the stolen car he was in was spotted at a gas station.

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. Army chief of staff is trying to smooth tensions with China over deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. Gen. Mark A. Milley met with his Chinese counterpart (General Li Zuocheng) and other senior People's Liberation Army leaders amid strong Chinese protests . He tells the Chinese there is no reason to feel threatened.

BERLIN (AP) — Aviation safety authorities in Europe are proposing to pay closer attention to pilot health, both physical and mental. The recommendation is an outgrowth of last year's Germanwings crash, when pilot Andreas Lubitz locked his captain out of the cockpit and slammed a plane into a mountainside. All 150 people on board were killed. Authorities didn't know his depression had returned when they declared him fit to fly.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A treasure hunt is on in southeastern Poland where digging has begun in search of a legendary Nazi gold train that some say never existed. Legend has it that the train laden with treasure and armaments, disappeared in a mountain tunnel as the Germans escaped the advancing Soviet army at the end of World War II. Searchers say they found where it's buried.