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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb during an operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. A statement says their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in the provincial capital Lashgar Gah, and that six Afghan soldiers were wounded. The attack came a day after officials said that 100 U.S. troops had been sent to help defend the city, which appears to be at increasing risk of falling to the Taliban. Afghan officials say the insurgents effectively control around 80 percent of the province.
CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — A prosecutor says the man accused of slaughtering two women and three men at a south Alabama house has been charged with six counts of capital murder. Derrick Dearman will have a first court appearance tomorrow morning. The bodies of all five people were found Saturday inside the home in Citronelle, Alabama. A sheriff's captain says Dearman attacked them as they slept, and then abducted his estranged girlfriend and an infant from the home. Both of them were found alive.
CHICAGO (AP) — Police in Chicago say three children and a man have died in a fire at a Chicago apartment building that appears to have been deliberately set after a domestic dispute. They say a 3-month-old was pronounced dead at a hospital and two other children and a man were found dead later at the scene. The fire began around 1:30 a.m. in a three-story building in the South Chicago neighborhood.
SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — A destructive wildfire continues to grow as it threatens homes on California's central coast, where more than 2,400 people are under evacuation orders. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze has charred nearly 58 square miles of brush in San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. It's 35 percent contained after destroying 36 homes and 16 other buildings. Hearst Castle, the palatial ocean-view estate popular among tourists, remains closed.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening solidly higher on Wall Street as the market shakes off a few days of sluggish trading. Oil prices continued to fall. U.S. crude sank 1 percent to just under $47 a barrel.
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