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AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Daylight will hopefully help workers trying to search rubble looking for those trapped since early Wednesday's earthquake in central Italy. Three towns suffered extensive damage. The death toll is listed as 159 but there are fears that more residents and vacationers are trapped. In one town, Amatrice (ah-mah-TREE'-chay), searchers gave up at dark on searching a collapsed hotel where dozens had been staying.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he has a "grateful heart" that there are no reports of deaths of serious injuries from multiple tornadoes in his state. About a dozen people suffered minor injuries. Pence plans to leave the campaign trail on Thursday to check out damage areas in Howard and Montgomery counties.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is pushing back against an Associated Press report that found she often met with Clinton Foundation donors when she was secretary of state. Clinton says the report is "a lot of smoke, no fire." In an interview with CNN, Clinton said the AP report only "looked at a small portion" of her time. Earlier, former President Bill Clinton praised the work the charity does in third-world countries such as helping provide HIV/AIDS medications.
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who threw boiled water on a gay couple has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. A jury convicted Martin Blackwell of eight counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault in the attack that left the two men with severe burns that required multiple surgeries. Blackwell's defense attorney asked jurors to find that it was reckless conduct. Prosecutors said it was a vicious, premeditated attack, and that Blackwell told one of the men to "get out of my house with all that gay."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The elevator at the Washington Monument needs a major renovation that will likely require the monument to be closed for up to nine months. That's according to Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress. She met with park service officials. The elevator has broken down frequently over the past two years, and the National Park Service has said the problems may trace back to an earthquake that damaged the monument five years ago
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