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AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Italy's civil protection service says the provisional death toll for the earthquake in central Italy has risen to 250, with 365 injured. Many more are homeless. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled the region, including one with a magnitude of 4.3, as crews continue to search for survivors in the rubble. Hit hardest are several tiny towns northeast of Rome.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The National Weather Service says it's still unclear how many tornadoes touched down in Indiana yesterday. The state's Department of Homeland Security reported early today that 12 tornadoes hit the state, but later the agency revised that number to eight. Weather Service survey crews are scouring areas with storm damage in central and northern Indiana to determine if tornadoes struck. Damage was widespread, but no deaths or serious injuries have been reported.
YREKA, Calif. (AP) — California's newest wildfire has chased hundreds of people from their homes near the Oregon border. Cal Fire says the blaze that broke out yesterday just north of Yreka (wy-REE'-kuh) has burned about 400 acres of timber and forced the closure of State Route 263. It's one of nine major wildfires being fought across the state by nearly 12,000 firefighters.
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton's campaign says she and running mate Tim Kaine won't campaign or run ads on Sept. 11. There's no word whether Donald Trump's campaign will do the same. A national nonprofit called 9/11 Day sent letters this week to the presidential candidates, asking them to stop their public political activities on the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks. The group is also urging candidates for Congress to refrain from campaigning. The nonprofit's president and co-founder, David Paine, says a one-day campaign moratorium would help revive the spirit of national unity and empathy that followed the attacks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Automakers say cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road. The government and the auto industry have spent more than a decade and more than $1 billion researching and testing the technology, known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications, or V2V. But now, cable television and high-tech industries want to take away a large share of the radio spectrum that the government dedicated exclusively for the safety technology in 1999. They want to use it instead for superfast Wi-Fi service. Auto industry officials are fighting to hang onto as much of the spectrum as they can.
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