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AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — A state funeral will be held Saturday for some of the 267 people killed in Wednesday's earthquake in central Italy. The Italian government has also declared tomorrow as a day of national mourning, and flags will be flying at half-staff on all public offices. The mayor of Accumoli says a family of four was killed when the town's recently restored church bell tower crashed onto a neighboring home during the quake.
ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish prime minister is vowing to continue military operations in Syria until he says, there's no "terror" threat to Turkey from the war-torn neighbor. This week, Turkey sent tanks into Syria to help rebels retake the Islamic State-held town of Jarablus and contain the expansion of Syria's Kurds in an area bordering Turkey. Turkey's prime minister says the Syrian Kurdish militia's goal is to carve out a separate state — a "dream" he insists "they will never achieve."
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three people were injured when police say a man wearing only boxer shorts stole a pickup truck and drove it into a Southwest Airlines plane at an airport in Omaha, Nebraska. Police say they had been following the man last night, after they heard him scream outside the terminal that people were trying to kill him. The pickup damaged the plane's nose gear and flattened the tires, so another plane flew the 113 passengers to Denver.
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Dozens of schools in Baltimore County are closed today because of the heat. The 37 schools don't have air conditioning and the heat index is expected to reach 90 degrees. The rest of the county's 173 schools have air conditioning and are staying open.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City subway rider Chris Calabrese says it was "the craziest thing" he had ever seen on a train. A woman trying to sell crickets and worms lost her grip on her cargo when she got jostled Wednesday evening on a "D'' train, sending the critters flying. Calabrese tells the New York Post that the crickets were landing on people's arms and the worms were wriggling on the floor. He says his girlfriend started crying. Passengers moved to the other end of the subway car. Someone pulled the emergency brake and the train stopped on the Manhattan Bridge.
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