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ASCOLI PICENO, Italy (AP) — Italy is observing a national day of mourning for the 290 people killed in Wednesday's earthquake. A state funeral was held today for 35 of the victims, most of them from one town. Mourners wept and held each other in a sweltering community gym as the local bishop urged them to pull together to rebuild their communities. Before the funeral, Italy's president visited the devastated area and thanked rescue workers who have been working since early Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Heavy rain has swamped several areas of Kansas City, prompting high-water rescues and a temporary stoppage of the city's downtown streetcar service. KMBC-TV reported that last night's storms caused Brush Creek, which runs through the south side of the city, to rise 10 feet in an hour. The National Weather Service in Kansas City says 4.56 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period.

NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — Native Americans from reservations hundreds of miles away from North Dakota have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's growing protest against a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline. Protesters say the pipeline could disturb sacred sites and affect drinking water for 8,000 tribal members and millions of others downstream. One of the protesters is an 11-year-old Navajo girl who sold about 50 homemade soaps and gave the money to protest organizers. Her own home has no running water, and her sales pitch was "I don't want water to be poisoned."

SHAFTSBURY, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin says testing of drinking water wells near the closed Shaftsbury landfill in Vermont shows minimal contamination from a potentially cancer causing chemical. Of the 24 wells tested within a quarter mile of the landfill, 16 did not show any PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). He says eight wells had PFOA ranging from 4 to 16 parts per trillion, which is below Vermont's health advisory level of 20 parts per trillion. The landfill is near the former Chemfab plant in North Bennington.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Legal observers say lying under oath is rampant in courts across the country, yet rarely prosecuted. A California district attorney wants to change that. Lake County District Attorney Don Anderson appointed one of his 14 prosecutors to a new perjury investigations unit earlier this year that may be the first of its kind in any district attorney's office in the country. Anderson said he's tired of people lying under oath and getting away with it. He was spurred to start the unit by the case of a man who spent 18 years in prison based on perjured testimony.

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