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HAVANA (AP) — The commander of Colombia's biggest rebel movement says its fighters will permanently cease hostilities with the government beginning with the first minute of Monday, as a result of their peace accord for ending five decades of war. The leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, made the announcement today in Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years before announcing the peace deal at midweek.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana State Police say a Honduran man who had entered the United States illegally was driving a bus that hit a firetruck on an elevated highway, killing two people and injuring dozens. A spokeswoman says the driver also did not have a commercial license. She says the bus was carrying flood recovery workers from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. The dead include a local fire chief and a rear-seat occupant of a car also hit by the bus.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —Dive teams are still looking for the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in a New Orleans lake 24 miles wide and 40 miles long. Two men are missing but a woman was rescued after the crash Saturday night. The Cessna as heading to Lakefront Airport, on Lake Pontchartrain (PON-chuh-trane) at New Orleans' northern edge.
CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of people are gathered at a Chicago church for a prayer service to remember the mother who was shot dead on street while pushing her baby in a stroller. Chicago's police superintendent says the two suspects in the shooting of Nykea Aldridge are an example of the city's problem with repeat offenders. A police official says the brothers are now in custody. The official says Aldridge was not the intended target.
WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia officials are investigating an outage that impacted the city's 911 system overnight for about 90 minutes. The director of the city's Homeland Security and Emergency management Agency says the outage was caused by an equipment failure inside the system. He says officials are investigating why it failed. During the outage, callers were directed to use two 10-digit numbers for D.C. police and firefighters as a backup
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