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AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Rescue workers are pressing on with the gruesome task of recovering bodies from the rubble of last week's powerful earthquake in central Italy. At least 290 people are confirmed dead but that number could rise. Hopes of finding any more survivors are fading as the days pass. The quake struck before dawn last Wednesday, flattening three medieval towns.
HAVANA (AP) — Colombia's biggest rebel movement says its fighters will permanently end hostilities with the government beginning Monday. The leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia says it's a result of a peace accord for ending five decades of war. The announcement was made Sunday in Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years. Colombia's president says his troops will cease attacks on FARC on Monday as well.
LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Two men are dead and several other people were injured after a bus carrying flood recovery workers from New Orleans to Baton Rouge crashed into a fire truck and three other vehicles on a Louisiana highway Sunday. The state police say the bus driver was a 37-year-old Honduran man who'd entered the U.S. illegally and does not have a commercial license. He's expected to be charged with two counts of negligent homicide.
WASHINGTON (AP) —Donald Trump says he's planning to speak about illegal immigration in Arizona on Wednesday. Also, Trump's campaign is planning its biggest ad buy to date, upward of $10 million on commercials airing over the next week or so. The campaign expects the ads to begin airing as soon as Monday in nine important swing states. Trump has so far been badly outspent by his rival, Hillary Clinton, and groups supporting her candidacy.
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — The sister of pop star Mariah Carey has been arrested on prostitution charges in upstate New York. Police tell the Daily Freeman of Kingston that 55-year-old Alison Carey was arrested in Saugerties (SAW'-ger-teez) on Friday following an investigation at a hotel. Police say she solicited money in exchange for sex from an undercover officer. Police describe Carey as a transient, and say she advertised her services online.
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