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HONOLULU (AP) — The world's largest living primate is now listed as critically endangered. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has put the eastern gorilla on its Red List of Endangered Species because of illegal hunting. The group estimates that only 5,000 eastern gorillas remain in the wild, a decline of about 70 percent over the past 20 years. Four of the six great ape species are now considered one step away from extinction.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — New Jersey's governor is warning people along the Jersey Shore not to be lulled by today's nice weather. Chris Christie says Hermine could bring tropical storm-force winds and flooding to coastal New Jersey tomorrow, even though the storm is moving away from the coast. The system is still whipping up waves and dangerous currents from Virginia northward.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego have pulled two men's bodies from the ocean just north of the Mexican border. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office says the bodies were discovered yesterday by agents patrolling Border Field State Park. Authorities are trying to determine if the men are the same two people who were reported missing while swimming in Tijuana, Mexico.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Parents of the toddler who was killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World in Florida say they will always remember their sweet little boy. Melissa and Matt Graves spoke to a group of several hundred people gathered at a high school football stadium yesterday to remember Lane Graves on what would have been his third birthday. Lane died June 14 after an alligator pulled him into a lagoon at Disney's upscale Grand Floridian Resort while the boy was gathering sand for a sand castle.
CERRITOS, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles County Fire Department says a swarm of bees stung more than 20 people at a suburban park yesterday, sending three to the hospital. The attack happened at Cerritos Regional Park, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles. Witnesses tell KCBS-TV that there were thousands of bees chasing hundreds of people and that the insects seemed to be attacking people with long hair.
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