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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The threat of heavy rain in the Mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast is over as Hermine spins away from the East Coast. But the storm still has enough power to churn dangerous waves and rip currents and keep beaches off-limits to disappointed swimmers and surfers during the holiday weekend. The system has picked up strength in the Atlantic and could regain hurricane force later today as it travels up the coast.
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 men were found along Border Field State Park yesterday morning. A San Diego County sheriff's deputy says it appears the men drowned. He says investigators are looking into whether the men were two people reported missing while swimming in Tijuana, Mexico.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has fired at Syrian army cannons in the Syrian Golan Heights in response to mortar fire from Syria that hit the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The army says that the mortars appeared to be errant fire from Syria's civil war, and were not deliberately targeting Israeli-held territory. No injuries were reported. The military says it holds the Syrian government accountable for the "blatant breach of Israeli sovereignty."
DUNCAN, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are investigating online threats to kill Jewish and Muslim students at one of the largest high schools in South Carolina. School officials say a Byrnes High School student reported the threats which said the school in Duncan would be attacked on Tuesday. Spartanburg County deputies are patrolling the school the holiday weekend, and there'll be security sweeps and extra officers on hand when school returns Tuesday.
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 in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday 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 a Disney resort.
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