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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Officials in Oakland, California, say the city started investigating nearly three weeks ago whether people were illegally living in a warehouse destroyed by a fire late last night. At least nine people died. Officials fear that number could rise to 40. A planning department official says the city had received reports of people living illegally in the building, which was only permitted as a warehouse. They opened an investigation on Nov. 13.
BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) —A woman is dead and seven others are injured after a semitrailer crashed into a bus carrying a group of West Texas high school cheerleaders. The Iraan-Sheffield School District superintendent says the bus, carrying six cheerleaders and two cheerleader sponsors, was headed home Friday night after a football game when it was hit on Interstate 20 near Big Spring.
BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say a man shot and killed himself in a Wal-Mart parking lot right before a deputy fired at him. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, preliminary results from the medical examiner's office showed that the 28-year-old "shot himself an instant before the deputy fired." The sheriff's office says deputies were called to the scene Friday evening after receiving reports of a suicidal man.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election. The decision came today, two days before a court hearing in the case. Lawyers for the Green Party-backed voters who filed the case say they can't afford the $1 million bond ordered by the court by Monday at 5 p.m. But Green Party-backed efforts to analyze election software in scattered precincts are continuing.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Congress will act early next year to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative. McConnell insists that some 20 million Americans who have health care through the six-year-old law will not lose coverage.
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