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MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — At the end of a heartbreaking week that saw deadly mudslides kill at least 20, residents of Montecito gathered to grieve, pay tribute to victims and commit to rebuilding their cherished community on the Southern California coast. Mourners lit prayer candles and left flowers as a makeshift memorial for the victims […]

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MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful mudflow swept away dozens of homes. At […]

In the midst of all the confusion and fear during the Las Vegas shootings, a young man rose up and saved 30 people while sustaining a gunshot wound himself. 30-year-old Johnathan Smith was watching country singer Jason Aldean when the shooting started. Although concert goers didn’t know it at the time, they were being shot […]

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The victims just kept coming. In private cars, in ambulances waiting four or five deep, from the walking wounded to the barely alive, they arrived in droves. “I have no idea who I operated on,” said Dr. Jay Coates, a trauma surgeon whose hospital took in many of the wounded after […]