LIBYA
Blasts target Benghazi courthouses
Two large explosions hit courthouses in Benghazi late Sunday, leaving part of one of the buildings a pile of rubble, two security officials said. An official in Benghazi said 10 people were wounded, two seriously, in the explosion outside one courthouse. Video posted by residents online showed several vehicles destroyed by that explosion. The video also showed residents standing in a crater in the ground outside the building. Another courthouse in the eastern part of the city was also hit, said a security official in the capital, Tripoli.
MEXICO
Navy official killed in ambush
Gunmen ambushed and killed one of Mexico’s highest ranking navy officials and the officer escorting him Sunday in the rough western state of Michoacan, authorities said. Two other people were injured in the shooting. The state prosecutors’ office said Sunday’s attack on Vice Adm. Carlos Miguel Salazar happened on a dirt road near the town of Churintzio. Salazar was the top navy commander in the Pacific coastal state of Jalisco.
INDIANA
Church mourns bus crash victims
An Indianapolis congregation on Sunday mourned the deaths of their youth pastor, his pregnant wife and another member who were killed when a church bus overturned with just a mile to go in a return trip Saturday from a Michigan summer camp. Youth pastor Chad Phelps, his pregnant piano-teacher wife, Courtney Phelps, and chaperone Tonya Weindorf were killed, said deacon Jeff Leffew with Colonial Hills Baptist Church. Dozens of people were injured in the crash, which happened near Interstate 465. Six teenagers remained hospitalized Sunday, including one who was in critical condition.
PENNSYLVANIA
Five killed in helicopter crash
A helicopter crash in a remote, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania killed five people, state police said Sunday. The accident apparently happened Saturday night after radar and communication contact with the helicopter was lost, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The helicopter had taken off from a central New York airport, FAA officials said. State police and FAA personnel remained at the scene Sunday night, Trooper Adam Reed said.
SOUTH KOREA
Humanitarian aid plan announced
South Korea announced more than $7 million worth of humanitarian aid for North Korea on Sunday, a conciliatory gesture that coincided with a call by the South for “one last round” of make-or-break talks on restarting a jointly operated industrial complex. The majority of the aid — almost $6 million — will be provided by the South Korean government and shipped through UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, which provides vaccines, medicine and nutritional supplements for malnourished children and pregnant women in the impoverished North.
NIGERIA
Vigilante-extremist clash kills 25
In attacks and reprisals between an Islamic militant group and vigilantes, at least 25 civilians were killed in northeast Nigeria, a vigilante group said Sunday. It was the first attack with major fatalities reported since dozens of students were killed earlier this month in attacks blamed on Boko Haram, the militant group whose name means “Western education is forbidden.”
NEVADA
Remington painting draws $5.6 million
A Frederic Remington painting depicting U.S. Cavalry soldiers has fetched $5.6 million, and a Norman Rockwell painting featuring a Boy Scout and two American presidents has drawn $4.2 million at auction in Reno, organizers said Sunday. Mike Overby of the annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction said Remington’s “Cutting Out Pony Herds” and Rockwell’s “A Scout is Loyal” were sold to private collectors on Saturday.
HAWAII
Tropical Storm Flossie weakens
Tropical Storm Flossie weakened as it slowly moved westward across the Pacific toward Hawaii, but it was still expected to bring heavy rains and winds of up to 60 mph. It was expected to hit the state late Sunday night or early today. The National Weather Service said midday Sunday that Flossie could bring the possibility of flash flooding, mudslides, tornadoes and waterspouts. The service issued a tropical storm warning for Oahu, Hawaii’s most populous island with the city of Honolulu, to go along with previous warnings for the Big Island, Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
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