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VIENNA (AP) — Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo is reporting the first live birth of an elephant through artificial insemination using frozen sperm.
Zoo veterinarian Thomas Voracek calls the birth of the female calf on Wednesday evening “a milestone.”
It’s relativ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it is declassifying portions of some secret court orders concerning the government’s authority to seize records under the Patriot Act.
The department revealed its decision to declassify the Foreign Intelligenc...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A high-ranking Bolivian National Police official is jailed in South Florida on charges of attempting to extort thousands of dollars from a prominent Bolivian businessman.
An FBI complaint says Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga of...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed President Barack Obama with a smile and a handshake to the Group of 20 summit, in one of the most closely watched greetings of international diplomacy.
The 15-second exchange at the e...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The family of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara claims to have solved the 40-year-old mystery of who killed him during Chile’s 1973 coup.
And they’re preparing to prove it in a federal courtroom in Jacksonville, Florida.
The family ha...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Dave Chappelle has struck back at Hartford five days after he was heckled at a show and refused to perform his set.
According to audio posted on TMZ.com, Chappelle praises an audience in Chicago on Tuesday for being “so much better ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Thursday that its 2-week-old giant panda cub is female and her father is National Zoo panda Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN).
Panda mother Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated with sperm from Tian Tian, as well as a p...

CAIRO (AP) — A car bombing on Thursday targeted the convoy of Egypt’s interior minister in Cairo’s eastern Nasr City district, security officials said. The minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, survived the attack.
The officials said it was not clear whether the la...

PUNTA GORDA — While many enjoyed the Labor Day weekend by going fishing or watching football games, Ice House Pub owner John Berry and his wife, Pauline, were busy helping make history.
If you’ve watched the news or surfed online media sites the past few ...

As part of the Punta Gorda Tire Kingdom’s third anniversary celebration Sunday, the Veteran Motor Car Club of America, Southwest Florida Region will have an antique car show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the store, 2500 Tamiami Trail (next door to the CVS at ...