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SOFIA, Bulgaria — A French citizen with family ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris will be extradited to France to face terror charges, a Bulgarian court ruled Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY — The son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman may be among the half-dozen men abducted by gunmen at a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Tuesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. — At least 40,000 homes were damaged and eight people killed in the historic Louisiana floods, the governor said Tuesday, giving a stark assessment of the widespread disaster.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian warplanes took off on Tuesday from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters and other militants in Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry said, widening Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria in a major development in the country's civil war.

VIENNA (AP) — The giant panda that gave birth at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo last week was hiding a tiny little secret — an extra cub.

SOUTHBURY — B'nai Israel's Mitzvah Garden didn't produce a lot of fresh vegetables to donate to people in need last year.

PROSPECT – The state Department of Transportation reports a motor vehicle accident has closed Route 69 between Talmage Hill Road and Lee Road.

NAUGATUCK — Police charged a man who they said was drunk and swearing at an employee at Cumberland Farms on Rubber Avenue early Saturday.

WINSTED — Selectmen have set a hearing for Aug. 29 to give the public a chance to review and discuss their thoughts and views of proposed changes to the town charter.

WATERBURY — As the Archdiocese of Hartford looks to possibly close or merge a number of parishes in the next few years, the parishioners of St. Patrick are preparing their case for why they should stay open.