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American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators fan out to track down the path of the outbreak.

Officials said they had confirmed eight cases in New York, seven in California, two in Kansas, two in Texas and one in Ohio, and that the cases looked to be similar to the deadly strain of swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 1,300 more.

German authorities say they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazi's Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.

Efforts are under way to rescue hundreds of people cast adrift on an ice floe in Lake Erie near Toledo, Ohio, officials said. Helicopters were participating in the rescue, said U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Robert Lanier, including those from the Canadian Coast Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard, Ohio State University and Monroe County.

A family of four, including two small children, were found dead in their single-story Ohio home in what police believe was a murder-suicide after the father lost his job.