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The mother of one of two central Pennsylvania teenagers charged with shooting at police officers last week contends the Black Lives Matter movement is to blame for his actions.

HOLMDEL, N.J. — It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

ATWATER, Calif. — Leonardo Sanchez was sleeping peacefully on a bus carrying him to Oregon to pick blueberries when he was suddenly thrown face first into the back of the seat in front of him, awakening him to a horrific scene of chaos and death.

HARTFORD — Travelers from Connecticut are being advised to heed the unusual warning from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to avoid traveling to a Zika-affected neighborhood in Miami.

WATERBURY — The head of the union representing the state's judicial marshals says he believes public safety is being jeopardized in the wake of layoffs that have reduced the ranks of marshals at state courthouses.

WATERBURY – Police are searching for two men who they say broke into a business on Prospect Street in recent weeks.

HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — One of two men who killed a woman and her two daughters inside their Connecticut home in 2007 has formally dropped an appeal of his conviction.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as "unfit" and "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party's nominee, declaring "There has to come a point at which you say enough."

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain just two weeks after pledging to bring the fractured GOP together at the party's nominating convention. He also ripped into New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte in the same interview with the Washington Post. All three have primary challengers, and all three disapproved of Trump's criticism of the Muslim American parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq.