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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police say they have opened a murder investigation into former president Pervez Musharraf’s role in the death of a radical cleric killed during a raid of a mosque in downtown Islamabad.
Police official Mohammad Yousuf says Monda...

MIAMI (AP) — A new report says Florida’s economy has been losing ground since about 2000.
Florida International University economists said in their annual Labor Day report Monday that the state’s median income has fallen at a greater pace than the rest of...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Syria says 7 million Syrians, or almost one-third of the population, have been displaced by the country’s civil war.
Tarik Kurdi told The Associated Press on Monday that 5 million of the displa...

MIAMI (AP) — Kiko has weakened to a tropical depression over the Pacific, west of Mexico.
The depression’s maximum sustained winds early Monday have decreased to near 35 mph with additional weakening expected. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Kiko ...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY — A man lying in the road near the Charlotte-North Port line was killed early Monday morning when a car ran him over, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
The fatal crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. on Prineville Street near Tulane Avenue. ...

Editor’s note: Unrelated text accidentally was inserted into this story when it ran Monday, which also caused the end of the story to be excluded. Here it is in its entirety:
Dan Avenancio joined the Navy in 1976 as a teenage seaman, part of the flight ...

Area Jewish congregations soon will observe two of the most sacred days in their calendar — Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown Wednesday. According to Chabad.org, Rosh Hashanah translates as “Head of the Year,” the beginning of ...

PUNTA GORDA — With the promise of more destinations and flights coming out of the Punta Gorda Airport, area residents are bracing for what they say will be a corresponding increase in aircraft noise.
“We expect it will get worse when they add the nine oth...

PUNTA GORDA — At its upcoming meeting Wednesday, the City Council will discuss an application for cooperative grant funding with the Southwest Florida Water Management District for the city’s planned groundwater reverse-osmosis plant.
Four years ago, a wa...

The zombies are coming, and they’re looking for bait — runners who believe they can escape the zombies’ grasp … and survive.
Either way, it’s all for a good cause.
The Franz Ross YMCA in Port Charlotte — part of the Charlotte County Family YMCA — is spons...