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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to Colombia and Brazil this week builds on efforts to deepen relations with Latin America, but he can expect a curt reception from the two U.S. allies after reports that an American spy program widely...

DALLAS (AP) — Dozens of mourners attended a vigil this weekend for the four slain and four wounded in two Dallas-area shootings that are being blamed on one man.
Erbie Bowser was being held Sunday on $6.5 million bond on three counts of capital murder an...

JEANETTE, Pa. (AP) — In his short life, the 2-year-old Pennsylvania boy who died days after he served as best man at his parents’ wedding touched the hearts of many people.
The Rev. Jan Zotter told a funeral audience Saturday that Logan Stevenson’s life ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. She was 84.
Gorme, who also had a huge solo hit in 1963 with “Blame it on the Bossa Nova,” died Saturday at ...

GAINESVILLE (AP) — Acupuncture isn’t just for humans anymore.
A clinic in Gainesville is providing holistic health care for animals.
Pets at the Holistic Veterinary Animal Clinic can get herbal therapy and acupuncture, among other treatments.
Owner and v...

ST. CLOUD (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with stabbing his daughter with a sword.
Police in St. Cloud, about 30 miles south of Orlando, were called to respond to a physical altercation at a home around 10 p.m. Friday.
Forty-four-year-old Juan Lovi...

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — When Aaron Williams needed to find a way to bond with his two young daughters, he knew he’d have to play to their strengths.
Williams, a computer programmer, had to bridge a generational gap — his daughters Anna and Ava are 8 and 6 year...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country’s ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gath...

CHICAGO (AP) — To Carolyn Lang, West Pullman Elementary is more than the school across the street her children attended a quarter-century ago.
It’s where she turned for help when the lock on her front door froze and where school workers watch from their w...

BEL AIR, Md. — Immigration advocates are swarming the country this month, trying to persuade House Republicans to pass a comprehensive overhaul. It was hard to tell at the town-hall meeting that second-term Republican Rep. Andy Harris held recently in thi...