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Someone is stealing the ones and zeroes from addresses mounted on people's homes. Meghan Haley says she noticed the zero missing from her home on Wednesday and saw a woman stealing it when she checked her surveillance video .

LONDON (AP) — Britain's right-wing U.K. Independence Party has chosen European Parliament member Diane James as its leader, replacing the charismatic but divisive Nigel Farage. Under Farage the party moved from fringe player to a political force capable of winning millions of votes and swaying public opinion.

The Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/2cw2p2K ) reports the university in Vermillion has joined the Pipeline to Law Initiative to encourage Native Americans in South Dakota to pursue a law degree. The initiative offers financial support for courses to prepare for the law school admission test, workshops, mentorship and outreach to elementary, middle and high schools with high Native American enrollment.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says he thinks some supporters of Donald Trump "are motivated by dark emotions." Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is bristling at Donald Trump's attempt to make fun of him. Reid said in a statement Thursday that Trump can make fun of the injury that crushed the side of his face and cost him the sight in his right eye. Donald Trump Jr. says his father recognizes that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, but he doesn't know if his father will say so himself. Читать дальше...

BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out in the Syrian capital between government forces and an insurgent group Friday in some of the most serious clashes since a U.S.-Russia brokered cease-fire went into effect four days earlier and brought relative calm to the war-ravaged country. The fighting came as an opposition monitoring group reported that Russian troops have deployed along a main road leading into besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo, signaling the possible arrival of aid convoys later Friday. Читать дальше...

AWEIL, South Sudan (AP) — More than one million refugees have fled South Sudan's ongoing civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, but civil war erupted two years later and tens of thousands have been killed. Neighboring Uganda hosts the highest number of refugees, and 20,000 have arrived in the past week due to clashes in southern South Sudan. The fighting that erupted in July between... Читать дальше...

German economy minister, business delegation to visit Russia BERLIN (AP) — Germany's economy minister plans to travel to Russia next week with a business delegation, a trip that comes as Western sanctions and a weak Russian currency have weighed on trade between the two countries.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — The state Supreme Court has rejected a request from Provo and Orem residents looking to stop a new bus route. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2ccxFAE ) that work on the $190 million bus rapid transit route will continue despite a lawsuit that may allow voters to stop parts or all of it.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police say they have arrested a man who inappropriately touched female employees in two local department stores. The 31-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after police release surveillance photos of the suspect. Jail documents say the man is accused of grabbing two female employees at Kohls and a third female employee at TJ Maxx. The man was arrested for investigation of three counts of forcible sexual abuse.

(AP) — State police say it will take weeks to mechanically examine a specially equipped car driven by a man who was shot at by a Pennsylvania police officer who was hit by the vehicle. Vandergrift police say Gray is on paid leave while state police and the Westmoreland County district attorney investigate.

Syrian state TV is saying that bulldozers are clearing a main road leading into besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo to make way for aid convoys. The state-run Anadolu news agency says three U.S. flags were hung on Thursday around a compound of the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, and were still visible from Turkey on Friday afternoon. Nour el-Din el-Zinki group says in statement Friday that their observation posts in the area are confirming that government forces are still on the Castello road. Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say three houses have been searched and two people arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into the activities of a suspected terrorist group.

Both "Man of Steel" and "Batman v Superman" received tepid reviews from critics but were big successes at the box office.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Fishermen in New England say President Barack Obama needlessly dealt a big blow to their industry when he created the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument and circumvented the existing process for protecting fisheries. The new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument consists of nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the New England coast. The designation will close the area to commercial fishermen, who go there primarily for lobster... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign is declaring that the Republican presidential candidate believes now that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, though Trump has yet to say that himself. [...] his campaign is cheering Trump for bringing an end to an "ugly incident" that it blames, without evidence, on Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. "In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate," Miller said. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man at an off-campus party near the campus of Middle Georgia State University in Cochran. University officials said in a statement that the campus was placed on lockdown in the early morning hours Friday.

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The merger of two eastern Pennsylvania hospital networks is complete now that the flagship for one has changed its name to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill (SKOOL'-kil). Officials from Lehigh Valley Health Network and Schuylkill Health System formally announced the merger Thursday at the former Schuylkill Regional Medical Center in Pottsville. Lehigh Valley Health Network is made up of five hospital campuses in Lehigh and Luzerne counties. The newly renamed medical center... Читать дальше...

The Mansfield News Journal (http://ohne.ws/2cBrE4y ) reports Stanley's uncle told the crowd her disappearance led relatives searching for her toward an Ashland house, where another woman was held captive. Relatives say they believe their search efforts led suspect Shawn Grate to doze off after a sleepless night, allowing the surviving woman to call 911.

(AP) — A 33-year-old South Florida woman faces multiple charges after a sheriff's deputy found marijuana in her young niece's lunchbox during a traffic stop. Broward Sheriff's officials tell local news outlets Tasha Sims was arrested Wednesday in Pompano Beach.

(AP) — The mother of a suburban Chicago high school student who has been sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance says she is withdrawing her son from the school because of threats and harassment. The Daily Southtown reports (http://trib.in/2creJPm) Kelley Porter Turner says she is pulling her 15-year-old son, Shemar, out of Eisenhower High School in Blue Island and plans to enroll him in an online charter school.

NWSL IN THE BAY AREA?  In a recent conversation with Sports Illustrated’s Planet Fútbol podcast, FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu chatted about some guys named Messi and Neymar, and starting a team in the new U.S. futsal league. But the most intriguing nugget from the conversation was Bartomeu’s comments about Barcelona being serious about launching a

The story begins with two wealthy men pranking each other, when Herbert Fleishhacker sent K.R. Kingsbury, president of the Standard Oil Company of California, a sack of onions at every one of the hundred stops made during a recent transcontinental trip. To get even with Herbert, Kingsbury had a menagerie delivered to Fleishhacker, who was an animal lover.

SF house hunters may have noticed quite a few more homes to choose from this September — and indeed,  this year’s fresh crop of fall homes is a bumper one. “The number of single-family homes and condos listed for sale in San Francisco has jumped 30 percent over the past week…..26 percent higher versus the

Highlights include replacing the Dearborn campus' Engineering Lab Building and adding 65,000 square feet to Flint's William R. Murchie Science Building. The main Ann Arbor campus will see additions to a robotics lab and renovations to the dental building, kinesiology school and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts building.

As a San Francisco alderman, James Van Ness sponsored the "Van Ness Ordinance", which ordered all land within the city limits that was undeveloped at that time, west of Larkin Street and southwest of Ninth Street, to be surveyed and then to be transferred to their original deed holders. Because there were many fraudulent deed holders at that time, this law led to many lawsuits for many years. By the 1860's, there were hundreds of lots listed for sale in the paper. If you had an extra five hundred dollars to spend, a lot could be yours. Читать дальше...