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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Una conductora ebria que ignoró una luz roja en Wisconsin y embistió a otro vehículo, matando a cinco de sus pasajeros, entre ellos cuatro menores, fue sentenciada el lunes a 25 años de cárcel. Anteyona Sandifer, de 21 años, se declaró culpable en enero de cinco cargos de homicidio por el choque ocurrido en mayo del año …

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A drunken driver who sped through a red light in Wisconsin and smashed into another vehicle, killing five of her passengers including four children, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Anteyona Sandifer, 21, pleaded guilty in January to five homicide charges related to the deaths in Milwaukee last May. Prosecutors dropped six other felony charges …

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy says he was just doing his job when he quickly came to the aid of a mom and her toddler and infant children in a car crash and performed chest compressions on the infant until the baby resumed breathing. Charlotte County Deputy Sgt. Dave Musgrove’s heroics the night of Feb. 8 were …

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Two people have been arrested on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl’s body encased in concrete and a boy’s remains in a suitcase in Colorado, according to police and public jail records. The City of Pueblo Police Department announced the arrest of Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, on Friday, …

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ambitious waste-reduction targets won’t be met. Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious “Shoebox Scandal,” used to say, “The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one.” For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that …

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds of Penn State students have raised more than $16.9 million for pediatric cancer patients in the annual 46-hour dance marathon known as Thon. The $16,955,683.63 total was announced Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the Penn State Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, billed as the world’s largest student-run philanthropy. It topped last year’s total of …

MIAMI (AP) — Un empresario venezolano que ayudó a ocultar casi 17 millones de dólares en dinero para sobornos de un aliado del presidente Nicolás Maduro fue sentenciado el viernes a seis meses de cárcel por un juez federal de Estados Unidos, quien expresó su frustración de que su cooperación con las fuerzas policiales ya no sirvió de nada luego …

LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina health officials said Friday that they are removing all children from the care of a nature-based therapy program nearly two weeks after the death of a 12-year-old New York boy. The Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release that while it cannot comment on specific details of its investigation …

Lower-income families with school-age kids can get help from the federal government paying for groceries this summer, unless they live in one of the 14 states that have said no to joining the program this year. The reasons for the rejections, all from states with Republican governors, include philosophical objections to welfare programs, technical challenges due to aging computer systems …