Hawaii
Marine killed, others hurt in hard landing
The Marine Corps says one Marine has died after an Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii and the 21 other people on board were taken to hospitals.
The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said Sunday that the Osprey had a “hard-landing mishap” about 11:40 a.m. while the Marines were training at Bellows Air Force Station on Oahu.
Capt. Brian Block, a Marine Corps spokesman, said 22 people were aboard the aircraft, including 21 Marines and one Navy corpsman assigned to the unit.
The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for training.
— Associated Press
WEATHER
Midwest gets soaked; more rain expected
A powerful storm system stretched from Texas to Minnesota on Sunday, bringing heavy rains, flash flooding and the possibility of more severe weather.
Scattered severe storms were expected to develop Sunday evening in eastern Minnesota, western Wisconsin and parts of Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas.
Rain-soaked Texas saw flash-flood warnings, high-water rescues and motorists stranded on roads overwhelmed by torrential rains. A river in northwest Oklahoma threatened to top its banks and affected crops, oil wells and rural roads, while two to three inches of rain fell in three hours in parts of Arkansas, prompting a flash-flood warning.
The storm system is the result of a cold front extending from the north-central Plains into the southern Plains that pushed up behind warm, moist air, said Bill Bunting, chief of operations for the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
“It’s a very strong upper-level disturbance,” he said.
— Associated Press
Senate candidate apologizes for whoop: U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez apologized Sunday after a videotape surfaced showing her making a whooping cry in reference to Native Americans that brought her a cascade of reprimands from fellow Democrats. Speaking to party activists at a state Democratic convention Sunday, Sanchez described herself as a longtime champion of civil and human rights who has Native American blood in her mother’s family. She said she had a hectic day of speeches and handshaking at the convention Saturday.
Egg producer will destroy hens: One of the nation’s largest egg producers says it will destroy 2 million egg-laying hens in Minnesota because of a deadly bird flu virus. The outbreak at a chicken farm brings the total of affected birds to 35 million in 15 states, with Minnesota and Iowa poultry flocks hit the hardest. The Star Tribune reported that the chickens at Rembrandt Enterprises farm in Renville will be killed in the next four weeks.
— From news services
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