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Authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites.

Authorities say a boating accident on a choppy East Texas lake has left a man dead and his wife hurt.

Authorities believed the gunman was still in the woods with an assault rifle. They asked people to stay away from the park, and for those already inside to leave, but 's spokesman, said there were about 100 people hunkered down in lodges and cabins on the mountain.

Authorities say a skydiver has died after a jump in Perris, marking the sixth skydiving fatality in the past 15 months at the popular locale.

The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines climbed to nearly 1,500 on Tuesday, as authorities widened their search for bodies.

Authorities say a Central Florida man allegedly killed two people, then drove to the victim's mother's home and asked for money while one of the victims was in the trunk of his car.

Authorities in California say a wildlife biologist working in a Big Sur redwood forest was killed when a tree fell in heavy winds that have thrashed the West Coast.

Authorities in Claiborne County, Tenn., are investigating the death of a Kentucky teenager shot while deer hunting with his grandfather.

Authorities say a Rhode Island man convicted in a 2007 boating collision that killed a close friend has been released from prison to finish the rest of his sentence under home confinement.

Venezuelan police said Monday that two more suspects have been arrested in the kidnapping of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos and that authorities are searching for several others.