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MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Ten suspected militants and one police officer have been killed in the volatile southern provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya in three separate incidents, officials said. Regional Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said that four militants were killed Saturday in the Sergo-Kala district in Dagestan after they opened …

LOS ANGELES – The biggest wildfire in Los Angeles County history is finally fully contained. The U.S. Forest Service says the 250-square-mile Station Fire was declared 100 percent contained at 7 p.m. Friday, 52 days after it began. Authorities had kept the containment figure at 98 percent since late September …

AKRON, Ohio – A woman has been sentenced to a year of probation for attacking a fellow exotic dancer in the face with a stiletto heel at an Ohio club. In a deal with prosecutors, 22-year-old Chetania Davis pleaded guilty in Akron Tuesday to a misdemeanor assault charge in the …