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MECHANICSBURG, Ohio – Officials say a man died on his family farm in central Ohio when he fell into a grain feed mixer. Madison County Sheriff Jim Sabin tells The Columbus Dispatch that 34-year-old Austin Ayars was found dead Sunday at the dairy farm near Mechanicsburg. Family members told investigators …

A woman died Thursday after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) boat collided with a suspected people-smuggling vessel off the southern California coast. Authorities said they spotted the small panga motorboat before dawn off the coast of Encinitas, Calif. They said it was crowded with 20 people believed to …

Since when does a law firm need a bank to save it from falling for a Nigerian scam? That’s the case in Minnesota, where a firm of legal eagles that got tricked out of nearly $400,000 in a scam that has cost more than 80 law firms and attorneys some …

MIAMI – The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday in Biscayne Bay outside Miami for a missing sailor who was a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic sailing team. Coast Guard officials in Miami say they received a report Thursday evening about an unmanned inflatable dinghy adrift in Dinner Key. …

MUNCIE, Ind. – Indiana is forcing a senior center to stop offering prizes for card games in which residents pay a few dollars to play, saying the packages of cookies or toilet paper offered to winners makes the euchre games gambling. Judy Elton, director of the Delaware County Senior Citizens …

HEMPSTEAD, Texas – The latest on the investigation into the death of a woman in a Texas jail cell (all times local): 8:30 a.m. A Texas TV station says it has obtained a voicemail from a call Sandra Bland made from jail in which she told a friend that she …

SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio – Authorities say the body of a 4-year-old boy has been recovered from Lake Erie after a massive search in northern Ohio. The mayor and police chief of the city of Sheffield Lake told reporters that Sidney Heidrick’s body was found Saturday afternoon not far from where …

Federal officials are investigating why an Allegiant Air passenger jet nearly ran out of fuel before landing at an airport that was temporarily closed to most traffic. Allegiant said Tuesday it is cooperating with the Federal Aviation Administration’s investigation of the incident. The Allegiant plane with 144 passengers landed safely …

TAMPA, Fla. – Researchers say they have positively identified the remains of a 15-year-old boy who died at a Florida reform school where guards were accused of brutality throughout its troubled history. University of South Florida anthropologist Erin Kimmerle said Tuesday the remains of Robert Stephens, who died in 1937, …

WICHITA, Kan. – The U.S. military says it is committed to “a fair and equitable process” in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The response comes a day after Manning’s lawyer disclosed that Manning …