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MINNEAPOLIS — A man used a screwdriver to fatally stab his wife and their 7-year-old daughter inside a Minnesota daycare Wednesday morning before killing himself, according to a search warrant released Thursday. The Hennepin County search warrant obtained by The Associated Press identified the man as Nathan Brown, 41. It says he stabbed his wife, 41-year-old Kristen Brown, and their daughter, Evie Brown, inside the daycare that Kristen Brown operated out of the family’s basement in Hopkins, a suburb of Minneapolis. He then fatally shot himself in an upstairs closet. Hopkins police said in a statement Thursday that they are…

HOUSTON — A federal prosecutor says tests on “a white crystal-like substance” found inside the van of a man shot to death by immigration officers in Houston last month showed the material was not methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz confirmed the tests were negative for meth in a statement to The Texas Tribune, the news organization reported Thursday. Reitz did not say what the substance actually was, but an attorney for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family has said it was a homemade electrolyte mixture that Salgado Araujo and his construction crew used to stay hydrated in the grueling summer heat. Salgado…

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy searched online about hallucinations, psychosis and the side effects of several drugs she was prescribed in the weeks before she strangled her three young children in January 2023, according to an analysis of her phone data presented at Thursday’s murder trial in Massachusetts. Clancy looked up suicide methods, bipolar disorder and insomnia at the end of December 2022 and, in January, went in search of information on postpartum depression. She also wrote a detailed note in October 2022 expressing doubts about her parenting choices, second-guessing her decision to stop breastfeeding her 8-month-old, and reconsidering plans…

Health officials in the Tampa Bay area are warning residents about a rise in the number of locally acquired cases of the mosquito-borne illness dengue. The Hillsborough County branch of the Florida Department of Health said Wednesday that it has confirmed eight locally-acquired cases of the disease, up from the two cases at the end of last month. Tampa is the seat of government for Hillsborough County. In neighboring Pinellas County, two cases had been confirmed by the county branch of the Florida Department of Health as of Tuesday. Dengue is not contagious between people, but is spread by infected…

Country star John Rich says a wave of property tax increases is already forcing venerable honky-tonks to close, and he fears Nashville’s famed Lower Broadway could lose its glow entirely if the trend continues. Mr. Rich, who co-owns Redneck Riviera Bar & BBQ on the strip and is half of the duo Big & Rich, sounded the alarm in a video posted to social media last week, declaring, “The lights are going out on Broadway.” Speaking afterward to Fox News Digital, he said the district’s roughly 60 to 80 honky-tonks are being squeezed by what he called a one-two punch:…

A former University of California, Santa Barbara student convicted of raping and sexually assaulting multiple women has been sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison, closing out a yearslong case that also saw him briefly escape courthouse custody, according to a Fox News report. Arian Eteghaei, 24, was convicted of forcible rape, forcible sexual penetration and misdemeanor domestic violence. Jurors also found true a special allegation that the sexual offenses were committed against more than one victim. Eteghaei was arrested in 2021 as a freshman biology student at UCSB and was initially charged over assaults on three women.…

A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1 billion jackpot, ending a three-month drought without a top-prize victor. The ticket that won the jackpot Wednesday night was purchased at a Hy-Vee station in Quincy, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of the state capital of Springfield along the Missouri border, Illinois Lottery officials said. The winning numbers were 4-26-66-67-69 with the Powerball number of 9. It wasn’t immediately clear if the winner has come forward yet. The prize comes in the form of either an annuity of $1 billion paid…

TOPEKA, Kan. — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom. Now-retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said in her lawsuit that the raid violated press freedoms and protections from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. She also said it almost immediately led to health problems, causing the return of potentially life-threatening seizures that had been controlled for years with medication. Zorn’s attorney, Randy…

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them. The grand jury, which had been meeting in secret, returned the indictment on July 20, and it was unsealed Wednesday, when 32-year-old Nick Reiner entered a not guilty plea. Rob Reiner, a director, actor and Hollywood luminary, and his wife, a photographer and producer, were stabbed to death in their home in the upscale Brentwood section of Los Angeles…

An Army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, a sheriff’s official said. Officials from nearby Fort Hood announced that the AH-64 Apache helicopter had crashed. Cliff Coleman, spokesman for the Bell County Sheriff’s office confirmed that both occupants died. A military official tells the Associated Press that the crashed Apache was out on a routine training flight when it went down. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a developing situation. No cause of the crash was immediately…