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Flooding hits New Mexico
About 300 people were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park in New Mexico on Sunday and a helicopter was sent to rescue others after flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Dolly. The Rio Ruidoso went over its banks about midnight, said Tom Schafer, Ruidoso’s emergency management coordinator. A police helicopter was sent to rescue people reported to be standing on buildings and vehicles, state Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson said. A dive team was also sent to rescue people from the flooded areas, he said. Earlier, four people were rescued after being trapped by rising water, but no one was seriously injured, Schafer said.
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Cops nab Hollywood star
Indiana Jones co-star Shia LaBeouf was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving on Sunday after an early morning car accident in which he was injured, authorities said. The 22-year-old actor was driving a pickup truck that was involved in a collision at a street intersection in Hollywood, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant Scott Wolf said. “It was immediately apparent to officers responding on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated and he was subsequently placed under arrest,” Wolf said.
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Obama sees doctor
Barack Obama, back home after a tour of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Europe, saw a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center on Sunday night to deal with a sore hip. “His hip has been sore from basketball for a few weeks, so he’s going to see an orthopedic doctor,” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said. As he left the hospital, Obama told reporters: “I had small X-rays. Everything’s OK. I think I’m going to be good in about a week.” Obama is a lifelong basketball player, and he squeezes in a game every now and then on the campaign trail. At one stop during his overseas trip, he shot baskets with US troops in Afghanistan.
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Pardoned ex-soldier dies
A day after the Army formally apologized for the wrongful conviction of 28 black soldiers in a riot and lynching in Seattle in 1944, one of the soldiers died. Congressman Jim McDermott says 83-year-old Samuel Snow died on Sunday. Snow came to Seattle to hear the formal apology delivered on Saturday by Ronald James, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs. But he missed the ceremony at Discovery Park because he was admitted to Virginia Mason Hospital with an irregular heartbeat. Snow’s son, Ray Snow, says receiving the long-delayed honorable discharge left his father at ease.
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