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Deadly wildfires that swept with alarming speed and strength through the Hawaiian island of Maui reduced hundreds of homes to ash, sending emergency workers scrambling Saturday to find temporary housing for those lucky enough to survive a conflagration…

Authorities say one person is dead, another was critically injured and several people are unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others. (August 12)
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The Red Cross based in Wailuku provided aid and relief supplies for those affected by the wildfires in Maui. (August 12) (AP Video: Haven Daley)

Police raided the Marion County Record in Kansas after local business owner Kari Newell accused the newspaper of illegally getting her personal data.

0813 Today in History

A California judge accused of killing his wife texted his court staff to say he had shot her, prosecutors said Friday as he was charged with murder.

The child’s death is the first Texas has announced after Gov. Greg Abbott started busing thousands of migrants to cities including Chicago.

The death toll rose to 80, making the Maui wildfires the deadliest natural disaster in Hawaii in decades. The search for the missing continued.

High heat from the blazing sun proved considerably harder to handle than fastballs up in the strike zone at the DYB World Series. Temperatures reached 105 degrees, with the heat index topping out at 117. (Aug. 12)

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