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AUSTIN, Texas — DNA evidence has helped to identify a man who died decades ago as a new suspect in the 1991 killing of four teenage girls, after authorities linked him to multiple killings in other states, police said Friday. In a statement, police said they had made a “significant breakthrough” and that DNA tests … Read more

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Police in a south Georgia city shot and killed a man Thursday after they said he opened fire on cars waiting outside a school to pick up students. A Valdosta police officer heard gunshots and saw a man entering the campus of S.L. Mason Elementary School, according to a Friday statement by … Read more

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding. The statistical agency said Friday in a notice to be published next week that it will test and assess the feasibility … Read more

DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal immigration agents have detained the head administrator of Iowa’s capital city public schools, the school board said Friday. Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements agents Friday morning, school board president Jackie Norris said in a statement. A spokesperson for the district … Read more

CLEVELAND, Ga. — A Baptist college in northeast Georgia won’t reinstate its president after an investigation into whether he ignored claims that a former administrator was abusing students. Trustees at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland announced Friday that Emir Caner won’t return. Caner had been on leave since June, when trustees hired an investigator to … Read more

UNITED NATIONS — Russia and China are forcing the U.N. Security Council to vote Friday on a resolution that would give Iran a six-month extension before sanctions related to its nuclear program are reimposed. The last-ditch effort by Iran’s few and closest allies is unlikely to garner enough support to pass the 15-member council. It … Read more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city. On Friday, residents finally learned more about that plan, and it looks to be very different from the deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. … Read more

OLD FORT, N.C. — Morning mist is still burning off the surrounding mountains when they appear: Small groups of helmeted riders on one-wheeled, skateboard-like contraptions, navigating the pitched streets, past the 30-foot granite Arrowhead Monument on the town square. They are among the 400 or so people converging on this Blue Ridge foothills town for … Read more

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A man accused of arson at a Chabad Jewish Center in southwest Florida last week has been arrested after his mother told a relative she feared he set the fire, prosecutors said Thursday. Blake Hoover faces a federal arson charge in the fire at the Chabad Jewish Center in Punta Gorda … Read more

PORTLAND, Maine — The survivors and family members of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history have refiled their lawsuit against the U.S. government following a new U.S. Department of Defense watchdog report that faults the U.S. Army for a high rate of failure to report violent threats by service members. Eighteen people … Read more