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Florida state House candidate faked her diploma, university says

This photo shows a damaged house after a plane crashed in Payson, Utah, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. A Utah man flew the small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Utah man flies plane into his home after a fight with his wife, police say

This photo from Nov. 28, 2017, shows Wake Forest assistant coach Jamill Jones, second from left, with the team and head coach Danny Manning, second from right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Winston-Salem, N.C. Police say Jones threw a punch that killed a New York City tourist who knocked on his car window thinking it was his Uber ride. He was arrested Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, and charged with assault. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Police: College basketball coach threw punch killing NYC tourist

EGYPT Mr. Austin and Ms. Geoghegan met in Washington.

A dream crushed on a mountain road: The cyclists and the Islamic State militants August 8, 2018 | 3:40 PM

South Carolina woman tells police she's a 'very clean, thoroughbred, white girl' August 8, 2018 | 11:40 AM

The Asian long-horned tick was first identified in New Jersey last November. The species now has been reported in the suburbs of New York City and as far west as Arkansas.

An invasive new tick is spreading in the U.S. August 6, 2018 | 10:06 PM

Sarah Douglas, who is pregnant with her third child, ordered a latte at a McDonald’s in Alberta, Canada. Then she pulled off the lid and realized “it wasn’t a latte at all.”

A pregnant woman ordered a latte at McDonald’s. She received a cup of cleaning fluid. August 3, 2018 | 9:10 PM

Scores of goats much on the flora and fauna in a residential area of Boise, Idaho, Friday, Aug 3, 2018. About 100 escaped goats munched on manicured lawns in Idaho's capital city on Friday morning before being rounded up and hauled away. (Ruth Brown/Idaho Statesman via AP)

'I just saw dozens and dozens of goats chewing up my neighbors’ yards' August 3, 2018 | 4:18 PM

Medical College of Wisconsin.

Wisconsin man has legs and hands amputated after contracting rare infection from a dog's lick August 2, 2018 | 11:40 AM

This image made available on Wednesday Aug. 1, 2018 by the Swedish Police, shows a collection of Swedish Crown jewels. Thieves in Sweden walked into a small town's medieval cathedral in broad daylight and stole priceless crown jewels dating back to the early 1600s before escaping by speedboat, police said Wednesday. (Swedish Police via AP)

Thieves steal Swedish royal jewels, escape by speedboat August 1, 2018 | 2:22 PM

Nikos Frazier / Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP

These identical twin sisters are marrying identical twin brothers July 31, 2018 | 6:40 PM

This undated photo released by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation shows Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn on Thursday, July 19, 2018. A neighbor reported seeing her going for a jog Wednesday evening. The Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office said Monday, July 23, 2018, that Tibbetts had not been found. (Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation via AP)

Investigators still baffled by disappearance of Iowa student July 31, 2018 | 6:28 PM

A Cubs fan put on his rally bucket. A half-inning later a metal pin fell on his head. July 31, 2018 | 6:00 PM

Miss Helen, the gray horn shark that was returned to the San Antonio Aquarium Monday.

A shark stolen with a baby stroller is back at the San Antonio Aquarium July 31, 2018 | 11:06 AM

Aurora, Colorado — the scene of the fatal shooting.

Police in suburban Denver kill resident who shot intruder July 31, 2018 | 10:46 AM

Pictured in the foreground, the hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin can be seen swimming next to a melon-headed dolphin near Kauai, Hawaii.

'Calling it something like a wholphin doesn't make any sense' July 31, 2018 | 10:26 AM

File - This undated file photo provided by the New York Police Department shows Danueal Drayton. Law enforcement officials are looking into whether Drayton arrested in California for killing a woman he met on a dating app may have killed others. Drayton was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with raping and strangling a woman. Two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Monday, July 30, 2018, that Drayton talked about killing at least five others in Connecticut and New York. Investigators are trying to determine whether his claims are true. (New York Police Department via AP, File)

NYC murder suspect used Tinder to prey on women, police say July 31, 2018 | 10:02 AM

Nia Wilson had big plans. Then she was killed in a BART station. July 25, 2018 | 9:30 PM

In a photo provided by Brent Cizek, dozens of common merganser ducklings follow a single hen on Lake Bemidji in Bemidji, Minn. Some birds, including common mergansers and ostriches, raise their babies in a day care system that’s called a crèche, experts say. (Brent Cizek via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH MINN DUCK MOM BY SARAH MERVOSH FOR JULY 25, 2018. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --

1 hen, 76 ducklings: What’s the deal with this picture? July 25, 2018 | 9:00 PM

HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: The remains of President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. The star was vandalized overnight. (Photo by Katharine Lotze/Getty Images)

Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed with pickax July 25, 2018 | 1:00 PM

Interstate 80 near North Platte.

A driver in Nebraska was pulled over — then she drove 142 mph, police say July 25, 2018 | 12:44 PM

FILE - JULY 23: According to reports July 23, 2018 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and husband Glendon Crain, aka Brendon Miller, are divorcing. LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 21: Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (L), and her husband, adult film actor Brendon Miller, arrive at the 29th annual Adult Video News Awards Show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino January 21, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Husband of Stormy Daniels seeks divorce July 23, 2018 | 10:24 PM

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 16, 2018 US President Donald Trumps lawyer Michael Cohen exits the US Federal Court in New York.
Cohen, secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with the US president, and the tape is now in FBI hands, The New York Times reported on July 20, 2018. The FBI seized the recording earlier this year during a raid on Cohen's office, the newspaper said in a bombshell revelation, quoting lawyers and others familiar with the recording.
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NYT: Michael Cohen secretly recorded Trump talking about payments to ex-Playboy model July 20, 2018 | 12:48 PM

Emergency responders work at Table Rock Lake after a deadly boat accident in Branson, Mo., Thursday, July 19, 2018. A sheriff in Missouri said a tourist boat has apparently capsized on the lake, leaving several people dead and several others hospitalized. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP)

Missouri duck boat accident: What we know July 20, 2018 | 9:36 AM

A view of downtown Auckland from aboard the Devonport ferry in New Zealand.

A 4-day workweek? A test run shows a surprising result. July 19, 2018 | 12:45 PM

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia. Butina, a 29-year-old gun-rights activist, served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo)

Suspected secret agent used sex in covert plan, prosecutors say July 18, 2018 | 9:58 PM

2 children suffer bites in possible shark attacks off New York's Fire Island July 18, 2018 | 9:44 PM

Lava crashes through roof of Hawaii tour boat, injuring 23 July 16, 2018 | 4:10 PM

This 2017 photo provided by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office in Doylestown, Pa., shows Samantha Jones. Prosecutors say The Pennsylvania mother killed her 11-week-old son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breastmilk. (Bucks County District Attorney's Office via AP)

Mother accused of killing baby with drug-laced breast milk July 16, 2018 | 11:00 AM

Stewards pull a woman off the pitch after she stormed onto the field and interrupted the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Pussy Riot upstages Putin with protest that halts World Cup July 15, 2018 | 8:20 PM

Eighth animal dies after jaguar escapes Audubon Zoo habitat July 15, 2018 | 5:51 PM

Garrett Matthias at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City. He died on July 6 of a rare cancer.

‘See ya later, suckas!’: The obituary of a 5-year-old boy in his own words July 15, 2018 | 8:00 AM

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. (AP Photo, File)

Government reopens probe of Emmett Till slaying July 12, 2018 | 9:54 AM