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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi state television says Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (HY'-dahr ahl ah-BAH'-dee) has announced the start of operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. The push to retake Mosul will be the biggest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011 and, if successful, the strongest blow yet to the Islamic State.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say they've arrested two suspects in the shooting that left three people dead and 12 wounded at a restaurant operating out of a converted home. Both are Jamaican nationals. Investigators believe a dispute between a man and at least two other man led to the shooting early Saturday at a birthday celebration attended by around 50 people in L.A.'s Jamaican community.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A police officer is hospitalized after being shot early this morning in Fairbanks, Alaska. The officer was seriously injured. The News-Miner reports the shooter took the officer's patrol car and then ditched it a few blocks away. Police are still searching for him. The shooter is described as a 20-year-old Native man who was wearing a black jacket and a ball cap.
SEATTLE (AP) —A potentially apocalyptic typhoon is fizzling out in the Northwest. The storm did down plenty of trees and power lines in Oregon and Washington but its effects were not as bad as predicted. Officials with the National Weather Service say they plan to study why the storm was not as extreme as anticipated over the next few weeks. It was originally forecast to be one of the worst in recent history.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina estimates that flooding from Hurricane Matthew has caused $1.5 billion in damage to 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings. John Dorman, an assistant state emergency management director, says computer modeling combined property records, topography and stream gauges to estimate how many feet of water affected a given building — and how much damage the water caused.
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