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44 cars in coal train derail in Va. town

Forty-four of the 161 cars on the train derailed.Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot/AP

VIRGINIA

44 cars of coal train derail in downtown

SUFFOLK — About 44 cars of a coal train derailed in downtown Suffolk on Saturday, spilling coal but causing no injuries. The Norfolk Southern Railroad said the train consisted of 161 coal cars. Officials said the accident occurred just before 7 a.m. Saturday. The train was headed to Norfolk, where the coal was scheduled to be exported. Streets in the vicinity of the crash were closed. A warehouse was damaged by the spill, and a house and car had broken windows.

FLORIDA

Divers end search after finding body

ISLAMORADA — A dive team found a body in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida Keys shortly after the Coast Guard officially suspended its search for a Canadian filmmaker who vanished while scuba diving, officials said. Divers with the Key Largo Fire Department found the body Friday about 300 feet from 37-year-old Rob Stewart’s last known location, the Coast Guard said. The body was found at a depth of 220 feet, and the identity still needs to be confirmed by a medical examiner.

NORTH DAKOTA

Baby found in car; suspect shoots self

DEVILS LAKE — An attempt to stop a pickup truck with a loud exhaust system led to a wild chase in which the driver shot at a trooper, stole a car with a baby inside, and eventually barricaded himself inside an apartment, where he shot and wounded himself. Only the suspect, Daniel TwoHearts, was hurt during the chase, which began Thursday in Grand Forks and ended Friday night in Devils Lake. TwoHearts is expected to survive.

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MINNESOTA

Invasive weed mars Great Lakes region

MINNEAPOLIS — An aquatic weed is creeping across the Great Lakes region that is very hard to kill. The plant, which forms surface mats in lakes, first turned up in North America in 1978 in the St. Lawrence River in New York state. Researchers think it probably arrived in ballast water. It wasn’t a big concern for decades but is now widespread in western New York and on Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, where it has infested lakes.

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