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• Teen who penned web-hit farewell song dies
  

  Zach Sobiech's "Clouds" became a YouTube sensation with more than 4 million views.

  
  
  
  
• 1 child dead, 1 missing in park landslide
  

  A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others.

  
  
  
  
• Firefighters unprepared for Texas blast
  

  A report shows responders didn't adequately train for the situation.

  
  
  
  
• FBI make arrest in Wash. ricin letter scare
  

  A 37-year-old man arrested Wednesday has pleaded not guilty to mailing a threatening communication, after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

  
  
  
  
• Arias jury adjourns for day after impasse
  

  Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial said Wednesday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

  
  
  
  
• Woman praised for distracting attack suspects in London
  

  The horrific attack that left a U.K. soldier dead on the streets of London could have been worse.

  
  
  
  
• Youth violence in Stockholm shock Sweden
  

  Hundreds of youth have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.

  
  
  
  
• Chicago board approves largest school closing
  The Chicago Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close 50 schools - including about 10 percent of all elementary schools - in the largest mass school closing in the nation. The closings in mainly Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods have drawn protests by parents and teachers union leaders who say the closures will expose children to greater gang violence in a city that recorded 506 murders in 2012. ...
  
  
• Cruise industry adopts passenger bill of rights
  

  It promises full refunds for trips that are canceled due to mechanical failure.

  
  
  
  
• Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
  Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.
  
  
• Heffernan: Latest tax dodge dulls Apple's luster
  

  Even teens who once craved iPhones are turning on the company.

  
  
  
  
• What's next for the immigration bill?
  

  It seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized residents.

  
  
  
  
• Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes
  

  Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. had killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009 – radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.”

  
  
  
  
• Faith healers charged with murder after second son's death
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Officials: Man shot by FBI was about to sign murder confession
  

  Ibragim Todashev was linked to Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an unsolved triple murder in 2011.