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CDN | Michael Maresh

Clinton and Arapaho-Butler students who earned an A or B grade for the last nine weeks were offered a soft drink and candy at the Clinton Fire Department in the recent annual Candy for Grades event. Pictured from left, are firefighter Jacob Hoffman, Jorden Taplin and Julian Taplin.

(AP) — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in bedrooms, forcing some to sleep on concrete floors and making them stand for hours with their hands on their heads.

Jesus A. Valencia and Elizabeth Valencia to Jesus Alonso Valencia-Reyes, Trustee and Elizabeth Valencia, Trustee, QCD. Lot 7, Blk. 53, Weatherford Original Townsite.

In 1788, a fire destroyed most of the city of New Orleans.

TORONTO (AP) — The alert system on a Delta Air Lines jet that flipped upside down and burst into flames as it tried to land in Toronto last month indicated a high rate of descent less than three seconds before touchdown, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday.

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