LITTLE RIVER, S.C. (AP) — Ten people were shot during a fight that started after a private boat hosting a holiday weekend party arrived at a dock Sunday night on the South Carolina coast, authorities said.

(AP) — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV. An additional six people remain missing.

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In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law.

(AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations dating back over a century in the Bay of Biscay near Spain and France.

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British police were holding a 53-year-old man on Tuesday over a collision that turned a joyous soccer celebration in Liverpool to tragedy and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, four of them in very serious condition.

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Jason Thebo uses a loader to clear out concrete while working on a pothole at the corner of Gary Boulevard and Modelle Avenue.

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