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- Authority approves new CT machine

- WPLS ushers in annual Summer Reading Program

- Williams to be feted for 100th birthday

- Clinton sends three to compete in Meet of Champions

- Lorne to represent Clinton in K101 Bowl

Tree work

Derick Merriam throws a piece of a branch into the woodchipper on Sixth Street.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos,” the country’s space agency said.

In 1431, 19-yearold Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, Normandy, for heresy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah Thursday in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law for projects around the country.

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