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Wildfires have forced more than 800 residents to evacuate their northwestern Ontario First Nation.

LAC DU BONNET — Evacuation orders remain in place for the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet as crews continue to battle wildfires in eastern Manitoba.

The operator of a bear rescue organization in Manitoba delivered sad news on Saturday about a tiny, seven-pound black bear cub that had been rescued with burns to her paws, nose and lips from a forest fire.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate rural areas north of Argentina's capital after several days of heavy rainfall flooded highways, farmlands and entire neighborhoods.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Storm systems sweeping across parts of the Midwest and South have left at least 21 dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped a car over on an interstate.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — At least five people died and authorities were searching from building to building for people who were trapped or hurt after severe storms including a possible tornado swept through St. Louis.

LAC DU BONNET — Rain offered some help in the battle against forest fires in eastern Manitoba on Friday, but the effort remained far from over.

After a wildfire decimated a California high school’s newsroom, destroying its cameras, computers and archived newspapers spanning six decades, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser received came from the other side of the count

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BANGKOK (AP) — A construction magnate, builders, designers and engineers surrendered to police Friday on criminal negligence charges for the deadly collapse of a Bangkok high-rise in the March 28 earthquake that hit Myanmar.