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CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who’s serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, hope that a New Hampshire judge on Monday will allow her latest petition for a new trial to move forward.

HAYWARD, Wis. — Three new women’s world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships competition held in a small Wisconsin community, full of high-powered sawing, chopping, log-rolling, speed climbing and cheers of “Yo-Ho!” This year, 66 men and 40 women attended the three-day competition in Hayward that ended Saturday.

A viral video captured the confrontation during a ticketing dispute, leaving the family fearing detainment upon their return from Canada.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The funeral for Nolan Wells, the teenage football star whose body was found on the shores of Mississippi’s Horn Island days after he went missing July 4, will be held Monday morning.

Prosecutor Joel Seidemann strode briskly up the length of the courtroom’s center aisle with an accordion file under one arm and a line of eight younger colleagues rushing to keep up.

Tropical Storm Fausto formed Sunday well off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast, while a tropical depression meandering in warm Gulf of Mexico waters south of the Florida Panhandle was threatening to strengthen into a named storm.

The Texas Hill Country has been lashed with another round of catastrophic flash flooding, eerily reminiscent of last year’s devastating inundation over the July Fourth holiday that killed more than 100 people.

When locals think of Horn Island, they think of pristine beaches, summer boating trips and peaceful fishing.

Two U.S. Forest Service employees were rescued with the help of negotiators after being zip-tied and held hostage for nearly 15 hours in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, officials said Friday.

Donike “”Donna” Gocaj, who fell into the 10-foot manhole full of scalding steam, suffered “unfathomable” pain, her family said in the suit.