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LOS ANGELES — Actor Randolph Mantooth, best known for his role as firefighter and medic John Gage in NBC’s “Emergency!” television series during the 1970s, has died at age 80 after a long illness, his family said Friday.

Rescue efforts continued Friday amid roiling floodwaters in parts of southeast Missouri, where nearly a foot of rain fell in some areas earlier in the day and more was expected.

One thing was clear when Nolan Wells’ family and friends spoke about him on Friday: He had an exceedingly bright future.

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Officers were trying to serve an administrative warrant for someone other than Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Rep. Sylvia Garcia said.

The family of Nolan Wells, whose body was found Monday on Horn Island, doesn’t believe his death was accidental, attorney Ben Crump said. A cause of death is pending.

Utah prosecutors on Thursday played redacted clips of authorities interviewing a roommate and former romantic partner of Tyler Robinson.

A New Jersey police officer has been charged after prosecutors said he left two K-9s in his vehicle for seven hours without proper ventilation, resulting in their deaths.

A member of a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis shot and killed a person there on Wednesday, the second fatal shooting by a task force member in four days, and the fourth death involving the unit since it started in September.

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