TWO SETS OF HIKERS RESCUED
N.H.» Two sets LANCASTER, of hikers had to be rescued from the White Mountains because they were unprepared for the terrain and cold, windy conditions.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says a 77-year-old Florida man and 71-yearold woman from New York were found at 11:20 Friday night off the Tuckerman Ravine trail after requesting a rescue. Both had hypothermia. Volunteers had to work overnight to get them to safety. The woman was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Also, two 35-year-old women from Minneapolis had been stranded on the Huntington Ravine Trail, one of the region’s most difficult trails, and called for help. Fish and Game officers gave them warm clothing and helped them reach safety.
Crowd calls for state attorney general’s resignation. INDIANAPOLIS» Dozens of protesters rallied for Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s resignation amid allegations that he inappropriately touched a state lawmaker and several other women.
The Indianapolis Star reports that about 60 people gathered outside the Indiana Statehouse on Saturday. Several lawmakers attended. Protesters carried placards with crossed-out red “equal” signs.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb and Statehouse GOP leaders called on Republican Hill to resign Thursday.
An internal legislative memo leaked to media outlets says a lawmaker and three legislative staffers allege that Hill drunkenly groped them in March during a party. Democratic state Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon and Gabrielle Mclemore, the Indiana Senate Democrats’ communications director, say they were among victims.
Hill said the allegations “vicious and false.” He has rebuffed calls to resign.
Officers killed in 2016 ambush remembered. DALLAS» Flags were lowered to half-staff and law enforcement badges from across the country were fastened to a tree outside of Dallas police headquarters as Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of a shooting attack that left five officers dead. An Army veteran fatally shot four police officers and one transit officer before authorities killed him using a robot-delivered bomb.
U.S. court rules shipwreck found off Florida belongs to France.
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JACKSONVILLE, federal court has ruled that a shipwreck off Florida’s Atlantic coast belongs to France, not the salvage company that found it in 2016. A U.S. magistrate ruled last week that the wreck was la Trinite, the flagship of French captain Jean Ribault.
In 1565, Ribault aimed to reinforce a struggling French colony in what is now Jacksonville. A hurricane wrecked his fleet, giving rival Spanish troops the opportunity to seize Fort Caroline and affirm Spain’s claim to Florida.
Global Marine Exploration had argued it had the rights to claim the shipwreck because its identity couldn’t be established.