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LOS ANGELES – A man suspected of killing a retired dentist, taking three men hostage and wounding two deputies was likely using the famed Pacific Crest Trail to elude searchers for 18 days. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Monday that investigators believe 34-year-old Benjamin Peter Ashley was headed back …

MOSCOW – Kazakhstan’s currency, the tenge, has plunged in value by over 20 percent against the dollar after the government decided to move to a free float. The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange said the tenge was trading at over 250 to the dollar Thursday afternoon after closing at 197.05 the day …

HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii sophomore who lived in a 14th-floor campus apartment where a man fell to his death from a window ledge says he watched him and another man plummet to the ground. Twenty-four-year-old Thomas Bennett was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police say he tried to …