Racing against the darkness, rescuers in California on Saturday saved a man who had become stranded on a ledge perched atop a soaring peak on the Sierra Nevada.

Kyle William Spitze was part of an online extremist movement that coerces young people to do self-harm, officials said. Two of his victims died by suicide.

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Officials are investigating after multiple strains of E. coli and a type of salmonella sickened dozens of people across the United States. Two people were infected with both salmonella and E. coli.

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Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured in the crash at Carlisle Airport, officials said.

The gunman, Chad Hickman, was found dead in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake in Caldwell Township, the authorities said. A motive for the shootings was not immediately known.

The man bobbed and wove before lobbing a kick at a sea lion in San Diego last month, a video of the episode shows.

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The attack left the victim with at least a dozen wounds as several bystanders rushed to intervene.

The Apache helicopter crashed in Salado, a small town about 20 miles from the military base, and set off a fire, the authorities said.