NTSB to take over Sparks plane crash investigation and other top stories.

• NTSB to take over Sparks plane crash investigation

  

  SPARKS, Nev. (KOLO) -- Sparks Police and Reno-Tahoe Airport officials say they are not ready to release information about the passenger(s) of a single-engine Beechcraft A36 that crashed into a Sparks trailer park Tuesday night.They say they want to make sure family members are notified before saying anything publicly about how many people were on board and their conditions. The plane that crashed was one similar to this Beechcraft A36. Airport Authority spokesman Brian Kulpin says the Nation..

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• McCain and Rubio win Senate primaries but face tough fights ahead

  

  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won the Arizona Republican primary on Aug. 30 and gathered with supporters to celebrate. (AP) Republican voters renominated two of their party’s best-known figures for the Senate on Tuesday, setting up grueling general-election contests for Arizona’s John McCain and Florida’s Marco Rubio in a year where the GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has upended the political scene. Both Rubio, who ran for president this year, and McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nom..

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• Obama looking for a climate legacy in China

  

  ANALYSIS/OPINION:The emperor has no clothes, and it’s “we the people” who are expected to butt out. President Obama has flaunted his disdain for the Constitution, and has assumed powers he was never meant to hold. Now Mr. Obama is playing coy about whether he will set U.S. climate change policy on his own uncertain authority. His act would make a flattering addition to his White House scrapbook, but scraps seldom make an enduring legacy.The president will travel to China on Friday and plans are ..

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• Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio easily wins primary — but now faces his toughest general election in decades

  

  When the Republican presidential ticket pivoted to focus on illegal immigration this summer, Donald Trump pointed to the man who has come to embody the muscular enforcement approach of the 2000s — massive immigration raids, unremitting warnings about the dangers posed by illegal immigrants and bold public pronouncements about enforcing the rule of law.But while Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County’s six-term sheriff, has become a national touchstone to hardcore immigration enforcement advocates, he is i..

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• State finds 30 deleted Clinton emails on Benghazi

  A judge asked the State Department to speed up its review of the documents in preparation for release to Judicial Watch. (AP Photo). State finds 30 deleted Clinton emails on Benghazi. By Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) • 8/30/16 12:58 PM.

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• Pennsylvania woman abducted by husband found dead in barn

  

  A Pennsylvania woman who was abducted by her husband was found dead in a barn, police said Tuesday. State police and South Strabane officers surrounded the barn near where a car owned by the woman and her husband had been found, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Authorities found the body of Tierne Ewing, 48, at around 11 p.m., but Kevin Ewing was nowhere to be found. Kevin Ewing, 47, was free on bond while awaiting trial on charges he abducted and beat his wife while holding her capti..

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