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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Juan Gabriel was more than just a singer and songwriter for the hundreds of fans who thronged Mexico City's Plaza Garibaldi to wish him farewell Monday.
He was a legend, an artist who marked an era in people's lives. Every major Mexican newspaper had news of his Sunday death on their front pages, along with large photos of his flamboyant costumes.
DALLAS (AP) — A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a jail cell after a traffic stop, says the county's top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing, an accusation the prosecutors deny.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A sweltering heat wave is expanding as temperatures in the Midwest and South approach near record-setting levels in the waning days of spring.
The National Weather Service says the number of states under heat advisories nearly doubled Thursday to 12. The affected states are Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.