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RHODE ISLAND
2-year-old boy abducted from home found safe
JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) — A 2-year-old Rhode Island boy was found wandering around a housing project miles from his home hours after his mother and another woman were found slain at their house Sunday and two men were under arrest, police said.
A patrolman in Providence spotted Isaiah Perez walking around the Chad Brown housing project by himself around 8:15 p.m., said Johnston Deputy Police Chief Daniel Parrillo. The toddler was evaluated at Hasbro Children's Hospital and had no injuries, he said.
The search for the boy began after the two bodies were discovered about 5:20 a.m. at a home in Johnston, a town of 30,000 residents less than 10 miles from Providence. Two men were arrested in the double homicide and Isaiah's abduction, while police continued their search for the child.
Johnston Police Chief Richard S. Tamburini said one of the victims was the child's mother.
Parrillo said investigators believe the victims were killed between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. and the boy was taken from the home. The names of the two dead were not immediately released.

TEXAS
Dozens attend weekend vigil for shooting victims
DALLAS (AP) — Dozens of mourners attended a vigil this weekend for the four slain and four wounded in two Dallas-area shootings that are being blamed on one man.
Erbie Bowser was being held Sunday on $6.5 million bond on three counts of capital murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Dallas County Jail records. He was booked into the jail Saturday night after receiving treatment for undisclosed injuries at an area hospital since he was arrested Wednesday.
Police allege Bowser fatally shot his girlfriend Toya Smith, 43, and her 17-year-old daughter Tasmia Allen in Dallas on Wednesday. Bowser then drove to the Dallas suburb of DeSoto, where police say he killed his estranged wife, Zina Bowser, 47, and her daughter 28-year-old Neima Williams. Two youths at each home were also wounded.

CALIFORNIA
Firefighters make progress battling wildfire
BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Riverside County fire's Jeff La Russo said full containment of the more than 30-square-mile blaze is expected Monday.
The Silver Fire charred roughly 19,400 acres and is 75 percent contained. The fire stopped advancing Saturday as firefighters focused on extinguishing hot spots.
The blaze injured 10 firefighters and seriously burned a mountain biker who was overrun by the fast-moving flames when the fire erupted Wednesday.
At its peak, the fire forced the evacuation of 1,800 people, including 800 campers. Evacuation orders for several communities remain in effect; some campgrounds and trails are also closed.
Containment was initially expected by Sunday, but inaccessible terrain deterred firefighters from getting to certain hotspots. More than 1,800 firefighters continue to battle the blaze, with crews hiking two to three hours to get to the fire line, La Russo said.

INDIANA
Sand dune that swallowed boy to be studied
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Federal officials plan to examine a northern Indiana sand dune that collapsed last month, burying a 6-year-old Illinois boy under 11 feet of sand for more than three hours.
The National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency will use ground-sensing equipment starting Monday to investigate Mount Baldy, a 43-acre sand dune at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
That section of the park has been closed to the public since July 12 when Nathan Woessner, of Sterling, Ill., disappeared into the dune. Emergency crews dug for hours to rescue the child, who was put in a medically induced coma after the incident. He was allowed to return home two weeks later.
Geologists theorize that a tree trunk decomposed under the dune, creating the void that swallowed Nathan.

FLORIDA
Sinkhole causes resort villa to partially collapse
CLERMONT, Fla. (AP) — As glass broke, the ground shook and lights went out, vacationers evacuated a central Florida resort building before a sinkhole caused a section of the villa to partially collapse early Monday.
About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said, and another section was sinking. The development's president said the resort underwent geological testing when it was built about 15 years ago, showing the ground to be stable, and that there were no signs before Sunday that a sinkhole was developing. He said all affected guests had been given other rooms.
The sinkhole, which is in the middle of the villa, is about 40 to 50 feet in diameter. A nearby villa was also evacuated as a precaution and that there had been a sign of a gas leak, but the gas had been shut off.
Florida has a long, ongoing problem with sinkholes, which cause millions of dollars in damage in the state annually. On March 1, a sinkhole underneath a house in Seffner, about 60 miles southwest of the Summer Bay Resort, swallowed a man who was in his bed. His body was never recovered.

NEW YORK
Most NY voters embarrassed by Weiner, Spitzer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Most New Yorkers watching Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer in political races dominated by sex scandals want to forget about them, according to a poll released Monday.
The Siena College poll found that 68 percent of state voters and 62 percent of New York City voters are embarrassed by the national attention to the men's candidacies.
Sixteen percent of voters statewide say the attention is "no big deal." Just 8 percent find it entertaining.
Weiner is running for mayor and is dogged by a sexting scandal that drove him from Congress. Spitzer seeks a comeback as city comptroller. He resigned as governor in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal.
The survey found that Weiner set a record for a Siena poll, but it's nothing to tweet home about.
Eighty percent of state voters gave him an unfavorable mark, including three-quarters of New York City voters.