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Man Suspected in Killing of Estranged Wife, Prior Disappearance of 9-Year-Old Son Is Fatally Shot by Officers in Encino

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Investigators remained Wednesday morning at the Encino scene where police fatally shot a man suspected of killing his estranged wife in Santa Maria and fleeing with their 9-year-old son. Firefighters take Konstantin Morozov to an ambulance after he was shot by police in Encino on Aug. 22, 2017. (Credit: KTLA) The boy, Daniel Morozov, was found “OK” at the location where his father, 48-year-old Konstantin Morozov, was shot dead by officers. Information provided by police Tuesday night was preliminary and no detailed update has been given Wednesday morning . Justin Eisenberg, the Los Angeles Police Department ’s chief of detectives, said Tuesday night that Morozov was shot after he emerged from an apartment in the 5500 block of Lindley Avenue , at the edge of Tarzana. The street remained blocked off until about 8 a.m. Wednesday. The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force , which includes LAPD officers , was following up on a tip received by Santa Maria police that Morozov was at the location. “H...

'A horrible night': Floodwaters carried death and destruction through Winona County | Local

Employees at We-no-nah Canoe are used to working on boats. They don’t usually have to use them to get to work. The morning of Aug. 19, 2007, We-no- nah Canoe workers had to paddle to the Bundy Boulevard facility . The canoe finishing area and warehouse were underwater. So was much of Winona County . The floods claimed seven lives in Winona and Houston counties and damaged thousands of homes in the region. Dozens of roads and bridges were impassable as a result of high water, downed trees and mudslides. Starting late Saturday night , Winona County authorities began evacuating residents from Stockton, Elba, and campgrounds near Whitewater State Park . Areas of St. Charles, Goodview and Minnesota City were evacuated as rainwater rushed out of the bluffs and hills, turning creeks into torrents that washed away whatever was in their paths. Winona County Assessor Steve Hacken ’s office reported to the state in October 2007 that Winona County ’s flood-related property losses totaled $28.4...

Beaches and the beauty of doing nothing

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L' amore alla spiaggia : Love at the beach. (Photo: Michael Kiefer/The Republic) In Italian they call it Il bel far niente, “the beauty of doing nothing.” It was hot and humid in Rome, and the city was lousy with sweaty tourists. I’d finished my business in Italy, and had scheduled some beautiful-do-nothing time in Sperlonga, a beach town about 80 miles south of the capital in Italy's Lazio region.  Sperlonga is a medieval village built atop a cliff overlooking a stretch of the Mediterranean known as the Tyrrhenian Sea. Though it’s well-known in Italy, most Americans have never heard of the town, and those you might encounter there probably work in Europe or have family ties there that bring them back. Still, it’s one of the Borghi piu belli d’Italia , “the most beautiful villages of Italy,” designated by the Borghi Italia Tourist Network , an organization dedicated to bringing visitors to Italy’s lesser-known cultural wonders. Sperlonga fits the description. The old city is...