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• Agency: Trump is due $1M tax refund for Chicago skyscraper
  An Illinois tax agency has ruled that former President Donald Trump is due a $1 million refund on the 2011 tax bill on his downtown Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to block the refund
• Another section of overturned shipwreck separated
  Demolition crews have finished cutting away the sixth of eight sections of a giant cargo ship that tipped over off the Georgia coast nearly two years ago, leaving just one more cut before the dwindling remains are completely removed
• Inquest: Violence, not suicide, killed man at Missouri party
  A coroner's inquest jury says a suburban St. Louis Black man whose death was initially ruled a suicide died from violence
• Ammunition shelves bare as U.S. gun sales continue to soar
  The shortage of ammunition is even affecting law enforcement agencies.
• Forgotten oil and gas wells linger, leaking toxic chemicals
  There are about 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells nationwide.
• Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
  A California law taking effect Jan. 1 could make pork hard to find and expensive
• Bishop: Albany diocese covered up priest abuse for decades
  It protected clergy by sending them to treatment instead of calling police.
• Today in History
  Today in History Today is Saturday, July 31, the 212th day of 2021. There are 153 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 31, 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. On this date: In 1715, a fleet of […]
• Mudslides force more than 100 to spend night on highway
  More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado
• Endangered orcas get new protection from US government
  Endangered killer whales received new protections from the U.S. government.
• San Francisco tenants get 6-figure buyout to leave luxe unit
  A wealthy San Francisco couple notched a record nearly half-million-dollar buyout to vacate their luxury apartment of three decades
• Suspect charged with shooting 2 in California movie theater
  A man with shooting two people, killing one, inside a Southern California movie theater has been charged with murder and attempted murder
• Man charged with beheading woman in Minneapolis suburb
  A man is charged with beheading a woman while they were in a car in traffic in a Minneapolis suburb
• Opening of I-40 bridge linking Arkansas, Tennessee moved up
  The Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that had been shut down because of a crack found in the span is reopening ahead of schedule
• Tornadoes spur injuries, damage in eastern Pennsylvania
  At least five people were injured when severe weather struck homes and businesses in eastern Pennsylvania