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Dolly Parton, the “Queen of Country" singing icon with a personality as bold as her signature blond coif and rhinestone-encrusted outfits has died. She was 80 years old.

Parton's death was announced in a video message from her family on her social media pages and confirmed to USA TODAY.

Throughout her 60-year-career, Parton painted her twang-laced soprano voice on hits-turned-classics such as “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You,” “9 to 5” and “Coat of Many Colors.” Her 49 studio albums earned 25 No. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, the most of any female country artist, and spanned every decade from "Joshua" in 1971 to "Tyrant" with Beyoncé in 2024.

In addition to a legendary music career that earned 11 Grammy Awards (including Lifetime Achievement recognition), Parton starred or made cameo appearances in more than 20 films including her 1980 debut "9 to 5," with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" with Burt Reynolds (1982) and "Steel Magnolias" with Sally Field and Shirley MacLaine (1989).

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In a rare kind of attack, a bear killed a man in Crystal, New Mexico, on Thursday, local police said.

The police department for the Navajo Nation said officers within its Window Rock district received a call at about 1pm that a bear had attacked a man.

Authorities shot the bear, and the creature fled into woods near the scene of the attack. They said they ultimately found the bear and “neutralized” the animal.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family at this time,” the Navajo police department said in a Facebook post.

The Native American reservation’s police department said its criminal investigations department as well as its fish and wildlife department also responded to the scene of the fatal attack.

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A small plane carrying eight people crashed Aug. 20 in a remote part of western Alaska, the Federal Aviation Administration told USA TODAY.

The Cessna 441 departed Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and was headed to Cape Newenham, a remote area in western Alaska, when it crashed at around 12:15 p.m. local time, an FAA spokesperson said. The condition of the eight people aboard was not immediately known.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash. The agency said the NTSB will lead the probe.

USA TODAY reached out to the NTSB and the U.S. Coast Guard for comment.

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Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds following his guilty plea last week to federal charges.

Judge Gregory Carro issued an order Monday canceling the trial and giving the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the state case, until Oct. 9 to respond to the defense’s double jeopardy claims. A hearing will be held on Dec. 10, Carro said, about a week before Mangione is scheduled to be sentenced in the federal case.

Mangione, 28, pleaded guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court to a pair of stalking charges and admitted trailing Thompson to UnitedHealth Group’s investor conference and gunning him down outside a Manhattan hotel in 2024. Federal prosecutors said they would seek life in prison when Mangione is sentenced Dec. 18, though federal sentencing guidelines call for a term of 24 to 30 years.

“On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione said.

Immediately after his plea, Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork seeking to have the state case thrown out on double jeopardy and due process grounds. They described him as a “pawn in parallel prosecutions” and accused state and federal prosecutors of “trying to punish him twice for the exact conduct.”

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A 13-year-old girl in Michigan survived being shot four times in a shooting spree that left six people dead – including the suspected attacker – and called emergency help herself shortly before investigators identified the gunman, according to a state police official and her family.

Those actions made the teen a “hero”, said a relative of hers as well as two of the dead victims.

First responders took the girl to a hospital while she was in critical condition, but she was stable by Saturday, police said.

She “called 911 to report that she had been shot” at one of three scenes where the rampage unfolded on Friday, state police spokesperson Lt Ashley Miller said, as reported by NBC News. The shooter had fled before police arrived to the scene, but Miller said investigators were aware of the suspected shooter’s idhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/michigan-shooting-girl-survivesentity.

“We were able to identify him right away,” Miller added, without providing details on how.

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Five people were shot at Virginia State University, with one in critical condition, after an early morning incident outside campus dorms on Saturday, Aug. 15, according to a university post on X. Officials say a campus lockdown was lifted as of 8:22 a.m.

"Officers responded to the 3300 block of Boisseau Street at approximately 1:29 a.m. and discovered five individuals suffering from gunshot wounds outside VSU resident halls," officials said in the post.

The other four victims – one has been confirmed as a VSU student – sustained injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the university. The student has been released from the hospital, the university officials said in a 12:53 p.m. ET update posted on X.

The Chesterfield County Police Department is leading the investigation, and officials ask that members of the campus community avoid the area, according to the university post. VSU university police, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials and the Hanover County Sheriff's Office are assisting in the investigation.

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