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• "Rock falls are common in Yosemite Valley, California, posing substantial hazard and risk to the approximately four million annual visitors to Yosemite National Park," reads the ominous opening line of the report.
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Girlfriend says Henry Hill, former mobster, subject of Scorsese 'Goodfellas,' has died at 69
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Henry Hill spent much of his life as a "goodfella," believing his last moment would come with a bullet to the back of his head. In the end he died at a hospital after a long illness, going out like all the average nobodies he once pitied.
• Hill, who went from small-time gangster to big-time celebrity when his life as a mobster-turned-FBI informant became the basis for the Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas," died Tuesday at age 69, longtime girlfriend Lisa Caserta told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
• Hill had open heart surgery last year and died of complications from longtime heart problems related to smoking, she said.
• "He was a good soul towards the end ... he started feeling remorseful," she said.
• An associate in New York's Lucchese crime family, Hill told detailed, disturbing and often hilarious tales of life in the mob that first appeared in the 1986 book "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family," by Nicholas Pileggi, a journalist Hill sought out shortly after becoming an informant.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, June 14, the 166th day of 2012. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
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• On this date:
• In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.
• In 1801, former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat (Continued on page 33)
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