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via video from jail on an aggravated attempted murder charge. His bond was set at $1 million. He is due back for arraignment Wednesday morning.
• The emergency call came from an Akron hospital where police believe Wise calmly walked into the facility and shot his wife in the head. The caller, apparently a nurse, said she had gone to hide in a room down the hall but could hear a commotion in a neurology intensive care unit, with people yelling and running nearby.
• "I think I need to go out there. Seriously, I think someone's coding or something," she said before the recording ended. Around the same time, another caller from hospital security confirmed to a dispatcher that a patient had been shot.
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Evacuees wait in shelters as Ernesto comes ashore, starts across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

• CHETUMAL, Mexico (AP) -- Ernesto spun inland over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early Wednesday while hundreds of fishermen who fled low-lying villages for shelters and tourists evacuated from resorts to inland hotels hunkered down for a stormy night.
• Ernesto hit the peninsula as a hurricane with sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) when it swept over the shore town of Mahuahal shortly before midnight Tuesday and moved into a sparsely populated coastal region, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. It had weakened to a tropical storm by early Wednesday with

winds near 70 mph (110 kph), but was expected to regain hurricane strength when its centered emerged over the Bay of Campeche.
• The storm was moving west at 15 mph (24 kph).
• There were no early reports of damage, but it might be morning before officials could assess whether Ernesto's rain and wind caused problems.
• Chetumal, the capital of Quintana Roo state, was the closest city and officials moved more than
1,300 tourists there from resorts in Mahuahal, Balacar and other coastal spots that were expected to see heavier rain and wind.
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TransUnion: Late payments on mortgages down 9 percent in first half of 2012

• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- U.S. homeowners are getting better about keeping up with their mortgage payments, driving the percentage of borrowers who have fallen

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