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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Jesse Kirsch |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Debra Preitkis Jones |Carlos Catire
/ Updated By , , and SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — An American who was the last person believed to have been seen with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic was back in the United States on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after, he said, authorities forced him to stay in the Caribbean nation and confiscated his passport.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Jesse Kirsch |Debra Preitkis Jones |Carlos Catire |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
By , , and HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic — A Dominican Republic court is expected to decide on Tuesday whether the last person believed to have seen missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki can leave the country and return to the United States. Authorities believe Joshua Riibe, a 22-year-old senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, was the last person seen with Konanki before she went missing in the early hours of March 6.
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1 month ago | 
telemundosanantonio.com | Jesse Kirsch |Carlos Catire |Debra Preitkis Jones |Phil Helsel
La familia de Sudiksha Konanki, estudiante de la Universidad de Pittsburgh que desapareció en República Dominicana en sus vacaciones de Spring Break, solicitó a la policía de República Dominicana que la declare muerta, según informó un portavoz policial el lunes. El portavoz de la Policía Nacional Dominicana, Diego Pesqueira, indicó que la familia de Konanki envió una carta a la agencia solicitando la declaración de fallecimiento.
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1 month ago | 
telemundowashingtondc.com | Jesse Kirsch |Carlos Catire |Debra Preitkis Jones |Phil Helsel
La familia de Sudiksha Konanki, estudiante desaparecida de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, solicitó a la policía de República Dominicana que la declare muerta, según informó un portavoz policial el lunes. El portavoz de la Policía Nacional Dominicana, Diego Pesqueira, indicó que la familia de Konanki envió una carta a la agencia solicitando la declaración de fallecimiento.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Carlos Catire |Debra Preitkis Jones |Jesse Kirsch |Phil Helsel
By , , and The family of missing University if Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki have asked police in the Dominican Republic to declare her dead, a police spokesman said Monday. Dominican Republic National Police spokesperson Diego Pesqueira said that her family has sent the law enforcement agency a letter requesting a declaration of death. Konanki, 20, was on spring break with friends in the Caribbean island nation when shedisappearedin the early morning hours of March 6.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Preitkis Jones |Alexandra Chaidez
Oct. 2, 2024, 12:45 AM UTCBertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz |Adrienne Broaddus |Debra Preitkis Jones |Will Ujek
A grueling manhunt for the suspect wanted in a highway shooting spree stretched into its fifth day as authorities said they believe he retreated deep into a forested swath of southeastern Kentucky with no indication he has fled elsewhere. The search for Joseph A. Couch, a former Army reservist, has used helicopters and drones equipped with infrared technology, while special response teams and trained dogs are tracking him across thousands of acres likened to a jungle.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Tim Stelloh |David Douglas |Phil Helsel |Lewis Kamb |Todd Miyazawa |Debra Preitkis Jones
The resignation of Herman Andaya, the administrator of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, was effective immediately, a county spokesperson said. Andaya, citing health reasons, submitted his resignation "effective immediately," and Mayor Richard Bissen accepted, Maui County said in a statement Thursday.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Jon Schuppe |Elizabeth Chuck |Brittany Lane |Debra Preitkis Jones |Miguel Almaguer
KIHEI, Hawaii — Sanford Hill calls his escape from death “dumb luck.”He sits in temporary housing on the other side of Maui from his senior living facility in Lahaina. It was destroyed in the wildfire, and he is struggling to process how he made it — and wondering how many of his neighbors, all 62 or older, also got out. “There is no way for us to find out who survived,” Hill, 72, said in an interview.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
insideangle.3m.com | Debra Preitkis Jones
I can almost hear a collective moan. Start now? Really? Yes, I know ICD-11 implementation is still a few years off in the U.S., but I believe the saying, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today,” does apply here. It works in our favor that we have time to study, learn and practice, and take what we learned from our ICD-10 conversions to place us in a much stronger position when it comes time to go live with ICD-11.
