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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police Thursday searched for a 15-year-old boy from India who vanished in Los Angeles a week ago after arriving with a group for an educational tour of California. Five LA detectives flew to San Francisco to interview members of Lovedeep Singh's tour group at the Indian Consulate, Lt. Darnell Davenport said. Singh, who speaks Hindi and only limited English, was snapping photographs in front of a hotel across the street from the University of Southern California when he vanished on the morning of June 23. Pandora Beads Charms
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PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — All Jeff Ellis could do was wait as he sat terrified 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) in the air staring at the wriggling scorpion that stung him on a flight to Alaska. He repeated to himself that a doctor said he'd be fine — probably. Ellis first had to wait 30 minutes to see whether he succumbed to anaphylactic shock. "In the movies, scorpions kill people," Ellis, 55, said Thursday. "I was just nervous, on edge, making sure that my heart was beating normal, that I wasn't sweating." Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said the scorpion probably crawled on board the plane during a stop in Austin, Texas.
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The writhing arachnid terrified children seated nearby. "Their mother told the flight attendant, 'Get that thing out of my face,' " Ellis said. As Ellis monitored himself for signs of a fatal allergic reaction, emergency responders in Anchorage were told to get ready; the flight would be landing soon. But they had a problem, Ellis said: Scorpions aren't common in Alaska, and the EMTs didn't know what to do.
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