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MIAMI, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida became a Category 2 storm and was gaining strength Sunday as it headed across the Gulf of Mexico toward the northern Gulf coast forecasters said.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois said Sunday they were looking for a man in connection with the shooting death of three women in a car as the victims' children looked on.

SHORELINE, Wash., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The northwest United States and British Columbia, Canada, hit by a major storm this weekend, can expect more snow and rain, meteorologists said Sunday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A deer that leaped into a lion enclosure at Washington's National Zoo escaped the lions but was euthanized due to severe injuries, officials said.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A group of African-American clergy held a prayer vigil Sunday near a house in Cleveland where police say a sex offender kept the remains of 11 homicide victims.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- At least 91 people have died and thousands were evacuated due to heavy rain, flooding and mudslides in El Salvador, authorities said.

WOODS CROSS, Utah, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A Utah petroleum refinery pipe undergoing maintenance broke, spewing 800-degree hydrogen toward an adjacent neighborhood, investigators said.

BERLIN, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A former East German border guard says he was "no hero" for allowing people to swarm over the Berlin Wall the night the communist regime fell in 1989.

SEATTLE, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A man authorities accuse of killing a Seattle police officer had homemade explosives and was linked to pipe-bomb arsons of police cars, investigators say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. official says the White House is approaching direct negotiations with North Korea warily, given Pyongyang's track record of broken promises.

NOVOROSSIISK, Russia, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A police department in southern Russia will be investigated after a critical video by a local police officer was posted on a Web site, officials said.

LA MASSANA, Andorra, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The government of the tiny country of Andorra has begun investigating a bridge collapse that killed five workers, officials said.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. nuclear regulators owe Utah a policy change and an apology for their handling of nuclear waste, scientists say.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of slaying 13 people at Fort Hood, once said that infidels should be killed, The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday.