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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is promising to be more vigilant about preventing terrorist propaganda and other extremist videos from appearing on its YouTube site amid intensifying criticism about the internet's role in mass violence.

Its crackdown will involve both computer programs and an expanded group of people dedicated to identifying videos promoting terrorism so they can be blocked from appearing on YouTube or quickly removed.

The Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) -- Airlines canceled flights in Phoenix and doctors urged people to be careful around concrete, playground equipment and vehicle interiors Monday as a punishing heat wave threatens to bring temperatures approaching 120 degrees to parts of the Southwestern U.S.

Arizona is seeing the most stifling temperatures, but the wrath of the heat wave is being felt across Nevada and California as well. Las Vegas was forecast to hit 117 (47 Celsius) on Tuesday on the first day of summer, and excessive heat warnings cover almost all of California.

- Watertown Daily Times

FORT DRUM — Alejandro Villanueva’s road from 10th Mountain Division soldier to Pittsburgh Steelers’ starter circled back to the north country Monday, as he taught football to children raised in military families like his own.

“It’s a time for me to realize how much people sacrifice to be in the service, and the things they do,” said Villanueva, who served at Fort Drum from 2010-12. “I’m just very thankful, I’m very thankful people are serving our country the way they do, and setting the standard like they do in the 10th Mountain Division.”

Seth Borenstein, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them, broadly hinting that we are probably not alone.

After four years of searching, the Kepler telescope has detected a total of 49 planets in the Goldilocks zone. And it only looked in a tiny part of the galaxy, one quarter of one per cent of a galaxy that holds about 200 billion of stars.

Alan S. Hale, Cornwall Standard-Freeholder

The sentencing of a man convicted of killing a Cornwall Island resident has been postponed for more than two months because of revelations that he may have Indigenous ancestry.

Christopher Baldwin was set to be sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to manslaughter after causing the 2014 death of Akwesasne resident, David Benson Hopps. Baldwin’s co-accused, Rachel Fenn, who also pleaded guilty to manslaughter has already been sentenced to five years in prison for her role in Hopps’ death.

- Massena Daily Courier

CANTON — A North Lawrence man who had 47 kilograms of cocaine in his vehicle last year was sentenced to five years in federal prison last week.

On Jan. 26 in U.S. District Court, Plattsburgh, Christopher J. Jandreau, 25, pleaded guilty to knowingly and intentionally possessing with the intent to distribute a controlled substance.

- Massena Daily Courier

CANTON — Oral “Nick” Hillary’s civil lawsuit against the village of Potsdam and its police department for claims that his civil rights were violated during the investigation in the 2011 murder of Garrett J. Phillips has been postponed.

The lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial July 10 in Albany, but United States Northern District Court Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe, who will be presiding over the case, granted a stay of the case Thursday for what he wrote were “overlapping issues,” with a second civil suit Mr. Hillary filed for malicious prosecution.

- Massena Daily Courier

U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to provide New York state with one of its four special heroin enforcement groups being sent to states suffering from extensive heroin abuse.

The Senate minority leader had been instrumental in getting $12.5 million for DEA in the 2017 federal budget so it could set up the four heroin enforcement units. Sen. Schumer made the case for New York state, noting that the heroin overdose death rate increased by 30 percent in 2015 as New York City continues to be a major heroin distribution hub for the rest of the state and the Northeast.