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VENTURA, Calif. – Actor Dana Elcar (search), whose role as Peter Thornton on ABC’s adventure series “MacGyver (search)” depicted his real-life struggle with glaucoma and blindness, has died. He was 77. He died Monday of complications from pneumonia at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. …

CHAMBERY, France – A truck loaded with tires and another carrying paint caught fire along with two other vehicles Saturday inside an 8-mile-long Alpine tunnel between France and Italy, killing at least one person and shutting down the roadway, officials and a news reports said. Some trucks reportedly were trapped …

LONDON – Oil prices fell by almost $1 a barrel Wednesday after the U.S. government released data that showed domestic supplies of oil, gasoline and distillate fuel rose last week. Light sweet crude for August delivery declined by 94 cents to settle at $57.26 a barrel on the New York …