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Reed said: "Windermere is a stunningly beautiful national treasure but it's being choked by unacceptable levels of sewage pollution."

The coca farmers, along with miners and other allies, shut down La Paz, erecting roadblocks on all major highways and byways in and out of the capital and choking the economy.

A man fatally shot his older brother after witnessing him choke their 80-year-old mother in her home in Beverly Grove, police say.

Army Corps of Engineers only about to begin clearing hundreds of destroyed homes along the highway, the crucial coastal route seems likely to remain as a choke point for months and possibly years.

Holding that seemingly auspicious prize, she choked up trying to find the words she wanted to say to teenage Moore, “that little girl who didn’t believe in herself.”