was determined on Wednesday to have died of heat stroke.
Similar causes of death were reported Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri, where a woman in her early 80s died
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"He had an air-conditioning unit in the window but didn't use it because he didn't want to pay the electric bill," said Hutchinson Police Sergeant Thad Pickard.
Two people died from the heat in an Illinois county near the Mississippi River on Wednesday, St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone said on Thursday.
They were identified as Willie Gill, 72, of East St. Louis, Illinois, whose body was found dead of heat stroke in a ditch near his home; and Kevin Miller, 51, of Belleville, Illinois, who was found dead of a heat-related heart attack on his front porch, which faced westward toward the setting sun.
Temperatures in the area, which is about 15 miles east of St. Louis, reached 100 degrees on Wednesday and again on Thursday.
(Additional reporting by Bruce Olson, Lauren Keiper
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Former motor-racing boss Max Mosley has agreed to underwrite lawsuits that victims of alleged intrusive reporting may bring against News International, the owners of the now-defunct tabloid News of the World, he told Reuters on Friday.
Mosley, who won damages from the News of the World after it published lurid revelations about his ###### life, said he has agreed to cover the potentially large costs some people risk if they reject settlement offers and press forward with litigation against Murdoch-owned newspapers.
Mosley told Reuters in a telephone interview that "in a few cases" in which plaintiffs have filed civil lawsuits against Murdoch-owned papers for damages in connection with allegations of hacking or other intru