PHILADELPHIA – A U.S. appeals court on Monday approved a federal plan to limit pollution in the Chesapeake Bay despite objections from farmers, builders and others who accused the Environmental Protection Agency of a power grab.

The ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld restrictions on farm and construction runoff and wastewater treatment, and has the support of environmentalists and officials in the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

The bay is the nation’s largest estuary and the economic lifeblood for communities near the waterway.

Ten shot to death, 55 hurt in weekend

CHICAGO – Shootings over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago left 10 people dead and 55 others wounded, a toll lower than last year but one marked by an intense stretch of gun violence over eight hours on one of the nights.

The violence peaked from dusk Saturday until dawn Sunday, when 30 people were shot across Chicago – nearly half the total for the entire weekend, measured from 3 p.m. Thursday until just before dawn Monday.

Last Fourth of July, 82 people were shot, 16 of them fatally, over 84 hours.

Producer, manager Weintraub dies

NEW YORK – Jerry Weintraub, the dynamic producer and manager who pushed the career of John Denver and produced such hit movies as “Nashville,” “Karate Kid” and “Ocean’s Eleven,” died Monday in Santa Barbara, California. He was 77. A publicist for Weintraub said he died of cardiac arrest.

Scores killed in Nigerian bombings

JOS, Nigeria – A day of extremist violence against both Muslims and Christians in Nigeria killed more than 60 people, including worshippers in a mosque who came to hear a cleric known for preaching peaceful coexistence of all faiths.

Militants from Boko Haram were blamed for the bombings Sunday night at a crowded mosque and a posh Muslim restaurant in the central city of Jos; a suicide bombing earlier at an evangelical Christian church in the northeastern city of Potiskum, and attacks in several northeastern villages where dozens of churches and about 300 homes were torched.

Twelve die after jet bomb accident

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said.

The plane – one of several Russian-made Sukhois used by Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group – was returning to base when the accident happened.

Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim told the Associated Press that a technical failure caused the Sukhoi jet to drop the bomb, which hit a number of houses in the Iraqi capital’s eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad.