Much of nation sizzling in heat wave (AP)

NEW YORK - The Northeast got a break Wednesday from the heat wave sizzling much of the nation, but elsewhere temperatures climbed back up through the 90s and topped 100 degrees in some cities by noon. The soaring heat had been blamed for 12 deaths, from South Dakota, where a hiker collapsed, to Pennsylvania, where a man with cerebral palsy died after apparently being left in a sweltering van. Readings were forecast to top 100 in Plains states such as Arkansas and Nebraska each day through the end ...