Justice Department: Person in Custody in Connection with Mailing of Pipe Bombs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department: Person in custody in connection with mailing of pipe bombs.
US official says Putin Invited to Visit Washington Next Year
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton says Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to visit Washington next year. Bolton said on Friday in the ex-Soviet nation of Georgia: “We have invited President Putin to Washington after the first of the year for, basically, a full day of consultations.” He says…
The Latest: Slain Writer’s Fiancee Speaks on Turkish TV
ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (all times local): 4:30 p.m. The fiancee of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says she has not received any condolence call from Saudi officials after the writer was killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. Hatice Cengiz, who is Turkish, also said in…
More Suspicious Packages Found, These To Booker, Clapper
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Suspicious packages addressed to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper — and similar in appearance to pipe bomb devices sent to other prominent Democrats — have been intercepted, the FBI said Friday, as investigators scrambled…
Migrant Caravan Assisted By Volunteer Doctors And Nurses
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and JULIE WATSON , Associated Press PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico (AP) — The main plaza in Pijijiapan quickly became a makeshift triage center as thousands of Central Americans trudged into this southern Mexico town. A severely dehydrated woman connected to an IV line sat on a plastic chair in the gazebo. Nearby, volunteer nurses took…
Man Is Fatally Shot By Police In North County
(KTRS) ST. LOUIS  A man is fatally shot during an altercation with North County Police. Authorities say they were called to Ruesta Drive in Spanish Lake for a disturbance Thursday evening. Officers arrived and noticed a man inside a car with a gun on the seat. A struggle occurred over police trying to get the gun.…
Oregon Voters Deciding Fate of Pioneering Sanctuary Law
INDEPENDENCE, OR (AP) — Delmiro Trevino, a U.S. citizen born in Texas, was waiting for a meal in a restaurant in Independence, Oregon, in 1977 when three sheriff’s deputies and a policewoman demanded he show documents proving he was an American. “I was ashamed. It wasn’t right, what they were doing,” Trevino, now 67 with…
Trump Says New Proposal Will Lower Some US Drug Prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two weeks before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs, saying it would stop unfair practices that force Americans to pay much more than people in other countries for the same medications. “We are taking aim at the global…
Police: Man Wrote Bank Robbery Note on Losing Lottery Ticket
WELLSTON, MO (AP) — A man has been charged with robbing a suburban St. Louis bank with a note scrawled on the back of a losing lottery ticket. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 42-year-old Joseph Thomas, of St. Louis was charged Wednesday with stealing or attempting to steal from a Regions Bank in Wellston, which…
Dozens Of St. Louis Business Owners Rally Behind Prop B
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Nearly 200 St. Louis business owners are calling for voters to approve Proposition B, the ballot initiative to raise Missouri’s minimum wage. On Thursday morning, a group of business owners joined state and local lawmakers during a press conference at Bridge Bread in south St. Louis to show their support. Those…