NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s homeland security secretary says the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against what he calls “another 9/11-style attack.” But Jeh (jay) Johnson — making the rounds of the Sunday news shows — says the country is “challenged when it comes to the prospects of the…
(KTRS) – Donald Trump is expected to be in town Saturday. Ed Martin with the Eagle Forum confirmed that Trump is planning to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly. She endorsed Trump during a campaign event in March. Schlafly died on Monday. Her funeral mass is scheduled for 2 pm tomorrow at the Cathedral Basilica…
NEW YORK (AP) – Hundreds of people who came face to face with the horror of 9/11 are now serving as volunteer tour guides at the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in New York. One is a woman who walked down 82 flights of stairs to escape the burning north tower. Another guide is a…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey appeals court has thrown out the 15-count conviction of a former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being captured on a webcam kissing another man. The court tossed several bias intimidation counts against Dharun Ravi because of a change in state law. It ordered a new…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Clinton is offering an intimate look at her Methodist faith and how it has influenced her life in public service. At the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Clinton recalled her father’s nightly prayers, her mother’s time as a Sunday School teacher and the youth minister who took her to see…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri is appealing a federal court’s decision that requires the state to break one of its most-guarded secrets and reveal the name of any supplier of its lethal injection drug. Calling the matter “a question of exceptional importance,” the state on Wednesday asked the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson says he, “blanked” when he was asked about the name of Syria’s largest city. Johnson said in a statement that he thought Aleppo was an acronym when asked about it on the television show “Morning Joe” Thursday morning. Johnson responded, “What is Aleppo?” That response quickly went viral.…
ALPINE, Texas (AP) – Police in the West Texas town of Alpine say there’s an “active shooter” situation at a high school and schools have been locked down amid the search for a suspect. Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, said someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band just don’t want to leave the stage. Wednesday night’s concert at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia lasted nearly four hours, four minutes, breaking the previous record for the group’s longest U.S. show set last week. Philadelphia Daily News sports statistician and Springsteen fan Bob Vetrone…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The wife of an officer killed in a lone gunman’s ambush in Baton Rouge in July has announced that she’s pregnant. Dechia Gerald tells WAFB-TV (http://bit.ly/2cv3x4G ) that she believes she conceived just five days before her husband, 41-year-old Officer Matthew Gerald, died in the line of duty. Gerald, Officer…