SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A sheriff’s spokesman says two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio. Bexar County sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said two bodies were found Friday morning inside a room of a building at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Keith says it’s believed the shooter…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he would “very much like to” meet Pope Francis when he travels to the Vatican next week but he has not received an official invitation from the Catholic leader. It’s “not yet clear,” Sanders told journalists in New York Friday, saying this pope is someone he…
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey man is facing a fine for flying flags that support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Joseph Hornick thought West Long Branch police were responding to his reports that the flags proclaiming “Trump Make America Great Again” had been vandalized. Instead, he was ticketed for violating an…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal investigators are heading to Flint, Michigan, this weekend to interview residents who complained early on to the federal government about problems with the city’s water supply. The inspector general’s office at the Environmental Protection Agency says more than 100 people submitted complaints to the agency or the White House between April…
NEW YORK (AP) – The race for the Democratic nomination is intensifying as candidates cast doubt over each other’s qualifications to be president at overlapping press conferences. Sanders told journalists in Philadelphia Thursday that he raised questions about Clinton’s qualifications to be president because “that was what was thrown at me.” “If Secretary Clinton thinks……
GENEVA (AP) – Syrian state TV says Islamic State militants have kidnapped 300 cement workers and contractors in an area northeast of the capital, Damascus. The TV says the workers from the al-Badia Cement Company were abducted on Thursday from Dumeir, an area where militants launched a surprise attack against government forces earlier this week.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – There’s a dilemma facing GOP senators this year. Many say they’ll support whoever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. But none of them are rushing to embrace Donald Trump. When Trump came to St. Louis last month for a raucous rally with thousands, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt was more than 130…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt says he has no plans to meet with President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, though nearly 20 other Republican senators have said they are willing to do so. Blunt told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that he sees no need to meet…
