By WILL WEISSERT and DAVID WARREN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators believe a package bomb that killed a teenager and wounded a woman in Austin on Monday is linked to a similar bombing that killed a man elsewhere in the city this month, and they’re considering whether race was a factor because all of…
By CLAUDIA LAUER and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — First responders and law enforcement personnel stood with heads bowed Saturday in Sutherland Springs for a Veterans Day ceremony that also was meant to honor the more than two dozen people killed a block away at a church. About 100 people attended the…
By PAUL J. WEBER and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said. Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week that it would be too painful…
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Doctors at one of the hospitals that received people injured in the Texas church shooting said their eight patients, who included children, were calm and brave. Dr. Kenneth Kingdon, noting that any trauma patient will be in shock, told a news conference Tuesday that the patients brought to Connally Memorial Medical…
By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law before the attack, which appeared to have been driven by domestic tensions, authorities said Monday. A day after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, investigators also revealed…
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is suggesting there may have been a connection between the gunman who shot and killed 26 people in a South Texas community and the Baptist church where the slayings happened. Abbott tells ABC’s “Good Morning America” he expects people will learn about any such link “in…
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Two sheriff’s vans were parked outside and police officers stood at the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the address listed for the Texas church shooting suspect, preventing a group of waiting journalists from entering. Two officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity have identified…
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A sheriff says a man walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and started shooting, leaving multiple people dead. The Wilson County News reports that Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said the shooter has been taken down. It wasn’t immediately known how many people were killed and wounded…
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Senate Democrat said there’s no time to waste as the Senate pressed ahead Monday on a $36.5 billion hurricane relief package that would give Puerto Rico a much-needed infusion of cash. The measure also would replenish rapidly dwindling emergency disaster accounts and provide $16 billion to…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The Red Cross is already planning if … and when … Hurricane Irma hits land in the U-S. The communications and marketing manager for the Eastern Missouri Red Cross, Zach Collins, just returned from a week in Dallas. He says the Red Cross is already in the planning stages for Irma. He says…