Category Archives: Canadian Press
Town near Grand Canyon considers push for taller buildings
TUSAYAN, Ariz. - Seconds after rounding the highway curve on the final stretch to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim entrance, the first sign appears: Yes on 400. Housing. Jobs. Independence. The ball...
Nov 07, 2017
Correction: Church Shooting-Texas-Hero story
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - In a story Nov. 6 about two men who chased down the Texas church shooter, The Associated Press misspelled in two instances the last name of one of the men. It is Johnnie La...
Nov 07, 2017
Are all Russia ties now sinister, or are some just business?
MOSCOW - A shipping company partly owned by President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary is one of the few in the world that can transport liquefied petroleum gas in cold and icy conditions. Russ...
Nov 07, 2017
Relative: Pregnant woman, 3 children, in-laws slain in Texas
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - As usual, John Holcombe posted his Sunday school lesson online a day ahead. It was about an Old Testament miracle. Holcombe was expecting a small miracle of his own. His wi...
Nov 07, 2017
Government seeks to revoke US citizenship of 4 Somalis
MINNEAPOLIS - The Justice Department moved Monday to revoke the U.S. citizenship of four Minnesotans from Somalia accused of lying on their visa application. The four entered the U.S. through a progra...
Nov 07, 2017
Manuscript of man who fatally shot Oswald up for auction
BOSTON - A manuscript penned by the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is up for auction. Boston-based RR Auction says the 24-page manu...
Nov 07, 2017
Texas church gunman had run-ins with the law before shooting
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - Wherever Devin Patrick Kelley went after graduating from high school, a trail of violence followed. In New Mexico, Kelley was kicked out of the Air Force following a court-marti...
Nov 07, 2017
Combat and cultural readiness key for new Army trainers
FORT BENNING, Georgia - Army Col. Scott Jackson reaches out and grasps the hand of a male soldier. Their fingers interlaced, Jackson talks to the soldier for a few minutes and then asks if he feels un...
Nov 07, 2017
California inmates sought in brazen courthouse escape
SAN FRANCISCO - Two men charged with tying up employees at gunpoint during a cellphone store robbery made a dramatic escape Monday from a suburban Silicon Valley courthouse, fleeing in a car waiting o...
Nov 07, 2017
Dallas man arrested at White House after alleged threats
WASHINGTON - A Dallas man was arrested Monday at the White House after he reportedly travelled to Washington intending to kill “all white police” at the executive mansion. The Secret Servi...
Nov 07, 2017