‘MAGA bomber’ Cesar Sayoc gets 20 years for mailing explosives to Trump critics
NEW YORK — The President Donald Trump superfan who sparked a nationwide manhunt by mailing pipe bombs to prominent Democrats was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Cesar Sayoc sent 16 pipe bombs to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden,...
Democrats: Trump should demand Senate vote on gun bill
WASHINGTON — If President Donald Trump is serious about strengthening gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, he should demand that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put a House-passed bill strengthening background checks up for a vote, congressional Democrats said Monday. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the...
Puerto Ricans await court decision on potential new governor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court on Monday agreed to rule on a lawsuit that the island’s Senate filed in a bid to oust a veteran politician recently sworn in as the island’s governor. The court gave all parties until Tuesday at noon to file all necessary...
Pennsylvania school safety tip system fielded 23K reports this year
HARRISBURG — A state report released Monday said bullying, self-harm and suicide were the most common concerns fielded during the first half-year of operation for a new threat reporting system that covers Pennsylvania schools. The 21-page report by the state attorney general’s office said the Safe 2 Say Something program...
Afghan official: Policeman opens fire on colleagues, kills 7
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policeman in the southern province of Kandahar opened fire on his colleagues, killing seven other policemen before fleeing the scene, a provincial official said Monday. The Taliban claimed the attack, saying the policeman had joined their ranks. The deadly shooting is the latest case of...
2 El Paso shooting victims die at hospital, raising death toll to 22
EL PASO, Texas — A hospital official says another victim of the weekend mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has died. Dr. Stephen Flaherty, of the Del Sol Medical Center, says the patient was one of two victims of Saturday’s attack to die at the hospital on Monday. Police earlier...
Mexico: Texas shooting ‘act of terrorism’ against Mexicans
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government said it considers a shooting at a crowded department store in El Paso, Texas that left seven of its citizens dead an “act of terrorism” against Mexicans and hopes it will led to changes in U.S. gun laws. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday...
Putin urges arms talks with U.S. after nuclear pact demise
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will only deploy new intermediate-range missiles if the United States does, following the demise of a key nuclear pact, and called for urgent arms control talks to prevent a chaotic arms race. Putin issued his statement after the 1987 Intermediate-Range...
Over 40 rescued from rip currents at 1 North Carolina beach
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. — A North Carolina ocean rescue official says more than 40 people had to be saved from dangerous rip currents at a single beach in one day. News outlets report Dave Baker, ocean rescue director for Wrightsville Beach, confirmed dozens of swimmers were rescued from rip currents...
3 charged in case of pregnant teen made to drink turpentine
BARTLEY, W.Va. — Three people have been charged in the case of a sexually abused teen forced to drink turpentine in an attempt to end her pregnancy. A state police criminal complaint says the pregnant 15-year-old was hospitalized and is now in the care of social workers. It says 24-year-old...
Trump says he wants stronger gun checks, gives few details
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday condemned weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio as barbaric crimes “against all humanity” and called for bipartisan cooperation to respond to an epidemic of gun violence. He blamed mental illness and video games but made no mention of more limits on sales of...
2 young girls killed in Austrian electric moped crash
BERLIN — Austrian police say two young girls have died after a driver slammed into the trailer they were being pulled in behind their mother’s electric moped. Police said a 1-year-old died at the scene of the Sunday evening crash on a rural highway near the town of Hausleiten and...
Hate ruled out, but motive still a mystery in Dayton attack
DAYTON, Ohio — As authorities in Ohio try to pin down a motive for the weekend’s second U.S. mass shooting and dig into the slain shooter’s life, what they find might also help answer another big question looming over the tragedy: What, if anything, could have stopped it? Police say...
Trump says he wants stronger gun checks, but reneged in past
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump claimed Monday he wants legislation providing “strong background checks” for gun users, but he provided no details and has reneged on previous promises to strengthen gun laws after mass shootings. Trump tweeted Monday about the weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 29...
Cesar Sayoc, man who sent pipe bombs to Clinton, CNN faces sentencing
NEW YORK — The Florida man who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his punishment Monday. Defense lawyers urge leniency, saying Cesar Sayoc, burdened as a...
Recent mass shootings in the United States: A timeline
Aug. 4, 2019: Dayton, Ohio, 9 dead A gunman killed nine in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, but officers nearby were able to “put an end to it quickly.” At least 16 were hospitalized with injuries. The identity of the shooter, who was killed by police, has not been...
Man accused of threats against Temple University, police
TULLYTOWN — A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making threats against Temple University and its police department as he was buying ammunition in a Walmart store, authorities say. The Bucks County district attorney’s office says 29-year-old Patrick Buhler, who has addresses in Morrisville and Mount Bethel, was arraigned Saturday...
Teen arrested in boy’s fall from top of London’s Tate ModernVideo
LONDON — A teenager was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Sunday after a 6-year-old child was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern art gallery, police said. The Metropolitan Police said officers and paramedics found the injured child on a fifth-floor roof of the Tate....
Life in public-shooting-era America: ‘You can’t just not go’
Ohio: A bar district where friends gathered for drinks on a warm Saturday night. Texas: A Walmart stocked with supplies for back-to-school shopping on an August morning. California: A family-focused festival that celebrates garlic, the local cash crop. Two consecutive summer weekends. Less than seven days. More than 30 fellow...
Boyfriend accused of killing au pair girlfriend, employer
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — A man has been charged in the shooting deaths of his au pair girlfriend and her employer at his suburban home in northern New Jersey. The Essex County prosecutor’s office said 27-year-old Joseph Porter of Elizabeth is charged with two counts of murder, weapons possession charges, and...
Report: Iran seizes tanker carrying ‘smuggled fuel’ in Persian Gulf
TEHRAN — Iranian forces seized a ship in the Persian Gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported Sunday, marking the Revolutionary Guard’s third seizure of a vessel in recent weeks and the latest show of strength by the paramilitary force amid a spike in regional tensions. State TV...
Latrobe woman dedicated to taking care of others
When Marjorie L. Sigmund graduated from Latrobe High School in the midst of World War II, she did not have the opportunity to go to nursing school like she had wanted, but that did not stop her from helping others, said one of her nieces. “All during her life, she...
El Paso suspect Patrick Crusius appears to have posted anti-immigrant screedVideo
DALLAS — About 20 minutes before the shooting started at an El Paso Walmart, a rambling screed was posted to an online message board saying the massacre was in response to an “invasion” of Hispanics coming across the southern border. Titled “The Inconvenient Truth,” it railed against the dangers of...
Aide: Sen Mitch McConnell trips, breaks shoulder in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recuperating at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said. McConnell tripped Sunday morning on his outdoor patio, but has been treated and released after getting medical attention, David Popp, a spokesman for the...
After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and...
