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Wall debate obscures other struggles at the border

SAN DIEGO — In Washington, it’s all about the wall. At the border, it’s only part of the story. Border authorities are struggling with outdated facilities ill-equipped to handle the growing increase in family migrants, resulting in immigrants being released onto the streets every day. The immigration court system is...
Airports seeing rise in security screeners calling off work

NEW YORK — The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing U.S. airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work during the partial government shutdown . Employees of the Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the shutdown because their jobs are considered...
3 killed, 4 injured in California bowling alley shooting

TORRANCE, Calif. — Three men were fatally shot late Friday and four injured when a brawl at a popular Los Angeles-area bowling alley and karaoke bar erupted into gunfire that had terrified patrons, some children, running for their lives. Police in the coastal city of Torrance responded shortly after midnight...
Bluefin tuna goes for $3 million at 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market

TOKYO — A 612-pound bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen ($3 million) at the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city’s waterfront. The winning bid for the prized but threatened species at the predawn auction Saturday...
White supremacist says he will plead guilty in sword killing

NEW YORK — An Army veteran accused of killing a black man with a sword as part of a racist plot told a judge that he intended to plead guilty to the crime, but he asked that it be put off because he’d taken pain medication. James Jackson appeared Friday...
Police: Man may have shot self at Mississippi university

JACKSON, Miss. — Police said Friday they’re investigating whether a former student at a Mississippi university shot himself, after a multi-hour campus lockdown earlier in the day and a building-to-building search for what had been described as another gunman. Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton told The Associated Press in a...
Baby sitter accused of killing boy and giving body to mother

WAUSAU, Wis. — A Wisconsin baby sitter who allegedly killed a 2-month-old boy then pretended he was alive when she gave the boy back to his mother has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide. A criminal complaint filed Friday says 28-year-old Marissa Tietsort of Wausau caused the infant’s death in...
Slain officer honored with procession across California town

NEWMAN, Calif. — The flag-draped casket of a California police officer who authorities say was shot to death by a man in the country illegally was carried in a procession Friday through the streets he once patrolled to a public viewing in a community theater. The killing of Cpl. Ronil...
Texas man charged in slayings of 3 kids, wounding of mother

DALLAS — The father of one of three children found stabbed and beaten to death in a Southeast Texas apartment they shared with their mother was charged with capital murder Friday in the attack that left the woman with severe injuries. Texas City police Chief Joe Stanton said Junaid Hashim...
Agency: U.S. gas prices ended 2018 lower than they began

U.S. average retail gasoline prices ended the year lower than they began for the first time since 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said. Regular gas prices averaged $2.72 per gallon in 2018 — 30 cents per gallon higher than in 2017 and 57 cents per gallon higher than in...
Scout affiliate accused of secretly filming boys indicted

CLEVELAND — A man accused of secretly recording boys changing clothes at a YMCA, his home bathroom and in teepees at an Ohio scout reservation has been indicted on federal charges including sexual exploitation of children. The four counts against 39-year-old Thomas Close also include having child pornography. An affidavit...
Parkland report cites mistakes by officials, recommends arming teachers

A Florida commission investigating the February shooting deaths of 17 people at a state high school in Parkland said in a starkly worded report that security at public schools must be improved and recommended arming teachers and spending more on mental health programs. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public...
American held in Moscow for spying is also British, Irish

MOSCOW — The American former Marine who is being held in Moscow on spying charges also holds British and Irish citizenship, officials said Friday, and Britain’s foreign secretary charged that Russia is trying to use him as a pawn in its geopolitical games. Paul Whelan, the global security director for...
Man thought nearly brain-dead recovers and leaves hospital

OMAHA, Neb. — A man whose children had decided to remove his breathing tubes has recovered and left an Omaha hospital after weeks of therapy. Now his family members call T. Scott Marr — once nearly brain-dead — the “miracle man.” Marr originally was diagnosed with a stroke on Dec....
5 children heading to Disney killed in fiery Florida crash

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in fiery crash on Interstate 75 in north Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said Friday. The children were traveling in a large passenger van from Avoyelles Parish, Lt....
UK coroner: 102-year-old man got stuck on roof, dies of cold

LONDON — A British coroner has found that the death of a 102-year-old man who got stuck on his roof for three days after falling while adjusting his TV aerial was accidental. Ron Easton died in a hospital on Nov. 2, nine days after he was rescued from his ordeal...

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