Car bomb explosions and hostage-taking inside prisons underscore Ecuador’s fragile security
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of…
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Coach who lost his job for praying on field kneels again in first game after years of legal battles
By ED KOMENDA Associated Press BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — An assistant high school football coach in Washington state who lost his job during a…
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Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in…
Continue Reading Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in…
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Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in…
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UTEP volleyball improves to 4-0 with home-opener win over San Francisco
(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – Sophomore Sara Pustahija blasted home a career-high zero-error .591 attack percentage with 13 kills on…
Continue Reading Ta’Kiya Young’s family urges officer’s arrest after video shows him killing the pregnant Black woman
By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio authorities on Friday released bodycam video showing a…
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Thursday night high school football: Odessa takes down Americas with game winning field goal
EL PASO, Texas – Week two of the high school football season kicked off with an exciting game over at the SAC. The Americas Trail Blazers played host…
Continue Reading No power and nowhere to stay as rural Florida starts recovering from Hurricane Idalia
By REBECCA BLACKWELL and LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The worst of Hurricane Idalia left residents of a region of…
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Counties with the most tornadoes in Texas
Stacker compiled a list of counties which experience the most tornadoes in Texas using data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental…
Continue Reading In final hours before landfall, Hurricane Idalia stopped intensifying and turned from Tallahassee
By JEFF MARTIN and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In the final hours before Hurricane Idalia struck Florida the storm had…
Continue Reading Texas wanted armed officers at every school after Uvalde. Many can’t meet that standard
By PAUL J. WEBER, ACACIA CORONADO and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A vision of armed officers at every school in Texas is…
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Texas wanted armed officers at every school after Uvalde. Many can’t meet that standard
By PAUL J. WEBER, ACACIA CORONADO and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A vision of armed officers at every school in Texas is…
Continue Reading After outrage over Taylor Swift tickets, reform has been slow across the US
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When thousands of fans couldn’t get tickets for megastar Taylor Swift’s summer…
Continue Reading US vice chair of Armed Services Committee promises ‘resolute reaction’ if Taiwan is attacked
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A United States congressional delegation visiting Taiwan says Washington would act if the…
Continue Reading Lan Larison runs for 109 yards and 3 TDs; UC Davis beats Texas A&M-Commerce 48-10 in opener
COMMERCE, Texas (AP) — Lan Larison ran for 109 yards on 16 carries and had three of UC Davis’ five rushing touchdowns as the Aggies beat…
Continue Reading Abilene Christian dismantles Northern Colorado 31-11, beat Bears for first time
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Maverick McIvor threw for 219 yards and a touchdown and Xavier Wishert ran for two touchdowns and Abilene Christian was never…
Continue Reading Afghanistan’s female cricketers plead with sport’s world governing body: help us play again
By DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Just over two years ago, Firooza Amiri was an 18-year-old batter for the Afghanistan…
Continue Reading US employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in sign of a still-resilient labor market
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers added 187,000 jobs in August, evidence of a slowing but…
Continue Reading Australian consumer watchdog calls for record fine against Qantas over canceled flights
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s consumer watchdog has called for Qantas Airways to be punished with a…
Continue Reading Maui fire missing list falls slightly to 385. Governor had indicated it would be below 100
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The number of people on the official list of those missing from the Maui wildfire stood at 385 on…
Continue Reading Woods, Hatten, Woods help Idaho Vandals open season with 42-17 victory over Lamar Cardinals
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Gevani McCoy threw two touchdown passes to Hayden Hatten, Anthony Woods ran for two scores and Idaho opened the season with…
Continue Reading UN chief warns that rise in global distrust and improvements in nukes are `recipe for annihilation’
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief is warning that an alarming rise in global distrust and division coupled…
Continue Reading Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws, judge says
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific…
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EPPD Lieutenant accused of blackmail, sexual harassment and sexual assault, court documents show
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police Department Lieutenant John Surface is accused of multiple instances of blackmail, sexual harassment and…
Continue Reading ESPN networks go dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems on busy night for sports
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN is among a number of Disney Entertainment channels that have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems. The…
Continue Reading 2nd man charged in July shooting at massive Indiana block party that killed 1, injured 17
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor has charged the second man arrested in a July shooting at a massive block party in central Indiana that left one…
Continue Reading Mexico City’s old airport told to cut flights by 17%, leading airlines to warn of mass cancellations
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has ordered Mexico City’s old airport to cut flights by 17%, sparking warnings by airlines of possible…
Continue Reading Hong Kong, other parts of south China grind to near standstill as powerful Typhoon Saola passes
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China have ground to a near standstill as powerful…
Continue Reading Texas authorities say 2 people including shooter dead outside shopping center in Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A shooting outside a large shopping center in Austin, Texas, on Thursday killed one person and left another victim with…
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