City Tries to Disown Pastor Who Planned to Burn Koran

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Stephanie George used to see parishioners from the Dove World Outreach Center at her neighborhood grocery store, wearing T-shirts that said “Islam is of the devil.” But on Friday, she and her friend Lynda Dillon showed up early at Dragonfly Graphics to order a dozen shirts with a different message: “Love, not [...]

National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Hermine Death Toll Climbs to 6

The bodies of two men found Friday in swollen Texas waterways pushed the death toll caused by remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine to six, while a scaled-back search resumed for another woman swept away in flooding caused by a record drenching. Five people in Texas and one in Oklahoma have died in flooding caused by [...]

National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Fire Evacuees Allowed Back Home

Fire crews held a wildfire outside of Boulder at bay on Friday, allowing some 2,000 evacuees to return home with a warning to be prepared to flee again. At least 169 homes have burned in one area that remains off limits. About 950 firefighters from 20 states were battling the blaze, which has cost $4 [...]

National Briefing | Southwest: Representative Awarded Scholarships to Family

A Georgia congressman awarded his stepdaughter, a niece and an aide’s future wife college scholarships through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, making him the second House Democrat known to use the group to steer money to relatives and associates. The nonprofit foundation’s records show Representative Sanford D. Bishop Jr. picked his stepdaughter, Aayesha Owens Reese, [...]

National Briefing | Southwest: Arizona: Inquiries Cite Handling of Some Students

Two federal investigations have found that Arizona is violating the civil rights of some students who are not native English speakers by denying them access to special programs for English learners. In one case, the federal Education and Justice Departments concluded that Arizona was inappropriately classifying students as fluent in English when tests showed they [...]

Daley: Passion for Being Chicago Mayor Remains

Filed at 9:51 p.m. ET CHICAGO (AP) — It wasn’t his wife’s cancer. It wasn’t the tough economy that battered Chicago’s finances. It wasn’t the prospect of a re-election campaign amid falling poll numbers, or the city’s embarrassing loss of the 2016 Summer Olympics. On Friday, Mayor Richard M. Daley insisted it was something much [...]

Islam Controversies Cast Shadow Over 9 / 11 Events

Filed at 9:36 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) — They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against a [...]

Iran Postpones American Woman’s Release

Filed at 9:27 p.m. ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Friday postponed the planned release of an American woman jailed along with two friends for more than a year, state media reported, dealing a blow to the hopes of three U.S. mothers who have pleaded for the trio’s freedom. Iranian officials had said that [...]

Friend: Pastor Who Planned Quran Burn Flying to NY

Filed at 9:29 p.m. ET GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — An associate of the pastor who once planned to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says the Rev. Terry Jones is headed to New York aboard a Friday night flight. K.A. Paul, a Christian evangelist who runs a ministry in Houston, says [...]

Residents Confront Destruction From Explosion

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — For weeks, residents in this community of trim suburban homes in the hills near San Francisco International Airport had reported catching the occasional whiff of natural gas in the bay breezes. Utility repair crews were regularly seen driving around the hills of the neighborhood. And on Thursday night, just around supper, [...]

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