WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is set to take a closer look at a proposed $66 billion merger of American seed and weed-killer company Monsanto and German medicine and farm chemical maker Bayer. The deal combines two of the six U.S. and European companies that dominate the agrochemical market, and would create a global agricultural…
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) – Investigators are examining a suspicious device found in a trash can near a New Jersey train station, and service on the busy Northeast Corridor line has been suspended. Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage says two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package after finding…
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) – What started in April with a few members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has become one of North Dakota’s newest and biggest communities. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people have set up tents and shelters near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, joining tribal…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Clinton is offering an intimate look at her Methodist faith and how it has influenced her life in public service. At the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Clinton recalled her father’s nightly prayers, her mother’s time as a Sunday School teacher and the youth minister who took her to see…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The wife of an officer killed in a lone gunman’s ambush in Baton Rouge in July has announced that she’s pregnant. Dechia Gerald tells WAFB-TV (http://bit.ly/2cv3x4G ) that she believes she conceived just five days before her husband, 41-year-old Officer Matthew Gerald, died in the line of duty. Gerald, Officer…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – After competing in pageants for generations in the closet or working behind the scenes, gays and lesbians finally get to see one of their own take one of pageantry’s biggest stages. Miss Missouri, Erin O’ Flaherty, will compete for the Miss America crown on Sept. 11 as the first openly…
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) – San Diego, the nation’s eighth-largest city, has received 626 Syrian refugees since October, more than any other in the United States. Many smaller cities have accepted outsized number of Syrians, including Erie, Pennsylvania; Toledo, Ohio; and Boise, Idaho. San Diego’s newest arrivals include the Jouriyeh family of six from the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Newly released medical records show a former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers last month never saw combat in Iraq, but told doctors he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because a buddy showed him videos of maimed and decapitated bodies. Documents provided by the Veterans Health…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Donald Trump is suggesting that he’s open to “softening” laws dealing with people in the U.S. illegally. At a town hall hosted by Fox News, Trump said, “We’re not looking to hurt people.” Trump has repeatedly said that if elected, he would deport the 11 million people living in the U.S.…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – Police say combined weights for a 10-year-old boy and two other people riding a raft with him at a water park when he was killed were within the ride’s limits. Caleb Schwab died August 7 while riding the 168-foot “Verruckt” at Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas. Riders are weighed…