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• Lockdown at school area in El Paso, Texas, over suspected gun
• Coast guard searching for ship near Bahamas
• Special Report: How a 5-minute phone call put 9/11 trial on hold for more than a year
• Possible armed person on university campus in Virginia: school
• AP Exclusive: Taliban leader says Afghan insurgency strong
• As Boehner departs, his to-do list could remain undone
• What we know about the Oregon college gunman
• Pope did not give unconditional support to clerk in gay marriage row: Vatican
• Oregon shooting prompts new calls for stricter gun laws
• 6 US service members among 11 dead in Afghan plane crash
• Hurricane Joaquin lashes Bahamas, could threaten U.S.
• Virginia serial killer executed by lethal injection: reports
• Hurricane Joaquin strengthens but threat to U.S. lessens
• Gunman opens fire at Oregon college, 10 killed
• No death penalty decision as trial delayed in church massacre
• Oklahoma seeks to halt three executions after drug mix-up

Lockdown at school area in El Paso, Texas, over suspected gun Posted: 02 Oct 2015 12:36 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A lockdown has been ordered for a school area in El Paso, Texas, on Friday due to a suspected armed person on campus, a local school district said in a social media post.

Coast guard searching for ship near Bahamas Posted: 02 Oct 2015 09:24 AM PDT (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday it was conducting a search and rescue operation for a 735-foot cargo ship with 33 crew aboard, reported to be caught in Hurricane Joaquin near Crooked Island, Bahamas.

Special Report: How a 5-minute phone call put 9/11 trial on hold for more than a year Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:33 AM PDT Ramzi bin al Shibh, who military prosecutors say relayed money and messages to the 9/11 hijackers, asked his lawyers to send a message to his nephew in Yemen. After the meeting, the defense team's translator went to another part of the U.S. Navy base, called Yemen from a landline and had a five-minute phone conversation with Bin al Shibh's brother. Defense lawyers say the translator conveyed an innocuous message from Bin al Shibh in which he urged his nephew to study hard in school.

Possible armed person on university campus in Virginia: school Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A possible armed person is on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, the school said on Friday in an alert message on its website.

AP Exclusive: Taliban leader says Afghan insurgency strong Posted: 02 Oct 2015 07:11 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The new leader of the Afghan Taliban said Friday that the capture of the northern city of Kunduz this week was a "symbolic victory" that showed the strength of the insurgency — even though the Taliban pulled out of the city after three days.

As Boehner departs, his to-do list could remain undone Posted: 02 Oct 2015 04:12 AM PDT Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio has a lot he could do legislatively before he leaves Congress this month, but not a lot of time or conservative support to do it.

What we know about the Oregon college gunman Posted: 02 Oct 2015 03:39 AM PDT Blog posts suggest he had an interest in past mass shootings and a disdain for religion.

Pope did not give unconditional support to clerk in gay marriage row: Vatican Posted: 02 Oct 2015 03:05 AM PDT Pope Francis did not ask to meet a Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples secretly and did not offer her unconditional support, the Vatican said on Friday. Looking to limit controversy after last week's meeting in Washington between the pope and Kim Davis, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said she was one of several dozen people who had been invited by the Vatican ambassador to see Francis. A senior Vatican official, who declined to be named, said there was a "sense of regret" within the Holy See over the meeting, which was originally kept secret.

Oregon shooting prompts new calls for stricter gun laws Posted: 02 Oct 2015 01:45 AM PDT News of a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday prompted calls for stricter gun laws from the White House and the country.

6 US service members among 11 dead in Afghan plane crash Posted: 01 Oct 2015 11:48 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A C-130 transport plane crashed overnight at an air base in eastern Afghanistan, killing six U.S. airmen and five passengers, the U.S. military said Friday.

Hurricane Joaquin lashes Bahamas, could threaten U.S. Posted: 01 Oct 2015 10:07 PM PDT ELEUTHERA, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Joaquin hammered islands in the central Bahamas with torrential rains that flooded homes and forecasters warned that the "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm could grow even stronger as it roared on a path that could take it near the U.S. East Coast.

Virginia serial killer executed by lethal injection: reports Posted: 01 Oct 2015 07:52 PM PDT (Reuters) - Convicted Virginia serial killer Alfredo Prieto was executed by lethal injection on Thursday night, the Washington Post and ABC News reported. Prieto, 49, was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. EDT at Virginia's Greensville Correctional Center, the media outlets reported. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)

Hurricane Joaquin strengthens but threat to U.S. lessens Posted: 01 Oct 2015 05:42 PM PDT Powerful Hurricane Joaquin, which battered the Bahamas with torrential rain, powerful winds and storm surges on Thursday, is now seen as less likely to pose a major threat to the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Gunman opens fire at Oregon college, 10 killed Posted: 01 Oct 2015 05:25 PM PDT By Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a community college in southern Oregon on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding seven others before police shot him to death, authorities said, in the latest mass killing to rock an American campus. Governor Kate Brown said the suspect was a 20-year-old man who was slain in an exchange of gunfire with police in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg following the rampage shortly after 10:30 a.m. local time. The massacre is the latest in a series of mass shootings at U.S. college campuses, movie theaters, military bases and churches in recent years.

No death penalty decision as trial delayed in church massacre Posted: 01 Oct 2015 05:08 PM PDT The federal trial for the man charged in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church was delayed on Thursday, as U.S. prosecutors told a judge they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty against the accused gunman. In addition to state murder charges, Dylann Roof, who is white, faces 33 federal hate crime and firearms charges stemming from the killing of black churchgoers at Charleston's historic Emanuel AME Church in June. State prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

Oklahoma seeks to halt three executions after drug mix-up Posted: 01 Oct 2015 01:48 PM PDT The Oklahoma attorney general on Thursday sought an indefinite stay of three upcoming executions including that of Richard Glossip, whose planned execution a day earlier was stopped at the last minute because of a mix-up with lethal injection drugs. Scott Pruitt filed the request with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals so the state could examine what went wrong with its execution protocols. In his filing, Pruitt said the office needed to evaluate what happened on Wednesday, when the state received potassium acetate for use in its three-drug protocol instead of the court-approved potassium chloride.

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