NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) – A northern New York prison worker admitted Tuesday to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run. Joyce Mitchell, a tailor shop instructor at Clinton Correctional Facility, wept as she pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree […]

Florida congressional delegation will see upheaval in 2016

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential ambitions and a court ruling tossing out several congressional district maps will cause upheaval among Florida’s representation in Washington, including political complications for a congresswoman considered one of the state’s few Democratic stars. At least four and potentially five members of Congress are leaving to pursue […]

Your Health Now

(FORT MYERS, Fla.) Summertime means vacations and fun in the sun! we may not realize it, but the more active we are, the more we increase our rise of accidents in everyday life. Even the smallest tasks can result in trauma injuries. It’s “Your Health Now” and trauma surgeon Dr. Ernst Vieux is in the […]

Colorado theater shooter’s sister says she still loves him

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, she no longer saw the loving brother who protected her when they were growing up. “His whole demeanor seemed different,” Chris Holmes said of the May 2014 visit. “His eyes, they […]

Cabinet secretaries on Capitol Hill again to sell Iran deal

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration’s vigorous effort to sell the Iran nuclear deal to Congress continues – this time in the House where three Cabinet secretaries will face tough questioning on Tuesday from skeptical Democrats and Republicans. California Rep. Ed Royce, the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday that the […]

Theater shooting: No red flags reported at time of gun sale

CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) – John Russell Houser’s mental problems were well known to many, though perhaps not to the store that sold him the .40-caliber handgun used in a deadly attack on a Louisiana movie theater. A federal background check came back clean, the pawn shop said, with no red flags raised at the time […]

Teens missing on fishing trip strayed from agreed-upon route

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Two teens missing at sea had strayed from the agreed-upon boundaries for their fishing trip, the stepfather of one of the boys said Tuesday, as the Coast Guard continued a massive search off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Nick Korniloff said his 14-year-old stepson Perry Cohen and the boy’s friend Austin […]

South Korea sees end of MERS threat after outbreak killed 36

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea said Tuesday it is now virtually free of the deadly MERS virus that killed 36 people and sickened nearly 200 since an outbreak was declared in May. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn in a government meeting urged people to return to normal as the country hasn’t had a new […]

Obama to wrap Africa trip with speech to African Union

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – President Barack Obama highlighted his administration’s efforts to combat hunger worldwide on Tuesday as he prepared to end a historic return to the land of his father’s birth with a speech to the African Union. Obama toured a plant operated by Faffa Foods, which participates in the U.S. Feed the […]