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Woman finds tiger in house, tells dispatch: ‘I’m not lying’

Published Friday, February 15, 2019

HOUSTON (AP) — A woman who called Houston’s non-emergency dispatch line after discovering a tiger inside a cage at an abandoned home told the shocked dispatcher: “I’m not lying.”

Judge finds Manafort lied to investigators in Russia probe

Published Friday, February 15, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia probe, a judge has ruled.

Senate OKs border deal; Trump will sign, declare national emergency

Published Friday, February 15, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump’s demands for building a wall with Mexico but would prevent a new government shutdown.

Purse lost in school in the 1950s to be reunited with owner

Published Thursday, February 14, 2019

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A purse containing a prom invitation, photos and other items from 1950s America will be returned to its now 82-year-old owner after workers found it while demolishing part of an Indiana high school.

Ginsburg illness casts spotlight on long-term court absences

Published Thursday, February 14, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has missed a month of Supreme Court arguments as she recovers from lung cancer surgery. But she’s not the first justice to be away for a while and her absence hardly compares with those of some of her predecessors.

Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn’t expect a new shutdown

Published Thursday, February 14, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he’s been demanding for his Mexican border wall.

Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman convicted

Published Wednesday, February 13, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encruste

Trump says he’s not ‘thrilled’ with border deal

Published Wednesday, February 13, 2019

(AP) President Donald Trump says ‘I can’t say I’m thrilled’ with a congressional compromise on border security designed to avert a second government shutdown.

2 universities to miss South Padre Island spring break party

Published Tuesday, February 12, 2019

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — The college student invasion on South Padre Island for one of the largest spring break parties in the country could look different this year after two large Texas universities opted to set their breaks for a different week.

El Paso bristles at Trump’s claim that wall made city safe

Published Tuesday, February 12, 2019

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — People walking over the Paso del Norte Bridge linking this West Texas border city to Mexico can watch President Donald Trump’s border wall getting bigger in real time.