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TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A teenager killed his father at their home Wednesday before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a handgun, wounding two students and a teacher, authorities said....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting at an elementary school in South Carolina that left two students and a teacher wounded (all times local):...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Abir Sultan, EPBy Judith SudilovskyJERUSALEM (CNS) -- One of the last ceremonies in which former IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres participated as a public figure took place in theVatican Gardens in June 2014, the last month of his presidency. Along withPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, he planted an olive tree at the invitationof Pope Francis.The evening of peace prayers and the tree planting had been initiated by thepope following his pilgrimage a month earlier to the Holy Land, where he metwith both men, and just weeks after American-sponsored peace talks hadfoundered.At the meeting, Peres, who died Sept. 28 at 93, called the act of makingpeace a "holy mission.""I was young. Now I am old," media reports quoted him as sayingafter the ceremony. "I experienced war. I tasted peace. Never will Iforget the bereaved families -- parents and children -- who paid the cost ofwar. And all my life I shall never stop to act for peace, for generations tocome. Let's all of us jo...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports via ReutersBy Tom TracyMIAMI (CNS) -- South Florida'sCuban-American Catholic community and other Miami Marlins baseball fans plannedto honor Jose Fernandez with prayers at the Cuban shrine and a public parade Sept.28, a day before his private funeral.Fernandez, a pitcher and popularCuban-American member of the Marlins team, died Sept. 25 following a tragicboating accident that also took the lives of several of his companions. Theywere on a late-night outing when their craft struck a jetty near Miami Beach.With fans set to gather at theWest Plaza at Marlins Park, organizers said the Sept. 28 procession would departat 2:16 p.m. local time -- "16" was Fernandez's uniform number -- and then moveon to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity near Miami's Biscayne Bay andnot far from the accident.The procession was then to proceed toSt. Brendan Catholic Church in Miami where a public visitation was scheduledfor 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. A private...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Government shelling and airstrikes in Syria's Aleppo landed near a bread distribution center and two hospitals Wednesday, killing seven people and putting at least one of the medical facilities completely out of service, activists and medics said....
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) -- An international criminal probe concluded that a missile which destroyed a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014 and killed all 298 people aboard was fired from rebel-controlled territory by a mobile launcher trucked in from Russia and hastily returned there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Wednesday passed a bill to keep the government running through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed funding to battle the Zika virus....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's ambiguous answer to a debate question on nuclear restraint raised doubts about his understanding of the issue. On the other hand, his words - by design or coincidence - mirror the nub of a policy argument the administration is wrestling with in the final months of Barack Obama's presidency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged backing of the attackers, handing Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A teenager opened fire at a South Carolina elementary school Wednesday, wounding two students and a teacher before the suspect was taken into custody, a law enforcement officer said....
