- For Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, being “respectful of our football team” trumped the right of Steelers offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva to show respect for the national anthem.
- A British lesbian has won a landmark legal challenge allowing her residency in Hong Kong, in a ruling that could make it easier for gay couples to move to the Asian financial center.
- Eleven show and service dogs and the stolen RV they were in have been recovered and returned to their owners in Washington.
- Mr. Warmth worked all the way until the very end.
- The Palestinian prime minister says he will travel from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip next week in a step toward reconciliation with the rival Hamas militant group.
- Authorities say a 3-year-old girl has died after her father ran over her with a lawnmower in Alabama.
- Leaders of the nationalist, anti-migrant Alternative for Germany pledged Monday to use their third-place election finish to conduct robust but \"constructive\" opposition, and sought to allay fears raised by Jewish groups and others about their entry into parliament.
- A Pakistan court will indict the finance minister over graft allegations after authorities found he had assets that did not match his reported income.
- An Indonesian court has sentenced an Islamic militant to life imprisonment over an attack on a church that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured three other children.
- Georgette Jones may be country music royalty, but she claims the title came with a curse.
PODCASTS
WEATHER RADAR
LOCAL
Opening Statements To Begin Monday In Capital Murder Trial Of Ex-Hospice Administrator
Opening statements are to be presented Monday in the capital murder trial of the former administrator of the Comfort House hospice facility. Prosecutors and defense attorneys will make their initial cases against and for Monica Melissa Patterson who is accused in the death of an elderly McAllen man back in January of 2015. The 50-year-old […]
NATIONAL
Target To Up Hourly Base Pay To $15 By End Of 2020
(AP) – Target Corp. is raising its minimum hourly wage to $11 starting next month and then to $15 by the end of 2020 in a move it says will help it better recruit and retain staff and provide a better shopping experience for its customers. Target’s initiative is part of its overall strategy to […]
WORLD
Turkey May Close Airspace, Border To Iraqi Kurds
(AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says his country is considering closing down its airspace as well as a border gate to northern Iraq, in response to a referendum on independence in Iraq’s Kurdish region and disputed territories – a vote that Turkey strongly opposes. Yildirim also said on Monday that officers and experts […]
INTERVIEWS
Local Children’s Book Author Teresa Stern
Congressman Vicente Gonzalez