Trending
Lineups for today's news shows
≤ ABC's "This Week" -- British Prime Minister Theresa May; national security adviser H.R. McMaster; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
≤ NBC's "Meet the Press" -- Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
≤ CBS' "Face the Nation" -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
≤ CNN's "State of the Union" -- Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
≤ "Fox News Sunday" -- McMaster; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
Ride dismantled after fair accident
COLUMBUS -- Crews have begun dismantling the thrill ride involved in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair.
WBNS-10TV reports the removal of the Fire Ball ride at the state fairgrounds began with a final inspection Saturday.
A four-passenger carriage on the swinging-and -spinning ride broke apart July 26, on the opening day of the fair, and flung one of the ride's carriages into the air.
An 18 year-old high school student, Tyler Jarrell, died on the midway while his girlfriend, 19-year-old Keziah Lewis, was critically injured. Six others also were injured.
A State Highway Patrol investigation found the ride operators were not to blame. Dutch manufacturer, KMG, said the cause was excessive corrosion of a support beam. The accident resulted in the shutdown of similar rides worldwide.
U.S. rig count drops by 8 this week
HOUSTON -- The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. fell by eight this week to 936.
That's up from the 506 rigs that were active a year ago.
Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 749 rigs sought oil and 186 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as miscellaneous.
Among major oil- and gas-producing states, West Virginia added one rig.
Louisiana and Texas each lost three rigs. Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota each shed one.
Alaska, California, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wyoming were unchanged.
Seminary cancels priest's LGBT talk
NEW YORK -- Citing a social media backlash, the seminary at the Catholic University of America has canceled a talk by a popular Jesuit priest whose latest book advocates for more compassion for gays within the church. In a rare public rebuke, the university's president said Saturday that he opposed the seminary's decision.
The Rev. James Martin, editor at large at the Jesuit magazine America and author of several books on Catholicism, said he had planned a seminary talk on Jesus, not his recent book on LGBT people, "Building a Bridge," which has been backed by two U.S. cardinals and three bishops.
Far-right Catholic sites such ChurchMilitant.com and some conservative Catholic writers have denounced the book, and that had led to online campaigns to pressure Catholic institutions against hosting Martin.
Girl ruled mentally ill in stabbing case
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slender Man will avoid prison after a jury determined that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.
Anissa Weier trembled as the jury's verdict late Friday was read after a week of testimony and some 11 hours of deliberations. She wasn't available afterward, but her attorney said Weier was relieved and cried following the verdict.
Weier and Morgan Geyser lured classmate Payton Leutner into the woods at a park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. A passing bicyclist found Leutner, who barely survived her wounds. All three girls were 12 at the time.
By The Associated Press