Father arrested after girl, 4 others killed
MODESTO, Calif. – A man was arrested Sunday in the deaths of his daughter, two other girls and two women whose bodies were found in a California home, police said.
Modesto police spokeswoman Heather Graves said Martin Martinez, 30, of Modesto, was detained in San Jose early Sunday and booked into a Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of murder.
Martinez had a past relationship with one of the women and is the father of one of the girls found dead Saturday afternoon. All the victims are related, and the children’s ages range from 6 months to 6 years old, Graves said.
Police aren’t releasing information about a motive, cause of death or how long the three girls and two women had been dead when they were found, she said.
Donald Trump basks in McCain takedown
WASHINGTON – Republicans’ swift condemnation of Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service marks a turning point in the party’s cautious approach to the billionaire-turned-presidential candidate.
But Trump simply may not care; indeed he seemed to bask in his McCain takedown.
After dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because he was captured in Vietnam and “I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump declared “I will say what I want to say.” He insisted he would stay in the GOP primary field, despite rivals who say he’s now shown he doesn’t merit the presidency.
Presidential candidate and Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said, “It’s not just absurd. It’s offensive. It’s ridiculous. And I do think it is a disqualifier as commander in chief.”
Airdrops shower fliers over Islamic State
BEIRUT – A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday.
An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead extremists and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arabic below translated as “Freedom will come.”
The latest leaflet drop comes as YPG fighters have been advancing in northern Syria as close as 30 miles north of Raqqa.
Coalition warplanes have dropped such leaflets in the past. A previous one had a cartoon showing masked Islamic State extremists at a “hiring office” feeding people into a meat grinder.
Associated Press
