HOUSTON – A 27-year-old ex-Marine from Houston has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of an 11-year-old who was walking home from school last month, police said Saturday.
Andre Timothy Jackson Jr. was arrested Friday afternoon at the Salvation Army in downtown Houston.
Jackson is accused of stabbing Josue Flores as the sixth-grader walked home from school May 17. There is no motive in the slaying.
BEIRUT – Syrian troops reached the edge of the northern province of Raqqa on Saturday, home to the de facto capital of the Islamic State group’s self-styled caliphate, in a push that leaves the extremists fighting fierce battles on four fronts in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
ISIS is fighting Syrian troops, U.S.-backed fighters and opposition militants in northern Syria and is facing an offensive by Iraqi government forces on their stronghold of Fallujah.
The Syrian government has had no presence in Raqqa since August 2014, when ISIS captured the Tabqa air base and killed scores of government soldiers.
SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah music producer whose 55-year prison sentence on drug charges drew national outcry has been released early.
Thirty-six-year-old Weldon Angelos was freed Tuesday. He says he kept his release quiet for a few days because he wanted to spend time with his three teenage children, who were much younger when he was sentenced in 2004.
Angelos was convicted of bringing guns along when he sold marijuana three times to an informant.
Associated Press
