AT&T to veterans: We have openings

AT&T to veterans: We have openings

YOUNGSTOWN

AT&T wants military veterans to know the company is putting a special emphasis on connecting them to open positions in the company during this holiday time.

The latest numbers show more than 40 jobs available with the company are available in Youngstown both for call-center and technician positions. Anyone interested should go to connect.att.jobs/Ohio. Military veterans may go to att.jobs/military to use the military skills translator.

Exit poll suggests tycoon wins election

KIEV, UKRAINE

Exit polls suggested candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko was elected president Sunday in the first round of balloting in the bitterly divided country, and he vowed “to bring peace to the Ukrainian land.”

The billionaire who supports strong ties with Europe but also wants to mend relations with Russia claimed victory after a vote that took place amid weeks of fighting in eastern Ukraine where pro-Moscow separatists have seized government buildings and battled government troops.

Belgium hunts for suspect in attack

BRUSSELS

Belgium launched a nationwide hunt Sunday for a lone gunman who walked into the Jewish Museum, unpacked a Kalashnikov rifle, killed at least three people with a short burst of fire, packed up and briskly walked away.

Saturday’s attack led Belgian officials to immediately raise anti-terror measures and increase the protection for Jewish sites for what was widely seen as an anti-Semitic attack.

A government official had said a fourth victim, a Belgian man, died Sunday afternoon, but neither the interior ministry nor the prosecutor’s office could officially confirm it late Sunday. The victim has been in a critical condition since he was shot.

No one has claimed responsibility for the killings.

3 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at motel

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.

Three people were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a shooting at an oceanfront motel in Myrtle Beach, one of South Carolina’s most-popular tourist destinations.

The shootings took place around 11 p.m. Saturday in front of crowds of tourists at the Bermuda Sands Motel along the beach’s new boardwalk, Myrtle Beach Police Capt. David Knipes said.

Officers draped towels over the balcony of a breezeway just outside the doors to the rooms of the motel to shield two of the bodies from people on nearby Ocean Boulevard.

“We’ve got detectives working on it around the clock,” Knipes said Sunday. “We don’t have any suspects in custody.”

Alaska wildfire grows

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

Officials say a massive wildfire burning in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage has grown in windy conditions and mandatory evacuations are underway.

Alaska Interagency Management Team spokeswoman Michelle Weston says 1,000 structures are in the area under evacuation. She says the fire was recently nearly 218 square miles and has grown significantly. She didn’t immediately have an estimated size.

Staff/wire reports