Clinton to speak at Ohio NAACP event

Clinton to speak at Ohio NAACP event

CINCINNATI

Hillary Clinton will speak to the NAACP national convention in Cincinnati as the Republican National Convention is getting underway in Cleveland.

The nation’s oldest civil-rights organization has its convention Saturday through July 20. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will speak Monday.

The organization said Monday that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has also been invited to speak. His campaign didn’t respond immediately when asked whether he will.

3 teens stay in mine before being found

MADISON, WIS.

Three teenage boys got lost in a labyrinthine abandoned iron mine in southeastern Wisconsin for hours, spending the night huddled together against the cold before rescuers found them alive and safe Monday afternoon.

The boys – Tate Rose and Zachary Heron, both 16, and 15-year-old Samuel Lein – were reported missing about 9:45 p.m. Sunday, authorities said at a news conference. Around 2 a.m. Monday, police found their bikes off a road near an entrance to the mine, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said.

Firefighters and rescue teams began searching the mine, which Schmidt described as a “vast maze” of tunnels that goes on for four miles. Searchers’ efforts were hampered by water that was as deep as 8 feet in some tunnels as well as a number of cave-ins.

Police examine body; still seeking airman

MILAN

Italian authorities are investigating whether a body found in the Adriatic Sea could be related to the disappearance of a U.S. airman some 30 miles away, police said Monday.

“We are in a phase of complete hypothesis,” said Carabinieri Maj. Salvino Macli.

The body, found over the weekend, appeared to have been in the water for a long time. Macli said canals in the area where Staff Sgt. Halex Hale was last seen empty out into the Adriatic, raising the possibility that the airman could have fallen into a canal.

The 24-year-old from Middletown, Ind., who is assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base north of Venice, went missing July 2.

US will send 560 more troops to Iraq

BAGHDAD

The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday. The new American forces should arrive in the coming weeks.

Most of the engineers, logistics personnel, security and communications forces will concentrate on building up Qayara air base, about 40 kilometers south of Mosul. They will assist Iraqi forces planning to encircle and eventually retake the biggest city anywhere that has fallen under IS’ control.

The extremist group captured Mosul in the summer of 2014. It has used the city as a main headquarters since.

Escaped patient had planned bombing

seattle

A patient accused of torturing a woman to death before escaping from a troubled Washington state psychiatric hospital earlier this year also had a fascination with the Islamic State group and planned to blow up a state building, newly released documents revealed.

Detectives who investigated Anthony Garver’s escape from Western State Hospital south of Seattle also found that he had threatened to kill a federal judge and previously was caught with bomb-making materials.

Associated Press