Gasoline price drop

Gasoline price drop

CAMARILLO, CALIF,

The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline fell about a penny nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.31. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the drop comes amid plentiful supplies of both crude oil and gasoline.She says gas prices have declined more than 15 cents since April.

Gas in San Francisco was the highest in the contiguous United States at an average of $3 a gallon. The lowest was in Jackson, Miss., at $1.92 a gallon. The average diesel price is $2.51, down 2 cents from two weeks ago.

Tillerson honored

ISTANBUL

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday he misses his oil industry “colleagues, partners and competitors” as he accepted an award at the World Petroleum Congress, hosted by Turkey this year.

Council President Jozsef Toth described Tillerson, who is from Texas, as “a man born with oil in his veins” before presenting him with the Dewhurst Award, named after the founder of the congress.

Fight for Charlie

LONDON

The British parents of terminally ill Charlie Gard are facing another court hearing on his condition and care, but are hopeful he will receive the experimental treatment that previous rulings have prevented.

Parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard have received support from Pope Francis and President Donald Trump, but the 11-month-old’s future remains in the hands of British courts.

Researchers at the Vatican’s children’s hospital, which has offered to treat Charlie, said new information on an experimental treatment sought by the parents might be effective. A hearing on those claims is expected to take place today, but unless it produces a change, previous court decisions bar the hospital from allowing Charlie to be taken elsewhere for treatment. Britain’s government won’t play a role in deciding the future course of the baby’s treatment, an official said Sunday.

Praised by Iraqi PM

MOSUL, Iraq

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has been celebrating with Iraqi troops in Mosul after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in a nearly nine-month campaign.

But heavy fighting by holdouts continues in parts of the Old City neighborhood near the Tigris River.

A smiling al-Abadi walked among the soldiers, at one point grabbing an Iraqi flag and briefly draping it across his shoulders. Other troops waved flags and pointed their weapons in the air nearby. Al-Iraqia TV quoted him congratulating “the heroic fighters and the people on the big victory” in Iraq’s second-largest city.

Islamic State militants now control less than a mile of territory in the shattered city, but they are using human shields, suicide bombers and snipers in a fight to the death.

‘Crunching sound’

WARD, Colo.

A teen staffer at a Colorado camp woke up at around 4 a.m. Sunday to a “crunching sound,” his head inside the mouth of a black bear, which was trying to pull him out of his sleeping bag as he slept outside at Glacier View Ranch near Denver, said Co lorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill. The 19-year-old, identified only as Dylan, punched and hit the bear, and other staffers sleeping nearby yelled and swatted at the bear, which eventually left. No other campers were hurt.

Black bears aren’t usually aggressive but have attacked several people in the West in recent weeks.

Associated Press