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Zimmer says Vikings want to keep 3 QBs on active roster - Story

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- As long as Sam Bradford stays healthy this season, the Minnesota Vikings won 't be worried about their quarterback situation. There's a lot of uncertainty behind Bradford on the depth chart, though. Teddy Bridgewater remains immersed in his rehabilitation program, of course, trying to push his knee back into playing shape. He's on the physically unable to perform list, where he'll likely start the regular season. So if the Vikings decide to keep a third-stringer on the active roster behind Bradford and backup Case Keenum , they're currently looking at Taylor Heinicke or Mitch Leidner. Heinicke is the third-year project who went undrafted out of Old Dominion and has never taken a snap in an NFL regular-season game. He's most famous for severing two tendons in his foot from an ill-fated kick through a glass pane of a door to his friend's apartment that they were locked out of. Leidner is the local rookie who signed with the team ...

The Latest: Young Australian boy missing after van attack

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...