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BARCELONA, Spain — Authorities in Spain searched Saturday for a member of an Islamic extremist cell that staged vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, focusing on links with his Moroccan comrades, a missing imam believed to have radicalized them and a house that blew up days ago. Catalan police said the manhunt was centered on Younes Abouyaaquoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan suspected of driving the van that plowed into a Barcelona promenade packed with pedestrians Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring 120. Another attack early Friday killed one person and wounded five in the resort of Cambrils.But the investigation was also focusing on a Moroccan imam who is thought to have radicalized the cell and was believed to have died on the eve of the Barcelona attack , police said.Even with Abouyaaquoub still at large, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido declared the cell “broken” after five members were killed by police early Friday in a shootout, four were in cus...

Dog lost in storm reunited with owner through Twitter Dog lost in storm reunited with owner through Twitter Posted: Sunday, August 27 2017 10:53 AM EDT 2017-08-27 14:53:28 GMT Updated: Sunday, August 27 2017 10:53 AM EDT 2017-08-27 14:53:28 GMT Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack found the dog in Runge, TX, on Saturday. He tweeted the dog jumped into his vehicle while he was getting gas and asked for help finding the owner. more>> Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack found the dog in Runge, TX, on Saturday. He tweeted the dog jumped into his vehicle while he was getting gas and asked for help finding the owner. more>> Flooding displaces alligators, sheriff says let them be Flooding displaces alligators, sheriff says let them be Posted: Sunday, August 27 2017 8:33 AM EDT 2017-08-27 12:33:18 GMT Updated: Sunday, August 27 2017 8:33 AM EDT 2017-08-27 12:33:18 GMT Flooding means alligators get in places where they don't belong and can cause trouble where they otherwise wouldn't. more...

UNION SPRINGS, Ala. — A missing Alabama woman found alive after surviving for weeks in the woods is lucky to have survived and is back home with her family recovering, police said Wednesday. Lisa Theris, 25, of Louisville was covered in scrapes and bug bites and dropped as much as 50 pounds to her current of 110 pounds during the ordeal, said Sgt. Chad Faulkner of the Bullock County Sheriff 's Office. "She was in really, really bad shape," Faulkner said. Sheriff Raymond Rodgers tells WSFA -TV that Theris was lost in the woods of southeast Alabama for almost one month. She was found Saturday walking along a highway outside of Union Springs, located about 45 miles (70 km) from Montgomery. Rodgers said Theris survived by drinking water from a brook and eating berries and mushrooms. Faulkner tells WTVY -TV that the two men Theris was last seen with are being questioned, but haven't been legally implicated in the case. Theris was facing a misdemeanour disorderly conduct...

© AFP The royal couple will attend the Mass at Sagrada Familia King Felipe and Queen Letizia are to attend Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia to mourn the 14 people killed in van attacks in Catalonia. Police are still hunting the driver of the van that killed 13 at Barcelona's Las Ramblas. A 14th victim died in a second attack at Cambrils. Ministers say the jihadist cell behind the attacks has been dismantled. But police are still hunting for the van driver and an imam missing from a mosque in the town of Ripoll. The special Mass is scheduled to start at the iconic, Gaudi- designed Sagrada Familia at about 08:00 GMT. The royal couple will attend. On Saturday they laid a wreath at the site of the attack at Las Ramblas, accompanied by Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau and Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont . Catalonia has always been fiercely independent but the royals' presence brought shouts of "Long live the king!" The king and queen earlier met victims of the Barce...

Tasha Williams was walking upstairs at Hilton Head Gardens apartments Saturday with a friend and three kids when she heard the shots ring out. “We all ducked,” Williams said. Beaufort County Sheriff ’s Office spoke to a woman who said an unknown African American man kicked in her door and started shooting at about 3:30 p.m. at the apartment complex. They also said a young child was injured during the shooting. Williams said “I heard a woman scream ‘my child! My child!’” On instinct, Williams said, she and a friend ran to the next door apartment and found the child bleeding. “We picked him up, put him in the car, and drove him to the hospital,” Williams said. The child was airlifted to Savannah Memorial Hospital , according to a Beaufort County Sheriff 's Office release. It also said the child was in stable condition. Williams said the apartment complex is full of children who usually fill breezeways playing . This is not the first violent incident reported at the complex this we...

At the five-unit condo at 3525 14th St. NW, a new development by Congressional Properties, units are priced from $599,900 to $649,900. (Benjamin C Tankersley/For The Washington Post) Home buyers always hope to purchase at the right moment in the housing market and in the right location, preferably one where new development will add value. Condominiums have been rising for years on streets near the Columbia Heights Metro station and the Georgia Avenue- Petworth Metro station , yet developers always seem to find new locations to squeeze in more. The five-unit condo at 3525 14th St. NW, a new development by Congressional Properties, was a small retail business on the ground floor with an apartment above, says Brian Athey, founder and president of Congressional Properties in Washington. “We like that location a lot because you can walk to Metro very easily and get to restaurants and shops, but the immediate area along 14th Street is still changing pretty quickly ,” Athey says. “We fee...

CONTRIBUTED GRAPHIC Pictured is an exterior view rendering of The Willows 58- unit apartment complex on Campbell Drive. Construction on the $13.3 million dollar, 50, 215 square foot facility began earlier this week. A much anticipated local housing project has broken ground. Ben Daniels, president of The Willows Assisted Living and Memory Care, told the Times- Republican earlier this week construction equipment is on site in the 2000 block of Campbell Drive. When completed in summer of 2018, the 50,215 square foot complex costing $13.3 million will offer: • 24 one-bedroom apartments; • 12 studio apartments; and • Four two-bedroom apartments. The Memory Care Center will feature: • 16 Studio apartments; • Two deluxe studio apartments (for two residents); and • 4, 500 square foot of garden courtyard adjacent to the wing. A private retreat for residents needing closer care . “We are excited to see construction equipment on site,” said Daniels. “The Willows will fill a signific...

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...