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A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault

rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadli-est mass shooting in the state’s history. The dead ranged in age from 5 to 72 years old.

Authorities didn’t identify the attacker during a news conference Sunday night, but two other offi-cials — one a U.S. official and one in law enforcement — identified him as Devin Kelley. They spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t autho-rized to discuss the investigation.

The U.S. official said Kelley lived in a San Antonio suburb and didn’t appear to be linked to organized terrorist groups. Investigators were looking at social media

posts Kelley made in the days before Sun-day’s attack, including one that appeared to show an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon.

Kelley received a bad-conduct discharge from the Air Force for allegedly assaulting his spouse and child, and was sentenced to 12 months’ confinement after a 2012 court-martial. Kelley served in Logistics

Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Ste-fanek said.

At the news confer-ence, the attacker was described only as a white man in his 20s who was wearing black tactical gear and a ballistic vest when he pulled into a gas station across from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 30 miles south-east of San Antonio, around 11:20 a.m.

The gunman crossed the street and started firing a Ruger AR rifle at the church, said Freeman Martin, a regional director of the Texas Depart-ment of Safety, then continued firing after entering the white wood-frame building, where an 11 a.m. service was scheduled.

Wilson County Sheriff Joe D. Tackitt Jr., whose territory includes Sutherland Springs, said there was likely “no way” for the church congregation to escape once the shooting started.

“You’ve got your pews on either side. He just walked down the center aisle, turned around and my understanding was shoot-ing on his way back out,” said Tackitt, who said the shooter also carried a handgun but that he didn’t know if it was fired.

Tackitt described the scene inside the church as “terrible.”

“It’s unbelievable to see children, men and women, laying there. Defenseless people,” Tackitt said. “I guess it was seeing the children that were killed. It’s one thing to see an adult, but to see a 5-year-old ...”

As he left, the shooter was confronted by an armed resident who “grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect,” Martin said. A short time later, the suspect was found dead in his vehicle at the county line.

Several weapons were found inside the vehicle and Martin said it was unclear if the attacker died of a self-inflicted wound or if he was shot by the resident who con-fronted him. He said investigators weren’t ready to discuss a possible motive. Martin said 23 of the dead were found in the church, two were found outside and one died after being taken to a hospital.

Mourning in Texas after killing of 26 people in a church

Law enforcement officials work at the scene of a shooting at the first Baptist church in the town of Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, November 5, 2017. ON THE COVER: Matthew Mata and Erika Gonzalez participate in a memorial service for

the victims of Sunday’s church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Monday, November 6, 2017.

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NATIONAL: Mourning in Texas after killing of 26 people in a church

STATE: Seattle, other West Coast cities, seeing surge in homelessness

FINANCIAL LITERACY: Thinking about buying a home? A home buying checklist.

NATIONAL: 1 family has survived 5 generations of Houston storms: Mine

IMMIGRATION: More immigrants prosecuted in ‘new era’ of enforcement

EDUCATION: WSU Tri-Cities awarded $11.7 million GEAR UP grant for post-secondary education

SPORTS: De La Hoya still pushing for Canelo-Golovkin rematch

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Housing prices are soaring here thanks to the tech industry, but the boom comes with a conse-

quence: A surge in homelessness marked by 400 unauthorized tent camps in parks, under bridges, on freeway medians and along busy sidewalks. The liberal city is trying to figure out what to do.

“I’ve got economically zero unemploy-ment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing,” said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. “There’s nowhere for these folks to move to.”

That struggle is not Seattle’s alone. A homeless crisis is rocking the entire West Coast, pushing abject poverty into the open like never before.

Public health is at risk, several cities have declared states of emergency, and cities and counties are spending millions — in some cases billions — in a search for solutions.

Homelessness is not new on the West Coast. But interviews with local officials and those who serve the homeless in California, Oregon and Washington — coupled with an Associated Press review of preliminary homeless data — confirm it’s getting worse.

People who were once able to get by, even if they suffered a setback, are now pushed to the streets because housing has become so expensive.

For years, Stanley Timmings, 62, and his 61-year-old girlfriend, Linda Catlin, were able to rent a room in a friend’s house on their combined disability pay-ments.

Last spring, that friend died of colon cancer and the couple was thrust on Seat-tle’s streets.

Timmings used their last savings to buy a used RV for $300 and spent another $300 to register it. Now, the couple parks the RV near a small regional airport.

They have no running water and no propane for the cook stove. They go to the bathroom in a bucket and dump it behind a nearby business.

After four months, the stench of human waste inside the RV is overwhelming. They are exhausted, scared and defeated, with no solution in sight.

“Between the two of us a month, we get $1,440 in disability,” he said. “We can’t find a place for that.”

Nationally, homelessness has been trending down, partly because govern-ments and nonprofit groups have gotten better at moving people into housing. That’s true in many West Coast cities, too, but the flow the other direction is even faster.

“So everybody who was just hanging on because they had cheap rent, they’re losing that ... and they wind up outside,” said Margaret King, director of housing programs for the nonprofit DESC in Seattle. “It’s just exploded.”

Seattle, other West Coast cities, seeing a surge in homelessness

In this October 12, 2017 photo, Paige Clem sits in the car she lives in along with her husband and three dogs outside a church where free food was being distributed in Everett, Washington.



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HOUSTON, Texas (AP)

I returned to the city of my birth a few weeks ago, to a place that had drowned after a monster storm

brought more than a year’s worth of rain and sent its bayous and reservoirs over-flowing. Hurricane Harvey had long left Houston, but its legacy lived on — in the ashy floors of Aunt Christine’s home and the mold of Cousin Esther’s house and the buckets that still sat scattered across the living room at Mom and Dad’s to catch leaks.

I drove through neighborhoods with mountains of wrecked furniture and ripped-out walls tossed on front lawns. Boxes brimmed with soiled books and soggy clothes, Christmas decorations gone to ruin and soused childhood Power Rangers toys.

For five generations, my family has survived the worst of Mother Nature in a city that’s seen more than its share of bad storms. But when the waters recede, despite the devastation left behind, they’ve always picked up and found a way

to start again — because this has been home for 100 years and no hurricane or flood will drive them out.

My mother, Amelia Contreras, is 64 now, but she still remembers what her aunt used to tell her about the many storms that have pounded Houston throughout history. They are God’s way of saying, “People need to get together. They need to be loving to each other,” and to remind us that, “In one minute He can take it all away.”

Storms like Harvey brought us to Houston in the first place.

In 1900, a massive hurricane killed more than 6,000 people on nearby Galveston Island. Months later, my 16-year-old great-grandfather, Flor-encio Contreras, arrived from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to Houston after plan-ners concluded the city was a more viable deep-water port option. New jobs were plentiful, and so he settled here.

But Florencio could only live in black or Mexican immigrant neighborhoods close

to Buffalo Bayou; the laws of segregation dictated it. On the banks of that swampy bayou sat his blacksmith shop where he made tools and horseshoes before tread-ing home. The rains came often, and nearby streets flooded routinely, but Florencio knew he’d have to make peace with the storms if he wanted to stay and succeed.

He stayed even after Buffalo Bayou

took one of his sons, Joe, who was just 13 when he jumped in after a storm, slammed his head on something and drowned. He stayed after the great flood of 1935, which annihilated many of the homes in the neighborhood but not his.

My late uncle Ernest Eguia, my grand-mother’s brother, remembered being trapped for days in the 1935 flood. “Fur-niture, clothes and items were fished out of the bayou by people,” he’d later write in an 11-page memoir he gave me.

As the family grew, we’d have no choice but to move into houses damaged by that flood.

Given all the storms in all these years, I had to ask my mom one simple ques-tion: Why? Why stay and endure more

and keep rebuilding and starting anew?Her answer was just as simple. “Houston

is our home,” she said. “You don’t run every time there’s a problem. We deal with it, and you keep going.”

—Associated Press writer Russell Contreras

is a member of the AP’s race and ethnicity team.

1 family has survived 5 generations of Houston storms: Mine

A framed photo of Narcisco Eguia, the great grandfather of Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras, sits in the Hurricane Harvey-damaged building of the Houston Hispanic civil rights group Sociedad Mutualista Obrera Mexicana on September 25,

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PHOENIX, Arizona (AP)

When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered his get-tough-on-immigra-

tion speech in the border city of Nogales early this year, he promised a “new era” in immigration enforcement.

Six months later, some of those prom-ises are taking shape in federal court, but through the expansion of a nearly decade-old program known as Operation Stream-line, in which immigrants accused of coming into the U.S. illegally complete a usually months-long prosecution process in one day. Critics say the program violates due process and does nothing to deter repeat offenses.

In Arizona, federal authorities are now prosecuting first-time border crossers - heavily increasing the program’s caseload - after years of prosecuting only repeat offenders. The move is a small part of the overall increase in immigrant prosecu-tions that Sessions has called for.

Just how effective Operation Streamline is at reducing repeat border crossings is

unclear.A report by the U.S.

Government Account-ability Office this year found that the way the Border Patrol calcu-lates recidivism rates in programs such as Operation Streamline results in lower figures by only considering whether a defendant re-entered illegally within a year.

The Border Patrol finds only 14 percent of migrants who go through programs designed to deter border crossings reoffend. The Govern-ment Accountability Office puts that figure at 29 percent based on its own methodology, which the Border Patrol has declined to adopt.

Customs and Border Protection spokes-woman Jennifer Gabris said the recidi-vism rate for defendants who go through

Operation Streamline was about 8 percent in the 2016 fiscal year.

The Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, which comprises most of Arizona, is one of four in the nation that still use the program.

In these court hearings, dozens of immi-grants who were just caught crossing the border are assigned an attorney, go before

a judge, plead guilty and are sentenced all within a day.

In recent years, there were few defen-dants in Tucson because there weren’t as many migrants caught crossing and first-time offenders weren’t being pros-ecuted.

As of this spring, when the agency decided to resume prosecutions of first-timers, hearings are held four days a week and with close to the maximum number of defendants per hearing, which is 70.

In August, U.S. Marshals led small groups of mostly men into a federal courtroom. The men stood in front of their court-appointed attorneys and lis-tened to a judge give instructions, tell them their rights and ask questions through a translator.Still in the clothes they were wearing

when they got caught, some appeared confused when asked questions.

All of them pleaded guilty.Federal prosecutors in California,

unlike those in Arizona and Texas, have rejected Streamline, considering it an inef-fective drain on resources.

More migrants prosecuted in ‘new era’ of enforcement

In this October 20, 2017, file photo, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Austin, Texas.

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This award marks the eighth U.S. Department of Educa-tion GEAR UP grant received by WSU Tri-Cities since 2002. These awards have helped the university serve more than 30,000 students in middle and high schools in southeastern Washington. Total GEAR UP grant funds received by WSU Tri-Cities now total more than $123 million.

The GEAR UP grant — GEAR UP stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs — will allow for the hiring of nine new salaried staff and a variety of tutors to work with students in middle schools.

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Hallsted said the WSU GEAR UP program also emphasizes collaboration with school administration to ensure an effective team approach and alignment with their educational framework and GEAR UP grant objectives, including advisory board meetings comprised of the partner school superintendents.

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP)

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s return to the ring is currently scheduled for early May 2018. Who he’ll touch

gloves with remains the question.The top priority for Golden Boy Pro-

motions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is still

a rematch between Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin to settle the controversial draw decision on September 16.

“We’re talking and we are also going to meet soon with Canelo,” De La Hoya said. “But that’s the fight that has to happen next. The fight everyone wants is GGG-Canelo next and that’s what I will push

for.”Some thought De La Hoya would aim

for next September to schedule GGG-Canelo II while he promotes a Dec. 16 fight between middleweights Billy Joe Saunders and David Lemieux.

Earlier this week De La Hoya said that Golovkin ”is on the first place on our list, but so much depends on the negotiations.”

Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler had said he wants the rematch details worked

out by December. If the an agreement isn’t reached he’s prepared to schedule another fighter.

“We can’t wait forever for Canelo to decide,” Loeffler said. “If it gets to a certain point, we have arenas ready on hold and I need a contingency plan and contingency opponents as well. Canelo is clearly Plan A, and the priority, but we also have a Plan B and C in place in order that Gennady’s career isn’t held up.”

De La Hoya still pushing for Canelo-Golovkin rematch

File photo of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (left) and Gennady Golovkin during their middleweight championship fight on September 16, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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