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DALLAS (AP) — Military officials investigating an apparent murder-suicide that happened Friday on a U.S. air base in Texas are trying to determine whether the gunman was authorized to have a weapon on the base, where the possession of firearms is heavily restricted.

MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — A man who had to be rescued when he climbed a California cliff to propose to his girlfriend via cellphone video later was acting erratically and was found to be high on methamphetamine, authorities said Friday.

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry backed Iraq's prime minister on Friday in his efforts to resolve a mounting political crisis, underlining the importance of securing a "unified and functioning government" in the fight against the Islamic State.

SOMERSET, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man set up a fake drunken-driving checkpoint only to be charged with drunken driving himself when real troopers arrived to investigate.The (Somerset) Daily American (http://bit.ly/1S1iydK ) says 20-year-old Logan Shaulis will be sentenced June 27. He pleaded guilty Thursday to drunken driving, possessing instruments of crime, and impersonating a public servant.Police say Shaulis used a flashing blue light bar, parked diagonally across state Route 601 and set up road flares about 4 a.m. on May 30.

Jail bookings from Apr. 7-8 for Savannah-Chatham County are now posted. Click through this slideshow to view photos and information obtained from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Department. All individuals posted have not been convicted of a crime and are innocent until proven guilty.

Memorial University Medical Center officials today broke ground on the Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah, capping a 24-year journey to provide the region’s only stand-alone children’s hospital.

Savannah-Chatham Metro police will be operating radar hot spots along Interstate 16.Police remind drivers there is zero tolerance for speeding in school zones.

Here are the obituaries for Friday, April 8. Read them in full here.Callie Mae Ard, Beaufort, SCMr. Samuel Baker, Claxton, GAMrs. Betsy W. Bryant, Savannah, GAChristopher Steven Carlon, Savannah, GASMSgt. Bill Clayton Causey, Savannah, GAJessica LeAnn Creel, Bloomingdale, GAMs. Annie Daughtry, Sylvania, GA

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis insisted that individual conscience be the guiding principle for Catholics negotiating the complexities of sex, marriage and family life in a major document released Friday that rejects the emphasis on black and white rules for the faithful.

A 44-year-old Clyo man accidentally shot himself and his dog while he was cleaning his gun.
Todd A. Crouse was talking on the phone with a friend and cleaning his gun when the accident occurred at his house on Arnsdorff Loop in the Clyo area, at 10 p.m. March 22, according to a report from the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office.
Crouse said he unknowingly reloaded by putting in the magazine while he was reassembling the gun. Then he said he pulled the slide of the gun back, but he still had his finger on the trigger so the gun went off.