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KEN SWEET, AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) —
The stock market rose Thursday as investors weighed positive economic reports against worries about Syria. The Dow Jones industrial average added 78 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,902 in late morning trading, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index was up 10 points, or 0.6 percent, at 1,645.
KRISTI EATON, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY —
Beating the late-summer heat isn't as easy as running to the sink in one northeast Oklahoma town, as residents there are being asked not to drink tap water after red worms were found in the filtering system. The worms — ranging from a half-inch to an inch long — showed up this week in the drinking water supply in Colcord, a small town about 80 miles east of Tulsa.
GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.—
Jury selection began Tuesday in the sentencing of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians during raids on two villages. Bales, an Ohio native and father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., pleaded guilty in June to avoid the death penalty for killing the civilians, mostly women and children, on March 11, 2012.