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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Egypt's foreign minister is complaining that Western governments haven't been cooperating fully in the investigation of last week's crash of a Russian passenger plane. He says nations that suspended flights to the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh haven't shared intelligence that would explain their decisions. His comments come as international investigators try to determine what caused the plane to break up over Egypt's Sinai desert, killing all 224 people aboard.
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the international team investigating what brought down that Russian plane last Saturday says "all scenarios are being considered." He told reporters in Cairo today that a noise can be heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording, but what caused it isn't clear.
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton are jockeying for the support of key South Carolina Democratic groups today. Sanders tailored his message of economic and social inclusion to the state's Democratic Women's Council, highlighting his support for gender pay equity, paid family leave and access to abortion and birth control. Clinton is hosting an afternoon rally in heavily African-American Orangeburg. She speaks this evening in Columbia at a dinner hosted by state's largest gay rights organization.
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi State and Pascagoula High School football teams are mourning after a crash that killed a current Mississippi State player and his father, a former Bulldogs linebacker. Keith Joseph Jr. and Sr. were killed yesterday while driving to a game at the high school where both played. The 18-year-old Joseph Jr. was redshirting this season as a freshman defensive lineman. His 44-year-old father played for Mississippi State from 1989 to 1992 and is 10th in school history in sacks.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is condemning a fan sign targeting LSU that used Hurricane Katrina to mock the team. Pictures of the sign began circulating on social media yesterday. The sign was reportedly hung from an off-campus apartment complex and said "Finish what Katrina started." Alabama said on the school's Twitter account that it is "appalled that anyone would display a banner with such an inappropriate and offensive statement." The No. 4 Tigers play the seventh-ranked Crimson Tide in a Southeastern Conference showdown tonight.
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