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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities continue to round up suspects in their investigation of the Brussels and Paris bombings. Belgium's prosecutor's office announced a sixth arrest today. The latest detainees include the last known fugitive from last year's Paris attacks, who may have been the mysterious "man in the hat" seen with the Brussels airport suicide bombers. Meanwhile, police, including masked officers, have descended on a Brussels neighborhood, sealing part of it off.
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian opposition monitoring group and a news agency linked to the Islamic State group say scores of cement works abducted near Damascus this week have been released. The reports come two days after the Islamic State group abducted 300 cement workers and contractors from their workplace near Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says all have been released except for 30 people who were guards at the cement factory.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An escapee from a psychiatric hospital has been caught. The Washington State Patrol says 28-year-old Anthony Garver was found hiding under debris in the woods last night in Spokane (spoh-KAN') and was apprehended without incident. He had escaped with another man on Wednesday from the Western State Hospital, where he was being held after being found too mentally ill to face murder charges in a woman's death. The other man was found earlier.
UNDATED (AP) — An Associated Press analysis has found that nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans exceeded the federal lead standard at least once during the past three years. The affected systems are large and small, public and private. They include 278 systems that are owned and operated by schools and day care centers in 41 states. The AP reviewed a quarter century of sampling data reported by 75,000 drinking water systems that are subject to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead rule.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama's time in office winds down, his approval rating is going up. An Associated Press-Gfk poll shows that half of those questioned say they approve of the job Obama is doing. That's up from 44 percent in February, and his highest approval rating since 2013. Much of the improvement comes from Democrats and people under 50.
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