Trump again accuses fire marshal...More Republicans criticize Trump comments...Pilot had multiple DUI convictions

COLUMBUS (AP) — Donald Trump is again complaining that a fire marshal has limited the attendance at a town hall -- this time, in Columbus, Ohio. Trump told reporters before the event that it's "a disgrace" that more people were not allowed to attend. He added that it was "for purely political reasons they were turned away." Trump's remarks came just three days after he made similar complaints about a fire marshal in Colorado Springs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Senate Republicans who are up for re-election are weighing in to praise the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq, and to criticize Donald Trump's comments about the family. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida says Trump's criticism is "unfortunate." He says the captain and his parents are heroes, "and they have a First Amendment right to speak out on their politics, as all Americans do." Trump has faced widespread condemnation for criticizing the parents of the soldier, who was killed in Iraq. He did so after the soldier's father delivered an anti-Trump speech at the Democratic National Convention.

LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — It turns out that the hot air balloon pilot involved in Saturday's fatal crash in Texas had at least four drunken-driving convictions in Missouri. Online court records show that Alfred Nichols pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in St. Louis County in 1990, twice in 2002 and again in 2010. Nichols also was convicted of a drug crime in 2000 and spent about a year-and-a-half in prison before he was paroled. Authorities haven't identified the pilot in the Texas crash, but his roommate has confirmed the pilot was Nichols.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge in North Carolina has decided not to rule immediately on whether to block a portion of a state law governing the use of public bathrooms by transgender people. Judge Thomas Schroeder heard evidence today, ahead of a November trial that will determine the law's longer-term prospects. Schroeder will preside over that trial.

MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott says 2,300 people have been tested for Zika across the state, including 200 people in the affected area in Miami. He delivered the update after a meeting with health officials in the Tampa area. Scott says the tests detected 10 additional cases, bringing the number of cases in the state to 14. Government health officials are warning that pregnant women should avoid travel to the Zika-stricken part of Miami. And they are urging expectant mothers who frequent the area to get tested for the virus.

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