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Samantha Madison ROME — The apartment complex slated to be built at the site of the former Dewitt Clinton School is getting larger. Rome's Common Council conducted a workshop with DePaul Properties last week, where representatives told them that they have expanded the project to include more units because of public feedback. The new plan is to have 80 apartments of new housing with a 66- unit apartment building and 14 townhomes. There will be 60 one-bedroom apartments and 20 two-bedroom units. Of those, 70 units are adaptable, which will be able to support those with mobility issues. The original plan was to have 60 units with 56 one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments. Dewitt Clinton Apartments took another step forward at the Rome Common Council meeting last week, where after a public hearing where no one spoke, the council approved a zoning change. The vote changed the property to be a residential planned development district , which is considered an...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say o...