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SPRINGFIELD -- The complex, multi- defendant case involving  the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Kenneth Lopez was back in court Wednesday , with four defense lawyers arguing police should not have been granted a warrant to search an apartment where the accused shooter was arrested. While the murder warrant that led to the arrest of Lee Rios isn't in dispute, the attorneys have taken issue with the broader search warrant , which led to the arrest of three other people on gun charges. But a prosecutor in the case told Hampden Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney Wednesday the search warrant was justified because the 196 Nursery St. apartment was the first place Lee Rios went after the slaying -- making it he most likely location for investigators to find forensic evidence .  Lee Rios, 24, is charged with murder in the killing of Lopez, whose body was found around noon on March 25, 2015, in the yard of a house at Dwight and Calhoun streets in the city's North End. Wednesda...

8/25/17: General surgeon Michael Reyes (left) hugs his wife Sara as she prepares to fly out of Corpus Christi with their daughter Eva & he prepares to stay as Hurricane Harvey approaches the Gulf Coast area at the Corpus Christi International Airport (Photo: Gabe Hernandez/Caller-Times) CORPUS CHRISTI , Texas (Caller-Times) -- On most Friday mornings , the airport would be bustling, full of people, groggy as they catch their plane. But as Hurricane Harvey neared the Coastal Bend early Friday morning , there was only one flight out of the city. A 6:30 a.m. flight on Southwest Airlines was the last flight out of town Friday. People trying to make it out of the city before the storm hit had to say goodbye to loved ones, and some worried about what would remain when they are able to return. Hurricane Center : Full coverage of Hurricane Harvey and the tropics "This is our last flight this morning, 6:30 departure, trying to take the folks out to safety so we can get on to sa...

Regeni was undeterred. Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends. From 12 to 14, he served as youth mayor of his hometown, Fiumicello. He prided himself on his ability to navigate different cultures, and he relished Cairo ’s unruly street life : the smoky cafes, the endless hustle, the candy- colored party boats that plied the Nile at night. He registered as a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo and found a room in Dokki, a traffic-choked neighborhood between the Pyramids and the Nile, where he shared an apartment with two young professionals : Juliane Schoki, who taught German, and Mohamed El Sayad , a lawyer at one of Cairo’s oldest law firms . Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square . Regeni soon befriended writers and artists and practi...