K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For July 14th, 2017 – Morning

WASHINGTON (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS CAPTURED COMPLIMENTING THE FRENCH PRESIDENT'S WIFE'S APPEARANCE THURSDAY AS HE TOURED A FAMOUS PARIS LANDMARK. VIDEO FOOTAGE POSTED ON THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE SHOWED TRUMP TELLING BRIGITTE MACRON: "YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN SUCH GOOD SHAPE." BRIGITTE MACRON WAS HER HUSBAND'S FORMER HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP HAS DRAWN INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION BECAUSE OF THEIR SIGNIFICANT AGE DIFFERENCE.

PARIS (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON SHARED ANOTHER LENGTHY HANDSHAKE DURING THE BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATION, REPRISING THEIR FAMOUS WHITE-KNUCKLE HANDSHAKE SHOWDOWN IN MAY. TRUMP AND MACRON SHOOK HANDS AS TRUMP DEPARTED A MILITARY PARADE. THEY CONTINUED CLASPING HANDS AS THEY WALKED ALONG THE PARADE ROUTE.

JERUSALEM (AP) - A RELATIVE SAYS THREE PALESTINIAN ASSAILANTS WHO KILLED TWO ISRAELI POLICEMEN FROM INSIDE A JERUSALEM HOLY SITE WERE DEVOUT MUSLIMS WHO FREQUENTLY VISITED THE SHRINE. POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE ASSAILANTS AS ARAB CITIZENS OF ISRAEL AND MEMBERS OF THE JABAREEN CLAN. A RELATIVE, YEHIYEH JABAREEN, SAYS CLAN MEMBERS ARE IN SHOCK OVER FRIDAY'S ATTACK AT HOLY SITE, A WALLED COMPOUND REVERED BY BOTH MUSLIMS AND JEWS.

BEIJING (AP) - FRIENDS OF CHINESE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE LIU XIAOBO'S FAMILY SAY EFFORTS TO PERSUADE THE GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW THEM TO LEAVE CHINA WERE MOTIVATED NOT SO MUCH BY A NEED TO SEEK TREATMENT FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL POLITICAL PRISONER BUT TO FACILITATE AN ESCAPE FROM CHINA FOR HIS SEVERELY DEPRESSED WIFE, LIU XIA. LIU XIAOBO'S DEATH ON THURSDAY HAS RETURNED HIS WIFE'S FATE TO THE FORE.

DOYLESTOWN, PA. (AP) - THE ATTORNEY FOR A DRUG DEALER IN PENNSYLVANIA SAYS HIS CLIENT HAS AGREED TO PLEAD GUILTY TO FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATHS OF FOUR YOUNG MEN WHO HAD GONE MISSING THIS MONTH. THE LAWYER ALSO SAYS 20-YEAR-OLD COSMO DINARDO CONFESSED TO THE KILLINGS AND TOLD INVESTIGATORS WHERE THE BODIES WERE LOCATED. EARLIER THIS WEEK, CADAVER DOGS LED AUTHORITIES TO A SPOT ON THE DINARDO FAMILY FARM, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS INSIDE A 12 ½-FOOT-DEEP COMMON GRAVE.
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THOSE WHO LIVE OR TRAVEL TO CASPER FOR THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN AND THE EVENTS LEADING TO AUG. 21 WILL WATCH IT ON A STAGE COVERED BY NATIONAL IF NOT INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.

WYOMING ECLIPSE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ANNA WILCOX SAID THURSDAY SHE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH TIME MAGAZINE, IMAX, NASA, NBC'S "THE TODAY SHOW," AND MEDIA FROM NEIGHBORING STATES AS THEY SEEK ACCOMODATIONS, THE BEST PLACES FOR THEIR SATELLITE TRUCKS, AND THE LOCAL FOLKS AND THOSE WHO WILL TRAVEL HUNDREDS OF MILES FOR THE EVENT.

WILCOX SAID MOST MEDIA AREN'T INTERESTED IN THE 2 MINUTES 26 SECONDS OF TOTAL DARKNESS ITSELF AS MUCH AS THEY ARE INTERESTED WATCHING THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING IT.

UNLIKE MEDIA COVERAGE OF PROFESSIONAL ECLIPSE-CHASERS WHO SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND TRAVEL HALF-WAY AROUND THE WORLD, CASPER HAS WHAT THEY CALL A HIGHLY ACCESSIBLE ECLIPSE.
MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES TELL HER THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE REACTIONS FROM THE FIRST-TIMERS, THE PEOPLE WHO DROVE 12 HOURS FOR A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXPERIENCE, OR THOSE WHO BROUGHT THEIR FAMILIES KNOWING THAT THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW IT TOGETHER.

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CHEYENNE, WYO. (AP) - WYOMING STUDENTS WHO TOOK THE STATEWIDE TEST EARLIER THIS YEAR TO MEASURE THEIR ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE PERFORMED BETTER IN MATH AND SCIENCE.

THE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENTS FOR WYOMING STUDENTS WAS ADMINISTERED THIS SPRING IN READING AND MATHEMATICS IN GRADES 3 THROUGH 8 AND IN SCIENCE FOR GRADES 4 AND 8.

STATEWIDE SCORES RELEASED THURSDAY SHOWED IMPROVEMENT IN MATH AND SCIENCE, WHILE READING REGISTERED A SLIGHT DECLINE.

STATE SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT JILLIAN BALOW NOTED HEALTHY INCREASES IN EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE AND FOURTH GRADE MATH SCORES.

STARTING IN THE 2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR, WYOMING WILL REPLACE THE CURRENT TEST WITH A NEW ONE THAT WILL ASSESS PROFICIENCY IN READING AND MATH FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-10, SCIENCE FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 4, 8 AND 10, AND WRITING FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 3, 5, 7 AND 9.