AP News in Brief
AP Exclusive: Rule exemption means batteries that led to Dreamliner grounding can fly as cargo
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the time the government certified Boeing's 787 Dreamliners as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's electrical systems from being carried as cargo on passenger planes because of the fire risk.
• Now the situation is reversed.
• Dreamliners worldwide were grounded nearly three weeks ago after lithium ion batteries that are part of the planes led to a fire in one plane and smoke in a second. But new rules exempt aircraft batteries from the ban on large lithium ion batteries as cargo on flights by passenger planes.
• In effect, that means the Dreamliner's batteries are now allowed to fly only if they're not attached to a Dreamliner.
• The regulations were published on Jan. 7, the same day as a battery fire in a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport that took firefighters nearly 40 minutes to put out.
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Reports: Sheriff says 'Sniper' author and ex-SEAL Kyle killed at Texas range with another man
• GLEN ROSE, Texas (AP) -- Former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with another man Saturday on a Texas gun range, a sheriff told local newspapers.
• Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Kyle, 38, and a second man were found dead at Rough Creek Lodge's shooting range west of Glen Rose, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Stephenville Empire-Tribune. Glen Rose is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
• Bryant did not immediately return phone calls to The Associated Press seeking comment late Saturday and early Sunday. A woman who answered the phone at the lodge where the shooting occurred declined comment and referred calls to the sheriff's office.
• Investigators did not immediately release the name of the second victim, according to the newspapers.
• Witnesses told sheriff's investigators that a gunman opened fire on the men
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