WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s call for new “mental institutions” to combat mass shootings is drawing pushback from many health officials. They say the president is wrongly associating mental illness with violence. In the weeks following the deadly shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the president has been placing more emphasis on the problem of mental illness.

MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared an emergency in the state of Florida as it braces for the brunt of Hurricane Dorian. Trump, whose Florida properties could sustain damage, has warned that Dorian could be an “absolute monster.” In issuing the emergency declaration, Trump has ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local efforts responding to Dorian.

PROSPERITY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a coal mine worker was killed when a long wall of coal collapsed on top of him at a mine in western Pennsylvania. The wall collapsed around 6 p.m. Thursday in the Enlow Fork Mine in Prosperity, about 40 miles (64kilometers) southwest of Pittsburgh. State police says 25-year-old Tanner Lee McFarland of Washington, Pennsylvania, was killed in the accident. But the cause and manner of death have not been determined. No other injuries were reported in the collapse.

THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS ISSUED TWO PENALTIES TO SUNOCO PIPELINE L-P. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s reports…