ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane Tuesday — a long-feared crisis in Syria's civil war and apparently the first time a NATO member has downed a Russian plane in a half-century.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's action a "stab in the back by the terrorists' accomplices" and warned of "significant consequences." At Turkey's request, NATO's governing body called an emergency meeting.
FOXBORO — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft made sure that the memory of one of his team's most ardent fans, an 18-year-old college-bound student from Sharon, took center stage at Gillette Stadium ahead of Monday night's divisional tilt against the Buffalo Bills.
Ezra Schwartz, who was in the process of spending a "gap year in Israel," was killed Thursday when a Palestinian man opened fire on cars stuck in traffic in the West Bank. ESPN's Monday Night Football coverage did not air the Patriot's tribute to Schwartz and his family, which included a moment of silence, but Sussex Friends of Israel, a British-based advocacy organization, posted a video of the proceedings to its Facebook page:
