Navy Seal dies in IS attack in IraqPHOENIX — He was a former Phoenix high school star distance runner who was the grandson of an Arizona financier involved in the 1980s savings and loan scandal.Charlie Keating IV went on to run track at Indiana University, attend the Naval Academy and become a Navy SEAL based out of San Diego.Keating, 31, died Tuesday in Iraq in an Islamic State group attack near the city of Irbil.He’s the third American serviceman to die in combat in Iraq since the U.S.-led coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State in the summer of 2014, according to military officials.“Like so many brave Americans who came before him, Charlie sacrificed his life in honorable service to our nation for a cause greater than self-interest, which we can never truly repay,” U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ordered all state flags be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Wednesday in honor of Keating, who also was the cousin of former Olympic swimming champion Gary Hall Jr.A 2004 graduate of Phoenix’s Arcadia High School, Keating was city and region champion in the 1,600-meter run as a sophomore, junior and senior.At Indiana University, where his father was a three-time All-America swimmer from 1974-77 and finished fifth in the breaststroke at the 1976 Olympics, Keating ran cross country and track from 2004-06.Reniewicki said Keating was planning to get married in November.

Georgia governor rejects pair of billsATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican governor rejected the two top priorities of a legislature controlled by his own party this year, defying election year politics in a deep red state.Gov. Nathan Deal, in his second and constitutionally limited final term, vetoed legislation shielding opponents of gay marriage just days after the close of the legislative session in March. But he waited until Tuesday, the last possible day to issue vetoes, to block another bill that would have allowed people over 21 and with state permits to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.Both proposals were popular with the majority of Georgia’s Republican lawmakers. But opponents aggressively lobbied Deal to block the measures.The state’s business community, with help from giants like Apple, the Walt Disney Co. and the NFL, mobilized against the religious exemption bill. The state’s powerful Board of Regents, which oversees the university system, and all 29 of its campuses’ presidents and police chiefs opposed the so-called campus carry measure.By The Associated Press