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• 4 Florida Officers Shot, 1 Killed

  19-08-2017 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  One police officer was killed and three wounded in nighttime shootings in two Florida cities where the officers were responding to suspected drug activity and reports of a suicide attempt, police said Saturday.One officer was killed and another gravely injured late Friday night in Kissimmee. The other two officers were wounded a couple of hours later in Jacksonville, one of them shot in both hands and the other in the stomach. Three of four suspects in the Kissimmee shooting were arrested, and t
  
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• 2 Pennsylvania Troopers Shot, Suspect Killed in Shootout

  19-08-2017 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were shot and a suspect was killed Friday night in a shootout outside of a Fairchance, PA, convenience store.Witnesses told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the troopers, possibly working undercover, saw a man they believed had an outstanding warrant against him. The troopers stopped him, the witnesses said, and he reached into his backpack, pulled out a gun and started shooting.At least one of the troopers returned fire, killing the man, the witnesses said.&nbs
  
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• Spain's Terrorist Attacks Part of Same Large-scale Plot

  19-08-2017 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Authorities across Europe mounted a manhunt for those involved in a large-scale terrorist plot following the deadliest attacks to strike Spain in more than a decade: two vehicle assaults in Barcelona and the Catalan coastal town Cambrils, reports the Washington Post.Investigators believe that at least eight people plotted the attacks, putting them at a level of sophistication comparable to major strikes in Paris and Brussels in recent years. Other more recent attacks in London, Berlin, and the s
  
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