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• Castile protesters target city where officer worked

  18-06-2017 21:32
  
  T. ANTHONY, Minn. - A couple hundred protesters have targeted the Minnesota city where a police officer worked after a jury acquitted him in the fatal shooting of a black motorist last year.  The protesters marched through St. Anthony on Sunday to remember Philando Castile and demonstrate against the acquittal of Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Marchers carried signs reading "Justice for Philando" and "We leave when we get justice."  A jury on Friday found Yanez not g
  
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• Kelly presses 'Infowars' host Alex Jones on Sandy Hook denial

  18-06-2017 20:24
  
  NEW YORK - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones hemmed and hawed when pressed repeatedly by Megyn Kelly to admit he was wrong to call the massacre at Newton, Connecticut a hoax.  "Infowars" host Jones never gave a direct answer in a segment Sunday night on NBC's "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.' Kelly has been criticized intensely for giving a platform to Jones, who has also called the Sept. 11 attacks an inside job. She has defended her decision by noting that President Donald Trump
  
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• Report: Vehicle ran over pedestrians as they left London mosque

  18-06-2017 19:36
  
  LONDON - The Muslim Council says a van has "run over worshippers" leaving the Finsbury Park mosque.  Police earlier said a vehicle had struck several pedestrians early Monday morning and one person had been arrested.  The council tweeted that its prayers were with the victims.  People had been attending mosques in the area as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  Transportation officials said roads were being closed in
  
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• Police: Vehicle strikes pedestrians in London; one arrested

  18-06-2017 19:36
  
  LONDON - Police say a vehicle struck pedestrians on a road in north London, leaving several casualties and one person has been arrested.  Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the scene on Seven Sisters Road at 12:20 a.m. Monday. The London Ambulance Service said it was responding to the incident.  No other details were immediately available.  Earlier this month, a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge, setting off vehicle a
  
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• Lightning strike sparks house fire on Millbrook Drive

  18-06-2017 19:18
  
  BATON ROUGE - Firefighters were called to Millbrook Drive Sunday afternoon after a lightning strike reportedly started a house fire.The St. George and East Side Fire Departments reported to the 3400 block of Millbrook Avenue around 5:15 p.m. after several 911 calls reported smoke and flames peaking from the roof of a home.According to the St. George Fire Department, the residents were not home and a forced entry had to be made. They added that the fire was contained to the atti
  
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• 8-year-old boy shot in head while sleeping in mother's car in Mississippi

  18-06-2017 18:17
  
  JACKSON, Miss. - Police in Jackson say an 8-year-old boy was shot in the head and seriously wounded as he slept in the back seat of his mother's car.  The Clarion-Ledger reports Jackson police spokesman Cmdr. Tyree Jones said Richard Kyles was wounded late Saturday night. The boy was reported in "very serious critical condition" at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.  Jones said Richard had been sleeping in the back seat of the vehicle driven by his
  
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• US shoots down Syrian Air Force fighter

  18-06-2017 17:28
  
  WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says it has shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic State militants.  The U.S.-led coalition headquarters in Iraq said in a written statement Sunday that a U.S. F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian government SU-22 after it dropped bombs near the U.S. partner forces, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.  This appears to mark a new escalation of th
  
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• Mayor blames lack of resources for blight in Jackson

  18-06-2017 17:10
  
  JACKSON - Mayor Charles Coleman in the Town of Jackson says a lack of resources and manpower allows people to violate the law.It all centers around junk that is accumulating in people's yards, and the town has done very little to clean it up.Neighbors who live near Kathy Circle say they aren't proud of where they live and even called it junky. A miscellaneous shrimp boat, a motor home, junk cars that haven't been moved for years and other miscellaneous items dot properties across town.Junius Rob
  
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• Report: Family carjacked outside Lakeside Mall; suspects arrested after chase

  18-06-2017 17:00
  
  METAIRIE - Two men are in jail after they allegedly committed multiple carjackings in Jefferson Parish Saturday night and led deputies on a high-speed chase which sent one woman to the hospital in critical condition.According to a report from WWL, the incident happened just before 10 p.m. in the parking lot of Lakeside Mall.Officials say a man was with his wife and three children when two armed men told him to get out of the vehicle. The man Jefferson Parish deputies that he wa
  
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• Burned former home of President Bill Clinton a total loss

  18-06-2017 16:03
  
  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A northwest Arkansas house once occupied by former President Bill Clinton that was damaged by fire has been deemed a total loss.  The home now owned by Stephanie and Robert Dzur and occupied by Stephanie Dzur's father burned June 8.  The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Sunday that Stephanie Dzur says her insurance agent told her the home is damaged beyond repair and will have to be torn down.  The home was built in 195
  
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• Power restored for most after East Baton Rouge outages

  18-06-2017 15:43
  
  BATON ROUGE - Electricity has been restored for the majority of Entergy customers after inclement weather in East Baton Rouge Parish caused thousands to lose power.According to Entergy, about 6,000 customers lost power during the afternoon storm.Those most affected by the first outage appeared to be in the area just south of I-12, east of Airline Highway. A second outage was also reported along Hooper Road.2 clusters of power outages:
  S. of I-12, E. of Airline
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  Along Hoope
  
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• Hundreds of thousands for Brazil gay parade, world's biggest

  18-06-2017 14:55
  
  SAO PAULO - Hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo for one of the world's largest gay pride parades.  The revelers have packed the city's Paulista Avenue before Sunday's parade. Some are helping hold up a gigantic rainbow-colored flag symbolizing LGBT rights.  Organizers say they expect 3 million people to participate in the city's 21st annual gay pride parade.  The parade this year focuses on secular
  
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• Reports swirl about Beyonce's twins, but no confirmation yet

  18-06-2017 13:46
  
  LOS ANGELES - Are Beyonce and Jay Z parents again?  Mum's the word from the parents and their reps, even though reports are flying that the much-anticipated twins have made their arrival.  Several outlets have published reports with no official confirmation. Even Beyonce's father, with whom she has had a strained relationship, tweeted congrats Sunday.  Beyonce and Jay Z are usually tight-lipped about their personal lives and waited years to r
  
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• 51 Louisianans arrested on child exploitation charges

  18-06-2017 13:25
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana law enforcement officials say they arrested 51 people on child exploitation charges this spring as part of an annual nationwide crackdown.  Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced the results of Operation Broken Heart IV during a news conference Friday.  Landry says the charges range from possessing child pornography to solicitation of minors. He says one of the suspects, a New Orleans man, had more than 100,000 images of child
  
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• 'Cars 3' speeds to No. 1, Tupac biopic nets strong debut

  18-06-2017 13:22
  
  LOS ANGELES - Lightning McQueen and his pals in "Cars 3" raced to the top spot at the box office this weekend, pushing "Wonder Woman" into second place for the first time since it opened.  Studio estimates on Sunday said Disney and Pixar's "Cars 3" opened with $53.5 million - a low for the $1 billion series.  In its third weekend, "Wonder Woman" held strong with $40.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $274.6 million.  In third place, th
  
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• FBI offers $10K reward to help find missing Chinese scholar

  18-06-2017 13:21
  
  URBANA, Ill. - The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that'll help locate a visiting scholar from China who disappeared from the University of Illinois.  Twenty-six-year-old Yingying Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the central Illinois university when she disappeared June 9.  Campus police say surveillance video shows her entering a black Saturn Astra vehicle in Urbana that afternoon. Her friends told authorities s
  
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• Sheriff blocking public records request for jail fight video

  18-06-2017 13:10
  
  MCCOMB, Miss. - A Mississippi sheriff is blocking public-records requests for a jail security video, four months after a fight that injured five inmates and sent two to a hospital.  The Enterprise-Journal reports the Pike County Sheriff's Department says it is still investigating the Feb. 14 fight.  The newspaper has made several requests to see the video as a public record. Those have been denied. The newspaper has filed a complaint with the Mississi
  
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• Lawyer says Trump not under investigation

  18-06-2017 13:06
  
  WASHINGTON - A member of President Donald Trump's outside legal team says the president is not under investigation, contradicting a recent tweet from Trump.  Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, attorney Jay Sekulow said the "president is not under investigation by the special counsel." He said Trump's statement on Twitter Friday was specifically in response to a story in The Washington Post about the expanding probe into Russia's election meddling.  The
  
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• Search ends for 7 Navy sailors as bodies found

  18-06-2017 12:55
  
  YOKOSUKA, Japan - The search for the seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast has ended after bodies were found in the destroyer.  Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, the commander of the Navy's 7th Fleet, told reporters that "a number of" bodies were recovered Sunday, a day after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship four times its size. He wouldn't say how many, pending notificatio
  
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• 731 Turkish soldiers hospitalized with food poisoning

  18-06-2017 12:50
  
  ISTANBUL - A Turkish prosecutor says 731 soldiers at a western base were sent to the hospital with food poisoning and 21 people from the company that provided the food have been detained.  Akif Celattin Simsek, the lead prosecutor in Manisa province, said Sunday an investigation was launched with samples taken from the affected soldiers, the food and the water. None of those hospitalized late Saturday was in critical condition.  Defense Minister Fikri Isik, wh
  
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• Portugal forest fire death toll likely to rise

  18-06-2017 12:47
  
  LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's prime minister says the death toll in the country's deadliest wildfire in memory is likely to rise.Prime Minister Antonio Costa said Sunday that 61 deaths are confirmed but, "for sure, we are going to find some more victims." The wind-fueled blaze swept through the area around Pedrogao Grande, a town 150 kilometers (95 miles) northeast of Lisbon.  Authorities say police are looking for bodies among the numerous isolated houses in the hills
  
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• 3 days of mourning for Portugal fire victims

  18-06-2017 12:47
  
  LISBON, Portugal - Portugal has declared three days of national morning as the forest fire death toll has reached 62.  Interior Ministry official Jorge Gomes has told state broadcaster RTP that the number of victims from the flames and suffocating smoke has reached 60, while another two people perished in a traffic accident related to the fires.  The government has declared Sunday through Tuesday national days of mourning for the victims of a fire "which has c
  
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• IS threat in Southeast Asia raises alarm in Washington

  18-06-2017 12:45
  
  WASHINGTON - Southeast Asia's jihadis who fought for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in the southern Philippines. It's a scenario raising significant alarm in Washington.  The recent assault by IS-aligned fighters on the Philippine city of Marawi has left more than 300 people dead, exposing the shortcomings of local security forces and the extremist group's spreading reach.  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says
  
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• Trump tweets his frustration with Russia investigation

  18-06-2017 12:42
  
  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is beginning his day with a stream of tweets defending his record and lashing out at the investigation into Russian interference in the election.  In a two-part tweet posted before 7 a.m. Sunday, Trump wrote: "The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the Witch Hunt."  He continued by saying: "Many new jobs, high business enthusiasm ...massive regulation cuts, 36 new legislative bills
  
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• Protesters again storm 'Julius Caesar' performance

  18-06-2017 12:28
  
  NEW YORK - Protesters again have stormed the stage of a New York production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," which depicts a Trump look-alike character being assassinated.  Police say 26-year-old Javanni Valle, of Brooklyn, and 28-year-old Salvatore Cipolla, of Oceanside, Long Island, were arrested on trespassing and disorderly conduct charges Sunday evening during the Public Theater production's last performance in Central Park.  Information on their lawyers
  
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• Arson cause of vacant house fire on Columbus Dunn Drive

  18-06-2017 12:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - An early morning vacant house fire on Columbus Dunn Drive was reportedly caused by arson, according to the Baton Rouge Fire Department.Firefighters responded to the reported fire in the 1600 block of Columbus Dunn Dr. just after 4:30 a.m.Firefighters arrived on scene to find the house engulfed in flames. Fire crews battled for almost 30 minutes to bring the fire under control.The fire was determined to be a total loss, according to BRFD.Arson was found to be the cause of the fire,
  
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• Overnight arson at abandoned home has neighbors concerned

  18-06-2017 12:03
  
  BATON ROUGE - The charred remains of an abandoned house on Columbus Dunn Drive is the capitol city's latest arson case.The flames broke out over night, destroying the vacant wood-frame house. It had been vacant for months.Linda Bell has been living on this street for seven years."When we first came here, every house was filled. Now it's a lot of tall grass and weeds and empty houses," Bell said.On this one block alone, there are five boarded up houses and several vacant lots. T
  
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• US Navy says bodies of sailors found on ship

  18-06-2017 07:39
  
  YOKOSUKA, Japan - The U.S. Navy says the bodies of sailors who went missing in the collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship have been found aboard the stricken destroyer.  The Navy says in a statement that searchers had gained access to the spaces that were damaged during the collision. A total of seven sailors had been missing since Saturday's crash off Japan's coast.  The Navy says the remains are being transferred to Naval Hospital Yokosuka
  
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• Taliban storm Afghan police compound; 1 officer dead

  18-06-2017 07:39
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan official says that at least one police officer has been killed after a group of attackers stormed the main police headquarters in eastern Paktia province.  Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, says a suicide car bomber first detonated his vehicle at the entrance and opened the way for other attackers to enter the compound.  He says two of the attackers were shot by security forces and probably one more attack
  
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