The Latest: Slain Dallas officers remembered at vigil
DALLAS (AP) More than 1,000 people have gathered in downtown Dallas to attend a candlelight vigil for the five police officers killed during a protest march. Speakers at the Monday night vigil included police officials and friends of the slain officers. Portraits of the officers were propped up in front of the speaker’s platform. Dallas Police…
Democrat Evan Bayh may get into Indiana Senate race
Bayh retired from the Senate in 2010 following two terms. He has been sitting on about $10 million in campaign funds
UK’s Cameron says he will resign by Wednesday
The queen has the formal role of appointing the new leader
Dallas gunman learned tactics at Texas self-defense school
DALLAS (AP) – The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a private self-defense school that teaches special tactics, including “shooting on the move,” a maneuver in which an attacker fires and changes position before firing again. Micah Johnson, an Army veteran,…
UPDATE: Arrests at Louisiana protests
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – More than 160 people are believed to have been arrested during weekend protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where last week a black man was fatally shot by police. At least 30 of those arrests came Sunday night, as a few hundred people tried to block the on-ramp of Interstate 110.…
Protesters Shut Down Interstate Near Downtown St. Paul
St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — Police used smoke bombs to clear demonstrators blocking Interstate 94 in St. Paul late Saturday night during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. The smoke was used after about 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after midnight as police…
$540 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lottery official says a jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket worth an estimated $540 million was sold in Indiana. Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty tells The Associated Press it was the only jackpot-winning ticket in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing. The consortium of lottery organizations that runs Mega Millions said a ticket matching…
Official: Dallas-area man identified as shooting suspect
DALLAS (AP) – A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that the dead suspect in the shooting attack on Dallas police was 25-year-old Micah Johnson. Dallas police killed the suspect with a robot-delivered bomb after hours of overnight negotiations in a parking garage had failed. The law enforcement official spoke to the AP…