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.…
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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…
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$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…
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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…
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NAACP head calls for policies after Texas attack
The president of the NAACP is calling for policies, not handwringing
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