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Suspect shot after attack on Dallas police headquarters
DALLAS (AP) — A police sniper shot a cornered suspect in an overnight attack on the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters, and authorities were checking Saturday to see if he was alive or dead.
Search enters 8th day after prison worker charged in escape
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The massive manhunt for two convicted killers resumed Saturday on the morning after a worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison was charged with smuggling in hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver bit to help the men escape.
Suspect likely killed after gun and bomb attack at Dallas police headquarters
A man suspected of attacking setting off bombs outside the Dallas Police headquarters and spraying the building with gunfire in the early hours of Saturday was shot and possibly killed by snipers a few hours later, police said. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said police snipers shot the suspect through the windshield of a van in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant about 10 miles (16 km) south
Female N.Y. prison employee pleads not guilty in convict escape
By Barbara Goldberg and Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman employee of an upstate New York prison on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, was arrested on suspicion of having smuggled contraband into the prison, from which convicts Richard Matt and
Clinton to stage major rally, will vow to back working Americans
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton stages the first big rally of her presidential campaign on Saturday, trying to cast herself as a fighter for ordinary Americans and build a clearer case for why she wants to lead the country. Running to be the first female president, Clinton will trumpet her record on women’s rights and talk about her mother’s tough upbringing in a speech
McKinney pool party officer’s past includes allegations of racial profiling
The latest law enforcement officer to fuel the national uproar about race and policing once jailed an African-American man for a defective headlight and was sued by another man for racial profiling, excessive force and other civil rights violations.
Elbows flying, rhetorically, at Romney's 2016 retreat
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Govs. Scott Walker and Chris Christie said presidential rivals in the Senate don’t do anything. Sen. Marco Rubio denounced “old ways” in an indirect slap at older contenders. Sen. Lindsey Graham said his party may be going down a “death spiral” if it doesn’t embrace minority and younger voters.
Prison worker arraigned, accused of aiding 2 N.Y. escapees
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison was arraigned Friday night on charges she helped two convicted killers escape last weekend.
House rejects Obama's appeals and imperils his trade bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Led by union-backed Democrats, the House delivered a stinging blow to President Barack Obama on Friday and left his ambitious global trade agenda in serious doubt.