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• New Orleans police officer shot and killed while transporting suspect
• Alleged Dylann Roof manifesto discovered online
• Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college
• Charleston church shooter planned first to attack college: media
• NRA executive suggests slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths
• Obama rejects mass shootings as 'new normal' in America
• Correction officer suspended in connection with New York state prison escape
• Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness
• Why isn't suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof called a terrorist?
• Church shootings put spotlight on South Carolina prosecutor again
• U.S. doctor sanctioned for 'abhorrent and abnormal' troop training

New Orleans police officer shot and killed while transporting suspect Posted: 20 Jun 2015 12:26 PM PDT Daryle Holloway, a 22-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department, was found in his department vehicle, which had crashed into a utility pole, with a gunshot wound to his body, police said in a statement. A suspect he had been transporting to an area prison was missing from the car and is the focus of a manhunt for the officer's murder, police said.

Alleged Dylann Roof manifesto discovered online Posted: 20 Jun 2015 10:06 AM PDT The white man accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina appears to have left a hateful screed on the Internet.

Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college Posted: 20 Jun 2015 05:07 AM PDT A black drinking buddy of Dylann Roof says he told him a week earlier of his plan to shoot up a college campus.

Charleston church shooter planned first to attack college: media Posted: 20 Jun 2015 12:49 AM PDT The Washington Post reported 22-year-old Christon Scriven, a black neighbor of gunman Dylann Roof, said that during a recent night of drinking, Roof said he wanted to open fire on a school. "My reaction at the time was, 'You're just talking crazy,'" Scriven told the Post.

NRA executive suggests slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths Posted: 19 Jun 2015 09:47 PM PDT A National Rifle Association executive in Texas has come under fire for suggesting that a South Carolina lawmaker and pastor slain with eight members of his congregation bears some of the blame for his opposition to permitting concealed handguns in church. Houston-based lawyer Charles Cotton, listed as a national NRA board member on the gun lobby's website, made the comments in an online chat room he administers called texaschlforum.com, a discussion board devoted to gun rights and firearms issues. In an online thread about Wednesday night's mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, Cotton said that one of the nine people slain, church pastor and Democratic state Senator Clementa Pinckney, had voted against legislation in 2011 that would have allowed concealed possession of handguns in restaurants, day-care centers and churches.

Obama rejects mass shootings as 'new normal' in America Posted: 19 Jun 2015 07:52 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday he refuses to accept the idea that regular mass shooting are "the new normal" in America but doesn't expect Congress to respond because of the influence of the National Rifle Association.

Correction officer suspended in connection with New York state prison escape Posted: 19 Jun 2015 07:02 PM PDT "A correction officer was placed on administrative leave this evening as part of the ongoing investigation into the escape at Clinton Correctional Facility," the New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said in a statement.

Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness Posted: 19 Jun 2015 06:30 PM PDT As the young white man charged with murdering nine people inside a historic black church in South Carolina stood blankly silent during a court hearing on Friday, relatives of slain worshippers addressed him one by one, offering tearful words of grief and forgiveness. Dylann Roof, 21, who authorities say spent an hour in Bible study with parishioners at the nearly 200-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Church before opening fire on them, stood quietly, stoically, as he appeared via video feed for an initial bond hearing before a magistrate judge. Dressed in a black-and-white prison uniform and flanked by two guards in body armor, Roof showed no reaction as the judge ordered him held without bail.

Why isn't suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof called a terrorist? Posted: 19 Jun 2015 04:21 PM PDT Dylann Roof hoped that he would spark a "race war" by murdering nine African-American people in South Carolina, according to reports.

Church shootings put spotlight on South Carolina prosecutor again Posted: 19 Jun 2015 03:18 PM PDT For the second time in two weeks, South Carolina prosecutor Scarlett Wilson finds herself at the center of a racially charged murder case generating national headlines, after the shooting of nine black men and women at a historic church in Charleston. Wilson will prosecute Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man accused of shooting black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night.

U.S. doctor sanctioned for 'abhorrent and abnormal' troop training Posted: 19 Jun 2015 02:46 PM PDT By John Shiffman RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A state board revoked the license of a former U.S. Army doctor on Friday, finding that he plied students with hypnotic drugs during battlefield-trauma training and performed dangerous procedures, including intentionally inducing shock. The doctor, John Henry Hagmann, was cited for training he provided in 2012 and 2013 in Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado and Great Britain. Students testified on Friday that Hagmann also performed penile nerve blocks and instructed them to insert catheters into one another's genitals.

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