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• St. Louis police shooting raises fresh calls for body cameras
• Baylor football player to face punishment for Texas sexual assault
• Nashville hotel cancels reservations for hate group CCC, cited by Dylann Roof
• Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back: autopsy
• U.S. agency opens probe into 2008 Honda Accord air bag controller
• Woman bites rider who asks to move bag from seat in New York subway
• North Korea orders troops on war footing
• Shaun King: 'White man on my birth certificate is not my biological father'
• Wildfires rage in U.S. Northwest, army and foreign crews called in
• Florida woman says she secretly recorded Jared Fogle
• Explosion at New York high school injures three
• Tensions rise in Korea as shells fired over DMZ
• St. Louis police chief defends fatal shooting by officers
• Bergdahl lawyer slams candidate Trump over 'traitor' comments
• Army pilot, military cop are 1st women to pass Ranger School
• Ranger school success reflects U.S. military's opening to women
• Drones banned from Philadelphia skies for pope's visit

St. Louis police shooting raises fresh calls for body cameras Posted: 21 Aug 2015 01:07 PM PDT There was no video evidence when two white police officers fired four times at 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey on Wednesday in a crime-ridden part of St. Louis. One bullet hit Ball-Bey in the back and struck his heart, killing him almost instantly, according to the city's medical examiner. Police have said the officers shot Ball-Bey because he was pointing a gun at them, and added he was able to run some distance after being shot.

Baylor football player to face punishment for Texas sexual assault Posted: 21 Aug 2015 11:27 AM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A jury in Waco, Texas that convicted a Baylor University football player of sexual assault heard testimony on Friday as it weighs his punishment, which could include up to 20 years in prison. Defensive end Sam Ukwuachu, 22, was convicted on Thursday on charges that he sexually assaulted a Baylor women's soccer player at his Waco apartment in 2013. Ukwuachu had told the same jury in the central Texas city that the encounter was consensual and that he had a previous relationship with the woman.

Nashville hotel cancels reservations for hate group CCC, cited by Dylann Roof Posted: 21 Aug 2015 10:21 AM PDT The Guesthouse Inn says that it canceled the reservations for members of the Council of Conservative Citizens white supremacist group, which had scheduled an event at the hotel for this weekend.

Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back: autopsy Posted: 21 Aug 2015 07:45 AM PDT The results of the autopsy by the city's medical examiner in the death of Mansur Ball-Bey are preliminary and an investigation of the incident continues, police said in a statement. The finding may escalate tensions that flared immediately after the shooting Wednesday, as protesters and family members of the slain teen questioned police accounts that Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them as he fled from a home where police were serving a search warrant. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper that the location of the fatal wound neither proves nor disproves the account given by the two officers who said they fired four rounds at Ball-Bey.

U.S. agency opens probe into 2008 Honda Accord air bag controller Posted: 21 Aug 2015 07:28 AM PDT U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into air bags on Honda Motor Co's 2008 Accord sedans after 19 complaints of malfunctioning air bags including a front crash that resulted in injuries, federal officials said on Friday. The issue involves a module that controls deployment of the air bag. This appears to be a problem separate from that of combustible air bag inflators in Honda vehicles and has caused the recall of millions of them.

Woman bites rider who asks to move bag from seat in New York subway Posted: 21 Aug 2015 07:13 AM PDT A woman who took a bite out of another passenger in a dispute over a seat on a crowded subway was being sought for assault on Friday, the New York City police said. The attack occurred on a Manhattan-bound "F" train from Queens a week earlier, when a 45-year-old woman asked the suspect to remove her belongings from a seat so she could sit, said Lieutenant Thomas Antonetti, spokesman for the New York Police Department. "The suspect became enraged pushing the victim, scratching her on the chest, pulling her hair and biting her on her forearm causing a laceration and bleeding," the NYPD said in a statement.

North Korea orders troops on war footing Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:48 AM PDT Kim Jong Un declares a "quasi-state of war" after an exchange of fire with South Korea.

Shaun King: 'White man on my birth certificate is not my biological father' Posted: 20 Aug 2015 10:39 PM PDT Prominent Black Lives Matter activist accused this week of misrepresenting his race has breaks his silence, says mother had affair with "a light-skinned black man."

Wildfires rage in U.S. Northwest, army and foreign crews called in Posted: 20 Aug 2015 09:33 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. crews battling a flurry of wildfires raging unchecked across the Pacific Northwest contended with high winds on Thursday, a day after three firefighters were killed and four others were injured in Washington state. Authorities late Thursday ordered the immediate evacuation of the small community of Tonasket, nestled along the bank of the Okanogan River in north-central Washington, impacting about 1,000 people. On Wednesday, some 4,000 households in the riverfront towns of Twisp and Winthrop, in the foothills of the Cascade mountains about 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Tonasket, were also forced to flee the encroaching blaze.

Florida woman says she secretly recorded Jared Fogle Posted: 20 Aug 2015 08:11 PM PDT A Florida woman says former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle told her years ago about his interest in having sex with minors and that she went to authorities who told her to record the conversations. Rochelle ...

Explosion at New York high school injures three Posted: 20 Aug 2015 06:18 PM PDT (Reuters) - An explosion at a New York high school injured three people on Thursday, a fire department spokesman said. The explosion at John F. Kennedy High School in New York's Bronx borough was reported at 8:09 p.m. EDT, the spokesman said. The three injured were taken to hospitals. The cause of the explosion was unknown, he said. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech)

Tensions rise in Korea as shells fired over DMZ Posted: 20 Aug 2015 06:02 PM PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday declared a "a quasi-state of war in frontline areas" facing the rival South and said it was ready for military operations after tensions jumped a day earlier with shells fired across the world's most heavily armed border.

St. Louis police chief defends fatal shooting by officers Posted: 20 Aug 2015 04:06 PM PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — The police chief on Thursday unapologetically defended the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old who was killed by two white officers in a confrontation that drew protesters and unrest back to the streets.

Bergdahl lawyer slams candidate Trump over 'traitor' comments Posted: 20 Aug 2015 03:01 PM PDT By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The lawyer for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan charged with desertion, on Thursday chastised U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for calling his client a "traitor." "Sergeant Bergdahl is not charged with treason or anything like it," attorney Eugene Fidell said in a statement. "I condemn Mr. Trump's reckless disregard for the truth.

Army pilot, military cop are 1st women to pass Ranger School Posted: 20 Aug 2015 02:45 PM PDT FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — One of the first women to graduate from the Army's notoriously grueling Ranger School says she hopes her success will go toward proving that women in the military are capable of doing what men do.

Ranger school success reflects U.S. military's opening to women Posted: 20 Aug 2015 02:12 PM PDT When two women completed the daunting U.S. Army Ranger school this week they helped end questions about whether women can serve as combat leaders, as the Pentagon is poised to open new roles, including elite Navy SEALs, to women in coming months. The feat by Army Captain Kristen Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver followed a re-evaluation of the role of women after their frontline involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and the end of a rule barring them from combat roles in 2013. "This is the Army's toughest training," said Sue Fulton, a former Army captain who now chairs the advisory Board of Visitors to the U.S. military academy at West Point.

Drones banned from Philadelphia skies for pope's visit Posted: 20 Aug 2015 01:37 PM PDT The Federal Aviation Administration issued the aircraft restrictions, including the barring of model airplanes and hot air balloons in Philadelphia on Sept. 26 and 27, when the pope is to tour the city during his first visit to the United States. "The restrictions are designed to provide a safe and secure environment for the event but also ensure fair and equitable access to all airspace users to the greatest extent possible," the FAA said.

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