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• Florida police locate inmate escaped from work-release center
• Manhunt under way after Louisiana police officer killed
• FBI hopes grainy video will help solve 25-year-old $500 million art heist
• Whether or not Biden runs, Clinton has a problem
• Texas power demand breaks 2011 record during heat wave
• New York Legionnaires' deaths rise to eight, nearly 100 sickened
• Ferguson braces for protests on anniversary of Michael Brown shooting
• Suspect in latest theater attack had psychological issues
• Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing
• Man with hatchet, gun fatally shot by police at theater
• Police fatally shoot gunman at Nashville movie theater
• Senator 'alarmed' by reports U.S. military families harassed
• Majority of Americans say more must be done to fight racism: Pew
• Police kill gunman at Nashville movie theater
• Poll shows Eleanor Roosevelt a favorite for the new $10 bill

Florida police locate inmate escaped from work-release center Posted: 06 Aug 2015 12:58 PM PDT Antwane Anglin, 27, ran from officers at the West Palm Beach Community Release Center just before 3 a.m., according to the Florida Department of Corrections. Anglin was serving time on a drug charge and had under 19 months to go in his sentence when he slipped off the facility grounds after a late-night inmate count and was seen returning in a vehicle a few hours later, Lewis said.

Manhunt under way after Louisiana police officer killed Posted: 06 Aug 2015 09:24 AM PDT (Reuters) - A manhunt was under way on Thursday for the suspect in the fatal shooting of a police officer in Shreveport, Louisiana, overnight, local authorities said. Shreveport Police Chief Willie Shaw vowed that police would not stop looking until they apprehended the suspected shooter, identified as Grover Cannon. "No matter what rock he crawls under, we will find him," Shaw told reporters.

FBI hopes grainy video will help solve 25-year-old $500 million art heist Posted: 06 Aug 2015 08:50 AM PDT Federal investigators in Boston on Thursday released 25-year-old surveillance video showing a security guard admitting a man to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before it was robbed of $500 million worth of art in the largest such heist in U.S. history. The six-minute, 40-second video shows a white man, wearing glasses and apparently in his 50s or 60s, being let in by the guard through a rear entrance to the museum shortly after midnight on March 17, 1990, about 24 hours before the heist. "This latest request for the public's assistance illustrates the FBI's continued commitment to the Gardner investigation," said Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston.

Whether or not Biden runs, Clinton has a problem Posted: 06 Aug 2015 06:53 AM PDT

Texas power demand breaks 2011 record during heat wave Posted: 06 Aug 2015 06:00 AM PDT (Reuters) - The Texas power grid operator said demand for electricity hit an all-time record as consumers cranked up air conditioners to escape a brutal heat wave on Wednesday, breaking the previous record set four years ago.

New York Legionnaires' deaths rise to eight, nearly 100 sickened Posted: 06 Aug 2015 05:44 AM PDT De Blasio said earlier this week the outbreak triggered an effort to mandate city-wide inspections and cleanings of air conditioning cooling towers. Since July 10, the outbreak has been concentrated in the South Bronx neighborhood, which is one of the poorest in the United States. The disease, a severe kind of pneumonia, is contracted by breathing in mist from cooling towers infected with the bacteria Legionella.

Ferguson braces for protests on anniversary of Michael Brown shooting Posted: 06 Aug 2015 03:34 AM PDT Civil rights activists, religious leaders and others from around the United States are converging on the mostly black community of about 21,000 to commemorate the life and death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and call for improvements in relations with police. The events, many organized by Brown's father, include marches, concerts and a moment of silence at midday on Sunday on the street where Brown was killed on Aug. 9, 2014. "I'm expecting hundreds if not thousands of people," said Tommie Pierson Sr., pastor of the Greater St. Mark Family Church, where a service honoring Brown is scheduled this weekend.

Suspect in latest theater attack had psychological issues Posted: 06 Aug 2015 02:58 AM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — What initially appeared to be another mass shooting at a movie theater is starting to look more like the last desperate act of a severely disturbed homeless man who may have had no intention of harming large numbers of people — but perhaps knew he himself could be killed.

Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing Posted: 05 Aug 2015 11:39 PM PDT HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world.

Man with hatchet, gun fatally shot by police at theater Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:12 PM PDT ANTIOCH, Tenn. (AP) — A man armed with a hatchet and a pellet gun unleashed a volley of pepper spray at audience members inside a movie theater Wednesday before being fired at by a police officer and shot dead by a SWAT team as he tried to escape out a back door, police said.

Police fatally shoot gunman at Nashville movie theater Posted: 05 Aug 2015 05:37 PM PDT By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A gunman wielding an ax and wearing a surgical mask opened fire on Wednesday at a Nashville-area movie theater and was shot dead by police after injuring three people when he doused the theater with pepper spray, authorities said. "The only person who was shot was the suspect as he emerged out of the rear door of the single movie theater," spokesman Don Aaron told reporters.

Senator 'alarmed' by reports U.S. military families harassed Posted: 05 Aug 2015 05:05 PM PDT A U.S. Senator said on Wednesday he was alarmed by reports of an FBI alert that relatives of U.S. military personnel in Colorado and Wyoming were harassed outside their homes by Middle Eastern men who may have had them under surveillance. "I am alarmed by reports out of Denver that military members' families have been harassed outside their homes and may be under surveillance," U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, said in a statement.

Majority of Americans say more must be done to fight racism: Pew Posted: 05 Aug 2015 03:30 PM PDT A majority of Americans, white and black, believe that more needs to be done to fight racism in the United States, following a year of protests over the treatment of minorities by police, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Wednesday. The survey, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points among the total sample of 2,002 adults, was based on telephone interviews with respondents living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Police kill gunman at Nashville movie theater Posted: 05 Aug 2015 03:14 PM PDT A gunman wearing a surgical mask and wielding an ax opened fire on Wednesday at a Nashville-area theater showing of the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road" and was shot dead by police after injuring three people when he doused the theater with pepper spray, authorities said. "The only person who was shot was the suspect as he emerged out of the rear door of the single movie theater," he said.

Poll shows Eleanor Roosevelt a favorite for the new $10 bill Posted: 05 Aug 2015 02:57 PM PDT By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than one in four Americans are hoping the soon-to-be redesigned $10 bill will feature Eleanor Roosevelt, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday. The poll showed the former first lady in first place with 27 percent, trailed by African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who received 17 percent of 1,249 votes, and Native American explorer Sacagawea, who received 13 percent. Who will replace Alexander Hamilton on the bill has been the subject of much debate since Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced in June it will be the first in more than a century to feature a woman.

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