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CHICAGO (AP) — A judge says statements a Chicago police officer made to a detective shortly after fatally shooting a black teenager can be used by prosecutors at the officer’s murder trial. The judge ruled in the case of Jason Van Dyke, who is charged with first-degree murder in Laquan McDonald’s 2014 shooting. Van Dyke […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police say they’ve fatally shot a man who fled following a traffic stop. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says the 45-year-old man sped away after being pulled over by police about 1:45 a.m. Thursday. Sgt. Kendale Adams tells reporters that officers chased the vehicle and shot the man after the chase […]

PALISADES PARK, N.J. (AP) — Police in New Jersey say a man broke into a woman’s home and lay next to her in bed before asking to spend the night. Palisades Park police say the woman began screaming and the man then fled. Police are on the lookout for the man and released a sketch […]

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Two Maryland men have been charged with taking more than $21,000 worth of alcohol from trucks parked at a county facility. Police in Montgomery County said in a statement that the alcohol was stolen from trucks parked at the Department of Liquor Control warehouse in Gaithersburg. Police say the Department of […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A grandmother of a 7-year-old girl critically wounded in a St. Louis shooting that killed her parents and another man says her granddaughter has brain damage but is showing signs of improvement in a hospital. Lawanda Griffin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2umuuzK ) that Deniya Irving can move some limbs, […]

CLIFTON, Va. (AP) — Fairfax County police say a 13-year-old girl walking on a bridge was struck and killed by a commuter train in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. The department said on Twitter that the girl was hiking with relatives Wednesday afternoon and was walking on Bull Run Bridge when a train approached. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old Florida man is accused of selling 13 fraudulent Walt Disney World tickets to a family of tourists. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office tells the Orlando Sentinel that Branden Bullerin posted the tickets for sale on Craigslist. An arrest affidavit says a woman from Tampa contacted Bullerin on June 18, […]

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SETS TRAVEL RULES The new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees require that they have a “close” family or business tie to the U.S. 2. POPE’S FINANCE CHIEF FALLS […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican donors paid $35,000 apiece to hear familiar a message from President Donald Trump: The media, particularly CNN, keep trying to take him down, and yet Republicans just keep on winning elections. He noted with pride that his party had won four special elections this year. The president was whisked a few […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made rebuilding the U.S. armed forces a signature promise during the presidential campaign, but it’s the GOP-controlled Congress that’s leading the way by adding tens of billions of dollars to the annual defense policy bill to pay for active-duty troops, combat aircraft, and ships that he didn’t request. The […]