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OUISTREHAM, France (AP) — Before there can be any further talks on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin says there will have to be an immediate ceasefire. His comments came after his first meeting with Ukraine's new president-elect, and a separate informal conversation with President Barack Obama. All three were in France to mark the D-Day anniversary. Each of the meetings lasted about 15 minutes. A senior U.S. official says a cease-fire has to be "mutual" -- involving "not just Ukraine, but also Russia."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is confirming that a U.S. citizen has been detained in North Korea. He's the third American currently held there. The department is providing no additional details. North Korea's state news agency says the American is tourist Jeffrey Fowle. The agency says he's being investigated for acts inconsistent with the purpose of a tourist visit, and that Fowle entered the country on April 29.
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot and wounded a deputy outside a courthouse in Georgia this morning was heavily armed and planned to take hostages. The Forsyth County sheriff says Dennis Marx was shot and killed. He says Marx drove a vehicle up to the courthouse steps, threw out homemade "spike strips" designed to flatten car tires and fired at a deputy who came out of the courthouse, shooting the officer in the leg. The sheriff says Marx had homemade and commercially made explosives inside his vehicle and on his body. Authorities are making sure there are no explosives hidden in the courthouse. They also believe Marx's home could be booby-trapped.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — Officials are searching a Virginia Navy installation for the suspect in a stabbing that left a service member with critical injuries. The suspect is a fellow Navy petty officer. Officials say the stabbing occurred this morning during an argument between the two at the base in Portsmouth.
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Ailing radio personality Casey Kasem is in critical condition with an infected bedsore at a hospital in Washington state. This, as his wife and his daughter head to court today for another hearing in a dispute over his care. Court records say Jean Kasem has been in control of her husband's medical care and has controlled access to him, blocking three of his children from seeing him in recent months.
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