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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder after officials viewed a video that appears to show the white officer shooting a black motorist in the back several times. The video, taken by a witness, shows 50-year-old Walter Scott running away and then dropping to the ground as he's repeatedly shot. Scott is then handcuffed. Authorities say North Charleston Patrolman Michael Slager had stopped Scott because one of his car's brake lights was out.
HOUSTON (AP) — There's been no comment yet from the White House after a federal judge in Texas refused to lift a temporary hold on President Barack Obama's executive action that spares some 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from being deported. Twenty-six states, including Texas, had filed a lawsuit to overturn the executive action, arguing that it's unconstitutional and would force them to invest more in law enforcement, health care and education.
BOSTON (AP) — Jurors will deliberate for a second day in the trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv). During the trial, Tsarnaev's lawyer admitted he participated in the April 2013 attack, but said his now-dead brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind. Three people were killed and 260 were wounded.
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The fate of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is now in the hands of the jury, which deliberated for about 90 minutes Tuesday. Hernandez is charged with the June 2013 killing of Odin (OH'-dihn) Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Hernandez's lawyer acknowledged for the first time during closing arguments that Hernandez was there when Lloyd was killed. But he describes him as a witness.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors want the maximum sentence for a woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt. Lacey Spears of Scottsville, Kentucky, is expected to be sentenced Wednesday following her conviction last month of second-degree murder. The maximum she faces is 25 years to life. Prosecutors say Garnett-Paul Spears was force-fed heavy concentrations of sodium through a stomach tube while he was in a suburban New York hospital.
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