Family in SC calls for calm following police shooting ... Severe weather warning ... Mom to be sentenced in salt poisoning of son

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The family of a man who was shot to death by a North Charleston, South Carolina police officer is calling for calm before a demonstration at City Hall today. Patrolman Michael Slager was charged with murder after officials got a look at a video of the shooting recorded by a witness. Walter Scott, who was stopped for a brake light and also owed child support, is seen running away from the officer as several bullets are fired at his back.

BOSTON (AP) — Jurors will deliberate for a second day today 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.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Forecasters are warning folks in the middle of the country of the threat of severe storms and maybe even tornadoes today and tomorrow. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma says the Southern Plains could be hit with large hail, damaging winds and a number of tornadoes today. Then tomorrow, severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi River Valley, including virtually all of Illinois. Forecasters say there could be "significant storms" in northeastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas and possibly into Missouri.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of life in prison for a Kentucky woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt while he lay in a hospital in suburban New York. Lacey Spears was found guilty last month of second-degree murder in the 2014 death of Garnett-Paul Spears. Prosecutors alleged that Spears craved the attention her son's illnesses brought her over the years, and she logged hundreds of entries on social media.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors in New York plan today to unseal an indictment, charging five men with impersonating plainclothes detectives to burglarize homes on Long Island. Newsday reports that a 29-count indictment charges the suspects with burglary, robbery, attempted robbery, conspiracy and criminal impersonation. Prosecutors say the suspects wore business suits and fake police badges to get into homes, and once inside they tied up the residents at gunpoint.

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