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DALLAS (AP) — A camera-equipped robot is being used to determine whether the suspect in an early-morning attack on Dallas police headquarters is dead in his van. Authorities say a police sniper shot him during a parking lot standoff in the Dallas suburb of Hutchins. Officers have held off approaching the van out of concern it might be rigged with explosives.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The prison worker accused of helping two convicted killers escape from prison in northern New York has been moved to another county. Officials say she's been taken to the Rensselaer (rehn-suh-LEER') County Jail, near Albany, at the request of the Clinton County sheriff. Prosecutors say the prison tailor shop instructor befriended the men and gave them hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver bit.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Columbus, Ohio are investigating a multiple shooting. Police say four people were found dead this morning in the basement of a home. A 16-year-old girl was found outside the home with injuries that are not believed to be serious.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has wrapped up the first major speech of her 2016 campaign, saying, "I have been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them." Clinton told a crowd of thousands on New York City's Roosevelt Island that she got that quality from her late mother, Dorothy Rodham.

CENTER LOVELL, Maine (AP) — A Virgin Islands couple will be trading the Caribbean breezes of St. John for the rigors of Maine's four seasons after winning a "Win an Inn" essay contest. Prince and Rose Adams, both 45 and originally from New York City, tell the Boston Globe they're closing their restaurant in St. John and expect to be open for business in Center Lovell, Maine, by July 10. The retiring owner of the Center Lovell Inn won the restaurant in a similar writing contest 22 years ago.

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