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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The funeral for South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims in the Charleston church massacre will be held Friday on the College of Charleston campus. His casket will be at the Statehouse for public viewing on Wednesday afternoon. Public viewings will also be held Thursday at a Columbia church and at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where Pinckney was shot. He was also the pastor there.
FRIENDSHIP, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Police say officers are investigating a possible sighting of two escaped killers in Allegany County, near the Pennsylvania border. It's about 350 miles from the prison that David Sweat and Richard Matt broke out of two weeks ago. State police say a person spotted two men Saturday near a railroad line along a road in the town of Friendship.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities in New Orleans are pulling out all the stops to find a man who they say killed a police officer on Saturday. Police say Officer Daryle Holloway was driving Travis Boys to jail when the handcuffed man grabbed a gun, fatally shot the officer and escaped from the vehicle after it crashed into a utility pole. An intense manhunt is underway in the New Orleans area.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a gunman opened fire on a block party in Philadelphia, leaving seven people wounded, most of them critically, including a 2-year-old and a 10-year-old. A Philadelphia police spokesman tells WCAU-TV the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Saturday in West Philadelphia. He says it looks like the gunman just randomly fired down the street.
ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation. The suspects are mostly Chinese migrants living in Italy, Prosecutors say more than $5.1 billion in proceeds from counterfeiting, prostitution, labor exploitation and tax evasion was sent to China in less than four years using a money-transfer service.
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