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MONETA, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a former TV station colleague carried out the fatal on-air shooting of a TV reporter and a camera person today in Roanoke, Virginia. A person being interviewed was also wounded. Vester Lee Flanagan's online video shows him approaching the three, gun in hand and waiting until he knows they are on air. He had been fired by WDBJ two years ago. The video was posted on social media. A rambling suicide note he sent to ABC News today mentions racial and gay bias, perceived workplace grievances and other mass killings.
SUNSET, La. (AP) — Gunfire has left three people wounded near a convenience store in southwest Louisiana, including a police officer. State police say the shooting happened in the town of Sunset, near Lafayette. The officer is said to be "responsive" but details of his injuries and the others isn't available.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Along with his life prison sentence that was formally handed down today for the Colorado theater shootings, James Holmes has heard a withering condemnation from the judge. Before sentencing Holmes, Judge Carlos Samour described Holmes as someone who had quit on his friends, his family and his life -- and decided to take others with him. The judge said no words could adequately capture the continuing horror from Holmes' "evil" act in July 2012 that killed 12 people and injured 70.
NEW YORK (AP) — There is relief on Wall Street because stocks have broken out of a six-day swoon linked to anxieties about China's slowdown. The Dow climbed 619 points, its biggest gain in seven years. While there is relief about today's surge, some analysts say there could be more volatility.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — She was bloodied and beaten unconscious in the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama. Her son says Amelia Boynton Robinson died today at the age 104. Boynton Robison was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama. She attended the State of the Union address in January. President Barack Obama says she should be honored by fighting to protect the right to vote.
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