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FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have widened the search for three suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a popular Illinois police officer. All they know about the suspects is that two are white and one is black. Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz (GLIHN'-uh-wihts) gave that description moments before he was shot. A 14-hour "grid search" in the village of Fox Lake failed to turn up anything.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A preliminary hearing resumes today in San Francisco in the shooting death of a young woman by a Mexican national who is in the country illegally. The judge is deciding whether to schedule a murder trial for Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, though he admits firing the shot that killed Kathryn Steinle (STYN'-lee). He says it was an accident.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned in the face of a fraud scandal. A spokesman says Perez Molina submitted his resignation at midnight local time after a judge issued an order to detain him in a corruption case that has already claimed the job of former Vice President Roxana Baldetti. Both maintain their innocence.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of would-be migrants have poured into Budapest's main rail station after police stopped blocking its main entrance. But once there, the migrants found themselves with nowhere to go. Hungary's railway company says it has suspended all direct trains from Budapest to western destinations, citing security reasons.

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s human rights chief says staffers have turned up a case of alleged sexual abuse of a girl by a French soldier in the Central African Republic. The announcement follows other allegations involving French soldiers in the African country. The High Commissioner for Human Rights says the girl was in her teens at the time of the alleged abuse about a year ago, and has since given birth.

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