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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dozens of people are taking to Facebook to express their condolences for the family of a Memphis police officer who was shot to death while off-duty on Sunday. Police say 31-year-old Terence Olridge was shot multiple times at a home in the suburb of Cordova. He died at a hospital. A man is in custody in connection with the shooting, but he has not been charged. Police say "details are sketchy."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are considering allowing inmates with violent backgrounds to work outside prison walls fighting wildfires. The state has about 3,800 inmate firefighters with no history of violent crimes. But that's down from about 4,400 in previous years, so prison officials are looking for ways to add inmates. Officials tell The Associated Press they also are considering allowing inmates who have up to seven years left on their sentences instead of the current five, work outside the prison.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremists are blamed for using teens and women to carry out suicide bombings in neighboring Chad and Cameroon this weekend, killing more than 45 people. Cameroon's Minister of Communications says two girls between the ages of 13 and 17 carried out suicide bombings in two northern Cameroon villages Sunday, killing at least 9 and wounding 29 others. The government official says it's an effort to spread terror as a multinational force prepares to deploy against Boko Haram (BOH'-koh hah-RAHM').
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people attended a rally Sunday to call on Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag. About 400 people took part in the change-the-flag rally outside the Mississippi Capital, including civil-rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams and Mississippi-born rapper David Banner, who say the flag is racially divisive.
BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland say a British hiker has died after falling about 35 feet along the Appalachian Trail. Maryland Natural Resources Police say the 44-year-old man was taking photographs, jumping from rock to rock Sunday morning, when he lost his balance and fell. Officials say other hikers began administering first aid, but that the man was pronounced dead about an hour later.
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