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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of making online threats against black students and faculty at the University of Missouri's Columbia campus has made his first court appearance and was denied bond. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Park said nothing during today's court appearance. He's charged with making a terroristic threat. A university police officer says Park has admitted he wrote the postings. Another Missouri college student is facing similar charges, after allegedly posting a threat on a social media app that said he'd "shoot any black people."
MIAMI (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a search has turned up the bridge deck of a cargo ship that sank last month with 33 crew members off the Bahamas after encountering Hurricane Joaquin. The NTSB says the search continues by Navy remote underwater vehicles for the EL Faro's voyage data recorder or "black box" that is attached to the bridge deck. The recorder should contain information shedding new light on what happened to the 790-foot ship.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says prospects are uncertain at best for this weekend's Syria peace talks. But he says the diplomatic effort to end the war cannot be abandoned. His comments came as he prepared to leave Washington for Saturday's Syria meetings in Vienna. Those meetings are aimed at starting a political transition process that participants say is critical to halting the crisis.
NEW YORK (AP) — An aging mobster has been acquitted of charges he helped plan the 1978 Lufthansa heist that was retold in the hit Mafia movie "Goodfellas." A New York City jury reached the verdict today at the federal racketeering trial of Vincent Asaro. The 80-year-old Bonanno crime family member had remained in the shadows for decades after a $6 million armed robbery that was called the largest in U.S. history. But prosecutors charged him in 2014 after his cousin came forward to implicate him in the heist, a mob hit and other crimes.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials in the Florida community of Palm Beach Gardens say they've fired a police officer who fatally shot an armed man who was waiting next to his disabled SUV last month. Authorities have said Nouman Raja was on duty but not in uniform and was driving an unmarked van when he approached Corey Jones in the early morning hours of Oct. 18. Jones was waiting for a tow truck off Interstate 95. Officials say Raja fired six shots at Jones, hitting him three times. Police later recovered a handgun that Jones had bought a week earlier.
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