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WASHINGTON (AP) — Today President Barack Obama takes a step to close a loophole he says has led to more gun sales without background checks. Obama will take executive action to include -- under the definition of a licensed dealer -- sales at gun shows, flea markets and on websites. Those sellers often skirt the background check requirement by declining to register as licensed dealers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a fugitive 18-year-old known for using an "affluenza" defense in a drunken-driving case is expected to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom today. Prosecutors want Tonya Couch extradited to Texas. Couch and her son Ethan are accused of fleeing from Texas to Mexico in November after video surfaced of the 18-year-old allegedly violating his probation by attending a party where there was alcohol. Ethan Couch got probation after killing four people while driving drunk. He's being held in Mexico.
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Police say a standoff at a motel outside Atlanta has ended with the suspect stabbing himself but no one else injured. Authorities had surrounded the motel as the man refused to leave a room, prompting concerns about the safety of several children inside the building.
BOSTON (AP) — Former students of a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school will hold a news conference today to ask for an independent investigation into allegations that they were sexually abused at the $56,000-a-year school. Last month, St. George's School in Middletown said it found 26 students were sexually abused by six school employees in the 1970s and 1980s but didn't report it. Lawyers for some of the victims say they've found 16 additional former students who were abused.
LONDON (AP) — Music producer Robert Stigwood, who managed the Bee Gees and produced 1970s blockbusters "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever," has died at the age of 81. Before managing the Bee Gees, Stigwood managed Eric Clapton and Cream. He later moved into movies, producing films of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" and The Who's rock opera "Tommy," as well as disco drama "Saturday Night Fever" — set to a Bee Gees soundtrack — and the nostalgic musical "Grease."
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