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PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor's office says it is opening a terrorism investigation after a man carrying a butcher's knife and wearing fake explosives showed up at a police station in northern Paris and was killed by police. The statement says the man's body was found with a cell phone and a piece of paper with an emblem of the Islamic State group, and a claim of responsibility written in Arabic. The attack came exactly one year -- almost to the minute -- after the attack by two Islamic extremists on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper that killed 12 people.
CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of Sandra Bland says her daughter's arrest and death in a Texas jail cell should have resulted in something more than a perjury charge against the white state trooper who arrested the black motorist. She says "there should have been much more" from the grand jury that indicted Trooper Brian Encinia yesterday on a charge that he lied about the circumstances of his traffic stop and arrest of Bland. The 28-year-old woman was stopped in July for an improper lane change. She was arrested on suspicion of assaulting the trooper. Authorities say Bland hanged herself in her jail cell several days later.
CLEVELAND (AP) — The prosecutor in Cleveland has told the local NAACP that the law doesn't allow him to release transcripts from the grand jury that voted not to indict two white police officers for the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black child playing with a pellet gun. Prosecutor Tim McGinty, in a letter to the civil rights group, says he'll continue to provide reports about lethal uses of force by police but by law cannot release grand jury transcripts in the Tamir Rice case. The grand jury voted last week not to indict the officers for the November 2014 shooting. NAACP officials have demanded the transcripts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain says questions surrounding Ted Cruz's right to run for president should be explored. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. He renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014. McCain himself was born on a military base in the Panama Canal, an issue raised during his 2008 presidential run. To that, McCain says, "that's different from being born on foreign soil." Speaking on the Chris Merrill Show in Phoenix yesterday, McCain said concerns raised by Republican rival Donald Trump over whether Cruz can be president are legitimate.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The storms that have been sent through California by El Nino are also bringing heavy snow to northern Arizona -- where Grand Canyon National Park has stopped all shuttle bus service. Park officials say roads on the South Rim are packed with snow and ice. To the south, in Flagstaff, schools are closed for a second day.
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