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CHICAGO (AP) — A Texas sheriff says the state trooper who is charged with perjury in the arrest of Sandra Bland is expected to turn himself in this afternoon, after a judge signed the arrest warrant. The sheriff says bond has been set at $2,500 for the officer, Brian Encinia. A grand jury indicted him yesterday on a misdemeanor perjury charge for allegedly lying about the circumstances of his arrest of Bland last summer. Authorities say Bland hanged herself in her jail cell several days later. If convicted of perjury, the officer would face up to one year in prison.
DALLAS (AP) — Tonya Couch has arrived in Texas to face a charge that she interfered with the capture of her son -- the 18-year-old who gained fame by invoking an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving crash. Couch was flown today to Texas from Los Angeles, where she'd been held since she was deported from Mexico last week. Her son Ethan is still in custody in Mexico. Authorities believe they both fled Texas in November as prosecutors investigated whether Ethan Couch had violated his probation.
BEIJING (AP) — Stock market regulators in China say they are going to suspend a mechanism that automatically stops trading when stocks fall sharply. It was triggered today for the second time this week, after just being introduced at the start of the year. The steep selloff in China today, and the suspension of trading, set off another slump in stocks around the world. Worries about China's economy have helped send the Dow industrials more than 300 points lower this afternoon.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and opponents are lining up outside the Burlington, Vermont theater where Trump is scheduled to appear -- just across the street from the City Hall where Sen. Bernie Sanders got his start. One man who says he got in line at 4:30 a.m. says he can't stand Trump, but wants to ask him if it's irresponsible to distribute 20,000 tickets to the event in a theater with just 1,400 seats as police have said. Police say even people with confirmed tickets will be turned away once the theater is full.
DETROIT (AP) — A man whose dogs snatched and killed a 4-year-old Detroit boy as he walked with his mother has been ordered to trial on a second-degree murder charge. A judge today said there's enough evidence to send the dogs' owner to trial on the murder charge and other counts. Xavier Strickland was walking with his mother when they were attacked by pit bulls on Dec. 2. Police had to shoot the dogs to free the boy's body. Three were killed; a fourth was euthanized.
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