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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For some Americans, the MLK holiday has been a day of service and protest. Activists in Minneapolis braved frigid conditions to hold a march protesting the deaths of two black men shot by police last year in the Twin Cities. In Charleston, South Carolina, about 1,000 people gathered for the first time the holiday has been observed without the Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is responding to criticism from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about his handling of the water crisis in Flint. Clinton said during Sunday's debate that there would have been action if Flint had been rich Detroit suburb. Snyder, a Republican, said politicizing the problem doesn't hurt. Sanders says Snyder should resign.
HONOLULU (AP) — After four days of searching, the only clues for 12 crew members aboard two Marine helicopters that crashed off Hawaii are some life rafts. They had been carried aboard the aircraft. It's unclear how they came to be inflated. There's no indication that anyone had been aboard the rafts.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say the veteran Utah police officer who was shot to death over the weekend was working overtime to pay for his cancer treatments. Unified police officer Douglas Barney is said to have encountered a fugitive who left a drug rehab center for parolees. The deadly encountered happed yesterday in a residential area near a church in suburban Salt Lake City.
NEW YORK (AP) — Eagles guitarist and co-founded Glenn Frey has died. The band says Frey, who was 67 had multiple ailments. Frey and drummer Don Henley formed the Eagles in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, along with guitarist Bernie Leadon and bassist Randy Meisner. They would become a top act over the next decade with hits like "Hotel California" and "The Heat Is On."
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