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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy says an initial inspection at Naval Medical Center San Diego found no sign of a gunman or a shooting. A spokesman says military police checked a building after a person reported hearing three shots in the basement earlier in the day. The base remained on lockdown as authorities went from room to room and led personnel out of the facility. But a lockdown has ended and instruction has resumed at three schools near the medical center.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican lawyer for a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident says his client has dropped an appeal against deportation and will return to Texas to face charges. He says Ethan Couch formally ratified his decision to drop the appeal yesterday, and that he could be returned to Texas in a day or two. Couch and his mother left Texas as authorities looked into whether he had violated probation. They were detained in the resort of Puerto Vallarta in December. His mother was sent back to the U.S., but Couch has been held at an immigration detention center In the meantime.
ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a white Atlanta-area police officer who shot a naked, mentally ill black veteran who was unarmed has resigned. They say Officer Robert Olsen resigned from the DeKalb Police Department yesterday. Olsen was indicted last week on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault, violating oath of office and making a false statement in the shooting death of Anthony Hill. Olsen's attorney has said his client will be exonerated when all the evidence is presented at trial.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Department of Health says a person who recently traveled out of the United States has tested positive for the Zika (ZEE'-ka) virus. The department says that the person has a mild case of Zika, which is spread by mosquitoes and is suspected of causing a spate of birth defects in Brazil. Officials aren't saying if the infected person is a man or woman or giving the person's age. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have urged pregnant women to consider postponing flights to areas where the virus is prevalent.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court will consider whether county commissioners in North Carolina violated the Constitution by delivering Christian prayers at their meetings and inviting audience members to join. A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled tomorrow to hear Rowan County's effort to overturn a federal judge's ruling. The judge found that local officials ran afoul of constitutional requirements separating church and state.
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