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MADRID (AP) — President Barack Obama is in Spain for an abbreviated visit to the NATO ally. He just arrived from Poland where he attended at NATO summit. The White House says the visit will highlight security cooperation between the two nations and a strong political and economic relationship. Obama had planned a stop in Seville, for some sightseeing. But he cut his trip short a day after the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday night.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in Missouri are asking for help from anyone who witnessed an officer being shot. St. Louis County investigators believe several people were "driving or running" nearby when the officer was shot during a traffic stop on Friday in a St. Louis suburb. The officer is in critical condition. Thirty-one-year-old Antonio Taylor is in custody and charged with assault of a police officer, armed criminal action and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
UNDATED (AP) — Several people around the country have been arrested for making threats against police in the wake of shootings by officers in two states and the killings of five officers in Dallas. A suburban Chicago woman is accused of posting a threat on Facebook to shoot any police officer who pulls her over and asks her to get out of the car. Police in Louisiana say a man was jailed after posting a social media video in which he says he wants to shoot and kill a police officer.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A billboard-sized advertisement for a gun manufacturer that said "yeah, we carry" is gone from the concourse of a South Carolina airport. The State newspaper reports the Columbia airport's governing commission decided to take it down after receiving complaints. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin says the ad featuring guns made by local firearms manufacturer FN America is "the wrong ad in the wrong place at the wrong time."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Severe storms overnight are to blame for three deaths in the eastern part of Tennessee. That's the word from state emergency officials who say a 60-year-old man and 40-year-old woman were killed in Carter County when a tree fell on them while camping. In Knox County, a second woman was killed by a falling tree during a storm. Heavy rains earlier in the week caused flash flooding that devastated the central part of the state.
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