Kaine accepts nomination...Billionaire bashing...Charges dropped in Baltimore police death case

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has accepted the Democratic Party vice-presidential nomination. Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Kaine spoke of his humble beginnings and interspersed his remarks with Spanish. Kaine says supporters of Bernie Sanders should feel the Bern "but not get burned by the other guy." Kaine says Americans "can't believe a single word that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth."

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered a scathing critique of fellow New Yorker Donald Trump. Bloomberg, speaking as an independent, called on other non-Democrats to "defeat a dangerous demagogue. He called Trump "a con man" and said the richest thing about the GOP nominee is "his hypocrisy."

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland chapter of the ACLU is calling the outcome of the cases against six police officers charged in the death of a black man fatally injured in the back of a police transport van "a travesty." Charges have been dropped against the remaining officers involved in the incident. Freddie Gray died April 19 of last year, a week after his neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but unrestrained by a seat belt in a transport wagon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service man who took a bullet during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan says he hopes a federal judge is right that John Hinckley is no longer a threat and can be released to live with his mother. Timothy McCarthy, now the police chief of the Chicago suburb of Orland Park, says he is a bit perturbed he didn't get a notification of the judge's decision to allow the 61-year-old Hinckley to go free.

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — A 4-year-old boy whose artificial leg was stolen while he played at a Southern California beach will be getting a replacement soon. The boy left his expensive prosthetic limb on the sand Sunday to play in tide pools at a state park in Orange County. When he returned, it was gone. The Orange County Register reports that the boy's family accepted a free replacement from an amputee who owns a prosthetics business.