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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune reports that about four out of five people shot by police in Chicago in the past six years were African-American males. And about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic. The newspaper obtained police department data tracking every time an officer opened fire from 2010 to 2015. There were 435 police shootings from 2010 through 2015, in which officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others. But the number of police shootings has declined from more than 100 in 2011 to 44 last year.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina law enforcement is investigating a shootout that left a suspect dead. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that a man suspected of firing shots at a North Charleston apartment building led police on a foot chase before he stopped and fired a handgun at them. The officers fired back, killing the man.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia sheriff's department says a suspect was fatally shot by deputies early today while they attempted to serve an arrest warrant. A statement from the Monongalia (mahn-uhn-GAYL'-yuh) County sheriff says the subject of the warrant was shot after confronting the deputies with a handgun and threatening to shoot them. The Dominion Post reports the man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi clinic where two slain nuns worked says the man accused of killing them wasn't a patient there. And a priest at the Lexington church where the nuns led Bible study says the suspect doesn't seem to be known by people at the church. Rodney Earl Sanders was arrested late yesterday and charged with two counts of capital murder in the slayings of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the many people affected by flooding in Louisiana is John Schneider, the actor, writer and director known for his past role on the "Dukes of Hazzard" and current role on "The Haves and the Have Nots." Schneider says the Tickfaw River inundated all of his property in Holden. It flooded his 116-year-old home with about 4 feet of water as well as another house where his mother lives. He says he's lost a lot of memorabilia and equipment but his situation isn't unique. About 90 percent of the homes in the parish were flooded.
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