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DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say the man arrested in the killing of two Catholic nuns in Mississippi has confessed. They say Rodney Earl Sanders also has a criminal record and is currently on probation. Holmes County Sheriff Willie March says Sanders confessed to the killings during interrogation but gave no reason for the crimes. A state prison spokeswoman says Sanders was convicted and served time for two felonies, armed robbery in 1986 and DUI in 2015.
CHICAGO (AP) — Police union President Dean Angelo Sr. is defending the Chicago Police Department's record against accusations of racial bias. He says, "It's not about ethnicity — it's about criminal involvement." The Chicago Tribune reports that police data tracking every time an officer opened fire in the city over the past six years finds the vast majority of those hit were black males. It also found that about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is lashing out at inner-city violence saying "We cannot, as a society, tolerate this level of violence and suffering in our own cities." Trump says the fatal shooting in Chicago of NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin as she was going to register her children for school "breaks our hearts. This shouldn't happen in America." He's reaching out to African-Americans saying he'll do something about what he calls the "deplorable conditions in many of our inner cities."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim Kaine says he doesn't see Donald Trump's recent outreach to the African-American community as "that serious." The Democratic vice presidential candidate says Trump's promotion of the discredited theory that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S. highlights his insensitivity toward African-Americans. And Kaine says that Trump hasn't done enough to distance himself from supporters with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — A humpback whale with a rope wrapped around its body is being monitored off the Central California coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other groups are asking for photos and video to determine if a rescue is needed to free the whale. It's part of a group of whales feeding off Morro Bay. Whale-watching crews are collecting more information.
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