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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A curfew is being imposed in Charlotte, North Carolina, after three nights of protests over the shooting of a black man by police. The citywide curfew will run from midnight to 6 a.m. Mayor Jennifer Roberts says she expects it to be in place for multiple days until officials determine they no longer need it. There was a third night of protests on Thursday. They were largely peaceful. Two previous nights turned violent.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors in Oklahoma allege a white police officer "reacted unreasonably" when she fatally shot an unarmed black man and that she unnecessarily escalated the situation. In an affidavit filed with a first-degree manslaughter charge on Thursday against Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby, an investigator wrote that she became "emotionally involved to the point that she over reacted" when she shot and killed Terence Crutcher a week ago.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have detained one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, a Mexican citizen sought for kidnapping, rape and homicide charges in Chicago, Illinois. The federal attorney general's office says Fidel Urbina was detained on a U.S. extradition warrant in a tiny hamlet named "El Polvo" in a remote part of the border state of Chihuahua.
DENVER (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is formally asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Veterans Affairs Department executives lied to Congress to conceal massive cost overruns at a Denver-area hospital now under construction. Twenty-one members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee made the request Thursday in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The hospital is expected to cost nearly triple the 2014 estimate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to prohibit the United States from making cash payments to Iran and require that Congress be notified in advance of any future claims settlements with Tehran. The bill passed Thursday by a 254-163 vote. Republicans want to rebuke the Obama administration for paying Iran $1.7 billion in cash to settle a decades-old arbitration claim. The White House has threatened to veto the measure.
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