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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police in San Antonio, Texas, are still looking for a suspect in the shooting of a police detective who was killed while writing a ticket in his squad car. Authorities say the gunman pulled behind 50-year-old Detective Benjamin Marconi's squad car, got out of his vehicle, walked up to Marconi's car window and shot him twice in the head. The shooter then drove off.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis say an officer sitting in traffic was shot twice in the face but is expected to survive. Police say another car pulled alongside the officer's marked police vehicle early Sunday evening, fired at least twice and pulled off. Police are still looking for the shooter.
PUKHRAYAN, India (AP) — Rescuers in northern India have finished searching the last of 14 mangled train carriages that derailed, killing at least 133 people and leaving more than 200 injured. The passenger train was about midway through a 27-hour journey when it slid off the tracks early Sunday. Anxious relatives have been searching for their family members at local hospitals.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who recently confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting and killing an 11-year-old boy 27 years ago is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on a child pornography charge. This past summer, 53-year-old Danny Heinrich led authorities to the remains of Jacob Wetterling. And in return, prosecutors agreed not to charge Heinrich with murder. The disappearance of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was a mystery that haunted Minnesota for nearly three decades.
DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — Authorities in Duxbury, Massachusetts, believe a power saw got caught in something when it kicked back and hit a construction worker in the throat. Twenty-eight-year-old Jason Sanderson had been excavating an underground water line in a trench Saturday when the accident happened. Sanderson was pronounced dead at a hospital. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident.
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