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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A search dog is being credited with finding the body of a construction worker in a collapsed building in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A rescue official says the man's body was found in a void. The two-story building collapsed into the downtown street earlier today. The family of a 22-year-old woman who was pulled from the rubble a few hours earlier says she's in good condition. Authorities don't believe anyone else is in the debris.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has finished picking the 67 people who will make up the jury pool for Dylann Roof's death penalty trial in the killing of nine black people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church. A pretrial hearing will be held Monday, and the final panel of 12 jurors and six alternates will be selected Wednesday with testimony beginning soon after. The trial is expected to last until January with a break over Christmas.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jurors in the Michael Slager murder trial are going home for the weekend. They've deliberated more than 16 hours over three days in the case of the white former South Carolina patrolman charged in the shooting death of a black motorist. Walter Scott was shot in the back running from a traffic stop in April of 2015. At one point, the jury seemed deadlocked but the foreman says he thinks it can still reach a unanimous verdict.
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is tweeting that the president of Taiwan called him today to wish him congratulations on winning the presidency and he thanked her. It's highly unusual, probably unprecedented, for a U.S. president or president-elect to speak directly with a leader of Taiwan, a self-governing island the U.S. broke diplomatic ties with in 1979. Experts say the move is certain to anger China.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Green Party candidate Jill Stein is asking a federal judge to order Michigan to quickly start a recount of presidential votes. It's another legal action in the dispute over whether Michigan will take a second look at ballots from the Nov. 8 election. The recount could start Wednesday because officials say state law requires a break of at least two business days. The recount must be finished by a Dec. 13 deadline.
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