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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Montreal landlord says the Canadian man accused of stabbing a police officer at the Flint, Michigan, airport was a model tenant. Luciano Piazza says Amor Ftouhi has lived in the building for six years and is married with children. Piazza tells The Associated Press "I never had any problems with him ... I'm really surprised."
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says the city will have a strong police presence in the part of the city that rioted following the fatal shooting of a black man last August. Two nights of violence broke out in a north side neighborhood after then-Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Heaggan-Brown was acquitted Wednesday of reckless homicide in the case. Barrett tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that people have a right to gather but he urges them to be peaceful.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is musing about putting solar panels on his proposed wall on the Mexican border. Trump is suggesting at a rally Wednesday evening in Iowa that a solar wall would "create energy and pay for itself." He jokes it would mean Mexico "will have to pay much less money" in building it.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case says two holdouts prevented a guilty verdict. The juror, who spoke exclusively to ABC News on condition of anonymity, says that after 52 hours of deliberations 10 of the 12 jurors agreed that Cosby was guilty on two counts of felony aggravated indecent assault. And only one of the jurors believed he was guilty on a third count. Judge Steven O'Neill declared a mistrial on Saturday after the jury deadlocked.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sources say top Senate Republicans are finalizing their plan for dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law. Their proposal would cut and revamp Medicaid, end penalties on people not buying coverage and eliminate tax increases that financed the statute's expansion of coverage. That's according to lobbyists and congressional aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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