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Official: Gun used to kill 2 Hattiesburg officers found

By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — The gun used to fatally shoot two Hattiesburg police officers has been found. Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said city workers cutting the grass along a street found the .40-caliber pistol that police believe Marvin Banks used to shoot the officers. Strain said the ballistic tests at the state Crime Lab branch in Biloxi …
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Official: Gun used to kill 2 Hattiesburg officers found

Baltimore prosecutors in Freddie Gray case seek gag order

By Juliet Linderman Associated Press BALTIMORE — Baltimore prosecutors are seeking a gag order as they pursue a criminal case against six city officers in the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died a week after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody. A court document that references the gag order, obtained by The Associated Press, is dated Wednesday. Assistant State's …
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Baltimore prosecutors in Freddie Gray case seek gag order

Police: Married couple, son, housekeeper killed, house set on fire

By Ben Nuckols Associated Press WASHINGTON — A corporate executive, his wife, their 10-year-old son and a housekeeper were slain inside a multimillion-dollar northwest Washington home that was set on fire, District of Columbia police say. But authorities are offering no details about who might have killed them or why. At least three of the victims suffered stab wounds or blunt-force injuries and …
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Police: Married couple, son, housekeeper killed, house set on fire