The story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting. It was no coincidence.; Judge orders Tamir Rice essays after Ohio brothers arrested in park with BB guns; Australian cops to Pokemon fans: Do not come looking for Pikachu in our police station; Outrage after video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting a black man; When a K-9 died, its handler seemed distraught. But then investigators dug up his back yard.; On July 4, this man exercised his right to burn the American flag. Then he was arrested.; China completes world’s largest radio dish to let scientists hunt for black holes and E.T.; Navy grants $750,000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts; Shock in South Africa over 6 year sentence for ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius for girlfriend’s murder; Florida man stole 107 freshly laid sea turtle eggs buried at the beach, police say; ‘He was ash gray’: Strangers pull toddler from collapsed tunnel on Calif. beach;
 
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Minn. cop fatally shoots black man during traffic stop, aftermath broadcast on Facebook
"He killed my boyfriend,” said a woman on camera moments after Philando Castile was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn., near St. Paul.
The story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting. It was no coincidence.
The first video from Baton Rouge came from an anti-violence organization that makes it its business to film crime.
 
Judge orders Tamir Rice essays after Ohio brothers arrested in park with BB guns
The judge said the essays should compare their case with that of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in 2014 when they mistook his fake gun for a real one.
 
Australian cops to Pokemon fans: Do not come looking for Pikachu in our police station
The new Pokemon Go augmented reality game is less than 24 hours old, but it already has at least one police department in Australia advocating caution.
 
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Outrage after video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting a black man
A video surfaced showing two white La. police officers in a deadly physical altercation with a black man. One of the officers appears to shoot Alton Sterling several times at point-blank range.
 
When a K-9 died, its handler seemed distraught. But then investigators dug up his back yard.
Daniel Peabody, a former K-9 officer and school cop in northern Georgia, is now suspected in the deaths of three dogs.
 
On July 4, this man exercised his right to burn the American flag. Then he was arrested.
Police in Urbana, Ill. cited a state statute against flag desecration in making the arrest. But a state attorney later questioned whether the state law was in harmony with a landmark Supreme Court ruling on flag burning and the First Amendment.
 
China completes world’s largest radio dish to let scientists hunt for black holes and E.T.
In addition to listening for aliens, the radio telescope will hunt for black holes, distant stars -- and even the molecular building blocks of life.
 
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Navy grants $750,000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts
To control the locusts, scientists hope to place biocompatible silk "tattoos" on their wings that can concert light to heat, then use lasers to heat the wings to guide the locusts' paths.
 
Shock in South Africa over 6 year sentence for ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius for girlfriend’s murder
Fifteen years is the minimum sentence for murder under South African law unless the judge finds mitigating circumstances justifying a lesser penalty.
 
Florida man stole 107 freshly laid sea turtle eggs buried at the beach, police say
Beach patrol found the man snatching the white, soft-shelled eggs away from a female loggerhead as she laid them.
 
‘He was ash gray’: Strangers pull toddler from collapsed tunnel on Calif. beach
One study shows less than half of children in collapsed sand tunnels survive. But a toddler named Brooks was lucky.
 
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