The Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith last weekend, touching off a firestorm in the city, may have known him from high school. The manās sister, Sherelle Smith, 22, told WITI-TV that her family knows the cop in question from his time at Pulaski High School, even though the Milwaukee Police Department has not publicly identified him. You knew exactly how my brother was, and you shot and killed him,ā Smith said in an interview with the local Fox affiliate.
President Obama waves as he walks across the south lawn of the White House. President Obama took a brief respite from his two-week summer vacation on Marthaās Vineyard to attend a Democratic fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on the island Monday night. āYou notice I havenāt said much about her opponent,ā Obama told the approximately 60 guests who contributed $10,000 each to attend the fundraiser at a private home in Chilmark, Mass., according to a White House transcript.
An inferno scorching swaths of southern California threatened the homes of more than 82,000 people, sending flaming "firenadoes" tearing across the brush and prompting a state of emergency. More than 1,300 firefighters were battling the giant blaze, with more on the way, but they were unable to contain the blaze. Dramatic local TV news footage of the wildfire captured from the front line in the town of Phelan showed tornado-like flaming vortexes -- known as "firenadoes" -- sent spinning into the air by the unusual ferocity of the blaze.
Indian police say three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slashed by glass-coated kite string used in competitions to bring down the kites of rivals. A 3-year-old girl riding with her parents in a car had her head out of the sunroof when her throat was cut by a kite string, her uncle said Wednesday. The man, Jafar Khan, suffered a fatal head injury, said his father, Ayub Khan.

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Hundreds of people have donated more than $33,000 to help a Baltimore motherāwho made national headlines last year for smacking her rioting teenage sonāafter that same son accidentally set the familyās home on fire last weekend. Toya Graham, who was widely praised as āmom of the yearā after she was shown on television repeatedly whacking her sonās head and pulling him from a protest, cried this week as she spoke to a local news station about how the blaze displaced her struggling family.
The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria said on Tuesday that she just wants to go home. In her first interview, Amina Ali spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the capital of Abuja, where she and her baby daughter have been held by since her rescue in May for what the government has called a "restoration process". Ali said was not sure whether she would return to education and that she did not know when she would be able to go home.
Every woman pictures walking down the aisle at her wedding, but this Georgia bride left her wedding guests awestruck as she left her wheelchair behind, despite once being paralyzed. "I remember asking my mom if I was going to be in a wheelchair forever," said Jaquie Goncher ofĀ Marietta, who was just 17 years old when she broke her neck in an accident at aĀ friend'sĀ swimming poolĀ and was leftĀ paralyzed. "I really wanted to enjoy my wedding without the wheelchair," she said.

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A video has appeared on social media of the terrorist organization Hezbollah using armed drones against enemy forces on the ground. The video, taken in Syria, shows a quadcopter dropping cluster bomblets on fleeing Syrian rebels. The first video shows an attack on a cluster of buildings.
If you ask Charles Barkley, who played on the legendary 1992 Dream Team and always can be counted on for strong opinions about these sorts of things, itās a question of roster construction. In an interview with Sports360AZ.com (transcription via For The Win), Barkley said the current Olympic team is too reliant on isolation players. āIf you take away DeAndre Jordan, every guy on that team is a ball-dominant guy.
An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man's family, who are actually Christians from Lebanon, and of trying to run over the man's mother with his vehicle. Police say Khalid Jabara was killed at his Tulsa home Friday and 61-year-old Stanley Majors is being held without bail on a first-degree murder complaint and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, but online court records do not show that he has been formally charged. According to court records, Majors was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of a collision involving injury, violating a protective order and public intoxication.