Chicago releases massive trove of videos, evidence from police shootings and other top stories.

• Chicago releases massive trove of videos, evidence from police shootings

  

  CHICAGO – Officials here released a huge array of videos and police reports Friday from about 100 open investigations into police shootings and use of force, a sharp reversal in a city still reeling from the impact of long-withheld footage showing an officer fatally shooting a teenager. As the city’s police department faces intense scrutiny and a looming Justice Department investigation, authorities promising reform and increased transparency said they were releasing the trove to try and restor..

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• Democrats at state convention put focus on Trump, not Baker

  

  LOWELL — Massachusetts Democrats gathered Saturday for their annual convention, with the express goals of criticizing Donald J. Trump and developing a plan to stop Republican Governor Charlie Baker, and only one thing was missing.There wasn’t much of a plan to stop Charlie Baker. Advertisement “It’s just not our focus right now, who’s going to run for governor in two years,” said US Representative Katherine Clark, one of a scattered group of Democrats who has publicly criticized Baker, depic..

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• If Gorilla's Death Moves You, Consider Other Animals' Plights

  

  Zoo visitors look at protestors and mourners from a walk bridge during a vigil for the gorilla Harambe outside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP Zoo visitors look at protestors and mourners from a walk bridge during a vigil for the gorilla Harambe outside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical G..

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• 15 Freeway closed southbound as 30-acre brush fire burns in Temecula - KABC

  

  TEMECULA, Calif. (KABC) -- Firefighters battled a 70-acre vegetation fire that erupted along southbound Interstate 15 in Temecula Saturday afternoon.The fire started around 11:40 a.m., according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Many drivers and residents in the area reported seeing the dark clouds of smoke and flames along the freeway. More than 200 firefighters and a helicopter worked to put out the blaze. No structures were threatened.The southbound freeway has two lanes opened ..

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• AP: Patchy reporting undercuts national hate crimes count

  

  BOGALUSA, La. –  The knock on the door, strong and quick, jolted Barbara Hicks Collins awake. It was the middle of the night. Someone must be in trouble, she thought. She flung open her front door to the shocking sight of her car engulfed in flames. Investigators later determined someone had deliberately set fire to her Mercedes and also tried to burn down the one-story brick house she shared with her mother in this eastern Louisiana town, once known as a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity. Hicks ..

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• Making nice, Donald Trump to meet with NM Gov. Susana Martinez 'in near future'

  

  These two never seem to get their timing right. Just when New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez appears to be warming, somewhat, to the idea of Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican nominee, he goes and starts bashing the job she’s doing  while campaigning in Albuquerque. But in the last week, Trump has made overtures toward Martinez, telling the Santa Fe New Mexican on Thursday that he likes and respects Martinez and would like to get her endorsement. Now CNN is reporting that Martinez and T..

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